Director's Cut
Last uploaded: Monday, December 15, 1997.

Casts for "Batman 5" and "X-Men" held in secret NOW REVEALED!

You interested? At the Sleep Depreivation Institute's special Dreamcasts Department, trained technicians have been methodically scanning the sleeping minds of thousands of you. Their mission is a simple one, but ultimately sinister in its planning: to insert images of the next Batman or New York Times bestseller into your mind and see how you cast the film, then report their findings to high studio execs who then determine if they approve. All this information has been previously-hidden in a database archieve sectioned off from the Web -- but thanks to a longtime Coming Attractions scoop correspondent who's switched sides, the files are slowly becoming avaliable to you. This exclusive link into the mirrored archieve files of the SDI will get you there, but it remains to be seen if their covert activities will stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting the producers of Superman Lives to re-cast the film. But still -- any chance is better than no chance.

Go ahead. See the film from your mind made into reality. And then hope one day you can own the videocassette.

Details about "Star Trek 9" revealed!

Thanks to three scoopers who were attuned to a Microsoft Star Trek Continuum broadcast with Trek 9 scribe Michael Piller this past weekend, we've learned more about the new film's details than ever before. Details can be found on CA's Star Trek 9 page along with a link to the complete Piller interview.

The cover of secrecy is unveiled on DreamWorks' "Small Soldiers"

Even though I haven't had the time to make a page for it, that hasn't stopped Joe Dante from moving his new picture Small Soldiers fast over at DreamWorks (drat; I was hoping it'd slow Joe down a tad.) Scheduled for release next summer, it's about two kids who's toys declare war on each other: one side is the 'good', battle-loving toy soldiers (think G.I. Joe meets the lil' green plastic guys from Toy Story) versus the 'evil' monster toys (called 'Gorgonites'.) Basically, the good guys are about as big as the 70's Mego G.I. Joes. On the other hand, the Gorgonites come in a variety of colorful shapes and sizes. Expect to see 'em everywhere come next summer, and probably next Christmas too: Hasbro, the creators of the oiriginal Joe, has signed a deal to create same-size replicas of the good guys and the bad guys, while Burger King will do the restaraunt tie-in.

Our scooper Brent Lynch has seen the early ILM test footage for the toys and came back with this report. "The ILM CGI test footage consisted primarily of following the leader of the commandos as he made his way across a filled live action class room (i.e.at one point he bends backwards and two wheels come out of his back which he uses to scoot across the room with). While the CGI sequence was early, clearly the small soldiers themselves are meant to look like they could be plucked off the screen and put into a toy store. Other bits of the making of footage showed the designs for all of the other soldiers and the Gorgonites and an amusing face-off between the leader of the soldiers and the leader of the Gorgonites.

Also, one of the main characters is a teen computer nerd who somehow is at least partly responsible for the chaos that ensues."

More to come as I try to find time to draft a page for this film sometime this week...*and* Christmas shop.

"Silver Surfer" delayed again... TwenCen's big-budget film adaptation of Marvel's cosmic superhero The Silver Surfer may have fallen down again. Aussie director Jeffrey Wright was attached to the picture but CA was told he's left the project. Would someone tell me why the hell it seems Marvel properties are cursed to never reach the silver screen?? With Surfer out of the picture, the difficulties getting Fantastic Four off the ground (even though it's got a kick-ass script by Michael France begging to be done), and delays with Universal's Hulk, it seems the hopes of many Marvel fans now lie with Bryan Singer's X-Men film...

To be filed under the "Unofficial confirmation" section... It wouldn't actually take you anywhere yet, but the website www.alien5.com is there, proving that sometimes we do have too much time on our hands.

More "Lord of the Rings" innuendo, but we all love it, don't we?... We're in the process of putting up some new Peter Jackson information about his Lord of the Rings but wanted to get this piece out there ASAP. While inquiring about renting some chainmail armour this past weekend down in N.Z., the armourer told scooper David Simcock that he recently received a request from Jackson's studios...for 100 full suits of chainmail armor. The armourer supplies various theatrical societies throughout New Zealand, so this would likely be the fellow he'd come to to design some neato Middle Earth outfits...

"Battlefield Earth" up n' runnin'... Battlefield Earth will getcha to the latest addition to CA's already-immense pantheon of film pages. Stuck in development hell for nearly twenty years, this page will get you all the lowdown on the rumored film adapataion of sci-fi novelist (and Scientology creator!) L. Ron Hubbard's mammoth tome of alien aggressors. But will it speed up the film? Er...yeah. Sure.

Patrick Sauriol
Creator, Chief Content Writer & Director
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Wishing he had a lot more days left to finish up his Christmas shopping...


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