December 14, 2011
Total Recall: Best Joel Silver Productions
This weekend, Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law return to theaters in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, reuniting the duo that sleuthed up more than $520 million in worldwide box office receipts during their 2009 debut. But it isn't just Robert and Jude who deserve credit for all this blockbuster detecting -- there's a whole team behind Hollywood's latest incarnation of Holmes and Watson, including director Guy Ritchie and screenwriters Kieran and Michele Mulroney (not to mention the characters' creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). But today, we're here to pay tribute to someone else: Joel Silver, a co-producer on the Holmes franchise and someone whose instinct for developing major movie hits has made him one of the industry's most sought-after talents for the last 30 years. You know his name, you've seen it on the credits of countless films, and now it's time to take a look at some of the most critically successful of the bunch. It's time for Total Recall!
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June 2, 2010
Joel Silver Discusses Veronica Mars
Wondering why there won't be a "Veronica Mars" movie at Warner Bros.? Producer Joel Silver says it's because not enough of the show's fans bought the season sets on DVD.
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December 10, 2009
Robert Downey Jr. talks Sherlock Holmes & Iron Man 2 - RT Interview
Robert Downey Jr. can't quite remember why he was on the phone to Guy Ritchie the first time Sherlock Holmes was mentioned, but it was to give him some advice about the trailer for his comic thriller RocknRolla, not to bid for the lead in his $80m Victorian detective caper. But Downey does remember that when the conversation finally swung round that way, Ritchie told him he'd be too old for it anyway.
Nevertheless, within weeks of that chat, a press conference was held in the Freemasons Hall in central London, announcing the news that Downey had signed to play the eccentric sleuth. Just over 12 months later, the film is imminent, and what at first looked like stunt casting now appears to be a stroke of crazy genius. Once a cadaverous codger with a deerstalker hat and fogey pipe, Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous literary creation gets a jolt of adrenaline with Downey's firecracker performance, cutting a psychedelic swathe through the fog of Old London Town.
He talks exclusively to Rotten Tomatoes about the challenge of playing the most brilliant man there never was...
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August 31, 2009
Joel Silver Prepping 3-D Swamp Thing
The next "Superman" movie may take awhile to reach screens, but producer Joel Silver is keeping busy with another DC property: "Swamp Thing," which he'd like to film in 3-D.
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July 20, 2009
Joel Silver Discusses Upcoming Projects
As one of Hollywood's busiest producers, Joel Silver always has something going on -- and when Collider caught up with him for a recent interview, that list of somethings included "Greyskull," "Sgt. Rock," and a new "Dirty Dozen."
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May 12, 2009
Joel Silver Saw What You Did
Joel Silver is using is Dark Castle banner to produce a remake of 1965's "I Saw What You Did and I Know Who You Are!" Patrick Lussier has been hired to direct from a script he'll co-write with "Jason X" writer Todd Farmer.
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October 31, 2008
Straczynski Heads to Forbidden Planet
"Changeling" writer (and "Babylon 5" creator) J. Michael Straczynski has been hired to write the screenplay for the Joel Silver-produced "Forbidden Planet" update in the works at Warner Bros.
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September 25, 2008
Lethal Weapon 5 Awaits Mel's Approval
Not to worry, "Lethal Weapon" fans -- Shane Black's involvement with Universal's "Cold Warrior" doesn't mean that a fifth installment in the "Weapon" saga is on ice. According to Entertainment Weekly, the next sequel is still in the works -- everyone's just waiting for Mel Gibson to give it the thumbs up.
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April 18, 2008
Joel Silver: Justice League Disbanded
I'm in Long Beach at the Speed Racer junket and I briefly cornered producer Joel Silver to ask him how the Justice League movie would affect Wonder Woman. The answer: it won't. According to Silver, who would be in the know, Justice League has been 'tabled.'
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November 8, 2007
Joel Silver Explains Speed Racer Technology
Joel Silver is sort of the unofficial spokesman for the Wachowski Brothers. Silver ushered the visionaries into Hollywood and explains their process whenever he can. With Speed Racer wrapping principal photography and onto the visual effects stage, Silver previewed the next new vision from the Matrix boys.
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November 7, 2007
Joel Silver Hopes JLA Might Save Wonder Woman
Of all the comic books not to be made into movies yet, Wonder Woman may be the most frustrating to fans. But with Wonder Woman poised to be part of the Justice League of America movie, that could give Joel Silver a way back into a WW solo project.
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August 21, 2007
Logan's Back on the Run With Warner Bros.
Action producer extraordinaire Joel Silver is back on the remake trail with Logan's Run, which he'll be developing for Warner Bros. In fact, they've already got a director, a writer, and a general concept for the flick.
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April 22, 2007
"Whiteout" Will Be Another Faithful Graphic Novel Adaptation
Greg Rucka's graphic novel "Whiteout," about a female US Marshal investigating the first murder in Antarctica, is the next Hollywood adaptation coming to the big screen. Screenwriter Christine Roum, currently working on day to day script polishes, assured Rucka's fans that the film's director has total reverence for the material.
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March 27, 2007
Silver Still Struggles with "Wonder Woman"
With the departure of female empowerment guru Joss Whedon from the "Wonder Woman" film, producer Joel Silver is at a loss for how to bring the amazon heroine to the big screen. But he hasn't given up.
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March 22, 2007
Looks Like WB Found Their "Speed Racer"
The project's been chatted about for a while now, but it looks like the brothers Warner and the brother Wachowski have settled on a lead for their "Speed Racer" adaptation, and it might be none other than Emile Hirsch.
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March 12, 2007
Warner Bros. Moves "Speed Racer" Up, Away From "Indy 4"
Release-date brinksmanship is a time-honored tradition in the movie biz, particularly when it comes to the summer blockbusters, and Warner Bros. is getting an early head start on next summer's schedule: Variety reports that "Speed Racer" will hit American theaters on May 9, 2008, two weeks earlier than originally planned.
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March 5, 2007
WonderCon: "Wonder Woman," "Speed Racer," "White Out" Details
While in San Francisco to promote "The Reaping," uber producer Joel Silver revealed details about a couple movies he has in development during the panel. The one furthest along is a thriller called "White Out" starring Kate Beckinsale as Carrie Stetko, a marshal investigating a murder in Antarctica. Silver said "White Out" will be the "coldest thriller of all time."
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November 3, 2006
"Matrix" Makers to Helm "Speed Racer" Flick
The Wachowski Brothers have been attached to a big-screen version of "Speed Racer" for quite some time, and now it finally looks like the project is moving forward. And the brothers will apparently direct, not produce, the flick. Cool.
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July 11, 2006
The Comic-Con is Coming!
I attend several film festivals each year, but there's always one movie-centric event that I'd really love to attend: The San Diego Comic-Con. Movie geek heaven is what I like to call it. Read on to find out why...
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July 10, 2006
Vince Vaughn Still On Board the "Speed Racer" Flick
Recent word from IGN FilmForce indicates that the Wachowski Brothers are still attached to the big-screen rendition of the classic animation series "Speed Racer." Also rather interesting is the news that everyone's favorite lanky funnyman, Vince Vaughn, may still be attached to the project.
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June 5, 2006
Here He Comes? Here Comes "Speed Racer"?
IGN FilmForce may have received a bunch of denials when asking WB and Vince Vaughn's people if a "Speed Racer" movie was on its way, but the FF guys are pretty confident that their newest scoop has some truth to it: "Speed Racer: The Movie" could indeed be on its way, and it very well could be directed by ... The Wachowski Brothers!
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May 16, 2006
Singer May Bolt From "Logan's Run"
"X-Men" and "Superman Returns" director Bryan Singer might have to make some tough decisions over the summer. He's got producer Joel Silver all excited about their "Logan's Run" remake, but Mr. Singer's also contracted to deliver a "Super" sequel, which WB might want to fast-track in this summer goes swell for the Caped One.
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April 19, 2006
"Sgt. Rock" Nabs a Screenwriter
The Hollywood Reporter indicates that WB has hired screenwriter John Cox to pen their big-screen version of "Sgt. Rock," a long-gestating project based on a classic comic book series.
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August 2, 2005
Kidman Earns a Hefty Payday for WB's "Invasion"
Nicole Kidman will earn about $16 million to star in WB's new science fiction thriller "Invasion," says Variety. Originally planned as (yet) another remake of Jack Finney's classic "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," the WB project will now go into production as an "original screenplay" and under the directorial reins of Oliver Hirschbiegel ("Das Experiment").
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July 18, 2005
Comic-Con 2005: "V for Vendetta," "Harry Potter," "Futurama" and "Superman Returns"
Lots of movie news coming out of Comic-Con 2005 and IGN FilmForce is there to bring it all back for those of us who couldn't attend.
First off, the trailer for "V for Vendetta" made its premiere this past Friday with Natalie Portman and producer Joel Silver on hand for a Q&A session afterward. According to FilmForce's Chris Carle, the trailer is "[f]illed with action" and appears to "stay true to the style and design of the graphic novel."
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February 23, 2005
Basinger as Wonder Woman?
Citing Ananova and the New York Post, Dark Horizons reports that Kim Basinger is in the running for the lead in a big screen version of Wonder Woman, if the producers decide to make the character older. If the filmmakers go for a younger actress, Jessica Biel of "Blade: Trinity" is the favorite.
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