Christopher Heyerdahl Takes New Moon Role

Genre favorite Christopher Heyerdahl (Sanctuary, Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, Smallville) has scored what most actors would say is a role to envy and (pardon the pun) die for. He is taking on the role of Marcus the vampire in the upcoming The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Marcus is part of the Volturi Coven out of Volterra, Italy that Michael Sheen and Dakota Fanning are members of. Heyerdahl spoke in depth to Sci Fi Wire about the role:

"This guy, poor old Marcus, is a 3,000-odd-years-old vampire who has spent at least the last 2,000 of it with a broken heart...He's one of the oldest vampires on the planet, and who doesn't want to play a 3,000-year-old vampire?...Here's how I approach him. When Marcus is brought in, he's there against his will. He and his love tried to leave an awfully long time ago. Through a series of tragic circumstances, the love of his life was killed, and he's now being forced to stay and use his powers for the betterment of the Volturi. He's not exactly there, waking up and looking forward to eternity. When Edward and Bella come walking in, his ability to sense the power of their connection is something that wakes him up, brings him back from the boredom of that eternal life and sparks something in him that brings Marcus as close to excitement as he can get. That idea has to be contained and expressed as little as possible to his rather power-hungry captain-in-arms, Aro, which makes for a rather interesting conflict. You might not know it, but Marcus is pretty darn excited by this love that he witnesses. At the same time, it causes him great pain with the memory of what he had and lost. It was very complex to play, especially when you are doing it with so few lines. It will be interesting to see how it is cut together."

Heyerdahl is signed on to reprise the role in the fourth screen adaptation, Breaking Dawn, since the character of Marcus plays quite a big part in that one as well. You can check out more of the interview here.

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More G.I. Joe Pics Up

Paramount has rolled out some more pics from the upcoming G.I. Joe - The Rise of Cobra movie. We posted a couple of them up above and you can go to Latino Review to see the other ones.

From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is directed by Stephen Sommers and stars Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Ray Park, Marlon Wayans, and Rachel Nichols.

The film hits theaters on August 7th.

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APOTAC Presents Comic, Toy, And Collectibles Swap Meet - July 25th And 26th

A Piece of the Action is pleased to announce their very first ever TWO DAY event! The next Comic, Toy, & Collectibles Swap Meet will be held over the weekend of July 25-26, 2009. And they have a brand new home this outing - the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Additson, TX! If you have attended All-Con or FenCon in the last couple of years then you know the Crowne Plaza. They are very excited to host their first hotel show!

They are in the process of arranging events and guests for the show weekend. For now they want to let everyone know that friend of APOTAC and the Swap Meet's very own resident super-hero PurrKayla will be joining them all weekend! Our favorite local hero has offered to provide some really great programming for us which will be officially announced in the next few days. PurrKayla tried out for Who Wants to Be a Super-Hero and has been a local convention presence ever since. Earlier this year she took the top prize in All-Con's "Super-Hero Sunday" so be sure to congratulate her when you see her in the halls at the Swap Meet! We are honored to have her back with us again!

Dealer tables are still available for this event. Please write to apotac@yahoo.com if you are interested. We have a great table price for a two-day show so table space is filling up very quickly. Don't miss out! Check out their website here.

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Ryan Reynolds IS Green Lantern!

It's official! Ryan Reynolds is Green Lantern in the upcoming much-anticipated film adaptation of the DC Super Hero. Negotiations started Friday between Reynolds and his agents and the studio. He beat out Bradley Cooper, Justin Timberlake, and Jared Leto for the part. Reynolds is already a very high-profile actor in the comic book movie world, having just been seen as Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and starring in Blade: Trinity as Hannibal King. It looks like he's going to continue to be busy in the world of comic book adaptations, as he is not only tackling the title role of Green Lantern, but is set to play Deadpool again in his own spin-off that is being developed. This guy must love comics, as he was attached to a Flash movie in the past as well.

I love Ryan Reynolds and think he'll do a great job. I just kind of wish they would have given one of the other actors a chance to get in on the super hero game. I might be standing on my own here, but I was kind of hoping for Bradley Cooper. I've seen him in a few movies and he seems to have an acting and emotional range that has yet to be fully realized. Obviously, Justin Timberlake as Green Lantern would have been laughed at and pretty much ruin any chance of the film being taken seriously. Jared Leto would have been a good choice. He could have done an interesting job and wouldn't hold the kind of expectations and career baggage that the other three have to deal with.

As described by ComingSoon.net, "The Green Lantern was created in 1940 by writer Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell. Introduced in 1959, Hal Jordan is a second-generation test pilot, an ordinary man who was given the power ring and battery (lantern) by a dying alien named Abin Sur. When Abin Sur's spaceship crashed on Earth, the alien used his ring to seek out an individual to take his place as Green Lantern: someone who was 'utterly honest and born without fear.'"

Green Lantern is being directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, GoldenEye, the Zorro movies) from a screenplay by Greg Berlanti (Eli Stone, Everwood, Dawson's Creek), Michael Green (Kings, Heroes, Smallville), and Marc Guggenheim (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Eli Stone, Law & Order).

The movie is set to swoop into theaters on June 17, 2011.

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DVD Straightjacket - Transmorphers: The Fall Of Man

Synopsis:
In this present day prequel, the robot invaders attack the Earth, forcing a small band of humans to seek refuge below the surface of the planet.

Special Features:
The Making of Transmorphers: Fall Of Man, Bloopers, Deleted Scenes

Review:
I wish I could say that a new movie by Asylum is always a pleasant surprise, but they're really not. Pretty much you know a new movie from Asylum is coming out any time a blockbuster science fiction film hits the theaters. How do I know this? Well, just look at the track record. Transformers hits the theater and shortly thereafter comes Transmorphers. Terminator Salvation comes out and the very next Tuesday we get the direct to DVD gem The Terminators. Now, once again, the very next Tuesday after Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen blasts into theaters, we are blessed with Transmorphers: The Fall of Man.

As is par for the course, a couple of bigger name actors are tossed in among no name or lesser know ones. Of course, they are well-known in their genres. First, we have Bruce Boxleitner, who everybody knows from Babylon 5, TRON, etc. and Jennifer Rubin (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Wasp Woman, Screamers). Then thrown in Shane Van Dyke, who is the grandson of Dick Van Dyke and son of Barry Van Dyke (Galactica 80, Airwolf, The Canterville Ghost). Let him write the script, since he's already written other Asylum movies like The Day the Earth Stopped and Street Racer, and be the hero and you've got a winning straight-to-DVD combination. Believe it or not, they all take their roles pretty seriously and come off as actually caring about their acting. Of course, as is usual with these movies, the big star gets killed half-way through the film (or after a couple of days work) so the production company can have the actor's name attached to the film but still cut costs of having them in the entire project.

As far as story goes, what can be said? It's about humans fighting giant robots that are trying to take over the world. The robots morph from everything that you would expect them to - cars, trucks, satellite dishes, cell phones, etc. It's kind of a mix of Transformers and The Terminator, so Asylum has one movie with two bankable and proven franchises to feed off of. As a matter of fact, I'm almost possible the end of this film had to have been shot after Terminator Salvation hit theaters, as this has a carbon copy of the ending of that movie. I mean, to the tee.

I was actually pretty impressed with the special effects. They looked pretty decent. The morphing scenes were pretty convincing. They even had more than one robot in a scene, which is pretty unusual for this kind of straight-to-DVD movie. Usually, they use the same robot or cyborg for every scene and only show one at a time from what I've seen. They didn't even seem to reuse footage over and over by just switching it out backwards.

Overall, this was a pretty cool little time-waster. You wouldn't feel like you had been cheated out of a portion of your life or slowly had the life drained out of you while watching this. It of course had the funny bad acting, some rather goofy continuity, and the token sex scene that really didn't need to be there. I would say that if all the copies of Transformers are rented out at Blockbuster and you absolutely HAVE to have a giant robot fix, this would be a fun time and at least act as a diet supplement until you can get the real thing. (Review by Eric Shirey)


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