Ridley Scott Confirms Prometheus Cuts

He said he’d made them, and now he’s come out and said it again, just in case anyone was a bit slow on the uptake the first time round. Bleeding Cool reports:

The film is violent and tense but Sir Ridley – who has been an outspoken critic of the current rules of film ratings – insists he cut as much he could to open the film to a wider audience.

“It has to be be about the movie, so I’ve made concessions. There’s a moment where you don’t want to harm the movie.

But he acknowledges it’s a case of simple economics and getting an 18 certificate “could be the difference of $80m or more”.

Here’s the latest TV Spot’s, which look nice, even though it’s been described as philosophic with a mediocre payload:

MTV To Make A Scream TV Show

Yes, I'm being ironic

I never really cared about Scream, because slasher flicks, meta or otherwise were never really my bag. But I am aware that potentially legions of fans are in uproar over the news that DiGa productions are working on a new Scream TV series for MTV, possibly off the back of the relative success of Teen Wolf.

There’s no one on board to write it yet, but if the show is to be anything like Teen wolf then I’d prepare yourselves to grimace in a teeth gnashing hate fest that you’ve not witnessed since they made The Crow a tv series. That was both horrible and defiling and worse than my last shit!

Mads Mikkelsen Will Be The New Hannibal Lecter

Mads Mikkelsen just nailed the Best Actor prize at Cannes for his role in Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt and now, he’s been cast as Hannibal Lecter in Bryan Fuller’s new TV show.

The show follows the relationship between FBI agent Will Graham and his mentor Dr. Hannibal Lecter. The catch being that Lecter enjoys a good old munch on peoples insides, seasoned by a bit of posh cookery – just in case you’ve somehow missed Tony Hopkins in the iconic role that’s been firmly embedded in pop culture for the past 20 odd years.

Hugh Dancy has been cast in the role of Graham and while I was initially hesitant, this show could actually turn out interesting enough. Because even though Lecter’s been flogged like a dead horse for the past ten years and I know just about every faucet of his character, I gotta admit; that psycho still intrigues the shit outta me. And what a great cast to boot, eh.

Rick McCallum Says Star Wars: Underworld Will Be Like A Sci-fi Deadwood

Now I’m not entirely sure what to make of Rick McCallum’s below statement about the much talked about Star Wars TV Show:

Our biggest problem is that these stories are adult. I mean…these are like Deadwood in space. It so unlike anything you’ve ever associated with George before in relation to Star Wars. These aren’t for kids. I mean, we hope they’ll watch, but it’s not being targeted at 8-to-9 year old boys. The situation we have is that each episode – or if you put two hour long episodes together – is bigger than any film we’ve ever done. It’s on the Avatar level and we’ll only have about $5-6 million we can spend on each episode.

Like Deadwood in space he says. And what; Jabba the Hutt’s their Al Swearengen? Boba Fett as Tomothy Olyphants Bulloch? That’s some big ideas for a franchise marketed entirely to kids to sell toys, so I’ll believe it when I see it Rick. Especially if your already bitching about the budget.