Geeks of Doom Invade Your Inbox

---

• Geek Gear: Loki – Thanos 2012 ‘Support The Gauntlet Party’ Shirt
• 7 Promotional Banners & 2 TV Spots For ‘Cloud Atlas’
• Geek Peek: First Look At ‘LOST’ Star Evangeline Lilly In ‘The Hobbit’
• ‘Promised Land’ Trailer: Matt Damon’s Words Has No Affect On John Krasinski
• ‘Zombieland’ Director Ruben Fleischer May Helm ‘Spy Hunter’ For WB
• Anne Hathaway Cast As Female Lead In Steven Spielberg’s ‘Robopocalypse’
• Gina Carano First To Join Female Version Of ‘The Expendables’
• Happy Birthday to Mark Hamill; Remembering The Late Christopher Reeve On His Birthday

Geek Gear: Loki – Thanos 2012 ‘Support The Gauntlet Party’ Shirt Posted: 26 Sep 2012 05:50 AM PDT The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel today tackles the Marvel U as Loki and Thanos hit the 2012 campaign trail in "Support The Gauntlet Party" by thedavelosso. The shirt went on sale at RIPT today, Wednesday, September 26, 2012, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it's over, it will not be sold on the site anymore [...]

7 Promotional Banners & 2 TV Spots For ‘Cloud Atlas’ Posted: 25 Sep 2012 04:52 PM PDT A slew of new promotional material for Cloud Atlas is hitting the marketing wire, and it does a great job of showing the ambitious scope of The Wachowskis' latest film. The project is difficult to describe largely because it features a large cast playing as multiple characters cross various time periods. In the film these actors play a variety of roles, some which requires the actor to play something outside of their own race, age, and even sexuality. Now seven promotional banners put these roles and time periods up on display. Check out the seven new banners, plus two tv spots here below. There has been positive buzz circling around Cloud Atlas since it made its official debut at the Toronto International Film Festival. Critics have praised The Wachowskis (Andy and Lana) and Tom Twyker for creating a movie that is not limited to one genre. Others have praised the make-up used to change the actors' appearances [...]

Geek Peek: First Look At ‘LOST’ Star Evangeline Lilly In ‘The Hobbit’ Posted: 25 Sep 2012 03:50 PM PDT Toys and other merchandising or marketing items being made for a big upcoming movie are a good way to catch your first glimpse of what a certain character will look like or how an actor will look playing a character. We've already had one early geek peek when it comes to Peter Jackson's massive three-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit---that first shot of what's assumed to be the evil Goblin King---and now comes another noteworthy first look. [...]

‘Promised Land’ Trailer: Matt Damon’s Words Has No Affect On John Krasinski Posted: 25 Sep 2012 02:09 PM PDT Due to the amount of work and the continual search to find the right project, Matt Damon's directorial debut continues to be put on hold. But audiences still want to see the acclaimed actor on the screen, and come early next year we will see him reunite with Gus Van Sant for another potentially award-winning piece. The two come back together for a film called Promise Land. In it, the controversial use of fracking, a method for extracting oil and natural gas, takes center stage. Damon plays as a salesman who comes to a small town asking the residents if he could drill on their land. This dangerous practice has proven to have its negative effects on the land and the people living on it, and one man named Dustin (John Krasinski) convinces the townspeople to rally together to put a stop to it. Check out the first trailer for Promise Land below [...]

‘Zombieland’ Director Ruben Fleischer May Helm ‘Spy Hunter’ For WB Posted: 25 Sep 2012 12:40 PM PDT A little over a decade ago, moviegoers started to see a surge of films based on video games grace the silver screen. For the most part these films failed to deliver a good story or stay true to the property. Some films that were supposed to go into production did fall through the cracks though. When Universal owned the rights to Spy Hunter, they had Dwayne Johnson attached to star as the lead, a spymaster who owned a tricked out weaponize car that would jettison damaged parts to reveal a motorcycle or transform into an amphibious vehicle. However, numerous delays prevented the production from commencing, and as a result the film never saw the light of day. Now Vulture is reporting that Spy Hunter has found new life over at Warner Bros., and that Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) is in talks to direct the film [...]

Anne Hathaway Cast As Female Lead In Steven Spielberg’s ‘Robopocalypse’ Posted: 25 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT Steven Spielberg has an idea on whom he would like to see take the two lead roles in his long-gestating adaptation of Robopocalypse. It's been reported that Spielberg would like to see Chris Hemsworth play the male lead in the upcoming film and now there is word that Spielberg is looking to Anne Hathaway to play the female lead. In addition to these possible castings, there is confirmation that former 20th Century Fox chairman and CEO Tom Rothman will be a producer for Robopocalypse. According to Deadline, the studio is tightlipped about any news concerning the casting of lead roles in Robopocalypse. But the fact that Hathaway and Hemsworth could share the silver screen is an exciting thought. We will be likely to hear confirmation of the two being cast in the weeks leading up to the start of principle photography, which is scheduled to begin early 2013 [...]

Gina Carano First To Join Female Version Of ‘The Expendables’ Posted: 25 Sep 2012 09:30 AM PDT Following the success of The Expendables 2, producer Adi Shankar and his 1984 Private Defense Contractors production company announced that they would be making an action film comprised of some of the most memorable female action stars. A month after Shankar made the announcement, Haywire star Gina Carano is the first to sign on for the untitled female version of The Expendables. Dutch Southern will write the script. Variety, which was the first to report on the news, said that talks with other female action stars are ongoing. The report doesn't mention whom Shankar may have been talking to or who is on his shortlist. Some of the names that have been thrown around are: Linda Hamilton, Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis, Uma Thurman, Milla Jovovich, Kate Beckinsale, Lucy Lawless, Lucy Liu, Maggie Q, and Cynthia Rothrock [...]

Happy Birthday to Mark Hamill; Remembering The Late Christopher Reeve On His Birthday Posted: 25 Sep 2012 08:01 AM PDT Two archetypes of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy world were born today, September 25: Mark Hamill, best known to the masses as Luke Skywalker, who goes from a humble, naïve, wide-eyed teenager to an anointed full blown Jedi in the original Star Wars trilogy, and the late Christopher Reeve, who will always be immortalized as the spit-curled, donned in tights and red boots Man of Steel in the most popular incarnation of the Superman film franchise. Hamill is 61 today; Reeve, who died in 2004, from cardiac arrest due to complications after a riding accident left him paralyzed from the neck down, would have been 60. Both men are etched in cinema history in their respective roles. In the case of Mark Hamill, mainly a character actor before he hit paydirt as the protagonist of George Lucas' storied space opera of a film in Star Wars, his Luke Skywalker remains one of the 20th century's most well known and liked characters in any form of entertainment. The underdog Skywalker, receiving his tutelage of the Force by way of seasoned veteran Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the first film, and later fine tuned by Jedi Master Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back, sets him up perfectly for Return of the Jedi, in which the climactic showdown between himself and his father Anakin Skywalker, who has manifested himself into the dark, cold blooded, sadistically evil man in black, Darth Vader, has become a direct source of Sci-Fi symbolism to millions of fans to this very day, and as a hero to the common man globally [...]

You are subscribed to email updates from Geeks of Doom To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610