By Last Friday, Viacom COO Tom Dooley unveiled a handful of movies coming out after September of next year from Paramount Pictures, and I am cautiously optimistic about every single one of them. There’s a handful of them, so join me after the jump as I give my thoughts on each.
Last Friday, Viacom COO Tom Dooley unveiled a handful of movies coming out after September of next year from Paramount Pictures, and I am cautiously optimistic about every single one of them. There’s a handful of them, so join me after the jump as I give my thoughts on each.{{page_break}}
Star Trek 2 is due out on June 29th, 2012. Returning screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci should have the sequel’s script down by the end of the year and JJ Abrams is expected to return to direct. There may not be any Khan this time around, but I still cannot wait to throw my money at these people again.
A new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie is in the works after Paramount shelled out $60 million to acquire the rights to the franchise. Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, the guys who wrote Iron Man and Punisher: War Zone are working on the script. Yes, you read correctly. The first Turtles movie is the first one I ever saw in theaters that I can kind of remember (the original Transformers was the first, but I was the ripe, young age of zero at the time) and is very near and dear to my heart, so the guys that blew my mind with the first truly good comic book movies being attached bodes very well. However, if I don’t get to see Raphael sit in a church and talk about how he’d like to get his hands on God, I’ll be sorely disappointed.
Justin Theroux (Iron Man 2) will be writing and directing the Zoolander sequel. The whole ‘no longer being relevant in the fashion industry and having to reinvent themselves’ idea is brilliant, and I look forward to finally being able to see a Zoolander movie in theaters without somebody getting an HJ in the seat next to me.
Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick will write the script for a GI Joe sequel, which is 100% okay with me. I am not afraid to admit to enjoying the first film, and with that cast working with a script from those two guys, there will be plenty to look forward to.
Finally, there’s the Jack Ryan reboot. For those of you who don’t know who Jack Ryan is, we were in the same boat before I wikipedia’d him just now. He’s a Tom Clancy character who was the main character in epic movies The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and The Sum of All Fears (all of which I should really see). He’s been portrayed by Alex Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck, and next up we have Star Trek’s Chris Pine. The film, an original story versus a novel adaptation (similar to what they’re doing with James Patterson’s Alex Cross reboot) will be helmed by Jack Bender, who directed a whopping 36 episodes of Lost. For somebody I didn’t know anything about ten minutes ago, I’m pretty excited to see more!
[Via WorstPreviews]