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

First off, I want to point all of you to a full comprehensive and excelent review done by ComicNerd writers Stephanie and RedHollywood about The Incredible Hulk.  Read it right now, right here!

Phew lotta stuff going on this week…  we have a report detailing what happens in the teaser trailer for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, which we should all be catching at the previews for The Dark Knight, as was reported last week.   We have the debut of the full trailer for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emporer which just looks AWESOME.

Thomas Jane, who starred in the Punisher reboot (but didn’t return for a sequel) shows off his fanboy side by dressing up as Jonah Hex after he checked out a posible script for a movie based around the badass western anti-hero from DC.  We have a NEW poster for The Dark Knight, but I am not 100% sure it’s an official one.  it still looks cool though!

J Michael Straczynski touched base on the possibility of a Silver Surfer feature movie, and explains how the script portrays Galactus differently from Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer.  We have a quick quote from Will.i.am regarding his role as John Wraith in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie.

We have the very first image of the new Movie Poster from G.I. Joe movie, coming out in 2009.  Click here to see it!  Finally, there’s also an update from Mark Millar about the Kick-Ass movie, which apparently ready to go and the parts have been casted.

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

Alright, let’s get started!

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins:

This was a description sent over to AICN by someone who participated in a focus group, and among other things he got to see the T4 teaser trailer!  Here is a rundown:

It opens with footage of people out in every day life. Christian Bale voiceovers
something like:

“I always knew it would happen”…

Than a pause…

“They told me I could stop it.”

The same people begin looking to the sky….

“That I could save us”.

Looks of horror come across their faces as he says,

“They were wrong”.

Music rises as we cut to black for a second. The Terminator theme starts, with the duh duh,
duh, duh, duh.

NEXT SUMMER appears on the screen…

We get a quick shot looking out over a sunny desert, and then a shot of Bale, in badass commando uniform
and very recognizably the same guy who plays Batman, being lowered into a huge bunker
of weapons.

THE FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE

rolls across, and we get mixed clips from inside one of the survivor bunkers as seen in Terminator 1 - but they look more concentration campish; very crowded, shots of Bale walking with a large crowd. And then the word…

BEGINS.

The music quickly rises as we get shot of a huge truck racing down a high way, a shot or two of a helicopter flying mixed with more close ups of the actors when Bale whispers, “They’re coming”.

It all goes quiet.

Massive drums blare the beginning of the theme (again) but this time much louder, more pumped up, as we get a metallic silver T that morphs into a 4.

We then get the big money shot of the trailer. Its Bale on a motorcycle with some girl on the back.
They speed through a door of what looks like a warehouse toward us. As soon as they
pass the screen, a huge terminator on wheels, a lot like the one they battle in the
first one, smashes through the wall, chasing them. It looks awesome.

It then says:

Memorial Day 2009.

Source: [AICN]

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emporer

Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick O’Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor (Jet Li) in an epic that races from the catacombs of ancientChina high into the frigid Himalayas. Rick is joined in this all-new adventure by son Alex (newcomer Luke Ford), wife Evelyn (Maria Bello) and her brother, Jonathan (John Hannah). And this time, the O’Connells must stop a mummy awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service.

Doomed by a double-crossing sorceress (Michelle Yeoh) to spend eternity in suspended animation, China’s ruthless Dragon Emperor and his 10,000 warriors have lain forgotten for eons, entombed in clay as a vast, silent terra cotta army. But when dashing adventurer Alex O’Connell is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents.

As the monarch roars back to life, our hero finds his quest for world domination has only intensified over the millennia. Striding the Far East with unimaginable supernatural powers, the Emperor Mummy will rouse his legion as an unstoppable, otherworldly force…unless the O’Connells can stop him first. Now, in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the trademark thrills and visually spectacular action of the Mummy series will be redefined for a new generation.

Source: MovieWeb

Thomas Jane is a fanboy over Jonah Hex

According to Thomas Jane himself, he had a friend do some test make up shots, because of his love for the script and the character and then was surprised to find that the photo made it onto the net.  Pretty good work, though!  Check it out:

Now, just FYI Thomas Jane has not been cast for this role, this was done just out of pure fanboy love.  Pretty cool, huh?

From Thomas Jane himself:

“Yeah, the pic is real all right – my pal Akiva Goldsman told me about the project and I fell in love with the idea right away. Being a huge fan of all things Hex – I just couldn’t help myself. I called up my buddy Chris Nelson and we spent a Saturday afternoon working up some make-up for this impromptu shoot and I fired a few pics off to Warners. How do people get a hold of this shit? It’s a little embarrassing seeing my Fanboy enthusiasm spilled all over the web, but great scripts don’t come around too often, especially for characters I love.”

Source: [LatinoReview]

The Dark Knight:

Here’s another NEW poster featuring Heath Ledger in his soon-to-be-legendary role as the Joker:

Not 100% sure this is official, but still well done.

Silver Surfer:

In an interview with the super-scribe J Michael Straczynski, he illuminated some facets about the Silver Surfer movie, which has been on hold following the disappointing performance of the Fantastic Four sequel.

Q: Did your work on Silver Surfer: Requiem comic bring about the offer to write the Silver Surfer movie?

A: It was one of those weird synchronicities. Whether or not it ever gets made I don’t know because they were kind of disappointed in how Fantastic Four 2 did. And given how this will be a subset of FF2 in terms of the marketing strategy, I think there is hesitation there about putting it forward. The script is pretty good, I like it, but whether or not it goes into production, I have no idea.

Q: Does this pick up where Silver Surfer left off in Fantastic Four 2?

A: I was writing it as FF2 was about to come out, and the theory was for it to pick up literally the next frame after the FF2 movie, where you find out why Silver Surfer was there and what happened to him. We would have seen Galactus, his home world, what happened and him trying to get back there, because now that he’s betrayed Galactus, he’s concerned his home world might be in jeopardy.

Q: When do you mean when you say,”We see Galactus”?

Q: In the script I come up with some ways to visualize him that are true to the original, but take it one step further using the current CGI technology that we have. So we would have seen him as a character on numerous occasions in the second movie, not inconsistent with the first distant shot of him in that that’s just a way of concealing who and what he really is. Believe me, he would be not at all silly looking.

Source: [AMC Blogs]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine:

In an interview with MTV News, Will.i.am had this to say about his character in the movie, John Wraith:

“I’m a teleporter. … I’m here, I’m there, I’m everywhere. Boom, boom, boom!” Will revealed. “My character’s name is John Wraith. He’s a black Texan. He’s not a cowboy, but his gear suggests that he is. He’s just a badass who’ll whoop your ass.”

Source: [MTVNews]

Kick-Ass:

Mark Millar’s crazy comic book mini series Kick-Ass (reviewed here at ComicNerd, read them all here) apparently has been planned as a movie almost a full year before the comic even came out, rumored to be written by Matthew Vaughn.  Millar recently made this statement in an interview with CBR:

“I’m working as a producer on ['Kick-Ass'] as well, so I’ve been involved for about eight months, believe it or not,” the writer said. “The comic didn’t come out until February, but we made the deal on the movie back in December. The script was finished six months ago, and it starts filming on location in New York in August. So it’s moving really fast.”

“The casting’s all been done, and everything’s all in line now with that. There’s two big names attached, which I can’t mention so we can get on the cover of ‘Variety.’ And now we’ve got everyone. The kids who show up at the end of issue #3 - we just cast the girl, and that was a really tricky one because we needed to find someone who could do martial arts stuff. So the whole movie’s ready to role.”

I wonder what would have happened to this flick if the comic flopped… hmm.

Alright folks, that’s a wrap for today!

What do you think about the trailer for the new Mummy movie? You gonna go see it?

Who else thinks that they SHOULD move forward on a Silver Surfer movie?  The message in the movie could potentially be extremely poignant and relevant to our society, in my opinion.

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