Geek News - Dec 15 edition

Geek: Monday, December 15, 2008

The cast for Sylvester Stallone's next big action project, titled The Expendables, already features Stallone himself, Jason Statham, Jet Li, and Dolph Lundgren, but the script calls for a total of five mercenaries, so who is this fifth? None other than UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture. This now rounds out the cast of mercenaries and puts the project on track to start shooting in March in Brazil.

A bootleg version of the Wolverine Trailer hit the www this weekend, The official version of the X-Men Wolverine trailer is expected to hit the newly-launched official website very soon (perhaps today). A site for Activision's video game based on the movie is also coming online soon at Uncaged.com.

In related news, Production Weekly says that two weeks of additional photography will take place in Vancouver beginning January 12.

Update!!!! Here is the link to the First Wolverine Trailer!
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/12/15/first-x-men-origins-wolverine-trailer-what-do-you-think/

My Sources got a chance to talk to David Goyer the writer of (The Dark Knight, Batman Begins and the "Blade" films) last week and learned from the filmmaker that the Magneto spin-off is in a holding pattern at the moment.

"I think they like the script and they're just waiting to see what happens with 'Wolverine,'" Goyer told us. "I don't think they would consider moving forward until the movie comes out."

"Blade" director Stephen Norrington is working on a new version of "The Crow". And he plans to go all hard with it.
He says, quote, "Whereas the original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style."

A fifth Terminator, has already been greenlit. McG, who is directing Salvation, will return for the fifth film, which is currently slated to arrive in 2011