Hick’s Picks 28

Caspian “true” to source material

According to producer Mark Johnson, the upcoming big-screen adaption of Prince Caspian will remain faithful to the C.S. Lewis source material.

Speaking to SciFi Wire, Johnson said, “I’ve produced a lot of movies that are based on books, from The Natural to My Dog Skip to even The Notebook, and we have made big changes in all of them to adapt them to film. But I think that it’s clear with The Chronicles of Narnia that you just can’t tamper with them that way. They are too important to too many people.”

However, Johnson did warn that some edits had to be made to the narrative in order to tell the story on the big-screen.

“The big change we did in Prince Caspian is a structural one,” he said. “If you remember, in the book the story of Caspian is told in flashback by Trumpkin [Peter Dinklage] to the four Pevensie kids. We rearranged that. At one point, we have three parallel stories that take us though the first 45 minutes.”

Prince Caspian opens in theaters on May 16.

When Hellboy returns to the big-screen later this summer, actress Selma Blair promises that her character of firestarter Liz Sherman will “kick some ass.”

“We are introduced to Liz immediately as a much stronger character,” Blair told SciFi Wire. “She’s with Hellboy, and she is more sure of her powers and using them. She’s much more a part of the story as a force in the B.P.R.D. instead of someone that isn’t willing to be there.”

“I was just excited for Liz to grow up and for the years to pass and to have her relationship with Hellboy,”
added Blair. “Anything was an improvement to get into the storyline for my character. I’m just so excited!”

Audiences can see the new-attitude Sherman when Hellboy II: The Golden Army hits theaters on July 11.

Nana Visitor, best known for her role as Major Kira on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has signed on to join the cast of the upcoming Friday the 13th remake according to Ain’t It Cool News.

Visitor told last weekend’s Starfest convention in Denver that she will play the role of Jason Voorhees’ mother in the upcoming project. Visitor told audiences she’s already had a mold cast of her head and she said she won’t be in the film for very long before she’s decapitated.

There may be hope for a World of Warcraft movie should it ever see the big-screen. Blizzard Entertainment has says turned down an offer by director Uwe Boll to adapt and a direct a big-screen adaption of the popular video game.

“I got in contact with Paul Sams of Blizzard, and he said, ‘We will not sell the movie rights, not to you…especially not to you,” said Boll. “Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it.”

One good thing to come of yesterday’s report that a Wonder Woman movie may be on the fast track to big-screen development–the news has official “tabled” the Justice League movie.

Producer Joel Silver confirmed the Justice League film has been put on the back-burner for now, effectively canceling the current project that was due to start production next year. It will release the proposed cast from their contracts and allow the production to try again in a few years.