All the worthwhile movie news from the week.
Transcendence
The teasers for Transcendence have been released (update: a full trailer has been as well). It looks more than a little intriguing, but the effects towards the end make it look like its reach might exceed its grasp. It's tough to delve too deeply into this plot without looking like Skynet: The Movie, so it'll be interesting as we get a little closer to the April release date and get a second trailer how it's looking (note: you can pretty much guarantee I'll do a Saturday Psychic on it once that second trailer's released).
Watch: Transcendence trailer
The teasers for Transcendence have been released (update: a full trailer has been as well). It looks more than a little intriguing, but the effects towards the end make it look like its reach might exceed its grasp. It's tough to delve too deeply into this plot without looking like Skynet: The Movie, so it'll be interesting as we get a little closer to the April release date and get a second trailer how it's looking (note: you can pretty much guarantee I'll do a Saturday Psychic on it once that second trailer's released).
Watch: Transcendence trailer
Ant-Man
In news that could anger or excite all 14 fans of Ant-Man (I'm not sure, I have zero read on that community), Paul Rudd has been cast in the titular role. Fresh off seeing him reprise his role as Brian Fantana in Anchorman 2, his signing would seem to indicate a more comedic tone for the superhero film, which seriously, it pretty much has to. The guy's power is the ability to change his size and a helmet that lets him control ants. Any superhero who can be murdered with a can of Raid can probably cross "drama" off the list.
Read: Paul Rudd is Ant-Man
In news that could anger or excite all 14 fans of Ant-Man (I'm not sure, I have zero read on that community), Paul Rudd has been cast in the titular role. Fresh off seeing him reprise his role as Brian Fantana in Anchorman 2, his signing would seem to indicate a more comedic tone for the superhero film, which seriously, it pretty much has to. The guy's power is the ability to change his size and a helmet that lets him control ants. Any superhero who can be murdered with a can of Raid can probably cross "drama" off the list.
Read: Paul Rudd is Ant-Man
Expendables 3
Do you enjoy increasingly-aged stars playing directly into their usual archetype? How about increasingly-aged stars who only wish that was their archetype (Hi, Harrison Ford!) Do you enjoy seeing a plethora of them do it all at once? Do you find it difficult to drive yourself to a movie theater through all that crushing stupidity weighing you down? Then have I got the movie for you... Watching teasers for these movies is like watching a train wreck at this point. It's so tragic, but I can't look away.
Watch: Expendables 3 teaser
Do you enjoy increasingly-aged stars playing directly into their usual archetype? How about increasingly-aged stars who only wish that was their archetype (Hi, Harrison Ford!) Do you enjoy seeing a plethora of them do it all at once? Do you find it difficult to drive yourself to a movie theater through all that crushing stupidity weighing you down? Then have I got the movie for you... Watching teasers for these movies is like watching a train wreck at this point. It's so tragic, but I can't look away.
Watch: Expendables 3 teaser
X-Men: Apocalypse
The next installment in the X-Men franchise, after the still-to-be-released Days of Future Past, will be written by the same team that delivered the redundantly-titled X2: X-Men United. A minor note, to be sure, but at least we can still imagine the writers of X-Men 3: The Last Stand serving out a prison sentence for awful writing somewhere. It's still too early for a poster (duh), so I've used a picture that's one of the top image search results for "X-Men: Apocalypse poster". Peter Dinklage plays some guy named "Bolivar Trask" in DoFP. Beyond me reading it as "Bolivia Tasks" at first glance, let's hope he becomes Apocalypse (I know nothing about comics). A Dinklagocalypse seems delightful.
Read: Bryan Singer Reveals X-Men Apocalypse Writers on Twitter
The next installment in the X-Men franchise, after the still-to-be-released Days of Future Past, will be written by the same team that delivered the redundantly-titled X2: X-Men United. A minor note, to be sure, but at least we can still imagine the writers of X-Men 3: The Last Stand serving out a prison sentence for awful writing somewhere. It's still too early for a poster (duh), so I've used a picture that's one of the top image search results for "X-Men: Apocalypse poster". Peter Dinklage plays some guy named "Bolivar Trask" in DoFP. Beyond me reading it as "Bolivia Tasks" at first glance, let's hope he becomes Apocalypse (I know nothing about comics). A Dinklagocalypse seems delightful.
Read: Bryan Singer Reveals X-Men Apocalypse Writers on Twitter
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
There's been a trailer released for the verbosely-titled (man, I really have an issue with movie titles today) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. The fantastic part of these movies is the disbelief they ask you to suspend. The virus released in the first movie was actually a rather genius way to explain the Rise of the Apes (the first film's working and far superior title). It elevated apes to astounding levels of intelligence, but kills humans. Even if we assume a 99% mortality rate, unheard of for any virus, that still leaves around 71,000,000 humans to fight 350,000 apes (source). It sounds like this second movie will try to explain it away by saying the remaining humans fight each other as well (heavy-handed moral alert: Man is a savage creature!) But who am I kidding: it has Gary Oldman and CGI apes; it'll make tons of money.
Watch: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes trailer
There's been a trailer released for the verbosely-titled (man, I really have an issue with movie titles today) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. The fantastic part of these movies is the disbelief they ask you to suspend. The virus released in the first movie was actually a rather genius way to explain the Rise of the Apes (the first film's working and far superior title). It elevated apes to astounding levels of intelligence, but kills humans. Even if we assume a 99% mortality rate, unheard of for any virus, that still leaves around 71,000,000 humans to fight 350,000 apes (source). It sounds like this second movie will try to explain it away by saying the remaining humans fight each other as well (heavy-handed moral alert: Man is a savage creature!) But who am I kidding: it has Gary Oldman and CGI apes; it'll make tons of money.
Watch: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes trailer
Warcraft
Flying in the face of anyone capable of already seeing how bad this movie will be, Warcraft continues its inexorable march into the annals of bad video game movies. With Duncan Jones directing (and he seemed so promising after Moon), and now the casting announcement of Daniel Wu and Clancy Brown, this thing is starting to look unavoidable. Let's have fun debating which of these two men will play the sexy female night elf dancing on the mailbox.
Read: Legendary's Warcraft Adds Daniel Wu, Clancy Brown
Flying in the face of anyone capable of already seeing how bad this movie will be, Warcraft continues its inexorable march into the annals of bad video game movies. With Duncan Jones directing (and he seemed so promising after Moon), and now the casting announcement of Daniel Wu and Clancy Brown, this thing is starting to look unavoidable. Let's have fun debating which of these two men will play the sexy female night elf dancing on the mailbox.
Read: Legendary's Warcraft Adds Daniel Wu, Clancy Brown