Although Robert Downey Jr. is no longer attached, the Cowboys & Aliens movie looks to be shaping up nicely. Jon Faveau is to direct, and the reported cast now includes Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford.
A great review of the upcoming Gamera, The Giant Monster (the Japanese version of the original film) can be found here. Sad news on the inclusion of the American cut, however, which sounds like it will be blocked for a long time. However, Shout Factory will also be releasing similar DVDs of the subsequent Gamera movies, too.
The ‘8os nostalgia cycle (it’s generational) continues with announced remakes of Private Benjamin (just a few days following the announced remake of Overboard), Real Genius and Toxic Avenger.
Had a good TV night last night, what with a decent episode of The Human Target and a new Mythbusters. HT did feature a surrogate Princess Diana, yet another in an endless parade of vapid individuals garnering a vast public interest that continues to mystify / disconcert me. Mythbusters was fun, but the A team myth about spy car devices to elude pursuit (spikes, smokescreens, oil slicks) interested me a lot more than the B team physics myth about whether firing an object backward while it moved forward would cancel it’s momentum.
The season ender of HT next week looks really good, as it gives Chance’s origin story (ironically in that the show may never return). There was also an extended commercial for the upcoming action flick The Losers. The Losers I was conversant with was a DC WWII team, ala Easy Company in the Sgt. Rock books. Apparently DC updated the concept at some point, because the new Losers looked exactly like an update of The A-Team. Which is kind of funny because there’s also an actual A-Team movie coming out. Still, two of them somewhat increases the odds that there’ll be a good one.
