Hello fiends! Welcome back and thanks again for checking out my review of Cinema Wasteland. A relatively slow day in horror news, but I managed to turn up a few stories of interest for you. Check 'em out below.
Underworld 4 - Production has begun in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the 4th installment in the Underworld franchise. Underworld 4: New Dawn i slensing in 3D, the first time for the series. Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species.
India Eisley has joined the cast as"Eve," rumored to be Selene's daughter! Michael Ealy takes on the role of "Detective Sebastian". Sandrine Holt (Starship Troopers 2, Resident Evil: Apocalypse ) and Robert Lawrenson round out the cast.
Underworld 4, is set to hit theaters on January 20, 2012.
Hunger Games - Lionsgate has cast both Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth for roles in The Hunger Games, the adaptation of Suzanne Collins' novel. They will star alongside the Jennifer Lawrence, who will play "Katniss Everdeen".
Hutcherson will star as "Peeta Mellark". Hemsworth (Knowing, Triangle) stars as "Gale Hawthorne".
Gary Ross is directing the pic set in post-apocalyptic America, which introduces 16-year-old heroine Katniss Everdeen, who must participate in a fight-to-the-death annual event called the Hunger Games. The battles are televised, and pit youths from each of the Capitol’s 12 Districts against each other.Lionsgate will release on March 23, 2012.
Sounds to me a bit like Gamer or Death Race for a younger crowd. Here's hoping they go for a hard R rating.
Odd Thomas - Anton Yelchin (Terminator: Salvation, Fright Night) is already on board, and Priest star Lily Collins is being courted. Now the good folks over at Bloody Disgusting are being told that Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption , War of the Worlds) is also circling a role in Stephen Sommers' (The Mummy, Van Helsing, Deep Rising) adaptation of Dean Koontz's popular Odd Thomas.
"Odd Thomas is silently approached by the ghost of a young girl brutally raped and murdered, and through his unique ability to understand the dead, is psychically led to her killer, a former schoolmate named Harlo Landerson. With this opening, we are introduced to Odd's world. Koontz soon discloses how Odd was named and begins, layer by layer, to show how Odd's dysfunctional upbringing has shaped his life, and as those details are uncovered, his supernatural abilities begin to make more sense."
For me, Koontz has always been hit or miss and Sommers' track record is far from stellar. Consider me a skeptic until I see a trailer....
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