Like me you probably watched District 9 and really enjoyed it. Great story, good effects, excellent acting, but of course some of the best things on screen where the great big alien guns. Who’s with me?
Now the good folks over at WETA have put together exact replicas of two of the weapons from Neill Blompkamp’s film. GAS PROJECTOR:
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Edition Size: 200
Dimensions: 23.6″ x 39.4″ x 3.9″ (H x W x D)
60 cm x 100 cm x 10 cm
Weight: 11.9lbs (5.4 Kg)
The Nigerian crime lord of the District 9 ghetto, Obesandjo, has amassed a significant cache of prawn hardware through terror and pushing tinned cat food.
The Gas Projector is a powerful weapon. If only it could be fired by humans…
An EXACT replica of the guns used in Neill Blomkamp’s District 9, designed by Dr Grordbort’s designer Greg Broadmore and modelled on the actual props created by the artists and craftspeople at Weta Workshop.
This gun comes battle worn, alien gunk oozing out of its couplings and all the scratches and markings you’d expect from tough action in District 9 and by handling by Nigerian gun runners.
It’s made mainly from glass fibre, with some details made from other materials. It comes with a wall mounting bracket for display.
PLEASE NOTE: Unless your genetic makeup is part prawn, you cannot power up or fire this gun.
Pure speculation on my part, but could this new statue of Captain America by Kotobukiya possibly show the costume Steve Rogers will be sporting in Captain America: The First Avenger movie?
The reason being is that the helmet he is wearing is a bit different from the one in the comics – although it is a mix of the old school style and that of The Ultimate version of Cap. The main difference is that the wings are painted on instead of being weird little wing things that stuck out and always looked a little odd.
Mind you Daily Pop are saying the statue design is to celebrate the revival of the Avengers. It is based on the WWII Captain America design by Bryan Hitch from Captain America Reborn.
Directed by Joe Johnston (Rocketeer, Wolfman), Captain America: The First Avenger is due out in July 2011. Still no word on who will play him.
I still stick with my original thought that it would make a cool looking outfit for the film and it is going to be set mainly in World War II. Either way it is an excellent statue.
What do you think? Would it work as the movie outfit or should he have the big white sticky out wings?
This figure from Hot Toys has a stunningly good likeness to Brad Pitt’s character in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. I think it is very cool, yet somehow very wrong.
Toysrevil posted the news and the artists involved have done a fantastic job. Here is the official stuff about the figure.
Hot Toys is delighted to present the 1/6th scale Lt. Aldo Raine collectible figure from the Inglourious Basterds movie. This is the first-licensed collectible figure of Brad Pitt which fully realizes his likeness in the movie.
The 1/6th scale Lt. Aldo Raine specially features:
– Newly sculpted head with authentic likeness of Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine in the movie
– Movie-accurate facial expression with detailed wrinkles and skin texture
– Real-like hair style, beard and face hair
– TrueType body with approximately 30cm tall
– 34 points of articulations
– Three pairs of interchangeable palms (one pair of relaxed palms, one pair for holding gun and one pair for holding blade)
– Each piece of head sculpt is specially hand-painted
Costume & Accessories:
– Jacket with worn-out edges, sweater, scarf, trousers and hat
– Leather-like belt with gun holster and blade pouch
– Leather-like long boots and bag
– Flannelette-surfaced water bottle
– Figure stand with movie logo and Lt. Aldo Raine nameplate
Weapons:
– Rifle, machine gun and pistol
– Large and small blade
Artists:
– Head Sculpted by Kojun
– Head Art Directed by JC. Hong
– Head Painted by JC. Hong
We’ve seen Iron Man and War Machine from Jon Favreau’s sequel, but what about those other suits of Armour you see them fighting near the end of the trailer?
Well this pics of the new series of Diamond Select Toys give us a clearer look at the Assault Drones. According to io9 they are air, land and sea types. Who made them though? Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) or Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell) who we see in the midst of the drones above.
Also who or what is in the blacked out space in the picture below? It looks armour shaped so do either the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) or Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) get a suit of armour as they have in the different comic books? Or could it be another version of Mickey Rourke’s Whiplash armour?
Who do you think it is? Vodpod videos no longer available.
LEGO Universe is an upcoming massively multiplayer online game developed by NetDevil. It is planned to be released in the second half of 2010 and it looks awesome.
These absolutely amazing acrylic-plastic sculptures of Locke and Hurley are by Wade Schin (he also made the cool Donnie Darko and MacGyver figures below). They were done for the LOST Underground Art Show at Gallery1988.
Hurley has since been sold, but Locke is still available for US$815. Email gallery1988@aol.com for inquiries.
Source: ToysREvil
It is Ian Friff aka byfriff‘s latest custom Mini Munny: “Meet Dave as he steps out of the Discovery” = based on Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi classic 2001, Dave comes with his own Hal 9000 wooden box.
A while back it was announced that Peter Berg’s adaption of the Hasbro board game, Battleship, would feature a human fleet going up against aliens. Everyone scratched their heads at that one.
Now Berg has spoken to a Latino Review (he flew a few journalists down to a proper battleship for the show and tell).
First of all the concept art of the alien ships shows they are black, and had legs that spread out sort of like water spiders you see on the top of lakes. They looked pretty H.G. Wells-ish and supposedly each ship matches up very well to our ships. Technologically, the two enemies are almost evenly matched.
Here is some of what Berg had to say about the film. Be sure to check out the rest of the interview though as there is a lot of info over there.
The goal was to put up something that could exist as a big, dynamic, entertaining summer blockbuster. That’s clearly what you aspire to make when you take on something like ‘Battleship’ and I think we’re well on our way. I want to share a few pictures with you guys of the enemy, pictures of what the enemy is going to look like. Nobody has seen these…but the enemy does come from another planet. That’s not news. It’s true, you guys uncovered it first. We tried to keep it a secret, but it’s our goal to make that as intelligent and logical, certainly as ‘District 9’ was able to do. But to provide a real intelligence to our opponent, a logic, a rationale for being there and not purely hostile, violent creatures bent on global destruction. They’ve got a much more logical agenda planned that happens to come into conflict with us. Then there’s a chance for two relatively equal opponents to go at each other and you get a sense of some of the equipment you saw, the level and intelligence of that character of what modern sailors are today.
He went on to talk about the aliens.
They’ve got a problem. Upon arrival one of their ships is severely damaged and that’s posed a real existing problem for them and they’re trying to deal with that.
You’ll understand and ILM is doing an extraordinary job of creating, they’re called the Regents, the folks who inhabit these ships. Some of them are very scientific and very intelligent and not violent at all. Others of them are more violent but they’re all concerned with the fact that they have a very real mechanical problem with one of their ships and they’re trying to deal with that.
Their craft are sea based. They don’t fly. But you can see sort of that there’s an equal number of American and there’s actually one Japanese ship involved in this conflict with the enemy.
They are actually able to fly, insert themselves through the earth’s atmosphere and make contact through the water. Once they get on the surface they don’t fly. They stay put. They’ve enabled moving in a fairly unique manner, along the different ways of the sea. They don’t have the standard propulsion but they have weapons systems and some of them are very violent. There are some that aren’t but there are some that are the equivalent of our destroyers.
Berg then went on to talk about the sequel to Hancock 2 and other projects he is working on.
It’s being written now and it’s an issue of everybody involved in ‘Hancock’. There are so many cooks in that particular kitchen that it’s so busy and Will [Smith] has kind of taken time off to be with his kids and his kids are now making all kinds of films. There are so many people involved in that, from Will to his partner James Lassiter to Akiva [Goldsman] to Michael Mann, myself and to get us all in the same room just like this where we can all talk and then agree on anything, you’ve never met a group of people that have a harder time agreeing on anything. It’s like the Israeli peace process times a thousand how tough it is to resolve. I think it’ll happen though. We just have to kind of get in the same room for some consistency.
Lone Survivor is what I want to do next. If you haven’t read that book it’s an incredible story and a really dynamic one, in the vein of like a ‘Black Hawk Down’. It’s a true story about seventeen SEALS that were killed in one gunfight in Afghanistan. It’s a great story. One survived.
The Battleship film is actually growing on me after hearing what Berg has to say about it. I like the sound of the aliens and their ships. Just a pity he had to pull out of the Dune remake to do it.
What are your thoughts on Battleship? Will it work? Who would you like to see leading the human fleet?
Go read the rest of the interview over at Latino Review as I’ve barely scratched the surface.
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