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Save the date for Save The Date


Save The Date hits VOD November 8th and theaters December 14th, which means The Hobbit is going down! Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie are sisters and each have their own relationship things going on, Brie is engaged while Caplan ran from her proposal and is with a new guy, but the prior guy hasn’t left. The guys are Martin Starr, Geoff Arend, and Mark Webber. Save the Date was written by Jeffery Brown (of Darth Vader and Son fame) and the director Michael Mohan, with the screenplay by Egan Reich. The trailer looks pretty interesting, like it will be a good story, and the actors are top notch. Lizzy Caplan is the Zooey Deschanel that isn’t a warped insulting dream woman, but an actual girl you’d meet. And I’d watch Alison Brie watch paint dry, because that might see the light of day before the 4th season of Community.

Save the Date

Rise of the Zombies on SyFy Saturday

Rise of the Zombies

Rise of the Zombies is not about zombie Viagra as far as I can tell, but it does have French Stewart as a zombie survivalist. Along with Mariel Hemingway, LeVar Burton, Danny Trejo, and Ethan Suplee, they hang out on Alcatraz, until zombies overrun it and they have to go searching for a cure across an overrun America. Rise of the Zombies airs October 27. I couldn’t find a trailer, but there are a series of interviews at this link.

Heathcliff

Heathcliff

With one fat orange comic strip cat appearing periodically at the box office, it was only a matter of time before the other one appeared. The Heathcliff film has meowed back to life when Waterman Entertainment scooped up the rights. Yes, the Waterman Entertainment that gave us Alvin and the Chipmunk, Casper, Stuart Little, the upcoming Mr. Ed film, the upcoming Brave Little Toaster remake, and anything else they can get their grubby hands on. Like all those properties, Heathcliff will be a live action/CGI hybrid (though this is following the Garfield flicks’ styles, so it was expected!) They’re also looking into a TV series.

I loved the Heathcliff cartoons growing up (the version I remember best was the Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats version) and the Heathcliff books that had collections of the strips. I still have most of them, packed next to the Peanuts and Family Circus books. Wait a minute, is Hollywood raiding my childhood reading shelf??? Oh, crap, now expect movies of Beetle Baily, Pavlov the dog, a Muppets comic strip, Mad magazine, Bloom County, Hagar the Horrible, and Marvin the baby! And that’s not even counting my shelves and shelves of non-comic strip books. Sorry that I have inflicted this on America, America.
Heathcliff

via Deadline

September Morn is the 9-11 Truther film your tin foil hat asked for!

September Morn

From the Loose Change Dept.

If you are one of those people who questions how steel could possibly melt because it’s mad of metal and see massive conspiracies in the marshmallows of Lucky Charms, then September Morn is the film for you! As the official press says:

We the people demand that the government revisit and initiates a thorough and independent investigation to the tragic events of 911. In the vein of “Twelve Angry Men” this dramatic piece is set with a stellar and award winning cast.

I’ve never seen a drama that made demands before it was even made, but here you go.

The attached stars to September Morn so far are Woody Harrelson, Martin Sheen, Judd Nelson, Esai Morales, Daniel Sunjata, Ed Asner, John Heard, Valerie Harper, Michelle Phillips, Nick Mancuso, and Dick Gregory. Which one of them is going to uncover the conspiracy, I don’t know. I’m putting my money on Valerie Harper. BJ Davis directs and Howard Cohen is writing the script. If BJ Davis sounds familiar, perhaps you remember a little movie called Laser Mission???

September Morn missed out on naming itself 9-11 Angry Men. It also missed out on getting Matt Damon and becoming September Bourne. At least they can still do a Star Trek crossover. Remember, Sisko did 9-11.

via Guardian

Morn DS9

I did 9-11. I did ALLLLL the 9-11s!

Cool short True Skin elongates to a feature film

TRUE SKIN from H1 on Vimeo.

This must be some sort of record pace. The awesome short film True Skin (embedded above, watch if you haven’t!) Showed up on the web October 6th, and today on October 17th there is a deal in place to make it a full length feature film! The short’s writer/director Stephan Zlotescu will direct, and director of photography N1 (that’s their name!) will probably produce, as he’s part of the short’s producer team N1ON with Zlotescu and fellow producer Chris Sewall.

The film’s plot is set in a future where people have enhanced robotic body parts, giving the world a neon Blade Runner look. Most people are largely robotic, the poor who can’t afford to upgrade are second class citizens. The main character steals a prototype upgrade that causes him to be tailed by shadowy people who want it as well. Can he escape? It’s a short film, watch it yourself!

The effects work from Zlotescu is great, he has a background in music videos that you can see the influences in with the style and editing. Overall, I approve of this short going forward, and we know it will succeed now that it has the coveted TarsTarkas.NET endorsement!

N1ON official site
via THR

True Skin

Say hello to my little remake! – Scarface remake gets a new writer!

Scarface

That rumored Scarface remake inched closer to reality when a writer got attached. Paul Attanasio is set to rewrite the David Ayer script. Now, before all you people with Scarface posters and underoos get upset, remember the beloved film that you hero worship Tony Montana for is a remake itself. Universal is careful to say this isn’t a remake or sequel, but a film that takes the common elements of the first two films about an immigrant entering a criminal organization and taking it over through violence and ambition.

So basically a remake.

Just don’t tell Universal that if they say a remake isn’t a remake, it’s still a remake. Because they’ll probably respond with several paragraphs of brain-melding garbage that if deciphered will be a road map explaining everything wrong with Hollywood ever. I do hope they don’t decide to reuse the element from the original Scarface that caused Harold Lloyd’s brother Gaylord Lloyd to be shot in the eye with live ammunition while visiting the set.

via Deadline