Movie Chronicles

Possible Whiplash Concept Art May 18th, 2009

Latino Review have received some con­cept art in the post claim­ing to be Mickey Rourke’s Whiplash in Iron Man 2. The style of the image is inline with con­cept designs, the Rourke-ness and details are non-distinct, some­thing a faker prob­a­bly wouldn’t do. We’ll have to wait and see if it’s the real deal or not.

Transformers Movie Universe and Comic Previews May 18th, 2009

Two book pre­views for you, offer­ing more insight into the Revenge of the Fallen plot. First up is DK’s ‘Trans­form­ers: The Movie Uni­verse’, a kids book with all the facts and fig­ures about each of the robots. Sec­ond comes the comic adap­ta­tion of the movie, released this Wednesday.

Trans­form­ers: The Movie Uni­verse Preview

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Find out every­thing you ever wanted to know about the Trans­form­ers includ­ing footage from the films Revenge of the Fallen and Trans­form­ers, with this explo­sive guide.

Read behind-the-scenes sto­ries from the Trans­former movies, secret dossiers, mis­sion objec­tives, stats, top 10s, amaz­ing facts and more. Get access to the data files of your favorite heroes from Opti­mus Prime and Mega­tron to Bum­ble­bee and Sam Witwicky.

Step into dra­matic bat­tle scenes and learn every­thing you ever wanted to know; from an insid­ers guide to Cyber­ton­ian his­tory to the secrets behind the Trans­form­ers mil­i­tary hard­ware. Plus, fan­tas­tic cross-sections will take you deep inside their incred­i­ble world

Movie to Comic Adap­ta­tion Preview

Linkin Park’s “New Divide” track for Transformers 2 now online #newdivide May 18th, 2009

Linkin Park’s new sin­gle for Trans­form­ers: Revenge of the Fallen has it’s online pre­mière right now. I have to say, the open­ing is pretty tight:

Linkin Park’s — New Divide

Tom Hiddleston cast as Loki May 18th, 2009

Briton Tom Hid­dle­ston has been cast as Loki, Thor’s neme­sis, so reports Nikki Finke. Hid­dle­ston has worked along­side direc­tor Ken­neth Branagh on two pre­vi­ous occa­sions — in Ivanov at Wyn­d­hams The­atre, Lon­don, and in the BBC minis­eries, Wal­lan­der.

Hid­del­ston was also con­sid­ered for the Thor role.

More official Transformers 2 images; Isabel Lucas, Megan Fox May 18th, 2009

Another batch of six offi­cial Revenge of the Fallen snaps have been released, this time show­ing us Megan Fox hid­ing behind a wall, Isabel Lucas look­ing scary with an astron­omy book (kind of like that girl in Men in Black), Shia run­ning from tanks and smoke, Ramon Rodriguez sit­ting in Bum­ble­bee and Shia and Agent Sim­mons in the Smith­son­ian — pre­sum­ably with Wheelie in the bag.

Megan Fox

Megan Fox

Isabel Lucas

This shot of Isabel Lucas is at a whop­ping 3888 x 2592 pix­els, at 8mb.

Ramon Rodriguez

Shia

Josh Duhamel

Sam Witwicky and Agent Simmons

Five new Official Photos; Megan Fox, Optimus Prime May 18th, 2009

Five new Offi­cial Trans­form­ers 2 pho­tos show Megan Fox in a leather jacket, Sam Witwicky in front of Bum­ble­bee, Opti­mus Prime dri­ving off an air­craft, the Auto­bots and Tyrese Gibson.

Opti­mus Prime dri­ving off a large air­craft is par­tic­u­larly inter­est­ing — notably the plane could be the as of yet unnamed (but sim­i­lar to ‘Sil­ver­bot’) air­craft auto­bot that we have seen in toy form.

View more Sil­ver­bot images

Megan Fox

Megan Fox

Auto­bots

Shia

Tyrese

Thanks for the heads up Jason!

Chris Hemsworth cast as Thor! May 17th, 2009

We recently reported that the Thor cast­ing was in its final stages, now we have our first solid cast­ing news. Chris Hemsworth will be play­ing Thor in Ken­neth Branagh’s big screen adap­ta­tion as well as in 2012 as part of The Avengers movie. You may have just seen him as Cap­tain George Kirk in Star Trek, he’s also star­ring as the lead in Red Dawn and Joss Whedon’s ‘Cabin in the Woods’.

How Chris was cast

The way Chris Hemsworth got the part of Thor is one of those great Hol­ly­wood back­sto­ries that hap­pens only once in a blue moon. Ward had found Chris dur­ing one of the manager’s many scout­ing trips to Aus­tralia. Ward brought him to Los Ange­les and really put him out there to cast­ing direc­tors and pro­duc­tion exec­u­tives. As for the major agen­cies, I hear CAA passed on the meet­ing, Endeavor took it but passed on rep­ping him, and ICM was inter­ested but dragged their feet. But Ilene Feld­man under­stood his appeal immediately.

Chris had read for the part of Thor but wasn’t given a test because a cast­ing direc­tor had nixed him early on. I’m told Chris’ younger brother Liam (who’s also a ROAR client) then tested for the role of Thor, but Mar­vel Stu­dios Pres­i­dent Kevin Feige passed. Then, after a con­ver­sa­tion with Ward (“You’ve got to recon­sider Chris, he’s your guy”), Feige decided to let Chris read again. […] Branagh came to town last week and saw the Chris test and made the final cast­ing deci­sion today.

Our old list of prob­a­ble cast­ing deci­sions did not include Hemsworth:

Char­lie Hun­nam
Tom Hid­dle­ston
Alexan­dar Skars­gard
Liam Hemsworth
Joel Kinnaman.

Jetfire and Optimus Prime combined May 17th, 2009

We’ve seen key chains and small grainy images of Jet­fire com­bin­ing with Opti­mus Prime, now we have our first detailed look at the com­bined leader class toys:

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