Release date: 19 th of July 2013 The DoubleĪfter cutting his teeth on music video and documentary, Richard Ayoade made his feature debut in 2011 with an adaptation of Submarine, Joe Dunthorne’s sardonic chronicle of Swansea teen angst.
The returning trio are joined by Jim Carrey and John Leguizamo. This time around sees Kick-Ass team up with a new DIY superhero league, while Hit-Girl faces her most terrifying foe yet: the high school mean girl.Įvidently jealous of co-star Christopher Mintz-Plasse’s double-barrelled pizazz, co-stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloe Grace Moretz have each given themselves an extra name in time for the sequel, which sees them back in the roles of vigilante crime-fighters Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl (aka teens David Lizewski and Mindy McCready). Ronan is joined by a young cast of little-known UK actors in the film, which is currently in post-production.Īny collection of the promising UK films of next year (on this site at least) would be remiss not to feature the sequel to 2010’s Kick-Ass, due in cinemas next July.įilmed in Toronto and London, Kick-Ass 2 comes adapted and helmed by Jeff Wadlow, taking over from Matthew Vaughn.
Saoirse Ronan ( Atonement, The Lovely Bones, Hanna) stars as fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy, sent to stay with her rural English cousins in the build-up to the eruption of World War III. The director of some of the strongest documentaries in recent years, from this year’s Marley to 1999’s One Day in September and 2003’s Touching the Void, not to mention Idi Amin biopic The Last King of Scotland, Macdonald is no lightweight choice, and How I Live Now promises to be a world away from teen fluff. I really hope this turns out to be a badass TMNT film.Thanks to the success of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, teen dystopias are pushing vampire romances and fairy tale adaptations off cinema screens, and Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now promises to be one of 2013’s most interesting takes on the genre.Įven disregarding the acclaim that greeted Meg Rosoff’s debut novel on publication in 2004 (a review from The Guardian hailed it as an “immediate classic”, an opinion shared by many), the involvement of Kevin Macdonald is enough to pique our interest. There's so much more they can do with them these days, especially with the technology we have. I have no issues with seeing this new updated reboot of these classic characters. After that, we got an awesome live-action film in 1990, and that ended up spawning two live-action sequels, a live-action TV series, a second animated series, and a great CGI feature film.
It then blew up into mainstream popularity when it became a hit animated series in 1987. TMNT began as a black and white comic book series in 1984. Michael Bay is set to produce the film.Īs a fan of the ninja turtles franchise, I'm incredibly excited to see what comes of this. The script is being worked on by a team of writers that includes Art Marcum and Matt Holloway ( Iron Man) who wrote a first draft, and then Josh Appelbaum and Andrew Nemec ( Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol). At least, that's what I'm hoping for! There's no director attached, but it was previously reported that Wrath of the Titans director Jonathan Liebesman could end up taking on the radical challenge. We've also heard that it will be a dark, gritty, violent, action film, unlike any other TMNT production we've seen before.
In the process of rearranging their movie line-up, Paramount Pictures set the release date of Platinum Dunes' reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Christmas Day in 2013.Īs of right now there are no story details, but I think it's safe to say that it will end up being a Ninja Turtles origin story, and they will end up fighting Shredder and The Foot.