Even though we're exceptionally nervous
A Total Recall remake from the director of Underworld and Live Free Or …
Nobody thinks a Total Recall remake is a good idea, but it's still happening. And now it's been announced that Underworld director Len Wiseman is in final talks to direct, from a script by Equilibrium/Ultraviolet director Kurt Wimmer. This will be a new "contemporized" adaptation. The press release quotes Wiseman:
Salt makes paranoid dystopia hot again
Kurt Wimmer is best known as the writer-director of two paranoid dystopian films, Equilibrium and Ultraviolet. But as writer of Angelina Jolie's new film Salt, out today, he brings the same paranoid sensibility to the here and now. Spoilers ahead!
Ultraviolet Goes Noir In Anime Remake
Can an animated reboot make sense of Kurt Wimmer's Ultraviolet, two years later? Wimmer's visually stunning vampire-plague movie, set in a future dystopia where everything is always color-coordinated, became a confusing mess at least partly due to studio interference. And now acclaimed anime director Osamu Dezaki (Aim…
Batman + Guns / Karate = Gun Kata
Christian Bale is a master of gun-fu in 2002's Equilibrium. He practices the obscure art of Gun Kata — something apparently invented for this movie — which is sort of like karate crossed with a gunfight from an early Clint Eastwood flick. In this clip, Bale takes down a whole squad of cops who are trying to come…
The Lab Where the Cyber-Vampire Plague Started
Ultraviolet was a fantastic-looking, future-plague movie . . . that felt like the longest 87 minutes of our lives. Luckily, you can appreciate the film's gorgeous look without letting the nonsensical plot distract you. Check out this concept art for the "blood reservoir," a machine that's part of a government conspiracy …
