Pretty newcomer Jordan Trovillion will soon be seen opposite Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, and John Leguizamo in director Brad Anderson’s (Sessions 9) upcoming last-people-on-earth frightener The Vanishing on Seventh Street.
While it’s unclear what part the 24-year-old actress will play in the thriller, the fact that the film’s website doesn’t list her in its cast credits regretfully suggests that she may only have a short amount of screen time.
That would be a shame considering her ModelMayhem page cites Trovillion as having five years stage combat experience, including broadsword, dual wakizashi, pistols, and hand-to-hand. In other words, kitten got claws.
But, let’s hope for the best. And, if she is in the flick for a nano-second, may it be as the naked girl that wakes up next to the dude who goes on to save the world.
Warner Bros. is finally pulling the trigger on promotional material for its upcoming Jonah Hex film adaptation, starring Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, John Malkovich, and Michael Fassbender.
Just a day ago, we saw a stroke-worthy photo of star Megan Fox in a corset, thigh-high boots, and wielding a hatchet. Now, we have sexy and glossy poster featuring Fox as Hex’s hooker-girlfriend Leila.
The studio also released posters showcasing the film’s vagina-less stars.
IFC has picked up the North American distribution rights to director Josh Reed’s Primal, a brutal and gory survival-frightener set in Australia.
An ecstatic Reed tells Fearnet:
IFC’s a great company with a great eclectic vision that includes a taste for the weird and blood-soaked wonderful. Primal couldn’t be in better hands.
Primal centers on a group of friends that turn savage after skinny-dipping in a remote waterhole during an expedition to find an aboriginal painting. Aussie babes Zoe Tuckwell-Smith and Krew Boylan headline.
Rachael Taylor will face-off against alien invaders with indie-star Olivia Thirlby in Summit Entertainment’s soon-to-shoot sci-fi thriller The Darkest Hour.
Directed by Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door), The Darkest Hour follows a group of American students vacationing in Moscow during an alien invasion. Shooting will take place in Moscow over the summer.
Taylor’s casting adds serious stroke-value to Gorak’s film, picking up the slack on Thirlby’s semi-cute-Sonic-Youth-fan-next-door looks.
Taylor’s horror/sci-fi creds include Michael Bay’s Transformers, the J-horror remake Shutter, and former-pornographer-turned-mainstream-director Gregory Dark’s See No Evil.
Imagine living in a city where the police serve as your judge, jury and executioner. What’s that? You’ve been to Los Angeles?
Well, then you’ll feel right at home watching director Pete Travis’ (Vantage Point) ode to Mega City One and its notorious law enforcer Judge Dredd, the U.K.’s most brutal comic strip character.
Adapted by screenwriter Alex Garland (28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later), Judge Dreddfollows “Judge” Joe Dredd as he brings down the hammer on lawbreakers found in the dystopian metropolis known as Mega City One.
Unlike the 1995 Sylvester Stallone vehicle, the new Judge Dredd film aims to be true-to-the-source-material.
Says Garland, via press release:
I grew up reading Judge Dredd. The incredible writers and artists of 2000 AD were formative influences on me.
Andrew [Macdonald], Allon [Reich] and I have developed this adaptation of Judge Dredd with an emphasis on adrenaline and realism, but with all the scale and spectacle of Mega-City One.
We think Pete’s propulsive, edgy style is a perfect match for the project.
I just hope there still a part for comedy genius Rob Schneider in the remake. I think he’s at least earned himself a cameo.
Judge Dredd is budgeted at $45 million and will be released in 3-D through Reliance Big Pictures.
This is Megan Fox as hatchet-wielding prostitute Leila in Warner Bros. upcoming sci-fi western mash-up Jonah Hex.
Jonah Hex is directed by Jimmy Hayward and costars John Malkovich (Transformers 3), Will Arnett (Monsters Vs. Aliens), Michael Shannon (Bug), David Jensen (The Mist), Brandi Coleman (Battle: Los Angeles), Aidan Quinn (The Eclipse), and Josh Brolin (Planet Terror) as Hex.
To see Fox get sweaty, see the film’s trailer here.
Timothy Olyphant (The Crazies) has replaced Sharlto Copley (District 9) in DreamWorks soon-to-start-shooting sci-fi actioner I Am Number Four. “Scheduling conflicts” were cited as the reason for Copley’s departure (A-Team promotional obligations to be exact).
This is terrible news because I now have to go back and rewrite all my I Am Number Four posts where I mention Copley as starring in the film. There are at least three posts! This is going to really cut into my daily afternoon vodka-induced nap time.
Other than that, I don’t really care what actors they cast just as long as slutty-looking Teresa Palmer stays in place.
I Am Number Four is an adaptation of the upcoming HarperCollins young-adult novel written by James Frey (”A Million Little Pieces”) and Jobie Hughes. The story revolves around John Smith (Alex Pettyfer), an alien living incognito as a human high school student in Paradise, Ohio up until he’s discovered by the extraterrestrial enemies that destroyed his home planet.
D.J. Caruso (Disturbia) directs. Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg produce.
Is “LOST” star Evangeline Lilly really living parallel lives? The 30-year-old stunner announced earlier this year that she planned to quit acting when her show came to an end, but now has signed on to star in DreamWork’s upcoming sci-fi actioner Real Steel.
Real Steel stars Hugh Jackman as a former boxer-turned-fight-promoter who reunites with his estranged 11-year-old son to build a robot to compete in a robot-boxing tournament. The film is set in the future where human boxing matches are no longer legal and have been replaced by combating machines.
Lilly has been cast as Jackman’s friend with boobs (it beats doing phone sex ads)
Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) is attached as director. The film swings into theaters on Nov. 18, 2011.
Action heroes Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren are set to star in Foresight Unlimited’s Universal Soldier IV, their third film together in the unstoppable cyborg-action series first introduced by Roland Emmerich in 1992.
The film will once again pit Van Damme’s reanimated war hero Pvt. Luc DeVeraux against Lundgren’s bio-mechanical heavy Sgt. Andrew Scott. The duo last faced-off in the 2010 straight-to-DVD hit Universal Soldier: Regeneration.
Production on Universal Soldier 4 will begin on May 9 with Regeneration director John Hyams at the helm. The straight-to-DVD sequel will be presented in 3-D.
Paramount Pictures has officially released the trailer for Super 8, the new sci-fi collaboration between “LOST” creator J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg, arriving in theaters on June 10. The film stars Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Zach Mills, Noah Emmerich, Ron Eldard, and Amanda Michalka, sexy sister to hottie Aly Michalka.
The film’s synopsis reads:
Set in Ohio in 1979, a troupe of six youngsters using a Super 8 camera to make their own zombie movie. One fateful night, their project takes them to a lonely stretch of rural railroad tracks and, as the camera rolls, calamity strikes — a truck collides with an oncoming locomotive and a hellacious derailment fills the night with screaming metal and raining fire. Then something emerges from the wreckage, something decidedly inhuman.
