Inception News
Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 5:26 pm by TeddyBlass
Yahoo! Movies just recently launched the entire comic for Inception: The Cobol Job, a 19-page online comic book prologue to the feature film Inception. Written by Jordan Goldberg and featuring art by Long Vo, Joe Ng, and Crystal Reid, Inception: The Cobol Job focuses on Cobb (played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film) and his team (Arthur and Nash) as they work the job that leads them towards the opening of Christopher Nolan’s brilliant sci-fi actioner, Inception.
Head over to Yahoo! Movies to view the comic in their nifty viewer or to download the PDF.
Inception News
Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 1:56 am by TeddyBlass
The fourth and final stage of Inception‘s online tie-in game Mind Crime has recently gone live. It’s quite similar to stage 3 of the game with its map creation customization that allows for you to create roads, parks, and structures (like cafes and theaters) when designing your game map. But where the first 3 stages dealt with players learning how to create worlds and steal assets from other players; stage 4 adds the ability for players to plant an asset into another player’s mind. You can choose your “mark” from your friends list on Facebook for greater interactivity and depth. Who knows what other hidden features might be buried in the game. There’s only one way to find out – head over to Mind-Crime.com/Stage4 and play the game.
Odd
Posted on Friday, July 9, 2010 at 9:10 pm by George
Although Christopher Nolan admitted that Inception‘s snowy action got “quite a bit” of the urge to do a James Bond film out of his system, he recently told the BBC that a Bond film is something he would love to do. “I’ve loved the Bond films since I was a kid. For me, they’re always about the expansiveness of cinema. The first Bond films set up infinite possibilities about the world they create. I’d love to do a Bond film.”
007′s influence on Inception is something both proclaimed by Nolan and noticed by many critics. Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers called the film “James Bond meets ‘The Matrix,’” a line now being used to sell audiences in Inception’s latest TV spots. “The Bond influence on the film was very intentional because, for me, growing up with the Bond films – they’ve always stood for grand-scale action,” said Nolan. And Inception does seem to have its fair share of espionage, globetrotting, fine suits, and exciting set pieces. The character name Dom Cobb even sort of has that James Bond ring to it.
The prospect of Nolan doing a Bond film is an interesting one. Although he’s committed to Batman through 2012, that film’s (very likely) success will put Nolan in a position to do tackle nearly any project he desires thereafter. But even with MGM’s near bankruptcy putting Bond 23 on indefinite hold, director Sam Mendes is apparently willing to wait for the studio to get itself sorted out (according to Deadline). All in all, a Bond film directed by Nolan is not something we should expect to see anytime soon. But considering the franchise’s fifty years of success, who’s to say Nolan won’t eventually get a chance to direct the MI6 agent?
Inception News
Posted on Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 8:51 pm by AlexHaas
The Inception world premiere was earlier today at the Odeon Cinema at Leicester Square in London and some excellent interviews of the (basically the entire) cast are coming down the pipe. If you look closely in the videos, you can see that they didn’t necessarily roll out the red carpet, per se, but an awesome maze carpet that looks like it was taken straight from the Inception title cards in the first two trailers.
The first interview is of Leonardo DiCaprio and is shown below. To view the other interviews, check out the full story version of this article.
Let us know what you think! Comment below. Also: no spoilers in these. Big thanks to isi123 for posting these in the forums!
UPDATE (July 9th): Below is a new mashup video from the world premiere. It’s basically a compilation of all of the cast interviews. Hit up the full story to see those. Oh! And this video, unlike the others, actually has our director, Christopher Nolan.
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Rumors Superman News
Posted on Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 1:45 pm by TeddyBlass
So here’s an opportunity to take your mind off of Inception for a couple minutes – MTV SplashPage is reporting that Chris Columbus (the man behind the first two Harry Potter films) is rumored to have been offered the job to direct the next Superman movie. The screenplay, as you know, is being written by Batman Begins scribe David S. Goyer and is rumored to be titled Man of Steel. Christopher Nolan decided to oversee the project in a producer-like role after Goyer told the Dark Knight director ‘I have this thought about how you would approach Superman’ sometime earlier this year.
Since then, David S. Goyer himself and Christopher Nolan’s brother Jonathan have both been rumored to be under consideration to direct the new Superman. But MTV is reporting that Columbus is said to be “the right fit” for the superhero film according to insiders at Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Could they be this far in the process of setting up the film?
More recently, Christopher Nolan told MTV News that his current focus is on fine tuning the right story for Superman rather than finding the right actor.
“It’s all about figuring out exactly the tone and meaning of the story and how you’re going to approach it,” said Nolan. “Casting comes later, and all of those considerations come later.”
Read the full article over at MTV SplashPage to get the full scoop. What do you think of Chris Columbus directing Man of Steel? Is he the right fit?
UPDATE (July 13, 2010): It looks like this rumor has been busted. Chris Columbus will not be directing Man of Steel.
