‘Charlie Bartlett’ Exclusive clip

Fresh from kicking insurgent ass in drolly superheroic fashion in Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr can next be seen in our multiplexes in Charlie Bartlett, out this Friday. Billed by its publicists as a “cool, edgy comedy for the Prozac era”, the film centres on a wealthy misfit who finds himself dispensing advice and psychotropic drugs in his high school boys’ toilet. Downey Jr stars as the bemused headmaster matching wits with the teen entrepreneur, played by a puppyish (and Poppy-ish) Anton Yelchin, last seen here as the doomed kidnappee in Nick Cassavetes’ Alpha Dog. Here’s a clip.

Comparisons have already been drawn to that other high school rule-breaker, Ferris Bueller (manipulative, precociously articulate protagonist? Check. Clashes with a recalcitrant authority figure? Check. Hammy crowd scenes where the protagonist basks in the love of his peers? Check.) But will Charlie Bartlett be anywhere as generation-defining as Matthew Broderick’s serial truant?

Chekov Vs. The Terminators!…Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese in T4?

Anton Yelchin (Charlie Bartlett) is in negotiations to star as post-apocalyptic warrior Kyle Reese in director McG’s new Terminator movie, says The Hollywood Reporter. David Campbell Wilson, John Brancato and Michael Ferris wrote the screenplay though scribe Paul Haggis may be coming on board for a rewrite and some additions.Yelchin will play a teen version of Reese, the man who fathered world savior John Connor in the original “Terminator” film.

Christian Bale will play John Connor in the film, produced by the Halcyon Co. and set for a Warner Bros. release on May 22, 2009.

Reese, one of the children who survived a machine-driven nuclear holocaust, befriends Marcus (Sam Worthington), an early edition of the Terminator cyborg played in previous films by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Continue Reading…