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The Donald To Host Spidey ------------ NBS's Revelations John Rhys-Davis (The Lord of the Rings) has been cast as a wheelchair-bound Harvard professor emeritus and mentor to Bill Pullman for the NBC pilot Revelations, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. The show centers on the effort to forestall the coming apocalypse. ------------ 
Whedon: 'Keep Writing' Angel creator Joss Whedon, during a Friday call-in interview on radio KROQ's "Kevin and Bean" show, had nothing but good things to say about fan-led efforts to save The WB's staked vampire series and implored listeners to keep writing, "I think all the noise that's been made by the fans does help," Whedon told them, "Because we're talking about different venues for not just Angel but the Buffyverse in general. Spinoffs or TV movies or whatever it is, the more interest that's shown, whether or not the show itself, as it is now, gets to come back, that registers with people." Whedon advised the show's followers write "everybody," especially 20th Century Fox Television Productions. He added that the show's upcoming finale will indeed provide closure should it bring the series to an end, but that it would also "leave enough stuff open that, should there be another season, there's plenty more to do." He said, "Our stories aren't [all] told yet, not quite yet." ------------ New Online Trailers, Anyone? Apple.com has new trailers up for The Mother, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... AND SPRING, The Last Shot, and, though it is not new, you just have to see: The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra ------------  ------------ Tarantino, Brosnan Want To Go Back To The Beginning Quentin Tarantino, being interviewed by SCI FI Wire said that he talked to Pierce Brosnan about adapting Casino Royale (the first James Bond novel) as Brosnan's fifth and last James Bond film. The director noted that his challenge would be in convincing producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli to diverge from the current formula of expensive action set pieces. "I don't see that they have anything to lose at all," Tarantino said while promoting his film, Kill Bill, Vol. 2. "They've got this gigantic franchise, they can't do anything wrong with it. Pierce Brosnan's only going to do one more movie for them, if that, so if he stayed on to do one more with me, let's just this one year go my way and do it a little differently. I won't do anything that will ruin the series."  Tarantino hopes that his offer of a low budget and Brosnan's return would convince the producers to approve a one-time-only return to the character-driven plots of the first 007 films. "Wouldn't it be great to have a James Bond movie that didn't cost $115 million and only cost $40 million or something like that? You know it's going to make its money back, and we [would] all do good. Maybe we win the critics this time, then you're back in business the way you were before." ------------ Hellboy Producers To Do Moore's Watchmen? The Chicago Sun-Times (via Counting Down) reports Hellboy being No. 1 at the box office will mean the producers of that film are ready to get another comic book adaptation to the big screen. "We're going to do 'The Watchmen,'" said producer Lloyd Levin. "It's about a group of superheroes who reunite to figure out who is trying to kill them off. " One of the darkest comic narratives ever, it is considered a classic of its king. "It's different characters, but it's really a unique story because it deals with the spiritual aspect of being a superhero," Levin said. The Watchmen is based on the Alan Moore graphic novel.  ------------ More Fantastic Four Movie News Marvel Studios honcho Avi Arad recently advised About.com, "We have a director [for Fantastic Four but] I cannot tell you who he is until Tuesday. ... We needed for this movie a director that`s a genius with relationships. It`s a movie about relationships." IGN FilmForce reported who that "genius" is. They`ve been able to confirm that Barbershop director Tim Story has landed the gig. Story`s next film is the English-language remake of Taxi, starring Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon. Fantastic Four casting will begin soon. Casting rumors are already bouncing off the walls. Both Michael Clarke Duncan and Michael Chiklis have been mentioned for the role of Ben Grimm, aka The Thing. Charlize Theron is a popular subject to play Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman. Alan Rickman and Tim Robbins have both been mentioned for the role of Villain #1: Dr. Doom. 
------------ Tarantino Plans 'Kill Bill' Animation Maverick director Quentin Tarantino has plans for an animated prequel to his Kill Bill movies - focusing on the early life of the deadly assassin. The film will be in the Japanese manga style already seen in Kill Bill Volume 1 and will tell of the three men - pimp Estebian Vihaio and martial arts masters Hattori Hanzo and Pei Mai - who made Bill a ruthless killer. The Oscar-winning writer and director is scheduled write and produce the film. Tarantino has also speculated that he might return to Kill Bill's world in 15 years time to follow the story of the daughter of a character killed in the first film. The popular filmmaker - who took a five year leave after directing Jackie Brown to then return to the screen with the violent revenge saga - is next going to direct a segment of Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's comic book adaptation Sin City. ----------- "Samurai Jack: Season One" Heads to DVD The popular Cartoon Network show will bow as a two-disc DVD this May 4 with the first 13 episodes, Warner Home Video announced. ----------- 'Magic' May Be In The Cards for CBS, Russell, Ulrich CBS has given the go ahead to "The Magic of Ordinary Days," a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie that will star Keri Russell, Skeet Ulrich and Mare Winningham. The film is a love story (based on Ann Howard Creel's novel) set in a tiny Colorado town during World War II. A young unmarried Denver woman (Russell) is banished to Wiston, Colo., for an arranged marriage to a local farmer (Ulrich) by her stern minister father because she has become pregnant. Winningham will portray the farmer's sister, "a queen among women." Production is scheduled for a May 3 start, near Calgary, Alberta, for a 2004-05 season premiere. ------------ Punisher Comic Book Giveaway at Theatres Marvel Enterprises and Lions Gate Films will be giving away free comics at participating movie theatres as a part of the debut of The Punisher on April 16. A paid admission should entitle moviegoers to a special edition of Amazing Spider-Man #129, which introduced the Punisher to the Marvel Universe. The promotion is to continue while supplies last. ------------ More SCi Fi Channel Programming In The Works After announcing a bunch of new projects in the works (Including "The Dresden Files," the round-up to "Farscape" and both "Ringworld" and "Earthsea" mini-series) SCI FI's slate will include still more interesting projects. Original series will include an untitled project characterized as "Sex and the City" meets "Alien Nation" in a drama about an eventual invasion of the city. Joel Schumacher will direct the series. Other new series include "Eureka," focusing on a town full of geniuses who work for a government think tank, said Hammer, who called it a funny but smart take on "Northern Exposure" meets "The Twilight Zone." Two other series are in discussion. "Kyra" and an untitled Ridley Scott project. "Kyra," a spinoff of the 2000 film "Pitch Black," sees warrior Kyra join a band of mercenaries in a search for her mentor. Sci Fi said it is trying to close the deal with director-writer David Twohy and the film's star Vin Diesel, who will executive produce. And the untitled Scott project is a New York-set romance about wolflike creatures living among normal city folks. ------------ ABC Appoints De Mornay To Be Its Legal Eagle Rebecca De Mornay is set to co-star on ABC's new legal series from "The Practice" creator David E. Kelley. She will do four episodes of "The Practice," which will serve as a springboard for the new show, with and she has an option to continue on the new series as a regular. Elsewhere in the TV casting world: *Shane West has been chosen to join NBC's hit medical drama "ER," which will return for its 11th season in the fall. West ("Once & Again") will play a medical intern joining the Chicago hospital's ER personnel at the center of the show. *Alec Newman has landed a starring role on the WB Network's drama "Dark Shadows," a remake of the 1960s Gothic soap about a wealthy Maine Collins family and their vampire curse. Newman will play 200-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins, a role played in the original by Jonathan Frid *Annie Potts has joined ABC's untitled comedy about a man (Tom Everett Scott and his estranged father (William Devane ) who reconnect when they become dads at the same time. Potts (ABC's "Dangerous Minds") will play Devane's character's ex-wife, mother to the character played by Scott. *Craig Ferguson will join the ABC comedy "Hot Mom," which centers on a wedding planner/single mom (Gina Gershon) and her more conservative teen daughter. ------------ 
Take a look at the CSI Crime Lab over at CBS.com. 1066 And None Of That or How Hollywood Gave Britain A False Sense Of History The Battle of Hastings really never took place and Adolf Hitler is nothing more than a fictional character. Now, Robin Hood really did exist and Conan the Barbarian is a true figure from Nordic history. This may all sound like the latest attempt by revisionist extremists to pervert the past but the reality is absolutely more disturbing: this is how a significant portion of the British population, muddled by Hollywood films and unmoved by academia, actually perceives history. A survey of historical knowledge of average adults, that will be published this week, has uncovered ignorance about past events, and confusion between characters from films and historical figures. Researchers, who held face-to-face interviews with more than 2,000 people, found that almost a third of the population of Englnd thinks the Cold War was not real and 6 per cent believe the events in H.G. Wells` The War of the Worlds did happen. Some 57 per cent believe King Arthur existed and 5 per cent accept that Conan the Barbarian, the warrior played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in a 1982 film, was also real. Almost one in two avows William Wallace, the 13th-century Scottish resistance leader in Braveheart, was invented for the silver screen. A scary fact is they found that 11 per cent of the British population believed Hitler did not exist and 9 per cent said niether did Winston Churchill. A further 33 per cent believed Mussolini was a fictional figure. The detractors of the survey's findings blamed Hollywood and television, which have gained a reputation for skewing historical events to fit audience profiles and lift profit margins. Michael Wood, the historian, said the "dumbing-down" trend was already damaging people's knowledge of the past. He said: "If you don't give an audience a clear idea of how we know things, I believe this is a problem. Hollywood distorts history the whole time and once you get that far down the line it's not history, it's entertainment. History is there to give value to the present as well as to entertain. You do diminish it if you take the mickey out of it in an attempt to make it 'accessible'." More than a quarter of people are unawae of in which century the Great War took place and 57 per cent believe that the Battle of the Bulge, the Nazi counter-offensive in the Ardennes in 1945, never really happened. Nearly one in five believe Harold Wilson, not Winston Churchill, was Prime Minister during the Second World War. Real events the
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