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Dakota Fanning Cast As Creepy Italian Vampire In New Moon

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:14:14 PST

Good news people who like creepy tween vamps: Dakota Fanning is rumored to be in talks for the role of Jane in Twilight's sequel movie New Moon. This character comes from Italy’s secret society of vampires, the Volturi, who eventually have to deal with our "vampires ate my hair" Edward. Hopefully Ms. Fanning can make everyone step up their acting game in this feature, because she's so serious and what not. [E Online]

It's Heroes — The Movie!

Charlie Jane Anders — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:40:00 PDT

The trailer for Dakota Fanning's superpowered teen rebel movie Push has finally come out... and the storyline looks a lot like your fave mutant angst show, Heroes. Except that it looks action-movie awesome, with tons of superpowered people throwing down and telekinesis-assisted gun battles. And it'll only last a couple of hours, which will probably limit the amount of superpowered incest. Details (and spoilers) below.

So yeah, the story revolves around a group of people who were born with uncanny abilities, like telekinesis, telepathy and the ability to see the future. And there's a secret organization that hunts them and wants to make use of their powers. And someone has painted the future, in which our heroes die. So it's up to them to change the future. So far, so Heroic.

Actually, some of the details are a bit different. Chris Evans' character, Nick Gant, isn't just a mutant — he was genetically altered to be a government assassin. His father is murdered, and he swears revenge against the government agency that created him. Hiding out in Hong Kong, he pulls together a group of "rogue psychics" to take down the secret organization Division. As you see in the trailer, he teams up with Cassie Holmes (Fanning), and besides the missing girl, they're also looking for a suitcase that holds the key to defeating Division. Along the way, they learn about Division's newest project, a drug called R16, which could "shift the tides of psychic warfare."

You can watch the trailer in HD at the link. [Apple trailers]

Psychic Movie Pushes Into Comic Books

Graeme McMillan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:34:14 PDT

Upcoming Dakota Fanning psychic warfare movie Push doesn't have to wait until next year to get the nosebleed action started. DC Comics' November solicitations, released today, reveal that they're publishing a six-part prologue to the movie co-written by Entertainment Weekly's Marc Bernardin. We've got the details and cover to the first issue (by 2000AD and Losers artist Jock) under the jump.

The solicitation reads,

In anticipation of next year’s blockbuster new movie Push, comes this action-packed prequel miniseries! A secret war is about to begin, fought on battlefields obscured in shadow . . . and the weapons in this new conflict will be the human mind! The United States government set up the ultra-secret Division to fight this war and take the forefront in this unique arms race. Enter agent Ezra Lowe, an operative in the Division trained from an early age in psychic warfare, until one mission went horribly wrong...

From writers Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman (THE HIGHWAYMEN, Genius) and newcomer Bruno Redondo comes a brutal tale in the first chapter of a secret war!

The first issue hits stores on November 12th, with the second arriving two weeks later. Although the image accompanying the official soliciation is a generic placeholder, Jock's artwork for the first issue, above, premiered on the Standard Attrition blog.

Push #1 (of 6) [DC Comics]

Yelly Angry Chinese Mobsters Want To Kill Dakota Fanning In Push Pics

Meredith Woerner — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:00:00 PDT

In the new scifi thriller Push, sexy teens with mind powers run through Hong Kong trying to escape equally sexy villains who scream so loud they blow up the tanks and the fish inside with their sonic vibrations (the Heroes mailman is going to be pissed that they stole his thing). The plot follows a group of gifted kids who all have psychic powers, and they're hiding out in Hong Kong from the people who want to experiment on them. You've got Movers, Pushers, Seers, and more, all capable of looking hot while doing fighting or fleeing. Click through for the gallery.

Director Paul McGuigan explained at the Comic-Con Push panel that he was attracted to the project because "it's grounded in the historical backdrop of experimentation in psychic warfare. These individuals have have psychic powers but not super powers. Dakota Fanning's character can see into the future, Chris Evans can move things and Camilla Belle can push memories onto you. What if these government experiments were real? And a lot of them were real in the past."

Judging from these pictures, I'm guessing Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning have to deal with the some sort of Hong Kong mod, where the boss wears his sunglasses inside. I'm all for anything being shot in Hong Kong, as long as it includes Chinese Gangs.

So I guess the gimmick behind naming superpowers in this move is to take a verb and add -er to the end of it. If I had a psychic power I would want to be the Silencer, so I could make all the girls screaming about Twilight silent with my mind powers.