— “That terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.” Truer words have never been said, with the reports that current rights holders Halycon, who went bankrupt a few months back, are set to auction the rights to the Terminator franchise. Several studios are said to be circling, as well as independents like Summit and Media Rights Capital. We’d hoped that the mind-bogglingly bad “Terminator: Salvation” had killed the franchise for the time being, but like its central adversary, it appears that it’ll keep going for a while. At least the likelihood of McG returning seems slim with this news.
In related “Terminator” news, that infamous, “tasteful,” Moon Bloodgood topless scene leaked on Friday and fanboys copiously drooled (posted “tasteful” and “classy” photos of Bloodgood alongside their stories) and yet complained at the lack of full-on frontal boobage. In the clip Bloodgood’s character is covering herself as the robot Sam Worthington moves on — we mean the robot actor, not the character — looks on; way to go McG, that’s some high art you got going on there. That gratuitous and largely asinine scene is below.
— The Planet Hollywood reunion is complete! Sylvester Stallone talked to Entertainment Weekly, and revealed that they’ve completed the cameo appearances of Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger in “The Expendables.” Willis will play the employer of Stallone’s group, and Schwarzenegger, who was able to take a day out of bankrupting the eighth large economy in the world to film the scene, will play a rival mercenary. The scene will apparently take up as much as five minutes of screentime, which sounds very self-indulgent, even if a tiny part of us is guiltily looking forward to seeing it…
— Apparently, someone out there liked Frank Miller’s “The Spirit” enough to decide to hire another woefully immature comic book writer to direct a movie. Permanent adolescent Mark Millar, flush from the success of “Wanted,” and the equally idiotic-looking “Kick-Ass,” has announced on his forums that he’s going to be directing his own superhero movie. Principal photography will start in March next year, and, like “Kick-Ass,” it’ll be independently financed, and sold to a studio once completed. Details are secret for the moment, but it’s almost certain that it will read like it’s been written by a disturbed, misogynistic 13-year-old boy that geek sites will adore.
— Peter Segal, the not-particularly-talented director of “Get Smart” had a busy weekend — not only has he attached himself to the untitled Morgan Freeman sex comedy (words we never, ever thought we’d type), but he’s also rumored to be replacing Robert Rodriguez as the director of the long-in-development movie adaptation of “The Jetsons.”
Pajiba is reporting that Rodriguez, whose busy slate includes “Predators” and “Machete,” has dropped out, after the previous draft of the script was unable to land stars (particularly Jim Carrey, who was wanted to play George Jetson), and that Segal is now lined up to take over. That sound you hear? It’s millions of people failing to sum up the energy to care about a “Jetsons” movie. We have no intel whether this is report is correct or not, but considering how long it’s taken “Jetsons” to get to the screen, anything is possible and Rodriguez did part with “Red Sonja” this year, another project that had been gestating for perhaps far too long, so perhaps the producers were restless.