We're mid way through the first month of 2015, how's it going? I'm feverishly working on the next Dammaged Goods Presents event, children of the 80's and 90's will be super excited. While hanging around the interwebs between e-mails and phone calls I came across:
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Happy Birthday Carl Weathers! The
likeable former professional football player known for his roles in
Rocky I-IV,
Predator,
Action Jackson,
Happy Gilmore,
Toy Story of Terror and
Arrested Development celebrated the big 6-7 this past 14th. That puts him right under co-stars Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. With an acting career dating back to 1975, Weathers' film and television output has slowed in recent years as he focuses on screen writing and lending his famous face to charities; playing in celebrity poker tournaments, raising awareness for cancer, bringing water to west Africa, campaigning for film tax incentives across the country as well as being a finalist in the newly formed Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame for his portrayal of Apollo Creed in the
Rocky films. Speaking of Creed, a new film featuring the grand son of the legendary character has just begun production with rising star Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone starring in the 7th film of the series. Even though Apollo died in 1985's
Rocky IV, it would be great to have Weathers reprise the role in some kind of voice over or flashback to pay respect to all the work he put into making the character so memorable.
Only two days later, another titan of cinema celebrated his 67th birthday, writer/director/composer
John Carpenter! The man behind such B-movie genre classics as
Escape From New York,
They Live,
The Thing and
Big Trouble From Little China has also slowed down in the filmmaking world but has kept busy through writing comic books, releasing a new album of "lost themes" and playing video games. With four of his films already remade, it was just announced this week that Fox has acquired the rights to reboot
Escape From New York and Carpenter will act as a consultant. Multiple parties have held the rights in recent years from New Line Cinema, Joel Silver and most recently Studio Canal. Rumors of a prequel starring Gerard Butler to begin a new trilogy never materialized. Let's see if Fox can put together something special that can replicate the experience of the films while moving it in a new direction.
Last but certainly not least, the trailer for SyFy's 10 part "future noir" series
The Expanse dropped during this week's Television Critics Association's press tour. Based on a series of novels,
The Expanse is set 200 years in the future and follows a detective (Thomas Jane) as he crosses the solar system searching for a missing woman and uncovers a conspiracy in the process. Being touted as SyFy's most ambitious project to date, cast and crew began production in Toronto in November occupying most of the stages at Toronto's Pinewood Studios. The trailer shows off sleek production design, zero gravity sex and The Jane looking very slim, trim and stylish in a fedora and some kind of half shaved, half long hair cut.
Jane participated in a Redditt Ask Me Anything session yesterday to hype his new film with Bruce Willis,
Vice, that hits theaters and VOD this weekend. Nothing too crazy which is kind of disappointing as Jane is the king of WeirdCool. Jane mentions never watching his films after they're completed, sneaking out of premieres, fans wanting to wrestle him, has never seen
Game of Thrones, his love for making baseball picture
61*, almost drowning on
Deep Blue Sea, taking name Jane from Indian religion Jain while shooting a Bollywood feature at 16, how the studio would have given
The Mist a bigger budget if they'd change the ending, not being very good in comedy
The Sweetest Thing, shooting
Vice in Mobile, Alabama being great, Bruce Willis being the guy you see on screen, his favorite horror film is
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and that Lawrence Kasdan likes his actors to be on set whether or not they're working.
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