All I Need Is Kill, 300: Rise of an Empire and Popeye

Warner Bros. pushed the release date for Doug Liman’s (The Bourne Trilogy and Jumper) manga adaptation of All I Need Is Kill, starring Emily Blunt, Tom Cruise and Bill Paxton.

Doug Liman as announced a sequel to Jumper, Jumper 2. Not much is yet known about the project.

All I Need Is Kill Official Synopsis:

“The story unfolds in a near future in which a hive-like alien race, called Mimics, have hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, shredding great cities to rubble and leaving millions of human casualties in their wake. No army in the world can match the speed, brutality or seeming prescience of the weaponized Mimic fighters or their telepathic commanders. But now the world’s armies have joined forces for a last stand offensive against the alien horde, with no second chances. Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and then dropped—untrained and ill-equipped—into what amounts to little more

than a suicide mission. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an Alpha down with him. But, impossibly, he awakens back at the beginning of the same hellish day, and is forced to fight and die again…and again. Direct physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop—dooming him to live out the same brutal combat over and over. But with each pass, Cage becomes tougher, smarter, and able to engage the Mimics with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt), who has lain waste to more Mimics than anyone on Earth. As Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated battle becomes an opportunity to find the key to annihilating the alien invaders and saving the Earth.”

While All I Need Is Kill got its release date moved forward, 300: Rise of an Empire got its place and is schedule to hit theaters on March 7^th of 2014. Starring in 300: Rise of an Empire is Sullivan Stapleton, Rodrigo Santoro, Eva Green and Lena Headley. The film is directed by Noam Murro who had this to say:

“The few against the many is still here. It’s hundreds vs. hundreds of thousands. It’s about taking on the mightiest power of all with wisdom and tactics. … Themistokles is battle-scarred and a warrior, but at the same time he’s a politician. He’s not the king. He has to rule in a democracy. It’s a different complexity of character. These people don’t want to fight, they even say that they are not Spartans,” says Murro. “They are common people who have to do this to not be in under the rule of a dictator. This is not a duplicate movie or a cookie-cutter. It’s a very different story to tell in keeping with the original flavor of 300.”

Avi and Ari Arad are going to produce in conjunction with Sony Pictures Animation, Popeye. The script was written by Jay Scherick and David Ronn from The Smurfs.

Does anyone even remember Popeye?

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