1.) One article on the site that continues to get reads three years later is my Variety about their plans for the reboot with GK Films saying, “They are working from this new take that we’ve given them.”
That “new take” is a younger Lara Croft and as Coming Soon learned in a previous interview with GK’s Graham King the new film will be “”the story before she became Lara Croft, so it is a character piece. It does have a lot of really great characters, but it’s a lot of action and a lot of fun, and for me, it’s something very different. I’ve not really done a movie like that before, but I really gravitated to rebooting this franchise and we’re going to give it a shot.”
2.) In other video game-to-movie news, Resident Evil 6 will apparently hit theaters on September 12, 2014 with speculation Paul W.S. Anderson might not direct given his commitment to Pompeii. [STYD]
3.) Jeffrey Dean Morgan is set to join Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell in Solace for director Afonso Poyart. The supernatural thriller finds Hopkins playing a former doctor with psychic abilities, drawn into a serial-killer case, only to find that the killer (Farrell) is a psychic as well — so the two men can detect each other’s moves. Morgan will play a veteran FBI agent heading the investigation of a series of grisly murders. He recruits Hopkins’ character to help catch the killer. Yeah, this sounds like you’ll find it in a DVD bin somewhere soon. [THR]
4.) A big deal is being made over some comments from Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige, declaring Guardians of the Galaxy will be set “95% in space”. He added that Guardians is “much more of a standalone film. It takes place in the same universe. And when we’ve been on the other side of that universe in other movies, you might see those characteristics in Guardians, but the Avengers are not involved with what’s happening out there at this time.” [SFX]
5.) Finally, we’ll end with a small bit of “Game of Thrones” news to throw into the mix as Den of Geek caught up with Charles Dance who plays Tywin Lannister in the show and he seems to have confirmed a fourth season has already been greenlit.
“We’re about to start season four aren’t we? This year. We get scripts pretty early on, much earlier on than in similar series, usually you get perhaps one episode and you just have to trust that what’s going to come in subsequent episodes is going to be as good as the one you’ve got, but in this I think there are six scripts already written, and we will probably be able to see them with more than adequate time to prepare before we start shooting.”
The second season recently hit Blu-ray and the third season of the hit HBO show premieres at the end of the month. Meanwhile, check out this extended preview of the upcoming third season.
