Peter Cushing To Regenerate For Star Wars - Rogue One?

"It's Alive.....It's Alive" is what British actor Peter Cushing shouted out at the top of his voice during his reign as Victor Frankenstein during the 50's/60's/70's in the Hammer Horror films. In December 2016, Star Wars fans will be shouting out the same thing as rumors have began circulating the newspapers and various movie sites saying that Gareth Edwards, director of the 2016 Star Wars anthology spin-off, Rogue One, will be resurrecting original "A New Hope" actor, Peter Cushing as his character Grand Moff Tarkin via the help of the latest state-of-the-art CGI.
The Tarkin character is said to have quite a lengthy pivotal role in the upcoming prequel, which is set between "Revenge Of The Sith" and "A New Hope", showing the further rise of Vader's Empire and the finishing touches on the newly built first Death Star.
I would love to see how Cushing himself comes back to life as his classic and sinister Tarkin character. Hopefully the film makers of this film will go along the lines of how director Alan Taylor brought Arnold Schwarzenegger's younger 80's T-800 Terminator back to life in this years brilliant Terminator revival "Terminator Genisys" by bringing some guy in with the same body type, get the editors to do some heavy research and build themselves a full CGI character through the power of Motion Capture.
And on that note, Gareth Edwards's team ARE in fact looking through hours of archive footage and there's plenty of facial expressions to play about with but not enough full length body shots to go along with as Peter Cushing was a drama queen on set of "A New Hope" and insisted on wearing slippers rather than his costumes black boots.

Tarkin has been brought back for the Star Wars - Rebels tv show, but that's a computer animated series. The only time he's came back in live-action form was with his extremely short-lived 10 seconds or so cameo at the end of 2005's "Revenge Of The Sith", where he shows up on the bridge of one of the star destroyers along with the newly built Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine. He was then played by Australian "Farscape" actor, Wayne Pygram.  

I think they should just bring back Pygram and just fill his face up with prosthetic makeup like how they done it in 2005. Either this or just go ahead with the full CGI figure but could that work for nearly a whole film? They could even just bring in an actor who could just take on the role. I have an actor in mind and I've mentioned it to a few people and they say he'd be good and that actor is another fellow "Doctor Who" star, Christopher Eccleston, but I guess only time will tell if it's a success or not.

Star Trek 3 - On Set Pics!

The first set pics from the 2016 Justin Lin helmed Star Trek sequel, Star Trek - Beyond, have leaked online with a first look at Sofia Boutella's unknown alien character and a first look at the new Starfleet uniforms. Boutella looks awesome, the new uniform is smart looking although Simon Pegg is spotted wearing the classic red shirt. Could the suit that Chris Pine's Captain Kirk is wearing be for Captain and Senior Officers only? I just can't wait to see what kind of villain Brit "Luther" actor, Idris Elba will be portraying in the 2016 highly-anticipated sequel, that celebrates the franchises 50th anniversary.
We can assume that classic Captain Kirk, William Shatner will be present in some sort of a way along with his original crew, minus original Bones McCoy, DeForest Kelley, who sadly passed away in the early 90's, original Scotty, James Doohan, who passed away in 2005 and the late great Leonard Nimoy aka Mr Spock, who passed away earlier this year.

CONTRACTS RENEWED FOR A STAR TREK IV?

On other Star Trek related news, during the month of July this year, Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto have reportedly signed on for a fourth film in the rebooted franchise. They have both been given $6 million each for an option to star in a third sequel, should the third film in the franchise be a success.
There's no news as of yet if any of the rest of the cast and signed on or even decided to come back, then again, this quick contract renewal has not yet been confirmed either so take everything with a pinch of salt until Paramount confirm their future plans sometimes within the next year or so.

This IS The Deadpool We've Been Waiting For!

The trailer starts and you feel sorry for this Wade Wilson guy, he's got every bad cancer you can think of and still, he's got his sense of humor. Some guy comes and says we can help you, make you a superhero. Wilson makes a few funny wee comments, no green suit, no CGI suit.....clearly a wee stab or two at Ryan Reynolds failed attempt at playing the Green Lantern back a few years ago. Shit goes down and there's an explosion that leaves our soon to be anti-hero looking like Freddy Krueger's love-child. Still, you feel bad for this guy and then there's like a different feel and tone to the trailer, it gets turned upside down, cue the Deadpool side of Wade Wilson, in all his red and black leather suit glory. Violent as fuck, sweary as fuck.......THIS IS THE DEADPOOL WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!! 

Thank you so much for this 20th Century Fox and thank you for giving Reynolds a second, much-needed chance to return as The Merc With The Mouth and what a mouth he has.

Even we don't get to see the movie until February 2016, you already know it's going to be a HUGE success, critically and finacially. A sequel has reportedly been green-lighted by the company already but then again, Fox also green-lighted a 2017 sequel to this years attempt to reboot Marvel's first superhero family, The Fantastic Four and that film has failed terribly, like super duper badly. It's not THAT bad but it was less than fantastic and could've been 100 times better, considering the failures with the previous 2005 incarnation and it's 2007 sequel. But, we must keep our fingers crossed and hope that this Deadpool film is amazing and the planned sequel and hopefully franchise, kicks off nicely! 

Again, until next February, here's the RED BAND trailer for Deadpool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyKWUTwSYAs

Time Flies By.......

Well doesn't time just fly by so quickly? We're just weeks away from the series premier of Doctor Who - Series Nine and now the BBC have deemed the right time to release promo shots of The Doctor, the female Master, Missy, Clara and Kate Stewart. 

The Magicians Apprentice is the first episode in the 2015 13-part series and is due to air on September 19th on BBC One. Until then, here's the link to the explosive new trailer so that you can catch a glimpse of this awesome looking and dark upcoming series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0csVdLbDMO4