Fangoria reports that Alien vs. Predator sequel Alien vs. Predator: Survival of the Fittest (new title) starts shooting in Vancouver on September 23 and wraps on December 14:
AVP’s Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis of Amalgamated Dynamics, veterans of the first AVP and all the previous ALIEN sequels, will encore on the creature FX. The Shane Salerno script places the battling extraterrestrials on U.S. soil (the Midwest).
Colin and Greg Strauss are making their feature directorial debut on the film, opening December 21, 2007.
Entertainment Weekly got an update from Rocky Balboa writer-director-exec. producer-star Sylvester Stallone about the fourth “Rambo” installment. While the film doesn’t have a domestic distributor yet, Rambo IV is expected to start filming October 1 in Thailand, says the magazine.
Stallone said he called Soldier of Fortune magazine to get their opinion on who Rambo should face next and asked, “‘What is the most critical man-doing-inhumanity-to-man situation right now in the world? Where is it?’” The answer was Burma.
He has written a first draft of the script with Art Monterastelli (The Hunted), which finds Rambo living a monastic lifestyle in Bangkok and salvaging old PT boats and tanks for scrap metal. When a group of volunteers bringing supplies into Burma disappears, a relative of one of the missing missionaries begs Rambo to find them. Rambo then heads off with a team of young guns to find the relative.
Accepted star Justin Long is in talks to join Bruce Willis in the Len Wiseman-directed Die Hard: Reset, the fourth film in the 20th Century Fox franchise.
Production Weekly says “Reset” finds hero John McClane (Willis) coming out of retirement to battle an internet terrorist organization intending to systematically demolish or seize our technological infrastructure via a three-day plan. These guys will gradually step up malfunctions starting with traffic control systems, working towards economic markets, and finally shutting down key utilities like power and water, to send the U.S. essentially into a modern Dark Ages.
The producers are scouting locations in Vancouver for a September 30 start.
Paramount announced during a presentation panel at the San Diego ComicCon that Peter Cullen would voice Optimus Prime in the live action Transformers movie. For those who don’t know, Cullen has voiced Optimus Prime in the original Transformers cartoon and movie. This was a good move by Michael Bay that will give the movie some credibility with the fans.
Bryan Singer told fans at Comic-Con International in San Diego July 22 that he intends to direct a sequel to Superman Returns for 2009. “I haven’t concluded a deal to do it yet, which is always iffy,” Singer told a crowd of several hundred fans. “But my intention is to do it. My intention is to do it for 2009. And it would be sort of like, where this one sort of introduced the characters and the universe to some degree, which required some measure of reintroduction, because it had been several years since it had been around, this one, the next one, enables me to get all Wrath of Khan on it,” a reference to the second Star Trek film.
Singer also brought a surprise guest with him: Richard Donner, the director of the original 1978 Superman film, who screened rare outtake footage from Superman II, featuring Margot Kidder and Christopher Reeve. Singer also showed fans a blooper reel from Superman Returns.