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I’d watch it…

/Film:

“This is almost refreshing. Just a few days ago we told you that Summit was working on an “action-heavy Dracula remake, entitled Vlad, with a script by actor Charlie Hunnam” and direction by music video director Anthony Mandler. Turns out that the project isn’t quite what anyone expected. Yes, it’s based on the life of Vlad the Impaler, and yes, it’s intended to be a big, sweeping film with a lot of action. (’In the style of 300‘ keeps being used as a reference.)

But the film is about Vlad the man, rather than an adaptation of Dracula, and won’t touch on vampirism at all.

So says writer, Undeclared and Sons of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunnam, to EW, as he describes his take.

As the script stands now, we don’t touch on vampirism. That was my one non-negotiable area when we were developing it, and thankfully, nobody suggested that we should delve into it at the end. But you can clearly see the things that Bram Stoker took…. Vlad was such a brutal man, and the trick is to make him sympathetic.

He says he envisions the film as “more Braveheart than 300,” and getting into the real history of Vlad’s family before showing the guy as a champion of Romania and opposer of the incursion of the Ottoman Empire. There’s a war between Vlad and the Empire that is a brother against brother scenario, and a Christian vs Muslim thing. At least for now. “That’s how it is now. This isn’t the shooting draft we have. Who knows, a lot of this might end up getting trimmed down.” Reading the full interview, Hunnam certainly sounds like a guy who not only did his research, but poured most of it into the script. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that much of the history is cut, but hopefully Summit won’t totally eviscerate it.

Will Hunnam play Vlad?

Listen, it would be a dream come true for me to play this role. But I’ve had my heart-broken so many times that I’m not kidding myself that there’s any real potential. There’s a reality to making this type of film and how much it costs, and I’m just not a big enough name to justify that type of budget right now.”

/Film:

“We were just sent along what looks to be the first official still and poster for Disney’s upcoming Tron Legacy. Check them out, and read the official synopsis, after the break.

HeyUGuys in the UK got these images from Disney, but the poster is the domestic US one. They don’t show off too much, but the poster design is great, and very much in line with the Comic Con teaser clip. I like the austerity here; if this is what we can expect to see, I’m really happy. The original film had a fairly sparse look, and despite the fact that the Comic Con teaser was fairly restrained I’ve been slightly afraid that in the new film the digital world would be too cluttered. Doesn’t look like it based on this.

If you’re hungry for more, keep in mind that the new video game will be debuted with a bunch of footage this coming Saturday, December 12. Can we expect to see a trailer this week?

Here’s the official synopsis:

TRON: LEGACY is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (JEFF BRIDGES), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the digital world of Tron where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant Quorra (OLIVIA WILDE), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey of escape across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous.

/Film: “Talk of an Inglourious Basterds prequel is nothing new. Back in June we reported on a GQ interview where Harvey Weinstein talked about the vast amounts of material Tarantino had prepped for Basterds, much of which could be compiled into other films and projects. Word was that the next film would be about a squad of African American soldiers that come across the Basterds. Now we have news that Brad Pitt is actually pushing for the prequels from the unlikeliest of sources: A wacky Japanese food show.

Check out a clip of Pitt and Tarantino on the show after the break.

Tarantino had previously mentioned to MTV that “If Brad will have his way, then [a prequel or sequel] will happen.” On the talk show clip below, Pitt furthered that thought, “I’m trying to get him to make a prequel. Two of them. Three of them.” Obviously, he seems to joking a bit, but it does sort of confirm what we heard previously.

Now we’ve heard talk like this before from Tarantino with a potential Vega Brothers project, along with many potential ideas within the Kill Bill-verse. He’s built up a reputation for talking about projects that will most likely never happen (though remember Basterds was also among this list just a few years ago).

Having watched Basterds several times in theaters, I’d personally love to see Tarantino flesh out the world a bit further. Despite being long, the film feels shorter and shorter to me upon every viewing. I’d also love to see a film that featured the Basterds more prominently, while giving us an idea of what Shosanna was up to before the first film.

Check out a clip from the Japanese show below. The full series of clips can be found here.”

[Source: The Playlist]

Fantastic!

“Ruby Red Design’s “Who’s the Daddy?” Alien maternity t-shirt features a sonogram image of an embryonic H.R. Giger creature growing inside your body.”

Lifehacker:

The footage shown at comic-con was awesome…

LOL….

/Film:

This looks awesome, like the wolfman version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula…