Quickie: Jerry Bruckheimer confirms Bad Boys 3 script

I just want to post a real quick quote from super producer Jerry Bruckheimer about the development of Bad Boys 3; brought to us by comingsoon.net:

It's a wish and a hope and a dream. We've been working on a screenplay, which is excellent. It's an idea Will [Smith] gave us, so hopefully, it will come to fruition, we would love it to.

So it seems like the story was written by Will Smith, and brought to life by Bruckheimer and company. I talked about this months ago, and look at a sequel as a way to forgive everyone involved with Bad Boys 2.

That movie (part 2) is so bad, so awful, I'm ashamed to be an owner of the DVD; in my defense, I didn't see it in theaters because I was out of the country for 6 weeks, so I'm forgiven. I really hope there's some redemption in the third movie for Michael Bay (director of the first two), Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Part 1 made everyone involved a star and was so funny, so action packed, it sort of brought back a genre. The buddy-cop action comedy. So we'll see!

Official "Men In Black III" Release Date

Deadline has announced that Men In Black III will be in theaters on May 25, 2012.
So far Will Smith is the only one officially back on the project, as Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin are still negotiating.

The film will be in 3D (boo!) and again be directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (boo again!).
That summer, it will be competing with The Avengers, Star Trek 2, Batman 3, Battleship and the Spider-Man reboot.

"Independence Day" Sequel Might Be Two Movies

Independence Day director Roland Emmerich is claiming to MTV that he's working on two back-to-back sequels for the film. He says he wants the story arc, which will take place somewhere between 12-15 years after the first, to be bigger and more intricate.

While there is no script written as of yet, Emmerich did confirm that the story won't venture away from the planet Earth.
They will possibly be titled ID4-Ever, Parts I & II.
Will Smith is expected to return, of course.

Will Smith Wants "Flowers for Algernon"

So basically, 2-time nominee Will Smith is trying really hard to win an Oscar.
The Pursuit of Happyness and Seven Pounds didn't quite cut it, so he's deciding to step up his game and go "full retard."

Pajiba is reporting that Mr. Smith is looking to star in another film version of the book Flowers for Algernon. I say "another" because the Daniel Keyes novel has already been made into a film once before. Charly won Cliff Robertson an Oscar back in 1969. Could it happen again?

Here's how slashfilm explains the story:

The story is a fairly serious bit of sci-fi on one hand, in which researchers have come up with a way to increase the intelligence of test subjects. On the other hand, it’s a fairly determined and unsubtle tearjerker. The mentally disabled Charlie becomes the first human test subject. (Don’t read the rest of this paragraph if you’re touchy about knowing what happens in a 40-year old novel you should already know the synopsis to.) Charlie’s intelligence increases massively, but then he realizes that the change will not be permanent. His life changes quite a lot thanks to his new intelligence — he loses his job and finally has experience with women, among other things — but eventually he’s right back where he started.

Etan Cohen to write Men in Black 3

"Here come the Men in Black, galaxy defenders"! Sounds like a bad 80's cartoon theme song. Variety is reporting that Etan Cohen is set to write Men in Black 3. ETAN Cohen, not one half of the Cohen brothers, that's ETHAN, not Etan. Etan Cohen wrote Tropic Thunder and the under appreciated Idiocracy.

Columbia is hard up for a hit and they're probably thinking this is a sure thing, but I respectfully disagree. Men in Black 2 was so bad, so stupid, I think they lost the charm and wit that made the first one so good. Couple that with the amount of time its been since the sequel, would anyone really be interested? None of the cast has signed on, and this could end up in a company drawer somewhere for a few years. Let's just hope it doesn't become a straight-to-DVD movie involving the grandchildren of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones' characters. Ha!

Quickie: Will Smith And Charlize Theron are confirmed for Hancock 2

Last week it was confirmed that Hancock 2 was a reality. This week, MTV is reporting that both Will Smith and Charlize Theron are in for the sequel. Director Peter Berg, and co-star Jason Bateman will also be back. Plot details are sketchy at best, but a third "super human" is in the works. To be honest, I enjoyed the first one and look forward to the sequel. Hopefully more time is put into the writing, but that's my wish for every sequel/prequel/remake/reboot!

Quickie: Bad Boy 3

The Hollywood Reporter announced that a third Bad Boys film is in the works, and a writer has been hired. Peter Craig has been hired to write the script. There's no promise that Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, Will Smith OR Martin Lawrence will be involved at this point. And remember my review of Revenge Of The Suck? Here's the quote:

The movie will win one award this season... Michael Bay's worst movie ever. Previous winner: Bad Boys 2.

YEAH I SAID IT! Bad Boys 2 was bloody awful!

So would you even want to see a Michael Bay 'Bad Boys'? Let us know what you think in our comments.

Quickie: Earth vs. Moon?

Screenwriters/producers Paul Wenick and Rhett Reese have a new project they're working on called "Earth vs. Moon." FirstShowing is reporting that Wenick and Reese got the concept from Stephen Hawking’s TED speech that talks about the "necessity to colonize other worlds and set up a backup society which could avoid the natural biological and human created dangers of Earth." Hmmm... that sounds really cool.

The duo actually wanted to make a video game at first, but when they pitched it as a movie to Universal, Universal dug it. Wernick describes the movie as being a “hardcore, 300-style movie with some comic relief to it, but about the Earth and a colony on the moon essentially in a civil war.” The story is set in the future. The scale will apparently be so large, that “it’s either going to be made at a grand scale for $200 million or not at all.” Even though it will be on such a massive scale, they say it will center around a single family to show the emotion that would be involved in such an ordeal.

The team is hoping to get Will Smith to star. Sounds like another awesome summer blockbuster for the Fresh Prince!

Quickie: Hancock 2 coming soon?

joblo.com is reporting that Hancock 2 may be fast approaching us. The director Peter Berg was recently quoted as saying this:

[The studio would] like to fast-track it, but Will's busy, I'm pretty busy… We're excited to do one, but we want the script to be right and the movie to be right. We don't feel a burning imperative to go right back into it.

So what can we expect? A Summer of 2011 Hancock 2? Is everyone really ready for a sequel to the average original? To be honest with you, I enjoyed the first movie. Matt didn't like it at all, but we always Agree to Disagree ;-).

All the things people hated about it were true, but I didn't care. Yes the movie took itself too serious, yes the dialogue was crap, and yes there wasn't enough action. But it was still entertaining. Would Jason Bateman and Charlize Theron be ok with a sequel? Will Smith is the king of Fourth of July releases; so a July 1st, 2011 lands on a Friday, what's up now!? We'll have to wait and see.