MAD MAX (Reboot Trilogy)

Mad Max Fan Art

• MAD MAX TRILOGY

George Miller’s long-awaited Mad Max reboot might have beenstuck in development hell for more than a year (some ten years after he startedhyping the project in the first place), but that isn’t about to stop himdiscussing potential sequels, of which there will apparently be two.

“We started with [Fury Road], but we then started to do asecond story and a third,” said Miller to Australian Financial Review. “We’vewritten the script for the second and almost finished the third. We neverintended to, [but] they were part of the exploration of the characters.”

Fury Road’s latest delay came about as a result of thefilm’s arid Australian location being washed away by flash flooding. However,the film will now be relocated to Namibia, with everything supposedly in placefor filming to begin in April.

All being well, Fury Road will see Tom Hardy step into MelGibson’s shoes as post-apocalyptic drifter Max Rockatanski, with CharlizeTheron and Zoe Kravitz also attached in supporting roles.

JEREMY RENNER (Speaks on his Future)

• JEREMY RENNER SPEAKSAVENGERS, AND ALL HIS OTHER FILMS

With Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol hitting theaterssoon, ComingSoon.net sat down for an exclusive interview with star JeremyRenner.

The actor spoke a few of his upcoming films which, includesMarvel's The Avengers, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, The Bourne Legacy andmore.

"I never went after a big franchise," Renner saidof his upcoming four-in-a-row. "I never went after a big action movie.They just sort of kind of manifested in a way... It started off by me saying,'Why not be in a movie that will play all over the world, but that still hassomething that I can do in it?' Why not?"

Jeremy Renner as Hansel

When asked about the similarities between some of hisupcoming roles, Renner explained that each is very different on a characterlevel.

"It was kind of impossible for me to say no [to thesefilms]," he added, "as long as there was stuff for me to docharacter-wise, selfishly, it's just a bigger setting. A bigger stage."

Already featured in a brief cameo in this past summer'sThor, Renner will soon wield Clint Barton's bow in a more significant capacitycome May 6, 2012.

"[I] was blessed to be a part of [the Marvel]universe," he continued, "because I love what Marvel did withsomething so fantastical and unrealistic, making it kind of plausible, likewhen they did "Iron Man". I just thought those were really greatmovies, the first one in particular... The character of Hawkeye was always cool.He's kind of a rogue, shadowy character. That's what attracted me to him. Thenhe's also a human being. He just has a high skill set, so they call him asuperhero."

While all four blockbuster films are potential franchises,Renner still teased that he's going to be taking a break from the genre.

"You're not going to see me do another action movie fora while," he smiled.

Scar-Jo as Black Widow with Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye

Post Bourne, Renner is set to star opposite Marion Cotillardand Joaquin Phoenix in writer/director James Gray's period drama Low Life andthen may again team with Gray for a biopic of actor Steve McQueen.

"That's one's still really early on," heexplained. "He doesn't even have a first draft yet. It's certainlysomething that interests me. If it comes to fruition, fantastic. We'llsee."

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol arrives on December 16^th

MOVIE 43 (ShortFilms)

• MOVIE 43

On the set of Takashi Shimizu's thriller 7500,ComingSoon.net/SuperHeroHype talked to Leslie Bibb about appearing in theensemble film Movie 43, which will be comprised of short comedy segments.

Leslie Bibb will definitely be a Sexy WonderWoman

"The Farrelly brothers did this compilation of theseshorts and there's a whole slew of us. Hugh Jackman did one, Gerard Butler, Kate Winslet," she toldus.  "Mine is me, Jason Sudeikis andJustin Long and Bobby Cannavale and John Hodgman is the Penguin. And BobbyCannavale is a jacked up Superman who smokes and we all are these f**ked upsuperheroes. Like, I’m sleeping with Batman. He won’t call me back. I’m kind ofcrazy.  Kristen Bell is Supergirl and UmaThurman is Lois Lane or something. And we’re all just dysfunctionalsuperheroes, like superheroes who can’t get a date. We’re all at this speeddating."

Bibb, who is no stranger to the superhero genre havingappeared in the "Iron Man" movies, revealed more about her role."I’m Wonder Woman and I have on this amazing wig and the whole getup,which was pretty fantastic. And I’m crazier than bat sh*t. Like, she is reallycrazy, and so it was really fun because I know Jason [Batman] and he won’t callme back and I love him and he just doesn’t care about me. And so it proved tobe a good time.  The Farrelly brothersdirected one short and they were the main producers on it."

Directors for this Movie: Director: Elizabeth Banks, StevenBrill, Steve Carr, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg,James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner

Stars who act in Shorts to make up this Movie: Emma Stone,Gerard Butler, Kristen Bell, Chloe Moretz, Josh Duhamel, Hugh Jackman, JohnnyKnoxville, Elizabeth Banks, Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet, ChristopherMintz-Plasse, Richard Gere, Anna Faris, Justin Long, Liev Schreiber, UmaThurman, Seann William Scott, Kieran Culkin, Leslie Bibb, Jimmy Bennett, KateBosworth, Patrick Warburton, Tony Shalhoub, Chris Pratt, Jason Sudeikis, JackMcBrayer, Aasif Mandvi, Bobby Cannavale 

OLD BOY (In Development)

• OLD BOY

ShockTillYouDrop.com recently visited the set of CBS Filmsthriller 7500 and was able to talk to the film's producer, Roy Lee, about hisupcoming projects.

One of them is the Old Boy remake, to be directed by SpikeLee and starring Josh Brolin. "We are planning to shoot 'Old Boy' in Marchand that should start pre-production in late January," he said. "Thisis a brand new script by Mark Protosevich. It is very similar to the film, butProtosevich has added new elements that will throw off the audience who haveseen the original movie because there are new characters and new situationsthat present themselves in a way that change the story but eventually go in thesame direction. The ending will be something audiences--especially fans of theoriginal movie--will be very happy with. Some may consider it a bitdarker."

He added that "there's going to be a differentinterpretation of the hallway scene that is hopefully going to be Spike'ssignature moment in the movie that he wants to show in a way that has neverbeen seen in an action movie."

THE MAN WITH THE IRON FIST (In Development)

• THE MAN WITH THE IRONFIST GETS SUCKERPUNCHED

Jamie Chung in SuckerPunch

ComingSoon.net got a chance to talk to Jamie Chung on theset of 7500, coming next August, and they asked her about starring in RZA's TheMan with the Iron Fists.

"The original cut was four hours long and RZA was like,'Let's turn it into two movies! [Producer] Eli [Roth] was like, 'Eh...'"she said about the project.

She added: "They're really excited and I have completefaith in RZA, he's a genius when it comes to these things and he knows thegenre so well. So, it's cut down to an hour and a half. Now he's working on themusic. Everyone is stoked but it will have that cool feel like '36th Chamber ofShaolin' or 'Five Deadly Venoms.' It's definitely a delicacy and Russell Croweis doing some amazing things that you would never see him do in film. It's afun movie. I think it may come out in August."

Quentin Tarantino also produced the film, which centers on ablacksmith (RZA) in feudal China who makes weapons for a small village. He isput in the position where he must defend himself and his fellow villagers. LucyLiu and Pam Grier also star.