Since "Prometheus" is doing a pretty good job at the box-office and has sparked an enormous amount of on/off-line discussions and debates, it's fair to assume that the filmmakers would begin preparations for a sequel. Not only that, but both director Ridley Scott and writer Damon Lindelof have been buzzing the idea of a sequel in several interviews already. A sequel is all the more probable since the idea for "Prometheus" was to initially make it a two-part prequel to "Alien" and as many fans might tell you, there are still a ton of unanswered questions left hanging. Lindelof himself mentioned that he and Scott had to be very careful about what would be included in "Prometheus" and what would be left aside for a future sequel while reinforcing the idea that the current movie acts as both a prequel of sorts and a stand-alone story.
Ridley Scott pushed the sequel envelope even further in an interview by stating that : "From the very beginning, I was working from a premise that lent itself to a sequel. I really don’t want to meet God in the first one. I want to leave it open to [Noomi Rapace’s character, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw] saying, 'I don’t want to go back to where I came from. I want to go where they came from.' Because [the Engineers] are such aggressive fuckers … and who wouldn’t describe them that way, considering their brilliance in making dreadful devices and weapons that would make our chemical warfare look ridiculous? So I always had it in there that the God-like creature that you will see actually is not so nice, and is certainly not God. As she says, “This is not what I thought it was going to be, and I think we should get the Hell out of here or there won’t be any place to go back to. That’s not necessarily planted in the ground at the tail end of the third act, but I knew that’s kind of where we should go, because if we’ve opened up this door — which I hope we have because I certainly would like to do another one – I’d love to explore where the hell [Dr. Shaw] goes next and what does she do when she gets there, because if it is paradise, paradise can not be what you think it is. Paradise has a connotation of being extremely sinister and ominous.” 
Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin joins Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street". The movie is based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, a Wall Street stockbroker who served a 22-month sentence in federal prison for security fraud and money laundering. Belfort is played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Dujardin will star as villain Jean-Jacques Handali, a suave Swiss banker involved in laundering illicit funds for Belfort’s firm. - The Michael Bay produced reboot of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" franchise has been put on hold indefinitely. The reboot received a lot of negative feedback from fans after Bay declared that the Turtles would be part of an alien race in the upcoming movie. Whatever Bay meant by that, we won't find out too soon. The reboot would have been directed by Jonathan Liebesman ("Battle: Los Angeles", "Wrath of the Titans") and penned by "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" writers Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, with the involvement of original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" co-creator Kevin Eastman.
Zombie apocalypse novel adaptation "World War Z" is also not looking very good. The movie, based on Max Brooks' book, directed by Marc Forster ("Machine Gun Preacher", "Quantum of Solace") and starring Brad Pitt and Matthew Fox, has had quite a troubled production. The problems began when Paramount Pictures had difficulties in securing additional financing for a budget that was projected to hover around a $125 million price tag. When Graham King and David Ellison came in with their respective studios, GK Films and Skydance Productions, to support the budget, hopes were restored and filming began. The project looked cool, as evident in this on-set video of a zombie attack, but now reports from various sources are speaking of a filming delay of 7 to 8 weeks, an out of control budget of over $170 million and severe rewrites from "Prometheus" scribe Damon Lindelof. The blame game is in full effect here, with many fingers pointing in various directions, but most seem to accuse Marc Forster of lacking a directorial vision for the movie, which eventually led to the above-mentioned fallout. Another indication of trouble is that Paramount moved up the movie's release date from December 21, 2012 to June 21, 2013. It's not uncommon for filmmakers to encounter difficulties while filming, but some of those movies don't actually turn out very well in the end. Time will tell. RELATED POSTS :
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