Fast and Furious 4 Gets Early Release Date, Wolfman and Nottingham Delayed
Horror Movie News, Robin Hood (aka Nottingham 2010) Movie, The Fast and the Furious 4 (2009) Movie, The Wolf Man (2010) Movie — By Nix on December 10, 2008
Geez, how long has it been since I’ve had anything “Fast and Furious”-related to post for you guys? Well here’s one: Universal Pictures has shuffled their 2009 movies and assigned Justin Lin’s “The Fast and Furious 4″ sequel (or just “Fast and Furious” as it’s now officially called) to an earlier release date — 3 months earlier, to be exact. I never did get why the film is taking so long to get into theaters; production began a while back, and from what I can tell, the film looks finished, or very close to finished. Anyways, the car movie has now been moved from its originally planned June 12, 2009 release to a new April 3, 2009 date. Hear that, “Fast and Furious” lovers? Your car porn is coming 3 months earlier than you expected. Get the lubes ready, boys!
But what’s good news for “Fast and Furious” fans isn’t so hot news for horror kids waiting for Benicio Del Toro’s “The Wolfman”. The werewolf movie was a casualty of “Fast and Furious’” move, and has now found itself opening November 6 instead of its originally planned April 3 date. That’s a pretty major move for the studio, and might signal that they think the movie needs major work in post-production to make it commercially viable. Could it be that the studio really didn’t like Mark Romanek’s version of “Wolfman”, and that’s why he left the project and was replaced by Joe Johnston? Are they now going back to “fix” Romanek’s version? I guess we’ll find out when we see the finished product, and Romanek comes out decrying it — or maybe not.
Meanwhile, Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe’s “Nottingham”, their revisionist take on the Robin Hood legend that I have been dying to see, won’t even see the light of day in 2009 at all. Also according to Variety, Universal Pictures has moved the film out of 2009 entirely. Not really a surprise, as the film’s production seems to have hit a snag a while ago, and filming probably wouldn’t have started until 2009 anyway. That, and no one seems to know what the hell is going on with the movie anyways, or who is playing who.
Below: “Three months early? Dammit! That’s going to cut into my hunting quails with shotgun time!”
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Nah F that he’s in it much longer then a cameo. lol…By the way whats up cece?
Well according to the article above, it’s a bit more than a cameo…
edmunds .com /insideline /do /News /articleId=137467
it says there
“There’s no word from NBC Universal as to reasons for the move, but principal photography on the movie was completed this past summer. So there’s been plenty of time to get the post-production elements out of the way. But that’s not the end of the story.
Word is that there will be some last-minute reshoots for the film next week for the purpose of shoehorning Tyrese Gibson’s character Roman Pearce from the second film (2 Fast 2 Furious) into the new one. Rumors have it that Gibson will be piloting an Acura NSX during the film’s climactic sequences in an appearance that amounts to something a bit more than a cameo. An eensy-teensy little bit more than a cameo. Hollyscoop.com has this video of Gibson explaining his involvement.”
thanks ff88…that’s the article in the link I posted above
He’ll have a bigger role in the fifth film, mark my words. I called it, first.
Roman Pierce is back! We now only need Vince an Lion to make the team complete!!!
yes it is about time they decide to give us some more action on the streets.
When is the next trailer?
Well they should start purring out new trailer and clips soon…. cause it’s like 4 months away…. so within the next month to 6 weeks I can see them putting out clips of the movie!
Thanks ff88!… that sounds about right. Thanks for responding.
ok so according to imdb, the film is now completed and Norway has a release date of April 3rd…lol(just like us)