As expected, reps for actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt are denying
reports that he’ll be playing Batman
in the Justice League film scheduled for 2015, or making a cameo in Zack Snyder’s
Superman film Man of Steel in 2013. Like I said yesterday, this is to be expected.
The only ones who would and could make that official would be Warner Bros, and
they too are as quiet as a church mouse about the future of the Batman
character. And while it’s obvious the WB holds Christopher Nolan’s trilogy with
high regard and would probably really not do anything to piss him off, we know
that there will be a new Batman for that JLA
film, a Batman that will probably
have no connection to Nolan’s series. Still, hiring Gordon-Levitt to play Batman –or even Robin as others have
suggested- is something the WB can do without consulting with Nolan.
In a never ending world of reworking the same material
studios own, Disney likes to see what property they own, and try to remake it
again and again. The live action Alice
in Wonderland has inspired them to rework their animated classic Cinderella into an extravagant
live-action film. While this premise has been done a billion times before, in
many other movies and TV shows, they still believe if you bring in some A-List
celebrities and surround them with state-of-the-art CGI effects, no one will
notice we’ve seen this story done…well, a billion times. Now it looks like Cate
Blanchet will join the cast as the evil stepmother. Chris Weitz has written the
script, based on pitch by The Devil
Wears Prada screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna. Mark Romanek will direct and it
will be produced by Simon Kinberg, who just signed on to write either Episode VIII or IX of Disney’s new Star Wars
trilogy.
Writer Joe Carnahan is close to signing a deal with Warner
Bros. to pen and direct an adaptation of the graphic novel Undying Love. The story revolves around an ex-soldier who falls in
love with a vampire. If he intends to be with her, must take out her creator –who
just happens to be protected by an army of mobsters in the Hong Kong
underworld. Love is never easy, apparently.
While Flight of the
Navigator was not a huge hit for Disney in 1986, it remains a semi-cult
film for many (the fact that the young cast virtually vanished from movies and
TV and Disney only has a DVD version out with a Blu-Ray version released in Germany
[!!!] only has probably added to its allure). One catch that maybe the reason
the film has such mixed issues is its premise (when boiled down- it’s horrible):
an alien with a voice that sounds like Pee-Wee Herman and loves classic 1960s
music abducts a 12 year-old boy. This cute and cuddly alien shows David the
universe and eventually returns him to his family. But the problem is eight
years have passed on Earth while the boy somehow remains a 12 year-old. His
entire family has aged (including his younger brother who is now his “older”
brother) and lived with the horrible idea that he has been dead for the last
eight years. Back in 2009, Disney began making plans to remake the film, but in
the last twenty-six years, would the mass viewing audience –some who would say are
more aware and probably less enthused about whole idea of a family in mourning
for a lost child- see this premise as okay, just because the alien abductor is
cute and funny? Well, we shall see, as Disney has made a deal with Safety Not Guaranteed director Colin
Trevorrow and writer Derek Connolly to rewrite the current script. Trevorrow
has said that Navigator was one of
his favorite childhood films. How they’ll manage to deal with the premise in a
much touchier world shall be interesting. 
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