Movie News Mash 25

SCREAM 4
Courteney Cox elaborated on a few details that were revealed by writer Kevin Williamson about "Scream 4," which picks up the story 10 years after the events in "Scream 3." Cox will reprise the role of TV reporter Gale Weathers.

"She has a kid now," Cox said in a group interview Saturday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, California. "She's married to Dewey."

"Scream 3" ended with Deputy Dewey (David Arquette, Cox's real-life husband) proposing to local newswoman-turned-true-crime guru Gale. The characters bonded during their investigation of the first "Scream" murders, through the campus crimes of "Scream 2" and the film-within-the-film of "Scream 3."

Williamson previously described "Scream 4" as the beginning of a new trilogy. Cox has no trepidations about beginning another three films. "No, because [I take things] one day at a time," she said. "But I heard the idea for Scream 4, and it's fantastic."
(Sci Fi Wire)

THE GREEN HORNET
Hollywood Snitch is reporting that Edward James Olmos has joined the cast of the upcoming comic book film, "The Green Hornet." If this news is true, he joins the already-announced Seth Rogen (playing the titled character), Jay Chou (playing Kato, replacing Stephen Chow), Nicolas Cage (playing the film’s villain) and Cameron Diaz (playing some sort of reporter/love interest). The film is being directed by Michel Gondry ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"), and written by Rogen and his "Superbad" co-writer, Evan Goldberg.

Olmos’ "Green Hornet" role is currently labeled as unspecified, with only a short quote from the "Battlestar Galactica" star himself at Wizard World Chicago Comic-Con. Check out the quote:


“I’m on my way to do ‘The Green Hornet,’… It’ll be a lot of fun with Seth [Rogen], Nicolas Cage and Cameron Diaz.”

Basically this just tells us he’s got some sort of part, but it could be anything from a cameo to a major supporting part. A couple of side characters from the original Green Hornet series are, “a bombastic former policeman,” and an, “irascible city editor of The Daily Sentinel.” Could Olmos be one of those two? Who knows.
(Screen Rant)

THE AVENGERS
Hero Complex recently talked with director Louis Leterrier on the set of "Clash of the Titans." As you know, Leterrier last directed "The Incredible Hulk." Although he doesn't know yet if he'll be back for another "Hulk" sequel, he does want to work with Marvel again (and is contracted to do another movie for them anyway).

"I would love to do the 'Avengers film.' I’d love to work with Marvel again. I loved working with them. I’ll tell you my real dream: To work with Joe Johnston and Kenneth Branagh and Jon Favreau and make like a triptych. We do four movies. We release them one a month for the summer. Or even every two weeks or three weeks. And the whole summer would be Avengers summer. So we do it the way they make television shows. One story arc but told in installments by different directors. So all of the directors that touch part of the 'Avengers' world would do a part; we could make the movies shorter, maybe less than an hour and a half, and we use the same sets and save Marvel money. I would love to sit around a table with all of them a kick around the story. That’s my dream.

"People will get bored seeing the same superhero movie every summer," he said. "If we change the concept and package it differently, then we do something really original then people get excited."
(First Showing, MTV News)