Luke Ford, Michelle Yeoh Joins MUMMY 3
Rachel Weisz is out, but 26-year old Australian actor Luke Ford and Chinese actress Michelle Yeoh are in the “Mummy 3″, reports Variety. In the film, Ford will play Alex O’Connell, the 20ish son of adventurer Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser), who journeys into the forbidden tombs of China and into the Himalayas, where they run into a new shape-shifting mummy, a former Chinese emperor who was cursed by a female wizard. Kung fu superstar Jet Li, in only his second villainous role, will play the mummy, while Michelle Yeoh will assay the part of the wizard.
More Images from Danny Boyle’s “Sunshine”
Danny Boyle’s sci-fi movie “Sunshine” really intrigues me. It doesn’t look like a flat-out action-adventure, but more of a cerebral, intelligent suspense film. I like that. I don’t need an action scene every minute to love a movie, and “Sunshine” looks like that kind of movie. Plus, there are stills from the movie that makes me think this is going to be a very emtional movie. How can it not be, with guys like Cillian Murphy and girls like Rose Byrne in it? The film co-stars Michelle Yeoh, Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Troy Garity, Rose Byrne, and is directed by Danny Boyle. For some reason, there are still no release dates for it.
Vin Diesel’s Sci-Fi Thriller “Babylon A.D.” Continues Production
After a brief 2-week vacation from production, the new Vin Diesel sci-fi thriller “Babylon A.D.” has resumed production in the Czech Republic, says Variety. “Babylon A.D.” is an upcoming 2008 science fiction film based on the novel Babylon Babies by Maurice Georges Dantec. The film is being directed by Mathieu Kassovitz (”The Crimson Rivers”) and stars Vin Diesel as a veteran-turned-mercenary named Thoorop, who takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman (Melanie Thierry) from Russia to China. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah. The film co-stars Gérard Depardieu and Michelle Yeoh (as a nun!), and producers for the $60 million movie are looking at a February 29, 2008 release.
“Sunshine’s” Posters Come to Light
Danny Boyle’s sci-fi adventure “Sunshine” finally comes to light (get it? come to light? “Sunshine”? Oh, I slay me). One is a foreign poster and the other is, I believe, the UK version. I’m very interested in seeing “Sunshine”, but for some reason, I just can’t get a “handle” on it. That is, I just can’t get a feel for the film, what it’s about, how it’s going to play out. Is it like Cameron’s “The Abyss”, where things move slowly until the end? Or more dreamy like Boyle’s “A Life Less Ordinary”, or more appropriately, Soderbergh’s remake of “Solaris”? I just can’t decide. The trailers confuse me, and I’m afraid they might have packed all the action into it. Anyways, here are the posters.
Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh in “Mummy 3″?
It appears “The Mummy” franchise isn’t quite dead, buried, and mummified (get it? mummified?) after all. Via IGN, here’s news that Rob Cohen, taking over the franchise from creator/director/writer/caterer Stephen Sommers, has confirmed that Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh will be in his “Mummy 3″, and that Li will be playing the head mummy bad guy, part of the famous Terracotta Army. Well, here’s the full story, read on…
Preview: Danny Boyle’s Sci-Fi Actioner “Sunshine” Trailer
Danny Boyle is a pretty good filmmaker with an insanely eclectic filmography. The dude went from a wacky drug-out flick in “Trainspotting” to a wacky (but pleasantly cool) romantic drama in “A Life Less Ordinary” to a zombie marathon in “28 Days Later”. His latest is “Sunshine”, a sci-fi thriller about astronauts in the near future sent to “re-ignite” a dying sun or else mankind is doomed. Boyle re-teams with “The Beach” and “28 Days Later” writer Alex Garland (who recently made noise by being paid a cool $1 million to write the now-defunct “Halo” movie). Check out the trailer and some movie stills for the flick. It definitely looks good, but I still have reservations about how the subject matter and constrained locales will translate into an action movie.
Michelle Yeoh in Tom Ford’s Vanity Fair
Malaysian babe and all-around ass kicker Michelle Yeoh joins the Tom Ford Vanity Fair bandwagon by, er, hanging around. Oh, I kill me.