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09th June 2007

Chris Sloley brings you his round up of film news this week:

Washington is the heart of America

Themoviebox.net/trailers are currently hosting the mouth-wateringly good trailer for American Gangster from the direction of acclaimed Ridley Scott. And if Scott didn't pack enough of a punch leading this crime drama will be heavyweight Hollywood stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.

Still not enough? Washington will fill the biopic shoes of infamous Harlem hoodlum and heroin hawker Frank Lucas and Crowe is assigned to track him.

If Washington is anywhere near Training Day's performance and Crowe is just as good as Scott can make him expect this to be setting Academy hearts aflame when it hits screens in a hail of gunfire in November.

According to Apple - Will Smith is Legend

Sticking with the trailer theme apple have just put up the teaser trailer for Will Smith's apocalypse sci-fi adventure I Am Legend. Based on the Richard Matheson novel Last Man on Earth, which has previously been brought to the screen in the NRA-raged hands of Charlton Heston with the 70s cult classic Omega Man, the story sees Smith as a lone survivor of a biological epidemic in an quarantined Manhattan.

So expect a flashier, catchier version of Heston's yarn when Smith brings this fight between the last remaining human and what hides in the dark in January.

Sight Beyond Sight For Sore Eyes

Any 80s kids out there will be jumping for joy at the news being heralded by aintitcool.com that weird, moral-filled ani-man cartoon Thundercats will soon be on the big screens. The film has been optioned by Universal, who will put it alongside plans for a Teen Titans, He-Man, Superman Sequel and the forthcoming Batman Begins follow-up The Dark Knight.

Variety Magazine further the story claiming that Paul Sopocy's script is aimed at citing the origin of Lion-O and his crew of animal supermen. God knows when this is likely to blast forth from the laser spray of a giant sword.

Indiana Jones and the Continuing Saga of Making the Bloody Film

After announcing that Indiana Jones's latest whip-cracking adventure will be subtitled City of God, without any reference to Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu's shocking portrayal of Brazilian youth gangs, a principle cast member has fled the scene.

Empireonline.com are stating that Sean Connery will not be joining Harrison Ford, Ray Winstone, Cate Blanchett and potential Indie Junior Shia LeBoeuf (watch out for him in Transformers), so it seems that Indie's dad won't be coming along for the ride. However, John Hurt (a man of suitable age to be the globe-trotting professor of archaeology's father) has been added without his character being announced. Time will tell it seems.

Chris Sloley