End of Week Recap: Johnny Depp is Dr. Seuss, 'Snow White' and 'Man of Steel' Pics, Plus Trailers Galore

 

According to Hitfix, Johnny Depp’s next role will be Dr. Seuss in a biopic about the prolific and beloved author. Universal and Illumination Entertainment are saying that Depp is currently attached to what will be a serious drama about, "the life and creative output of this man who helped shaped the early imaginary lives of 50 years worth of kids."

 

Director Pete Travis has been asked to step aside as Dredd (the reboot of the 1995 Slyvester Stallone dud Judge Dredd) enters post-production. 

 

Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola may have embraced 3D technology, but Bernardo Bertolucci finds it “vulgarly commercial,” and has ditched the format for his next movie. 

 

Aaron Eckhart will play Frankenstein in I, Frankenstein.

 

Javier Bardem has been cast as the lead villain in Despicable Me 2. 

 

Marvel announced the first trailer for The Avengers will arrive online sometime Tuesday.

 

Since there’s not enough reboots floating around out there, Zorro is getting rebooted with TV producer/writers Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia penning the script. Here’s hoping it turns out better than the current Charlie’s Angels TV reboot.

 

That Snoop Dogg family comedy pilot mentioned a couple weeks ago? Yep, NBC picked it up. Welcome to the family Snoop. 

 

Fox2000 has acquired the rights to Mr. Ed. Here’s hoping the reboot is more Babe and less Revenge of Kitty Galore.

 

Robert Downey Jr. has teamed with Warner Bros. to bring famous TV movie/series defense counsel Perry Mason to the big screen.

 

The Simpsons and Dexter faced the threat of cancelation if their production budgets aren’t cut. Fox is asking the voice actors of The Simpsons to take a 45% pay cut while Harry Shearer, who voices Mr. Burns among others, has said he’d be willing to take a 70% pay cut to keep the show going. Late Friday afternoon, FOX re-newed The Simpsons for two more seasons, guaranteeing the show a 25th seaon on-air. No word yet on Dexter.

 

The Coen Bros. will executive produce an hour-long single-camera comedy for FOX. 

 

Hinging on the success of The Lion King 3D, Disney will convert four more movies for 3D re-releases. The Little Mermaid, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc. and Beauty and the Beast will all enter the third dimension.

 

 

Jason Statham is currently in talks to join the cast of Fast Six and Fast Seven, which look to shoot back-to-back in Europe.

 

Anna Faris says that she wants to be in Scary Movie 5, stating that the character is so dumb that it’s fun to play that role. And because both of her 2011 movies bombed. 

 

Blake Lively has passed in the lead role in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

 

Keifer Sutherland says the 24 movie script is almost complete. He delivered the message in a hushed, grumbly voice to ensure whoever the mole is that’s been keeping this movie from hitting theaters wouldn’t hear. Cue ominous orange digital clock countdown… 

 

Mattel is currently developing a Rock ‘Em Sock ‘em Robots movie, and no, we’re not talking about Real Steel.

 

Universal Solider is the latest action movie to be adapted into a TV series. 

 

Kevin Sorbo revealed that he hid having three strokes while filming the Hercules TV show back in the 90’s.

 

 

 

 

The upcoming James Bond movie, which has run under the title James Bond 23, appears to have received its official title – Skyfall. This was deduced after Sony and Columbia Pictures bought up a bunch of web domain names with the aforementioned title in it. no confirmation from the studios though.

 

Toy Story writers Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen have revealed to IGN that they are currently in talks to pen a film based on the popular Zynga game Farmville. Zynga has refused to comment and the project has not been formally announced yet, but two scribes from Toy Story say they’re writing a script, its most likely happening.

 

 

 

Check out the new images from Tarsem Singh’s version of Snow White which features Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen.

 

 

A few new stills from My Week With Marilyn were revealed after the trailer premiered. Check out Michelle Williams soaking in the tub and Emma Watson with Eddie Redmayne below.

 

 

 

Russell Crowe went out for a smoke break on the set of Man of Steel. Photographers were able to snap a pic of him in his Jor-El (Superman's father) costume. A couple days later, new images of a bearded Superman/Henry Cavill and a ginger-haired (Lois Lane) Amy Adams were plastered all over the web.

 

 

 

 

Ever wonder what popular movie characters like Batman, The Dude from The Big Lebowski, Harry Potter, Avatar and others would look like if they were South Park-ified? NextMovie has the answers.  

 

 

A rather creepy Neytiri Avatar cake. 

 

For those who wondered how they could create the magic that is Butter Beer:

 

 

A 2008 image of Dustin Hoffman and Jake Gyllenhaal has been popping back up on various websites and Tumblr accounts. The dish reads "Bad Actor."

 

 

Check out these gorgeous realistic paintings of Disney princesses by Jace Wallace which include Ariel, Snow White, Tiana and Jasmine, pictured below.

 

 

Someone played around with their pizzas and came up with this radical Ninja Turtles conconction.

 

 

This might have been a good idea in 1993. Emphasis on the word "might."

 

 

 

Two new J. Edgar posters have premiered. Click on the posters below for larger versions.

 

 

 

Those of you who went to the midnight screening of Real Steel apparently got this poster. The rest of you, I’m sure it’s on eBay.

 

 

Two new character posters for Puss in Boots were revealed, featuring Puss’s partners in crime, Kitty Softpaws and Humpty Dumpty. Click on the posters for larger versions. 

 

 

 

It’s taken a while for this movie to hit theaters but the pretty-in-pink U.S. poster for London Boulevard has finally arrived.

 

 

Because there was nothing new on the Twilight front this week, here’s the French poster to sate your Twi-hard vamp-lust.

 

 

 

 

One of the updates that George Lucas had considered for his numerous re-releases of his Star Wars franchise was a, “more modern, urban sounding” C3PO. This is what could have happened. NSFW: Language.

 

Harry Potter may be out of theaters, but that doesn’t stop the Internet from churning out Potter content. Check out this clever NSFW (language) mash-up titled Harry Potter and The Blair Witch Project.

 

Even babies love Brad Pitt.