Sequel Bits: ‘22 Jump Street’, ‘Sin City 2’, ‘Transformers 4’, ‘Dolphin Tale 2’
Lots of things to see in this edition of Sequel Bits. After the jump:
The Attack on Chicago figures into the new film, somewhat. The incident has turned humanity against the Transformers, which hurts Optimus Prime’s feelings. But don’t feel too bad for him, because he gets to ride a Dinobot at some point. Anyway, for more info visitTransformersAreDangerous.com. [viaLatino Review]
If viral video ads aren’t your style, there’s also a more traditionalTransformers: Age of Extinctiondue out in the near future. The Alberta Film Ratings Board has given the new spot a PG rating and listed its running time as 1:39. [Transformers Live Action Movie Blog]
What that new trailer will reveal remains to be seen, but we can definitely count on seeing lots and lots of fancy cars. According toMichael Bay, he had his pick of vehicles forTransformers: Age of Extinction. “The first time, I had to beg for vehicles,” he recalled." But now — I am not kidding you — every car company says, ‘We will fly out any car to show you so it can be in the movie.'"
That is, Bay adds, “As long as it’s one of the good guys.” Or at least one of the not-bad guys, like Lockdown, who turns into a Lamborghini Aventador: “He’s just a bounty hunter, so they were okay with that.” Also seen in the movie will be a 2014 Freightliner Argosy (the alternate form of one of the villains), a Western Star truck (Optimus Prime), and a 2014 custom-made Camaro (Bumblebee).
Transformers: Age of ExtinctionopensJune 27. [EW]
Sony has released yet another clip from22 Jump Street, in which the McQuaid “brothers” (Jonah HillandChanning Tatum) encounter another pair of siblings (Keith LucasandKenny Lucas) in their new dorm.
There’s also a new featurette, which is mostly about how great directorsPhil LordandChris Millerare. Not that we needed convincing.
22 Jump StreetpremieresJune 13. [viaThe Playlist]
Speaking of mismatched duos, there’s a new trailer out forThe Trip to Italy, a sequel to 2010’sThe Trip. Once again,Steve CooganandRob Brydongo on a culinary journey while driving each other nuts.Michael Winterbottomreturns as director.
The Trip to ItalyopensAugust 15in the U.S. [IFC Films]
The Trailer Park Boys are at it again. Screen Media has picked up the U.S. rights toTrailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It, a sequel to 2006’sTrailer Park Boys: The Movieand 2009’sTrailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day.
Based on the Canadian mockumentary series, which is currently prepping its ninth season, the new movie will follow the residents of the Sunnyvale Trailer Park as they try out get-rich-quick schemes.Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize Itwill hit VOD and theaters onSeptember 5in the U.S. [Deadline]
Robert Rodriguezblames “a lot of circumstance” for the lengthy wait betweenSin CityandSin City: A Dame to Kill For. “We wanted to go right into it in 2007. We were going to make it right away,” he explains. “But it really wasn’t til everything aligned this time that we were able to do it. Suddenly, all the casting we ever could have wanted was available.”
That said, he now believes the delay may have been a good thing. “It really was the perfect timing to wait that long and to shoot in native 3D and to bring some different tricks to the table.”
As for what the new movie is about, starJoseph Gordon-Levitthas some thoughts.
[Sin City is] aptly titled. It’s sort of a story about the worst in us as humans. The character I play is a guy that has a lot of admirable qualities but is just being dragged down by that desire for revenge, and revenge almost never leads anywhere good.
In fact, Gordon-Levitt points out, “He’s driving right into Sin City, which is nowhere good to be.” [EW]
With a title like Sin City, it’d almost be disappointing if the moviedidn’tattract some controversy. And indeed it has, thanks toEva Green’s cleavage. The MPAA apparently rejected the character poster below “For nudity – curve of under breast and dark nipple/areola circle visible through sheer gown.” Appropriately enough, her one-line character description is “I’ve been especially bad.”
This, of course, is not a bad thing for a movie whose entire appeal is that it revels in the darkest, sexiest, most badass aspects of humanity. Now Dimension Films gets to release the poster on the Internet, with added buzz because it’s been deemed too hot for the public. Well played.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill ForopensAugust 22. [Page Six]
On the very opposite end of the scandalousness spectrum is the new poster forDolphin Tale 2— though if you want to be technical about it, there’s actually way more nudity on display in this ad than there was in theSin Cityone. Just sayin’.
Dolphin Tale 2opensSeptember 19. The film stars Winter (the big dolphin) and Hope (the small one) as themselves, plus some humans includingMorgan Freeman,Ashley Judd, andHarry Connick Jr.[Fandango]
