Fast and the Furious Hits Fifth Gear

Posted by Sunfrogolin on Monday, February 8th 2010

Good news guys, The Fast and the Furious franchise will be getting a fifth installment which will star both Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. Director Justin Lin will also return for the new movie which as of this writing does not yet have a name. A 2011 release is scheduled.

The last Fast and Furious movie that starred both Diesel and Walker went on to gross more than $155 million in the U.S. and over $343 million USD worldwide, which I'm sure made producer producer Neal Moritz very happy. Neal will also be producing this new movie.

Chris Morgan will be the writer. Chris also wrote Wanted, the last Fast and Furious movie, and Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, as well as many other films. Currently, the film's working title is Fast Five, but I don't think that will stick.

The story is rumored to revolve around Vin Deisel and Paul Walker on the run from some relentless police pursuit. Expect lots of exciting racing action to say the least.

Daredevil Gets Rebooted

Posted by Sunfrogolin on Saturday, February 6th 2010

It's official. Daredeveil the movie will get a reboot. The film is being produced by Peter Chernin while David Scarpa has just been hired to do the writing. David has also written The Last Castle and the remake of the sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still.

If you're wondering why they're going with a relatively inexperienced writer on the remake, as am I, it might be because Fox stands to lose the rights to Daredevil if they don't use him in a movie. If you remember, the last Daredevil movie was released in 2003, seven years ago, and according to some legal mumbo jumbo, if Fox doesn't use Daredevil in a new movie soon the licensing agreement will revert ownership back to Marvel. 

Marvel is now owned by Disney, by the way, which makes me wonder something else. If Disney owns Marvel when are we going to see some 3D superhero action? Personally, I think Daredevil would be the perfect superhero for 3D because he has that cane/baton thing he can wave out over the audience. I also like the irony of a movie about a blind superhero being in 3D. Heh.

For those of you that don't know the story, Daredevil attained his super powers in his own ironic twist of fate. One day, as a young boy, Matt Murdock was walking along when he saw a blind man walking in the path of a runaway truck. He saved the man by pushing him out of the way and the truck crashed. However, the truck was carrying radioactive waste which spilled on Matt's eyes giving him his heightened senses.

No news yet on who will be playing Daredevil or the plot of the film. I'm assuming it will be a retelling of the origin since it's a reboot.

Brittany Murphy's Death Ruled Normal

Posted by Sunfrogolin on Thursday, February 4th 2010

"As the coroner said, there's no foul play." Says Brittany’s ex husband Simon Monjack.

"No one's criminally liable here because this has been ruled an accident." Says Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter.

Brittany Murphy, age 32, died from multiple drug intoxication, pneumonia and "iron deficiency anemia" in what the coroner has concluded was an accidental death. Murphy was found dead by her husband and mother in Murphy’s Hollywood Hills home December 20th, 2009.

She was "not that ill," her husband Simon said. "She wasn't coughing up. I've had pneumonia and coughed up handfuls of spittle. So yeah, everything surprised us, everything."

No illegal drugs were found in her system.

Assistant Chief Winter went on to say, ”This was a case of a person with pneumonia who was anemic (having a low blood count) who was taking medication when she should've been getting medical treatment."

Winter confirms that no illegal drugs were found in the actress's system: "It was only prescription and over-the-counter meds," he said.