Happy Monday folks, and welcome to the third installment of our weekly feature, Monday Movie Mayhem! Where we cover movie and TV nerd-related news for all the ComicNerd.com readers out there!

Since it’s memorial day and I’d rather be playing WoW or GTA:IV, I’m going to only be covering a few things today. I know, call me lazy. :p

I went and saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull yesterday, and had a lot of fun. It felt like good ‘ole Indy action and adventure all the way up until the end, where the movie just asked me to suspend belief just a tad too much. Overall a fun movie… but you could tell it was grasping a little bit.

Today we have some news about Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, including a concept design and some plot information. Matthew Vaughn laid down some news about Thor coming out in theaters from Marvel, and it’s not all good news. We have an update about the upcoming Ant-Man movie. Microsoft announced plans for their Xbox 360 and Blu-Ray. We have a new trailer for an interesting movie called Eagle Eye, about a mysterious organization who frames an average working American as a terrorist. Brian K. Vaughn’s hit comic Runaways is looking to be adapted to film (but you probably already knew that), and a couple of leaked Cloverfield 2 pics are included as well.

Click through the jump to be overwhelmed by nerdy movie goodness!

Alright, let’s get started!

Terminator 4:

Director McG has a blog entry over at Warner Bros. for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. On the blog, the Terminator director posted this entry along with a first look at concept art:

We’ve officially started principal photography on Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Like you guys, I’ve been a long-time fan of the series and I understand your passion for the Terminator movies — and it’s my full intention to deliver a film that lives up to the previous three installments. I’ve spent time with James Cameron, spoken to Arnold Schwarzenegger, gone over the story with Jonah Nolan, and enlisted Stan Winston.

Everything we’re shooting is designed to be tactile and real, you’ll be seeing a whole set of inspired designs you’ve never seen before, and best of all you’ll finally get to see some of the post-judgment day future that was only hinted at in the previous movies.

John Connor will be pushed to the brink. And for me, Christian Bale embodies Connor’s strength and tenacity perfectly. And after visiting Sam Worthington on the set of Avatar, I know he’s perfect for his role.

As you know, Anton Yelchin is playing Kyle Reese, and his prep has been unbelievable. The guy’s been watching all three Terminators incessantly and he’s definitely going to capture the essence of the character Michael Biehn created in Cameron’s first film.

We started principal photography with a sequence at Griffith Observatory. I’ve already seen a cut of it — Anton and Sam are excellent. I’ll have more on that soon, and can’t wait to share some of what we’re doing with you all. Stay tuned for more.

McG [via WB]

Marvel’s Thor:

Matthew Vaughn, the mastermind behind Snatch, Layer Cake and Stardust talks Thor:

“We’re in a holding pattern at the moment,” he said. “It’s up to Marvel, they have to decide if they want to make the movie and then we take it from there.”

“Holding pattern” may well be a cleverly masked way of describing “development hell” but Vaughn, it seems, still has big ideas for Odin’s hammer-wielding son.

“Well, the main role is going to be played by someone totally unknown,” he said. “It can’t be a star, it’s got to be someone totally unknown.”

Thor the comic book is well known for his overly lyrical dialogue and slightly ridiculous garb, which works well on the page but how will it translate to the big screen?

“I think you have to respect that it is comic book and silly to be frank, so you have to combine that with a modern style and hopefully come up with something fresh. I think we can come up with something special.”

[via EE]

Marvel’s Ant-Man:

Edgar Wright gives us an update on the Ant-Man flick:

“It’s written and we’re doing a second draft of it,” said Wright. “It’s going to be less overtly comedic than anything else I’ve ever done. It’s more of a full-on action adventure sci-fi film but with a comedic element - in the same spirit of a lot of escapist fare like that. It’s certainly not a superhero spoof or pastiche and it certainly isn’t a sort of Honey I Shrunk The Kids endeavour at all.”

[via MoveWeb]

Microsoft plays THE MAN again:

While rumors have swirled around that Microsoft may considere implementing a Blu-Ray drive for its XBox 360 gaming console, a Microsoft executive recently put those rumors down for good. According to Home Media Magazine, Microsoft Games Studio head Michael Kim said there are no plans to add a BD drive to its popular gaming console.

“I know Blu-ray provides some visual boost for people who want a physical HD format, but we’re not seeing that format taking off, in general,” Kim said. “The DVD format is still doing well. Eventually, the price of Blu-ray players will come down to $150 and the value proposition of a $300 or $400 PlayStation 3 as a game console and movie player will be impacted.”

Microsoft had previously supported the HD DVD format and sold a supplemental HD DVD drive for XBox 360, but that drive has been discontinued after Blu-Ray’s format war victory.

Kim added that its focus in movies and television content will be strictly geared towards its XBox Live Video Marketplace, which currently has over 10 million subscribers and is the top online digital distribution service on the market.

“Video Marketplace helps us to speak to the more casual gaming audience,” said Kim, who also stressed he feels Microsoft chose the best format to distribute video content. “There’s a lot more to our brand than just hardcore games.”

[via MovieWeb]

Eagle Eye:

At the Indiana Jones movie I saw this weekend, I saw a trailer for this movie and it looks pretty good. Check it out:

Shia LaBeouf reteams with Disturbia director D.J. Caruso as a young slacker whose overachieving twin brother has died mysteriously. When the young man returns home, both he and a single mother find they have been framed as terrorists. Forced to become members of a cell that has plans to carry out a political assassination, they must work together to extricate themselves.

Two unsuspecting Americans are separately drawn into a conspiracy by a mysterious woman they have never met, but who seems to know their every move. By the time they discover her frightening identity, they have become her unwitting accomplices in a diabolical assassination plot.

Runaways:

Marvel has now given the go-ahead to an adaptation of lesser-known series Runaways.

Brian K. Vaughan, who co-created the series, which launched in 2002, with artist Adrian Alphona, will write the film about a group of teenagers who discover that their parents are supervillains. They subsequently run away, discover their own blossoming powers and seek to balance out the wrongdoing of their forebears. This isn’t a series we’ve read, but that is a doozy of a set-up for a movie and has franchise written all over it in big letters.

While the rest of Marvel’s recently announced films have mainly been given release dates, Runaways is still in the very early stages, so there’s no suggestion of when it will be shot or released.

[via EE]

Cloverfield 2:

It’s only been a few months since all of the Cloverfield viral madness quieted down to a silent murmur. Well, J.J. Abrams just won’t stand for any quietness on that front. Today, two photos from Cloverfield 2 have emerged from the depths. Is this the sound of the Cloverfield 2 Viral marketing campaign roaring to life? It just might be. Take a look at these black & white photos that seem to show a bunch of baby Cloverfield monsters scurrying across the ocean floor (didn’t Abrams say that the original monster was a baby?):

[via Movieweb]

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