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Snyder Gears up for 300 Prequel
Rodrigo Santoro as Xerxes in 300
SuperHeroHype have been talking to Zack Snyder (300, WATCHMEN) and it seems that he’ll be directing the prequel to 300, entitled XERXES, in the near future. Apparently Frank Miller (SIN CITY, THE SPIRIT) is working on writing the film and once Snyder releases his upcoming LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS and [...]
David Fincher reforges Heavy Metal with help from Cameron and Snyder
Mike Fleming at Dealine New York is reporting that David Fincher is reviving HEAVY METAL with the help of James Cameron (AVATAR) and Zack Snyder (WATCHMEN). Based on the famous adult comic book, which previously inspired two films (one in 1981 and a sequel in 2000), HEAVY METAL would be a 3d animated anthology, containing approximately [...]
Watchmen: Blu-ray Review
Who watches the WATCHMEN? Not nearly enough, if you ask Warner Bros or production partner Paramount. With just over $100 million in domestic grosses (a number that stopped being impressive ever since THE GOLDEN CHILD), the studio bean counters had to pour over the less than impressive foreign grosses and home video before they could [...]
Sucker Punch: Emily Browning in new Zack Snyder film
According to Entertainment Weekly’s Hollywood Insider, actress Emily Browning (most recently sceen in the ghost story THE UNINVITED) will takeover the role SUCKER PUNCH, which was vacated by Amanda Seyfried, who had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with her HBO series BIG LOVE:
Seyfried had received the offer and was very interested in the starring [...]
Watchmen – Film Review
Ponderous and dull, this filmic adaptation of the famous graphic novel proves that great source material, a healthy budget, and technical competence are not enough to make a good movie. Some kind of cinematic vision is necessary; unfortunately, what passes for vision in the WATCHMEN film is a superficial sheen of special effects, production design, and photography [...]
Snyder will Illustrate Man
“Each illustration is a little story. If you watch them, in a few minutes, they tell you a tale. In three hours of looking you could see eighteen or twenty stories acted out right on my body, you could hear voices and think thoughts. It’s all here, just waiting for you to look.” – from [...]
300 – Borderland Film Review
Zack Snyder’s film version of the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley may look like the greatest music video ever made; whether or not it is a decent feature film is another question altogether. Snyder makes wonderful use of computer-generated imagery, combined with beautiful live-action photography, to create a unique sepia-toned looked that [...]
