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July 23, 2006
The Holy Shit Moment
Every Comicon has one. The first look at footage from the Sin City movie. MirrorMask. Last year's Superman Returns first look.
This year didn't seem to have one until Saturday morning, when it gave us two.
First was 300. This is a movie adaptation of Frank Miller's comic about the Persia/Sparta battle at the pass of Thermopylae. Based on what we saw, think TROY meets SIN CITY. There are kids beating each other bloody. Babies thrown off cliffs. Wolf battles. Slo-mo action gore. Fucking. Lesbians. Huge rampaging rhino. Toxic Avenger-style mutants. Sea battles. Land battles. Rains of arrows that block out the sun. Nearly nekkid mortal combat.
Oh, and there will be toys. Here's one of the mutants, rendered in plastic by NECA:
Stars David Wenham and Gerard Butler were in attendance, making wisecracks about how heavy the capes were and how unfit they are now relative to in the movie. Butler was a lawyer for 7 years before returning to his true childhood passion of acting -- let that be a lesson to some.
The second Holy Shit moment was for GRINDHOUSE. For those who don't know, this is a retro-style exploitation movie double-feature, made up of a movie by Robert Rodrigues, PLANET TERROR, a movie by Quentin Tarantino (I forget the title), and fake trailers in between (including one for MACHETE, a non-existent action spin-off for Danny Trejo's SPY KIDS character).
Also, the film will be fake-aged to look like a bad drive-in print. Rodriguez's segment is almost done, and we saw a lot of badass clips (the first Rodriguez movie in years to not look blatantly digital, btw). Looks to be a zombie movie, with Rose McGowan as a badass babe who loses her leg and eventually replaces it with a machine gun. Tarantino's will be a slasher, with Kurt Russell as the villain, a stuntman gone bad. Zoe Bell, star of DOUBLE DARE and Uma's double in KILL BILL, plays herself in a significant role. Tarantino plays "the Sid Haig role" in Rodriguez' segment.
Oh yeah, there are toys for this one too. Also by NECA.
Here we see a prototype of the pre-amputee Rose McGowan figure (combine with the James Duval Donnie Darko figure for some Doom Generation action!):
In other Tarantino news...He plans TWO anime spin-offs of KILL BILL. One will be the origin of BIll, the other features the Bride, though he didn;t say if it's prequel or sequel. Probably both, knowing him.
Also, he's goign to restore a theater in LA's Chinatown and make it a full-time Chinese language movie theater (Mandarin or Catonese, he didn't say).
Posted by LYT at July 23, 2006 12:28 AM [Message Board]
Comments
The Tarantino segment is called "Death Proof."
Posted by: Ben at July 23, 2006 8:51 AM
I wonder what QT would name the restored theater...
Posted by: Edwin A. Santos at July 23, 2006 1:25 PM