The film world poked its head round this week in the midst of all the gaming and slipped out a few choice nuggets for us to swallow bitterly.

In between E3, the Las Vegas Trade Convention slipped out some information and proved to be a poster bonanza, featuring: Transformers 2 (Here), Spiderman 4 (Here), Scott Pilgrim vs The World (Here) and the new Woody Allen Movie (Here).

Elsewhere Pirates of the Caribbean overlord Gore Verbinski may be off the Bioshock movie. Finally, Bruno publicity hits Eminem in the face in a – Is it staged? Isn’t it staged? Will Bruno overexposure dwarf the film ala Borat? – conundrum.

Headlines:

Bryan Singer Interested In Magneto:

Not in that way of course but Singer may be interested in returning to the X-Men franchise – except for all the damn Nazis; “…I’ve lived in that Nazi universe for quite a while. I just might need to take a little break…” Nazis ruin everything.

Wall Street Sequel Has Beef:

Shia LaBeouf to be exact. Rumours abound that Hollywood’s only twenty-something actor is in talks to play Michael Douglas’ protégé in a follow-up to the 80’s classic Wall Street. “Greed is good!” – Indeed.

Where’s Wally…?:

…Probably sitting in an LA office after news this weeks springs of a celluloid adaptation of the popular children’s book series Where’s Wally? (Waldo for our American cousins). Judging by the lack if imagination in Hollywood, expect Hecklerspray: The Movie to hit the screens soon!

Scream If You Want A Reboot!:

Apparently a franchise that was desperate for a reboot, Scream – The popular 90’s slasher series – is on the fast-track for a fresh start. All the old cast have been approached, seemingly interested after the hollow corpses of their careers seemed to rot away with the insipid third part. Another hurrah for the future of cinema!

Jack Attack!

In some good news; Jack Nicholson is in talks to re-team with Oscar-baiting cohort James L. Brooks (As Good As It Get, Terms of Endearment) for a new role. The news gets less exciting though when it’s for an Owen Wilson/Reese Witherspoon romantic comedy. Uptight, highly-strung woman falls for a laidback, goofball? Groan!

Must See This Week:

Terminator Salvation:

McG hopes to reinvent the Terminator franchise as a dustland war movie featuring gruff blokes with more scowl than muscles. Christian Bale brings some suitable pent-up aggression and serious acting clout to draw in the punters. Meanwhile newcomer Sam Worthington turns in a star-making performance.

Must Not See This Week:

The Spirit – DVD

The DVD of the Frank Miller directed comic book adaptation proving that not only should Miller stick to comics but can’t even rip his own style off!

Video Corner:

Toy Story 3 Teaser Trailer:

Not the most mind-blowing of trailers but anything hailing the arrival of Woody, Buzz and co. is great in our books!

[story by David Scarborough]

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The sequel to the Best Film Ever(tm) that has made more money than the GDP of many African nations combined, The Dark Knight, will get a sequel at some point. On one hand, who would blame the studio? It’s a licence to print money. On the same hand but slightly tilted, the vast majority of people who have seen the first two films actually want a sequel, seeing as both Batman Begins and the more recent helping were utterly brilliant.

Oh, plus Christian Bale isn’t going to be put in the slammer for three hundred years, or thereabouts.

But David S. Goyer, writer of the screenplay for both films, has other things to do for quite a while, so you plebians are going to have to wait a while for your next hit of Gotham’s favourite vigilante.

No, it would seem that in the great scheme of things, Goyer has what we sometimes like to call ‘a life outside Batman’. Hard to believe, but true nonetheless. His writing credits stretch far and wide, so as much as you out there in people land want a quick follow up to The Dark Knight, it ain’t gonna happen for a while.

Speaking to MTV, Goyer moved his lips and made some vibrations, which produced sounds of a certain type, conducted in a certain order. On paper, they look like this:

“I’m writing a new version of ‘The Invisible Man’ for Universal. I’m in the process of doing ['Invisible Man'] right now, and I’m working with some conceptual artists in tandem with writing the script. I’m actually working with one of the artists from ‘Batman Begins’ and ‘The Dark Knight.’”

David continued this strange and mystical feat of producing language through his oral cavity, informing MTV of how he saw his version of The Invisible Man taking shape:

“My take is kind of an extrapolation. It actually deals with a nephew of the first character…It involves Scotland Yard getting their hands on the current Invisible Man and basically saying, ‘Wow, you’d be a really good secret agent to send into Imperial Russia right now’. It starts off from there… I don’t want to give too much away, but I took what being invisible could mean to the next logical extreme. We do a lot of crazy things in it that are sort of far beyond what anyone’s done with it yet.”

But it doesn’t stop there – well, his words did, but his career didn’t – with Goyer also in line to write and direct the second installment of X-Men Origins, this one being about everybody’s favourite metal-bending oldie Magneto.

So it would seem that one of the main creative forces behind The Dark Knight won’t be returning to the franchise for a while. That’s okay, we can accept that. In fact, it gives us all the chance to see what happens in the meantime – in the space of a few years we can see how the ‘curse’ of the movie affects the cast and crew. More death? More car crashes? More probably-not-actually-pushing-your-mum?

The possibilities are endless. Well, not literally endless, but there are a lot of possibilities. And hopefully David S Goyer will see sense and dumb down Batman 3, for Robert Downey Jr’s sake.