The MIB duo of Agent Jay and Agent Kay are back in action. When the world is threatened by an evil alien, Agent Jay travels back in time to 1969, where he teams up with the younger Agent Kay to stop an evil villain named Boris from destroying the world in the future.
As my dear friend Darth Saeris informed us quite recently, Willis and Schwarzenegger are not only coming back for the Expendables sequel, but they are going to have much larger roles. He also told us that Jet Li would not be returning, and there were rumors that Donnie Yen (Ip Man) would replace him, but that now appears as though Jet Li might appear after all, just in a smaller capacity. And that’s good news. Not because I don’t like Yen, who I actually have the utmost respect for, but because – though sorely underused in the first movie – Li was my favorite character. In addition to Li, it seems Schwarzenegger’s True Lies co-star Tom Arnold might also be popping up, no doubt as comic relief. There is no conformation there yet, but Movieweb recently posted a video where Arnold says he was sent a script by Sly and wants to be involved. In addition to doing True Lies with Schwarzenegger, Arnold also worked with Jet Li before in Cradle 2 The Grave.
The basic plot is as follows:
Plot: After Tool (Mickey Rourke) is brutally murdered on a mission, his comrades swear to avenge him. They’re not the only ones who want blood. Tool’s beautiful young and wild daughter Fiona embarks on her own revenge mission, complicating matters when she is captured and ransomed by a ruthless dictator plotting to destroy a resistance movement. Now Barney (Sylvester Stallone) and the Expendables must risk everything to save her and humanity.
Van Damme is rumored to play a former colleague, who becomes the villain in the film. He’ll be completely covered in tattoos and have his own gang of mercenaries. Adkins is in talks to play one of the mercenaries.
The additions of Chuck Norris and Van Damme to the cast seem only logical. The big surprise is that they weren’t in the first one…
These are the animal handlers of the group. They are so gentle…
No word yet as to if Veronica Mars alum Cordelia ChaseCharisma Carpenter will return. But my guess is no…
For all of you Expendables fans out there who can’t get enough of Hollywood action stars shooting and killing bad guys then here’s some excellent news: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis are returning….
But don’t worry, it won’t be as lame as their little bit of face time in the first movie, according to Worst Previews, these roles are “substantial”:
Millennium Films recently revealed that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis will return for “The Expendables” sequel, but now comes word that the two actors have officially closed their deals for “substantial” roles in the film.
Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews and Randy Couture are also all returning. And they will be joined by Chuck Norris, Scott Adkins and Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Now, by substantial roles I hope that means Arnold gets a nice little Commando-esque scene where he destroys about thirty guys on his own. Seriously that’s the only way to go! With the film reportedly losing Jet Li, they are a couple of guys that I think more than make up for his absence: Chuck Norris and Jean Claude Van-Damme. And with Simon West, director of Con Air at the helm, you know this movie is more than likely going to be the most retarded thing ever… but in a good way. I watched Con Air over fifty times in the summer of its video release and many of you may not know that it is indeed an Academy Award winner nominee. (Original Music and Sound) So buckle up for 2012 my friends because the world IS ending once the Schwarz-Damme-Allone wave hits ya!
Last June Kevin Tacharoen released Mortal Kombat: Rebirth on YouTube. Initially there was some confusion as to whether or not it was a marketing ploy designed to promote a new film or video game. Turns out the short film was actually made to sell Warner Bros. on his vision for a re-imagined Mortal Kombat movie.
‘Rebirth’ blew up on YouTube leaving many fans wondering when they would see this fresh take on one of the most popular fighting game franchises in theaters.
Well, it may not be that far away. Warner Bros. has hired director Tancharoen to produce ten web episodes of Mortal Kombat which may lead the way for a new movie. The web series will be based on Tancharoens short film Rebirth, but it will expand on the idea by adding some of the more familiar fantasy elements found in the video game series.
The following week on April 19th the new Mortal Kombat video game will be released for the XBOX 360 and PS3.
Personally Mortal Kombat was one of my favorite games growing up. I use to play it all the time on my Sega Game Gear.
Now for those of you not in the know, Mortal Kombat was originally going to be a game based on Jean-Claude Van Damme. However that idea fell through and the Mortal Kombat we all know and love was born. The creators did end up basing the character Johnny Cage on Jean-Claude Van Damme though.
The original Mortal Kombat video game debuted in 1992 and has since spawned eight sequels to date. GamePro has stated that Mortal Kombat II was:
“Arguably the best Western fighting game to date, and certainly the title that defined Mortal Kombat as a brand, this game launched a thousand imitators en route to becoming one of the most famous — and infamous — video games ever made. Its technical and artistic mastery is only matched by its gushing gore.”
It is because of Mortal Kombat and the massive amount of gore and death that we now have the ESRB to tell us if a game is safe for children to play.
So allow me to say that I for one was very excited to see that with the ninth installment of the series, Mortal Kombat has gone back to its 2D fighter roots. But the characters will still be rendered in 3D giving the game a 2.5D appearance.
It has been announced that there will be various game modes including Online Mode, the Tag team fighting mode, the Challenge Tower and a Fatality Training mode. A four player tag team feature will be completely new to the franchise allowing two players to team up and assist each other in tag team matches. To date twenty six playable characters have been revealed, along with two characters available for DLC.
It’s already been a crazy week with celebrities getting accused of doing things they haven’t or accused of not doing things they say they did. The most recent one was Jackie Chan who was accused of doing something he clearly did not do, which is die.
OTRC reported that one way or another, through gossip on social networking sites, the martial arts action star suffered a heart attack and died. This was until through his own Facebook, a status was left denying that Chan had any problems at all, and he was in fact busy filming his current movie.
I must be out of the loop because I hadn’t heard anything about Jackie Chan dying until the day it was reported that he wasn’t dead. I’m now more concerned about which movie he is currently working on. The last live action movies he appeared in were The Spy Next Door and The Karate Kid Played By Will Smith’s Son. (that was the full title right?) Maybe Rush Hour 4 or The Tuxedo 2? (Please God no!) [Ed. – I hear that movie was very very popular]
The next movie Chan will appear in through is Kung Fu Panda 2: The Kaboom of Doom as the voice of ‘Furious Five’ warrior Monkey. The film releases this Summer. Jean Claude Van Damme will also be in the movie as a Crocodile, but he should’ve been a Kung Fu Beaver. Van DAM, get it?
This isn’t the first, nor will it be the last celebrity death hoax, but with such a vast web of social networks out there, gossip is able to spread across the globe in a flash. Below is a small list of celebrity death hoaxes.
Taylor Lautner – Died of a cocaine overdose. Will Ferrell – Hang Gliding accident. (I picture his cameo in The Goods as how that would have carried out.) Adam Sandler – Snowboarding accident. Charlie Sheen – Died from an overdose of ‘Winning’, but was then resurrected by Vatican Assassin Warlocks. (I actually just made that up. But hopefully with everyones help it becomes the sweetest death hoax of all time.)
Men in Black III
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