Marvel casting news could be an untapped source of perpetual energy; it just never stops.
The Wrap are confident that Kick-Ass and Anna Karenina star Aaron Taylor-Johnson is a prime contender for the role of Quicksilver, one of the newest supers in Marvel’s The Avengers 2. Nothing’s been confirmed, but according to “an individual familiar with the project,” Taylor-Johnson is a favourite.
Another Kick-Ass co-star, Evan Peters, has already been cast as Quicksilver for X-Men: Days of Future Past by Fox, who also own the rights to the character due to a weird parental loophole.
And the next US remake is… ‘A Prophet’
Oscar-nominated 2010 French hit A Prophet is getting its subtitles clipped for an English language remake. The American version of the crime drama that our man Matt Glasby gave five stars to comes courtesy of Sony and producers Neal Moritz (Fast and Furious 6) and Toby Jaffe (Total Recall).
With that announcement, I’ve just got Foreign Remake bingo!
Could Mel Gibson be the next ‘Expendables’ villain?
In more speculation news, Showbiz411 has thrown around whispers of Mel Gibson’s involvement in The Expendables 3 – primarily that he’ll be the next villain for Sylvester Stallone to take down. According to their source, they seemed super duper serious about the claim.
Nothing has been confirmed, and given how Gibson turned himself into Box Office poison, there are plausible doubts, but I do hope it’s true though. It’d love to see the Expendables crew travel back in time to World War II.
Mel is also due to appear as the villain in Machete Kills this year.
‘Plan 9 from Outer Space’ has been remade, and it looks terrible
Having received remakes of every other classic movie ever made, Darkstone Entertainment are scraping the bottom of the barrel – literally (figuratively speaking) – by remaking Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space, the cult classic regarded as one of the worst movies ever made.
A director by the name of John Johnson (surprisingly not a pseudonym) thought it was a good idea. After watching the clip from Giant Freakin Robot, we’re inclined to disagree.
