The Star Online: Entertainment: Movies
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- Christian Bale and Tom Hardy compete to scale 'Everest'
- 'Birth of the Dragon' to focus on Bruce Lee 'origin story'
| Posted: 21 Feb 2013 02:50 PM PST Stoker – After India Stoker's father passes away, her distant uncle comes to live with India and her mother. She initially question his motives but later becomes infatuated with him. This British-American psychological thriller/horror was directed by Park Chan-wook and written by Ted Foulke, also known as actor Wentworth Miller. It stars Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Alden Ehrenreich, Dermot Mulroney and Jacki Weaver. Jack The Giant Slayer – An action-adventure based on the fairytale Jack And The Beanstalk, directed by Bryan Singer. In this fantastic setting, Jack is a young man who gets a beanstalk for his horse, and "accidentally" grows it. But here's the twist – the young man must now rescue a kidnapped princess from giants who live in the clouds and are looking to reclaim what was once lost to them. Starring Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane and Bill Nighy. |
| Christian Bale and Tom Hardy compete to scale 'Everest' Posted: 21 Feb 2013 02:07 AM PST Christian Bale and Tom Hardy, who both starred in latest Batman installment The Dark Knight Rises, may each star in a movie about Mount Everest. According to Deadline.com, Christian Bale (pic) is considering signing up for Everest, a codename for a project by Universal Pictures and Working Title. The movie will tell of the debacle of an expedition to scale the Himalayan peak. The subject of the film in which Tom Hardy is starring is quite similar and is also called Everest, although the two concurrent movies will be set in different time periods. Christian Bale's Everest will take place in 1996. Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur (Jar City) will direct this loose adaptation of Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of The Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer, who also wrote Into The Wild, which was adapted for the cinema by Sean Penn. The movie will focus on several teams of mountain climbers trapped on the slopes of Everest by a storm. According to the book, which denounced the mercantile methods of local agencies at the expense of safety, eight people died. The project led by Tom Hardy will be set in 1924. Doug Liman will direct this Sony Pictures film about George Mallory. The British mountain climber disappeared during his third attempt to reach the top of Mount Everest. is body was only found in 1999 and it is unknown whether he fulfilled his ambition or not. When mountain climbing pioneer and legend Mallory was asked "Why climb Mount Everest?" he famously answered "Because it's there." Since then, the answer has become a slogan for mountain climbing enthusiasts everywhere. (Relaxnews) |
| 'Birth of the Dragon' to focus on Bruce Lee 'origin story' Posted: 21 Feb 2013 02:07 AM PST QED International and Groundswell Productions have announced that a movie entitled Birth Of The Dragon will tell the story of Bruce Lee when he first got to the United States. Twenty years after Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Hollywood will once again retrace the steps of the martial arts specialist who became an action movie star. Birth Of The Dragon will focus on the event that made him popular in the United States in 1965: a fight against Wong Jack Man, a traditional rival master who, like him, also came from the Chinese quarter of San Francisco. Bruce Lee's victory helped him toward being spotted by Hollywood. The movie will also explore what the star did to stop the Triads, the Chinese mafia, from settling in Chinatown. Stephen Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson will be in charge of the screenplay. These two biopic specialists worked on Oliver Stone's Nixon and Michael Mann's Ali. (Relaxnews) |
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