New production info on Clone Wars, Terminator & more
All new production info for a slew of Warner Brothers projects.
TERMINATOR SALVATION
Release date: 2009
Director: McG
Writer: John Brancato, Michael Ferris
Producers: Victor Kubicek, Derek Anderson, Mortiz Borman, Jefrey Silver
Executive Producers: Peter D. Graves, Dan Lin, Jeanne Allgood, Bahman Naraghi, Mario F. Kassar, Andrew G. Vajna, Joel B. Michaels
Cast: Christian Bale, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anton Yelchin, Moon Youngblood, Sam Worthington
In the highly anticipated new installment of The Terminator film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.
STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS
Release date: August 15, 2008
Director: Dave Filoni
Writers: Heny Gilroy, Scott Murphy, Steven Melching
Producer: Catherine Winder
Executive Producer: George Lucas
Voices by: Anthony Daniels, Matthew Wood
Star Wars takes on a dazzling new look in the first-ever animated feature from Lucasfilm Animation. The galaxy is consumed by the Clone Wars, a massive civil war that has pitted the evil Separatists and their droid armies against the Republic and its Jedi protectors. To gain an advantage in the ever-escalating conflict, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan learner Ahsoka Tano are sent on a mission with far-reaching consequences, one that brings them face-to-face with notorious crime lord Jabba the Hutt. Compounding the dangers that await them on Tatooine, Anakin and Ahsoka are pursued by Count Dooku and his sinister agents – including the mysterious Asajj Ventress – who will stop at nothing to ensure that the Jedi are defeated. Meanwhile, on the front lines, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Master Yoda lead the clone forces in a valiant effort to resist the forces of the dark side ...
ROCKNROLLA
Release date: October 2008
Director: Guy Ritchie
Writer: Guy Ritchie
Producers: Joel Silver, Guy Ritchie, Susan Downey, Steve Clark-Hall
Executive Producers: Steve Richards, Navid McIlhargey
Cast: Gerard Butler, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, Toby Kebbell, Thandie Newton, Jeremy Piven, Tom Wilkinson
When a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, and all of London’s criminal underworld wants in on the action. Everyone from a dangerous crime lord to a sexy accountant, a corrupt politician and down-on-their-luck petty thieves conspire, collude and collide with one another in an effort to get rich quick.
This film has been rated has been rated R for pervasive language, violence, drug use and brief sexuality
NINJA ASSASSIN
Release date: January 2009
Director: James McTeigue
Writer: Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski
Producers: Joel Silver, Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, Grant Hill
Executive Producers: Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, William Fay
Cast: Rain, Naomie Harris, Rick Yune, Ben Miles
**Raizo (Rain) is one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them…and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge. In Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) has stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East. Defying the orders of her superior, Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles), Mika digs into top secret agency files to learn the truth behind the murders. Her investigation makes her a target, and the Ozunu Clan sends a team of killers, led by the lethal Takeshi (Rick Yune), to silence her forever. Raizo saves Mika from her attackers, but he knows that the Clan will not rest until they are both eliminated.
Now, entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse through the streets of Europe, Raizo and Mika must trust one another if they hope to survive…and finally bring down the elusive Ozunu Clan.
FRIDAY THE 13th
Release date: February 13, 2009
Director: Marcus Nispel
Writers: Damian Shannon, Mark Swift
Producers: Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form
Executive Producers: Brian Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form Witten, Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Amanda Righetti, Jared Padalecki, Derek Meaks, Jonathan Sadowski, Aaron Woo, Travis Van Winkle, Odette Yustman
Retelling of the original Friday the 13th about teenaged summer camp counselors that are systematically slaughtered by a mysterious killer.
WATCHMEN
Release date: March 6, 2009
Director: Zack Snyder
Screenplay: David Hayter and Alex Tse
Producers: Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Deborah Snyder
Executive Producer: Herbert W. Gains, Thomas Tull
Cast: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson
Based on the Graphic Novel Illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the watchmen?
THE HILLS RUN RED
On DVD in 2009
Director: Dave Parker
Writers: David J. Schow, John Dombrow. Story by John Dombrow and John Carchietta
Producers: Steve Richards,Erik Olsen, Roee Sharon, Robert Meyer Burnett, John Carchietta
Executive Producer: Carl Morano
Cast: Sophie Monk, Tad Hilgenbrinck, William Sadler, Alex Wyndham, Janet Montgomery
In the vein of horror classics from the 1970s and 80s, Dark Castle’s The Hills Run Red follows Tyler, a film fanatic whose obsession with finding a complete print of an infamous slasher movie leads him and two friends into the backwoods where the film was shot. They realize too late that filming never ended—and now they must survive a nightmarish onslaught or become part of the movie forever.
