Welcome to Rumor Has It, Player Affinity’s weekly roundup of highly buzzed-about movie rumors circulating throughout Tinseltown. On this week’s docket, we have rumors about a Hocus Pocus sequel and the film adaptation of Miss Saigon.
To defeat a savage, how savage would you become? Would you become the bogeymen to punish those who haunt your dreams? In narcotics thriller Savages, director Oliver Stone presents and then answers those questions in vivid, graphic detail while exploring a facet of love that is far from fairy tale.
With Oliver Stone’s Savages is a tale of drugs, lust and violence that sends two friends over the wrong side of the U.S./Mexico border to reclaim what has been taken from them. So what better way to celebrate its forthcoming debut than to explore the top 10 films set in the land of tequila. Vamonos!
Tom Cruise is back to his action ways as Jack Reacher, who has one shot to find the perpetrator of a five-victim slaying in the teaser trailer for this adaptation of the popular Lee Child novel. Jesse Eisenberg then teams up with Melissa Leo and Tracy Morgan for the road trip dramedy Why Stop Now about an aspiring pianist who must deal with his addict mother and her drug dealer.
The San Diego Comic-Con is just around the corner. Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim will have its own panel, so it’s no surprise that we’ve been treated to a new image from the upcoming sci-fi film that shows Charlie Hunnam and Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi wearing metal suits.
Everyone and their kid brother seems to know, but Marvel Studios will still not give official confirmation that Guardians of the Galaxy will be the final film of Phase II, the series of movies leading up to The Avengers 2.
If negotiations go as planned, Malone, star of Saved! and Donnie Darko, will star alongside Academy Award nominee Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson as “the ax-wielding former Hunger Games winner from District 7.”
