Catching up on the geek stuff we overlooked this week.
Bill Damaschke head of creative production at Dreamworks has promised that the fourth “Shrek” film, now titled, “Shrek Forever After,” will be the final film in the series. Great, can we get that in writing and notarized?
In what’s probably an honest mistake, just regurgitating the comic-book logline without thinking, Variety says Donald Blake, the human alter-ego in “Thor” will appear in Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of the Marvel property. Geeks are up in arms at the trade’s faux pas. They’re probably right, all indications of the script so far say there will be no appearance of Blake (who was a disabled med student). As you were. It’s not really that much to get worked up about. Variety’s piece is about 50 words.
“Zombieland” director Ruben Fleischer tells Moviehole Sony are “very interested” in a “Zombieland” sequel and he thinks “the genre really lends itself to [3-D].” Already fake-looking, digitally inserted blood in 3D? It’s all the rage these days. We bet if that’s the case they’ll wait to see how “Avatar” does before making any major decisions.
Myspace has debuted a new poster for the Hughes Brothers’ apocalyptic “Book of Eli” starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman and Mila Kunis with an appearance by Tom Waits as well. We would love to see the Hughes Brothers do some engaging work once again, but it feels like those days are far behind them as the trailer for this one, released months ago, was as generic big-budget sci-fi action as can be.
Ryan Reynolds says he essentially didn’t have much interest in “Green Lantern” until he met with director Martin Campbell whose infectious, authoritative energy convinced him otherwise. “When I went to the meeting, I was entirely cynical. I thought, ‘What the hell, I’ll see what they have to say,’ and I left the room with a completely different perspective.”
Here’s a trailer for “Daybreakers,” a vampire film that we have little interest in, for obvious reasons, that’s directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, and stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill and Isabel Lucas. But perhaps some of our less-discerning readers (those who voted favorably in the “Avatar” poll) will care.