Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

Oliver Stone has found his Cheney. The semi-retired Richard Dreyfus, likely trying to keep anyone from remember his last film as Poseidon, will play the Vice President for the upcoming Bush biopic W.

Warner Bros. issued a press release today to announce the beginning of production on Terminator 4. It provides a little news about the plot:

In the highly anticipated new installment of The Terminator film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

The Chicago Sun Times is reporting that Hugh Hefner has deemed Robert Downey Jr. his choice to play himself in the biopic about the Playboy founder. The brilliant (that’s sarcasm) Brett Ratner is attached to direct.

If Uwe Boll isn’t forced to stop directing because of the online petition against him, he will take a break from genre films and make some serious movies. True story. Seems the director wants to prove his critics wrong and he will helm “two improvised films aimed at the arthouse crowd.” The first, Stoic, is about the true rape, torture and assisted suicide/murder of a prisoner in Germany. The second, Janjaweed, will focus on the Sudan genocide.

Those who’ve already caught Indiana Jones this weekend have probably already seen the trailer for David Fincher and Brad Pitt’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but for those who haven’t here is the Spanish trailer for the film. The footage is the same, though the introductory narration is obviously in a different language. The movie doesn’t look much like anything Fincher has done before – it reminds me of a darker, more interesting Big Fish – but it still looks mighty cool.

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