Brendan Fraser Will Be In G.I. Joe!
A few weeks back El Mayimbe had reported that Brendan Fraser booked the role of Gung Ho for Stephen Sommer’s big screen live-action adaptation of “G.I. Joe.”The guys over at Newsarama caught up with Fraser while promoting Journey to the Center of the Earth over at New York Comic Con and asked the question whether or not he will be G.I. Joe and YES HE CONFIRMED what we reported.
From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite co-ed G.I. Joe team, based from it’s headquarters The Pit, deploys the latest in next-gen spy and military equipment to fight crooked arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization from plunging the world into chaos.
G.I. Joe opens august 7th 2009.
‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ Franchise Ending After Third Film?
The Chronicles of Narnia franchise will reportedly end after the third film, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, is released.Based on a series of seven novels by C. S. Lewis, the first film adaptation, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was released in 2005. Its follow-up, Prince Caspian, is scheduled for release this summer, with Dawn Treader expected in 2010.
First Showing reports that producer Mark Johnson told an audience at the New York Comic Con that there are “no plans” to adapt the remaining four novels following Dawn Treader.
Disney and Pixar are reportedly planning to replace the Narnia franchise with a trilogy of films based on the John Carter of Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
