He’s been mooted in the role for a while but what sounds like confirmation that Bruce Willis will star in videogame adaptation Kane and Lynch, has come from an interview with producer Adrian Askarieh at Gamedaily.

Willis will play Adam ‘Kane’ Marcus, who in the game is a convicted murderer being bused to death row, when another inmate, James Seth Lynch, warns him that an escape plan is about to get underway. It turns out that it’s not a rescue but a kidnapping by Kane’s former employers, who want their money back, kickstarting a globetrotting action crime drama, with the twist that our heroes (especially Lynch) are about as sociopathic as the villains.

Askarieh claims that Willis called Kyle Ward’s screenplay (Ward is also penning Hitman 2 for the same producers) “one of the best action scripts he’s ever read”, and boils the basic premise down to “the story of a mercenary teaming up with a schizophrenic psychopath to save his wife and daughter”. Slightly alarmingly, he also calls it “a great buddy action movie”. Just like Lethal Weapon! If Riggs and Murtaugh were on the other side of the law, and Riggs was fond of killing hostages…

Simon Crane (second unit on Tomb Raider and Troy) is directing. Shooting, which is planned (but not confirmed) to take place in South America, Europe and Louisiana, begins next March. Billy Bob Thornton had been rumoured for Lynch at one time or another, but Askarieh now says the role is “about to start casting”. Thoughts?  [Source]

Finally, a performing arts center is about performance. And finally, after years, yes, decades of planning, they were performing in the AT&T Performing Arts Center on Wednesday.For Scene 1, the first of four gala evenings, all Dallas, or as much of it as could squeeze into the 600 sherbet-green armchairs, filed into the Wyly Theatre for the first performance in the venue, slowly winding up the narrow staircase or piling into the elevators that crawl up the east side of the aluminum-pipe exterior. Wednesday’s program will repeat on Friday.Colored lights, artfully aimed, penetrated the lofty, dramatic black-walled space. Then host Bruce Willis introduced the evening’s entertainment – not before calling the innovative building “technically incomprehensible.”

The two architects, former partners Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramos, quite separately visited with groups of fans in the underground lobby as the audience waited to enter all at once. Mayor Tom Leppert, donors and press from all over the world sampled champagne, sushi and guacamole as cameramen jostled for angles.

He also toyed with the audience’s expectations a bit.

“Want to hear me sing?” he leered. “No-o-o way.”  Read the rest of this entry »

I added some new photos of Bruce Willis to the gallery so, you can go there to take a look.

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– October 02nd, 2009

Director Jonathan Mostow likens his new movie to a mirror for people to see which way they are heading

MOVIES based on graphic novels have a niche market and, lately, quite a few have made it to the big screen and become popular. The latest is Surrogates, which is based on the graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett ­Weldele.

The movie is set in the near future where human-like robotic surrogates go out and work and socialise while the real humans control their ­look-alikes from the comfort of their home,
Crime rates have fallen ­drastically for some reason and people even get to decide what their surrogates look like, opting for perfect versions of ­themselves.

All seems hunky-dory until two surrogates are destroyed and, even more shocking, the hosts of these surrogates also end up dead, despite well-placed safety measures.

FBI agent Thomas Greer (Bruce Willis) and his partner, Jennifer Peters (Radha Mitchell), discover a serial killer is on the loose and he possesses a ­powerful weapon that can bypass the surrogates’ safety features.   Read the rest of this entry »

Patrick Kevin Day interviews some of the top talent behind the camera in Hollywood to find out how the achieved the movie magic we all see on the screen. His Scene Stealer feature (along with Liesl Bradner’s series of Wizards of Hollywood posts) are intriguing glimpses in the EFX world and you can read more of them here. — Geoff Boucher

In order to make 54-year-old Bruce Willis’ surrogate robot look like a man in his mid-30s in the sci-fi film “Surrogates,” Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Mark Stetson oversaw some work worthy of a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon.  Read the rest of this entry »

Bruce Willis has said that he would like to make a fifth Die Hard film.

However, the Surrogates star added that the movie would have to be made soon because of his age, The Sun claims.

“I would love to do another one but they better get it done soon, what with the march of time and all that,” he said.

“I’m not getting any younger.” [Source]