And after
Jai Courtney, the latest one to join the movie adaptation of fantasy saga
DIVERGENT is
Theo James! The star of UNDERWORLD AWAKENING will play Four in this thrilling adventure set in a future world where people are divided into distinct factions based on their personalities. Tris Prior (
Shailene Woodley) is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy to destroy all Divergents, she must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late. Four is a man with a mysterious past, and Tris's intense yet charismatic instructor and one of the leaders of the Dauntless faction. The fantasy saga has been sold in millions of copies so far.
CHRISTIAN BALE IN EXODUS EPIC! ANG LEE TO HELM GODS AND KINGS
Interesting news are coming from the two of the upcoming rival
Biblical projects: first, "Deadline" reports that
Christian Bale is
circling the lead role in 20th Century Fox epic
EXODUS! Although the
plot hasn't been revealed yet, you can guess what the film will be about
and it will be directed by
Ridley Scott! Meanwhile over at Warner Bros.
their own historical project
GODS AND KINGS has lost
Steven Spielberg
behind the helm which is a huge setback! Apparently the studio is now
reaching out to
Ang Lee to direct the Braveheart-esque rendition of
Moses' story from the Bible.
And a huge thanks to ever so dear
Dan Feuerriegel from
SPARTACUS epic show who tweeted about our
WAR OF THE DAMNED BOYS spotlight yesterday and brought thousands of his fans to our site! We do love him tones!
KATE BECKINSALE IS ELIZA GRAVES
And here's something on another UNDERWORLD star! We haven't seen
Kate Beckinsale much outside the vampire saga (don't know why, she's gorgeous and also a decent actress) and it seems she is moving away from Hollywood and shooting her new project down in Bulgaria! According to "The Hollywood Reporter" she is negotiating to take the lead role in
ELIZA GRAVES a thriller helmed by
Brad Anderson (the one who ruined
Christian Bale's outstanding physical and emotional efforts in THE MACHINIST with his aimless direction). The movie is based on a short story by
Edgar Allan Poe, and follows a Med School student trapped in a mental institution that has been overtaken by its inmates. Some of whom are now pretending to be doctors.
Kate Beckinsale will play the title character, an inmate that has an affair with the Harvard grad.
Oh, I know that was a thrill for you to be Tweeted by Feuerriegel. :))
ReplyDeleteI still haven't read Divergent, though everyone says it is wonderful. Hope you had an easy weekend and were able to get some rest and feel better.
and this is not the first time Feuerriegel tweets about HOLLYWOOD SPY :) Last year he actually told me that I wrote the first ever article about him and he tweeted that one too :) That was when I had a spotlight on epic boys :)
DeleteNot really ,unfortunatelly, but I hope it will get better soon :(
Not since "The Ten Commandments" in the 1960s has Moses been so hot, hot, HOT in Hollywood!
ReplyDeleteNow there's a fan of Bale :)
DeleteKate is a pretty girl.
ReplyDeleteI agree
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Deleteshe is, isn't she?
@Adam
Deletefully
All allure for sure.
DeleteGod, more Bible projects. BORING. There is nothing original or exciting in those tales anymore and we need to quit retelling them. Especially when the stories themselves are so uninteresting anymore. Maybe if they went with the women in the Bible...
ReplyDeleteI tend to agree but movie news have been so scarce recently that I have nothing else to report :(
DeleteDoes Kate only do action films? Not that that's a problem. I was just wondering. lol
ReplyDeleteI'll be interested in a full cast lineup for Divergent.
mostly, yes, she did have a few dramas and a romcom :)
DeleteThe cast is almost done, just waiting to see if Kate Winslet will really join the film too!
Actually no! If you look at her resume which includes almost 40 films, most are not action films. Not counting her very early British TV work, her first 19 films weren't action films. 28 of her 39 films are not action films. It seems as of late action roles are her most prominent, but it hasn't always been like that.
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DeleteYep, and she had dramas before too, I still remember her from that LAREN or LAUREL CANYON film with Christian Bale. She has sensuality similar to RAchel Weisz and could depict some tender emotions quite nicely on her face.
DeleteSo wonderful to know Kate is getting into something other than Underworld, not that she doesn't rock in Underworld but she is so much more talented than that role. Go Kate!
ReplyDeleteI wish she would go into romcoms, she is so sweet in such films :)
DeleteAgreed!
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DeleteWhat makes it frustrating for me, Dezzy is... I love Kate but I don't like Underworld. Elsie is right. She's so much more talented. I love her in Serendipity. I know, I'm a sucker for romcoms that work.
ReplyDeleteromcoms are my fave after epics and historical movies :)
DeleteBy the way, you're comment about not seeing Kate outside of Underworld, you're not paying attention. She's done 14 films in the last 9 years, including 2004, and she's only done one Underworld. She also had Contraband and Total Recall last year. She also had very good films like Nothing But the Truth, Snow Angels, and Fragments, which unfortunately for her, few people noticed.
ReplyDeleteit's not about not paying attention, Joe, but about what you said in the end - most of her recent films go unnoticed, she doesn't appear anymore in bigger films or very rarely (like in TOTAL RECALL).
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