Cos' Blog

Anything that involves The A-Team will always get my interest, a film version of this movie has bounced around for a long long time. And now, it may actually get made, with Liam Nesson playing Hannibal! That is exciting…

from darkhorizons.com:

Cooper, Neeson In Talks For “A-Team”

By Garth Franklin Tuesday June 9th 2009 07:52AM

Bradley Cooper (“The Hangover”) is in talks to play Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck and Liam Neeson is in negotiations to play John ‘Hannibal’ Smith in the Joe Carnahan-directed “The A-Team” film says the trades.

First rumored several weeks ago for the ‘Faceman’ role, Cooper seem to let slip to IESB at the press junket for “The Hangover” last month that he was up for the part before beating a hasty retreat a few days later saying the quote was taken out of context and denying his involvement.

Today The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the original report was accurate after all while a few hours later Variety reported on the Neeson scoopage.

Ridley Scott, Jules Daly and series creator Stephen J. Cannell are producing. Carnahan and Brian Bloom polished a script by Skip Woods.

The story keeps the premise of the classic 80′s series but will take a more serious tone with the story of four war vets wrongly convicted of armed robbery escape from a military prison to become mercenaries helping the impoverished.

20th Century Fox is planning a late August production start for the June 11th 2010 release.

Also, I would like to point out that I like the director, he seems to have an eye on action. Joe Carnahan directed, most recently, Smokin’ Aces and that was a great movie. At least in my opinion.

–Cos

I don’t know about you, but when I first saw this picture (and I mean picture alone, by itself, with nothing else) I would have sworn it was another one of those Doomsday or Death Race movies (both of which I have never seen and I am simply going by what I’ve viewed in commercials) with characters that have to pic up random things because of the apocalyptic nature of their environment or something. But when I read further and learned that not only was it Mickey Rourke, but it was also a shot from Iron Man 2, I almost laughed…well more like a chuckle.

I don’t know much about Iron Man, but I thought the movie was good. Not fantastic or anything, but good. I watched it, I might even go see the second or, most likely wait for it to come out on Netflix because I’ve never had much of a thing for Batman rip-offs like Tony Stark (come on, a millionare who fights crime…Batman completely won that one a long time ago) but I like Robert Downey Jr. and I think he’s a good actor and I think I may have been one of the few people who saw it and went, “Ok, I can see this…”

But, if it works, it works, but on first view I had to chuckle, really…read the article from darkhorizons.com:

First Look At Whiplash In “Iron Man 2″

By Garth Franklin Wednesday June 10th 2009 07:14AM

USA Today and ScreenRant have posted the first official photo of Mickey Rourke as the villain Whiplash in Jon Favreau’s “Iron Man 2″.

Taken from a scene set during the Monaco Historic Grand Prix, the photo shows the first appearance of the character – Russian Ivan Vanko who has “constructed his own version of a suit”. Some alterations however include a pair of whips powered by the chest piece.

As for that chest piece, which looks much like Tony Stark’s? “The technologies are definitely related, and that’s part of the core theme of the film,” says Favreau.

In the comics the character is a weapons designer who works for Tony Stark’s billionaire rival Justin Hammer, whom Sam Rockwell is playing.