Lou Ferrigno claims that he has signed on for a role in the upcoming film adaptation of The Avengers.
However, the actor admits that he does not currently know how big of a role he will play in the big screen team-up film.
“I’m going to be involved in The Avengers,” Ferrigno confirmed to Nuke The Fridge.
Ferrigno originally appeared in the 1978 live-action television series The Incredible Hulk as Bruce Banner’s famous alter ego.
Sam Worthington has praised director James Cameron’s ideas for the upcoming sequel films to Avatar.
Fox announced earlier this year that Cameron has begun work on two follow-ups to the box-office smash, and confirmed that Worthington would be reprising his role as Jake Sully.
“I talk to Cameron all the time,” Worthington told MTV News. “I think at the moment he’s still doing the [Avatar] bible, the book, and I think the book will then inspire where he wants to take it.
“He’s got great ideas, what he told me about where he wants to set it, things he wants to explore,” Worthington added.
Rumours that actor Tom Hardy is to play supervillain Professor Hugo Strange in the next Batman film are reportedly untrue.
According to Batman-on-Film, a source who is working on The Dark Knight Rises confirms that Hardy won’t be playing the original Batman villain.
The casting rumour began after it was reported that Nolan was taking inspiration for the film from the comic book storyline ‘Prey’, in which psychiatrist Professor Strange becomes obsessed with discovering Batman’s secret identity.
It has not been revealed who Hardy will portray in the film, but an announcement is expected be made in early 2011.
Joseph Kosinski has revealed that he attempted to recreate the feeling of the original Tron when bringing Tron Legacy to the big screen.
Talking to MTV News, the director admitted that he has high hopes that film fans will embrace the movie in the same way they did the first instalment in 1980.
“Hopefully, people will have the same reaction I did when I saw the first Tron,” he said.
“It looked different than anything else out there; it sounded different than anything else out there; it was bold in its concept and in the technology, the way it pushed technology. So hopefully, audiences feel the same way about this film, because that’s what we tried to do.”
Sam Worthington has admitted that Clash Of The Titans was not as good as it could have been.
Speaking to Moviefone, the actor conceded that there was room for improvement in the film’s sequel and promised to work hard on his own performance.
“I just think we can improve on it. I think the first one, we kind of let down some people. And yeah, I totally agree,” he said.
“The only point of doing a sequel is either the audience demands it or you believe you can better the first one. What we’re setting out to do with this one – the writers and the director and myself – is improve. I think I can act f**king better, to be honest… This one I want to kind of try to satisfy a lot more people.”
Syfy has reportedly decided not to renew Stargate Universe for a third season.
The decision comes after the show’s second run struggled in the ratings, according to Deadline.
Recent episodes of the spinoff have attracted around 1m viewers, down on the 2.3m that watched the pilot episode in 2009.
Syfy’s decision will mark the end for the Stargate television franchise, which began with Stargate SG-1 in 1997.
The remaining ten episodes of SGU‘s second season will air in the spring.
Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi previously revealed that the show’s production team had planned out a five-year story arc.
Filmmaker Blake Edwards has died at the age of 88.
The writer-director passed away on Thursday morning with wife Julie Andrews and his children at his bedside, reports Variety.
Edwards was best known for the success of his Pink Panther film series starring Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau.
His other classic films include Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Days of Wine and Roses and the 1979 box office hit 10, starring Dudley Moore, Andrews and Bo Derek.
Edwards received an Academy Honorary Award in 2004 in recognition of his work as a writer, producer and director.
Nicolas Cage has signed to star in upcoming action adventure film Medallion.
The Oscar winner will portray a former thief looking for his missing daughter, who was kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a taxi cab in New York City, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Con Air director Simon West is helming the project from a script by David Guggenheim.
Terminator Salvation director McG is co-producing the film, which is scheduled for a 2012 release.
Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Nicholas Brendon has called the new Buffy reboot movie a “mistake”.
Speaking to E!, the actor, who played Xander Harris on Joss Whedon’s genre series, said that the film would probably have a hard time finding a fanbase.
“I think it’s a mistake. They have to reach a whole completely new fanbase, and we already have that fanbase. So it’s going to really be hard to do that. But you know everyone – they remade The Flintstones. Twice, I think,” Brendon explained.
He added about the remake: “I hope their vampires don’t glitter.”
The A-Team director Joe Carnahan has claimed that his big screen revamp of the ’80s TV series “blew it” with cinema audiences.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Carnahan suggested that the blockbuster – which made just $77 million at the US box office – wasn’t marketed well enough by 20th Century Fox.
“We kind of fell victim to a marketing misstep in that there wasn’t necessarily an understanding of what the show was,” he said. “We didn’t do an adequate enough job of telling people what the movie was, if you know what I mean.”
Carnahan claimed that, despite a lack of clarity in the ad campaigns, he received positive feedback from people who went to see Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson and Sharlto Copley in the action film.