Geek News Update at the End of Spring Break
Well, there's good and bad news from Hollywood recently.
Can'tStantine: It appears that Warner Brother's Constantine, in which Keanu Reeves may actually achieve four facial expressions, has now been delayed from a summer launch to the dead-zone of February, 2005. As one fan said, "With any luck, I'll be dead by then." Not quite the appropriate comment: with any luck, the project dies by then. Can a movie die in post-production? (Bad news: the script seems to be a particularly poor telling of Dangerous Habits.)
King's Travesty in Critical Condition: ABC's bastardization of Lars von Trier's The Kingdom, which they hoped would get by on Stephen King's name and a dumbing-down of the plot, is suffering acute audience hemorrhage.
It Oughta Be a Sin: Finally, not content with screwing up Constantine, Hollywood has decided to take a crack at Frank Miller's Sin City. Possible stars include Bruce Willis and Leonardo DiCaprio, who as we all know would work well in a cynical, violent, film-noire setting. Following on from loose adaptations like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Constantine, no word yet on if they're setting Sin City in a quiet town in southern Italy...
(Last two sourced from Sci-Fi's Sci-Fi Wire, first sourced from Straight to Hell.)
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Posted by: Nick Morgan | March 20, 2004 6:22 PM