Quite perhaps the most exciting movie panel at Comic - Con yesterday did n’t involve Spider - Man or Tintin . Legendary Pictures pass on a select few devotee a sneak peek of four long - awaited motion-picture show project , and we were there .
Guillermo Del Toro babble out about his kaiju picture show Pacific Rim . Jeff Bridges talked about his supernatural film Seventh Son . Alex Proyas explicate why he chose Bradley Cooper to play Satan . And we got our first lead about the Mass Effect movie ! Details about our first glimpse of these movies are below …
Spoilers from here on out !
The Legendary Pictures panel focalise on four films that are still in pre - production : Pacific Rim , The Seventh Son , Paradise Lost , and Mass Effect . Because none of these photographic film has started shooting yet , there were no clips or photograph , but that did n’t forbid Legendary from stealing the show .
Here ’s a rundown of the films we heard about :
Casey Hudson , Executive Producer of the Mass Effect series , and screenwriter Mark Protosevich unite the stage for a preliminary discussion of the video game - turned - picture show , which isbelieved to be releasing in 2012 . It was herald that the pic will be based on the first plot in the extremist - successful BioWare serial , from 2007 .
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Protosevich felt that a certain depth of story and man was essential for the success of a pic project base on a video game , tot that it is too leisurely to be “ seduced into think a game you are play would be a effective film . ” The duet feel that other secret plan - based movies have fallen flat because they tried to play the experience of play the biz , instead of determining whether the story was of merit or whether the characters had any substance .
Hudson noted that BioWare had been waiting for the right mate to make the flick as well , stating that he had due east - mail service from production companies discussing a Mass Effect movie go out back to 2006 , prior to the spillage of the biz , and they were enthused to have Legendary Pictures as a partner due to their timber lead disk . No range from the film were shown , as it is in very early stages of pre - yield , however , the entire audience was given copies of the most late installment of the Mass Effect enfranchisement , Mass Effect 2 , on the console of their choice .
This long - await project from an exceedingly enthusiastic Guillermo Del Toro was solidified in scope . “ It is my duty in this film commit the all right fucking teras to take . It is my duty in this film commit the fine fucking golem to the covert , ” said Del Toro .
Screenwriter Travis Beacham and several of the actors from the flick , include Charlie Day from It ’s Always cheery in Philadelphia , join Del Toro on stage . Del Toro described Day ’s eccentric in Pacific Rim as similar to the one he play at the end of the It ’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode “ Charlie Kelley , King of the Rats ” , in which a grizzled , battle - fall apart Charlie emerge after a pest control war at Paddy ’s Pub and states , “ It ’s like whole generations of those things have died at my manpower . Mothers , fathers , grandfathers , little child rats . ”
sum the thematic yield in play for Pacific Rim , Del Toro said , “ We require to make it a big ‘ What If ? ’ What would happen in the real cosmos if twenty - five story marvelous monster appeared ? How does everything change ? Beach front real estate plummets … What weapons require to be developed ? ” He went on to say that the biologic functions of goliath would be canvas , along with where things like the robot ’s costumes come from , but added that Pacific Rim is “ not just spectacle and scope , but has frail , human scale problem . ” Image viaThe Daily BLAM ! .
Jeff Bridges , film director Sergei Bodrov , and other cast members joined the control board to verbalize about The Seventh Son , which Bodrov summarise as being about “ an old crone hunter who is still hunt , but needs unexampled prentice , as all of his honest-to-goodness one have died . ”
bridge let in that he “ tried to push it ( The Seventh Son ) away , but something grabbed me . ” bridge bring that he was extremely impressed with Bodrov ’s former flick Mongolian : The Rise of Genghis Khan and Prisoner of the Mountains , which helped acquire the notoriously tough Bridges over to this project .
Bradley Cooper and Alex Proyas hire the phase to talk about their take on Milton ’s 17th Century heroic verse form about the fall of Lucifer .
Bradley Cooper , it was explained , was able to make a “ natural conversion to becoming Satan ” after his part in the The Hangover and Hangover II . Cooper added that when it hail to the theatrical role , “ he solicit for it , ” buy the farm so far as to produce a test shot of himself as Lucifer in his kitchen . Cooper was draw to the role due to his written report of Paradise Lost in college , along with the challenge of limn Lucifer as a sympathetic character , in what is ultimately a “ story of an cozy nuclear family made up of two crony and a sire , and what happens when one of the comrade feels deceive . ”
Proyas equal on their desire to portray Heaven and Hell in a style not yet explored in picture palace . He showed off some boisterous images of how he planned to depict them . He noted that it would take a destiny of redaction to make the epical poem burst into the narrative structure of a single motion-picture show — but he promised that we ’d be impressed with the final mathematical product . Image viaCinemaBlend .
And with what might have been the most interesting news of the panel , Legendary Entertainment laminitis Thomas Tull ending the jury by say , “ We ’ll have more to say before long about a small project call Godzilla , ” put the “ is Pacific Rim really the next Godzilla movie ? ” rumors to rest . For now .
Images via BioWare , Legendary Pictures , The Daily BLAM!andCinemaBlend .
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