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Ewan McGregor teams up again with Young Adam director David Mackenzie in The Last Word, an apocalyptic romance which will co-star Eva Green, Connie Nielsen, Ewan Bremner and Stephen Dillane. (Screen Daily)
The fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie has Johnny Depp on board and also a title: On Stranger Tides. The name appears to be based on the 1988 Locus Award winning novel by Tim Powers. The official description of Powers' book mentions undead pirates and the Fountain of Youth:
Puppeteer John Chandagnac, who was sailing to Jamaica to get revenge on the uncle who had stolen his father's inheritance, has no choice but to join the buccaneers who have taken him prisoner--and soon, known now as the pirate Jack Shandy, he finds himself learning to survive in a treacherous new world of cutlass-fights, sea-battles, and voodoo magic on sun-blinded tropical islands. The legendary Blackbeard is assembling a ruthless navy of pirates living and undead to voyage to the fabled Fountain of Youth, and Jack Shandy must use magic, swordsmanship, and even his puppeteer skills to free himself and the girl he has fallen in love with from Blackbeard's deadly supernatural domination.
The film is expected to hit cinemas Summer 2011. (Coming Soon and THR)
Sarah Polley (John Adams) will play a 17th century Swedish monarch in a dramatic feature, Kristina, to be directed by Mika Kaurismäki. Given the education of a boy, Christina of Sweden was a keen scholar of the sciences and arts, who never married, and abdicated from the throne after she secretly converted to Catholicism. (SlashFilm)
A new miniseries adaptation of Melville's Moby Dick is in the works. Already signed on are William Hurt as Ahab and Ethan Hawke as Starbuck. (THR)
Trailer for Solomon Kane, starring James Purefoy, Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Jason Flemyng, Max von Sydow, Alice Krige and Mackenzie Crook. I'm not quite sure what it's about, but there's some pretty amusing inappropriate chemistry between Purefoy and Hurd-Wood there. [imdb]
Trailer for Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, ten years late, unfortunately. Sorry boys, but this sort of behaviour stops being charming when you've hit 40. [imdb]
The Sarah Connor Chronicles season two DVDs are out. Here's a deleted scene.
EW chats with Kristin Bauer, who plays the awesome Pam on True Blood.