12.23.08: Clive Owen's latest, Iron Man II villains cast, and more

Sound the "smoldering" alarm – The man at the top of your girlfriends "Free 5" list has signed up for a new film. Clive Owen is set to charm his way through Cartegena, in which he "plays an agent amid the Colombian cartels who gets caught in a complex plot, and has to elude not only the drug dealers but also international drug-enforcement agents in order to survive."  That's some jungle steamy action for ya, hoo boy. (Empire)

IRON MAN II VILLAINS UP IN SMOKE

The villains in the next Iron Man movie will be... Sulu and Tommy Chong?  Wha...? EW says John "New Sulu" Cho will play The Mandarin, and Tommy Chong his inventor father. OK THEN, FAVREAU, you've earned our trust... but this is, at the very least, something of a step down from Jeff Bridges.

ODDS AND ENDS

• The teaser poster for Will Ferrell's big-screen version of campy TV pseudo-classic Land Of The Lost has been dug up over at Cinematical, and it looks like it was put together for about a $1.95.  Really, could they have done a worse job of integrating the actors with the illustrated background? If that's supposed to be the point, it's not exaggerated enough to work – it just looks cheap.

• Shattered Glass director Billy Ray is set to bring the 1943 horror novel Conjure Wife to the big screen.  The plot, which apparently significantly reworks the novel, concerns "one woman('s) attempt to take over the body of another, more desirable lady." (Empire)

• Math time: The water worm from The Abyss (x) an erector set (=) one of the new terminator-things from Terminator Salvation, as seen in these new photos. They even call the thing a "hydrobot" for Cameron's sake.

• George A. Romero's original Night of the Living Dead in 3-D? Wha...? Don't worry, it's from the people who COLORIZED the film back in the...yechh...(ralph)... (via Latino Review)

Comments

[Jim Dorey]

What's wrong with a 3D version of NOLD? Man, you have got to eat your fiber in the morning dude.