The force is strong with Academy Award winning screenwriter Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine). Along with penning the Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller Oblivion and adapting Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games: Catching Fire for Lionsgate, Arndt will now write the script for Star Wars: Episode VII.
In case you’ve been in a coma or are a Star Trek geek, Disney purchased Lucasfilm LTD in October for $4.05 billion in stocks and cash. Plans for a new Star Wars trilogy, beginning with Episode VII to be released in 2015, soon followed.
Arndt made his Oscar-winning screenwriting debut in 2006 with the irreverent comedy Little Miss Sunshine (Best Original Screenplay). He followed that up with the Academy Award nominated Toy Story 3 (Best Adapted Screenplay).
Spy Kids child star Alexa Vega plays whore house hit-woman KillJoy in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, a sequel to the director’s 2010 grind-house actioner Machete. The 24-year-old Latina posted the above image on her Instagram to tease the sexy new role.
Many say Rodriguez is exploiting Vega—an actress he first hired at age 13—by stripping her down to lingerie and chaps. Vega, however, has told the media that she took the part to “own her sexuality.” I’m just wondering if that’s the same outfit Jessica Alba wore in Rodriguez’s Sin City… think about that for a minute.
Paramount Pictures released this week the first trailer for its big screen adaptation of author Max Brooks novel World War Z. The film is directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace) and stars Brad Pitt, Mirielle Enos (”The Killing”), Julia Levy-Boeken (“Entourage”), Ed Harris (The Abyss), and Matthew Fox (”LOST”).
The footage shown in the trailer should give the willies to anyone who’s seen “Infested” on Animal Planet or lived in New York. The zombies attack in droves. They scurry. They steal watermelon from your picnic table. It’s pretty unsettling.
