The Comic Con (sdcc11) panel for 20th Century Fox was a guessing game, as they had not announced what they had brought to tease us with. (At least I never heard ahead of time… sure, there were guesses and rumors, but I didn’t know.) But the intelligent guesses who said panel attendees would see Prometheus, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and In Time… should go play the lottery this week!
First up was the moderator, Damon Lindelof.
Then we got
Prometheus
The Prometheus panel at Comic Con had Charlize Theron come out and join Lindelof and via video feed from the frozen tundra of somewhere, Noomi Rapace and Ridley Scott also joined the gang in the panel.
Theron let out the she plays a “suit” in the movie, who is in charge of the primary mission. There was also something about naked push-ups… (Now I definitely have some readers’ attentions!)
Scott noted the movie is being shot in 3D and isn’t using too much CG in this movie. He also noted that he’ll never work in 2D again, as he seems to be liking filming in 3D.
Scott suggested there might be two robots in the movie. Scott says that in regards to the mechanized entities, he feels they had to come up with something new and/or original and he feels they did come up with some original material.
And though this movie doesn’t have anything to do with the Alien movies (spinoff of sorts?), he said that no one ever asked a specific question in the sequels, but this question that was never asked is the center of the story. He also added that in the last few minutes of the movie, things will make sense as to how this film is related to Alien.*
The film is PG-13, but when asked about that, he said that he’s always prepared with multiple versions of a movie, so when he pens something, there’s a PG-13 version on standby, ready to go.
*Though Ridley Scott did NOT say anything, my suspicion about the central premise of what was never asked in the sequels, is where are the aliens from? How did they come to be. I mean heck, the alien DNA has been referenced a few times in accord with this movie, so that’s my guess!
Prometheus comes out to your local movie theater in June of 2012.
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In Time
After the Prometheus panel, Andrew Niccol (screenwriter) came out and described In Time as taking place in a new dystopian future. In this future, money has been replaced by time as a commodity. (eesh… I’d be screwed! I never have enough time. Hmm, wait… I never have enough money!)
Each person is allowed to live until they are 25 years old, and then given one more year to live before being snuffed out.
It’s this premise that motivates the characters to figure out how to get more time, whether it be via buying or stealing.
The cast includes the ever-busy Olivia Wilde, Alex Pettyfer, Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. Timberlake and Seyfried came out for the panel. This is Timberlake’s first Comic Con appearance.
In Time is released to theaters October 28th, 2011.
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Ah, my drooling mainstay until at least August 5th, is the Planet of the Apes prequel/origin movie called Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Rupert Wyatt (The Escapist) is directing and what we’ve seen at the panel in preview clips, well, is nothing new, but maybe just a touch different!
The cast includes James Franco, John Lithgow, Andy Serkis, Tom Felton, Frieda Pinto. Only Serkis from the cast showed up.
Wyatt said the Serkis was awesome in playing Caesar. (Paraphrased)
Serkis said it was fun to bring a perspective of humanity to another non-human character.
I’m a touch worried that of all the cast, only Serkis showed up. Does this mean something ill about the film? That is isn’t worth supporting? Or just bad timing? That’s what I’m hoping because from the preview clips I’ve seen, this has a potential of wow. They have much to live up to, considering the franchise!
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