WE’RE GOING TO NEED A BIGGER BIG SPACESHIP
So, did you see that concept video for Leviathan, with the space ships and the giant creatures and all that? If not, open up a fresh tab and go check it out, the rest of us will just be discussing some film news until you get back.
Right, as for the rest of you, you might be excited to hear that that after the video was watched over 1.7 million times in a week, director Ruairí Robinson will be turning it into a full-length feature, and some big Hollywood players are going to be lending a hand. Writer/Producer of recent X-Men movies Simon Kinberg, Chappie director/Alien enthusiast Neill Blomkamp and Fight Club screenplay writer Jim Uhls are all aboard as producer, executive producer and screenplay writer respectively. Blomkamp had a similar helping hand from Peter Jackson to pull him into the mainstream, so maybe this is like one of those things were you pay for the person after you’s Starbucks, only with many millions more dollars. Ruairí gets his hot cup of money from Hollywood but they’ve spelled his name wrong, and Neill comforts him because the same happened to him.
The Leviathan is a sci-fi story set in the 22nd century, a time when people travel faster than the speed of light harnessing properties from the eggs of gigantic beasts. Sounds pretty-oh hey, your back! Pretty cool video, right?
THIS ACTOR WILL SELF DESTRUCT BUT STILL KEEP GOING STRONG
The Mission Impossible movies are a funny thing. We’re up to 5 now, I don’t know anyone who’s ever dying for the next one to come out, but I also don’t know anyone who ever hated the last one. We know Tom Cruise likes them certainly, enough to do crazy stunts himself and to completely change the ending to meet his standards, so if these movies keep him sufficiently entertained to keep his creepy self from unhinging his jaw and devouring us all as it was foretold by the Elders of Long Ago, then we’re all winners. It helps that, low fanfare or no, they usually end up being pretty good, and the trailer for the newly titled Rogue Nation makes it look like that trend could be continued: