When “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” hits movie theaters later this year, audiences will hear a familiar voice for the Silver Surfer. Laurence Fishburne will provide the voice of the Surfer for the upcoming summer blockbuster.
Fishburn’s casting puts to rest rumors that Doug Jones, who provided the character movements for the Surfer, might do the voice-over work.
This has happened to Jones before. In “Hellboy” Jones performed the character movements for Abe Sapien, with the voice-over work eventually going to an uncredited David Hyde Pierce.
Rumors are also swirling that Galactus will appear in the upcoming “Fantastic Four” installment.
“Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” opens in June 2007.
Matthew Fox, who plays Dr Jack Shepard on the hit TV series “Lost”, is in final negotations to play Racer X in the up-coming “Speed Racer” movie.
Fox would play Speed’s rival in the film, which is scheduled to begin filming this summer with a release date of 2008. Fox would be able to play the role during his summer hiatus from “Lost.”
“Speed Racer” will be directed by the Larry and Andy Wachowski, who gave us “The Matrix” trilogy. Other actors in the movie include Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Susan Sarandon and John Goodman.
Fox was recently seen on the big-screen in “We Are Marshall” and played Charlie Salinger for five years on FOX’s “Party of Five.”
“Speed Racer” is tentatively scheduled for a summer 2008 release.
“Life on Mars” concluded its two-season run this week on the BBC, but don’t despair “Mars” fans–the series is getting a spin-off.
“Ashes to Ashes” is a new series that will follow the DCI Gene Hunt from the 70s to the 80s. Set in 1981, “Ashes to Ashes” finds Hunt working in London with a new female partner who is also a displaced time-traveller from our times.
Beyond Philip Gleinster continuing his role as Hunt, there has been no casting news for the new series.
“Life on Mars” wrapped up its second and final season this week, with an episode that filled in details on how and why Sam Tyler, played by John Simms, was displaced in time to 1973. Simms will not be involved with the spin-off project.
The first season of “Life on Mars” aired on BBC America in the U.S. and the second season is scheduled to air this summer.
Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams have been cast as the time-separated couple in New Line’s upcoming “The Time Traveller’s Wife.”
Based on the best-selling novel by Audrey Niffinger, “Wife” follows the story of a Chicago librarian with a rare genetic disorder that causes him to time-travel when he’s under great stress. In his travels, he meets, falls in love with and marries a young heiress. The story follows their struggles due to his condition and his vanishing from her life for large periods of time.
New Line acquired the movie rights to the novel in 2003 and the big-screen adaptation has been a source of speculation since. It was rumored that one of hte film’s executive producers, Brad Pitt, might take the role of the time-traveller.
Filming begins in August of this year.
Bumbles says
I’m still trying to get over how “Life on Mars” ended.
Phenomenal, just astounding, I thought.