Pandorum

Every once in awhile I can say “horror just gets better and better” and I can recall applying this “thought to self” the first time I saw The Shining or even way back when The Exorcist made everyone scream. Don’t think I am going to compare Zombieland to either of the aforementioned movies, but I have not seen a horror comedy so thoroughly enjoyable in a very long time. Usually it takes a comedy to make me laugh out loud as I sit alone in an empty theatre, but Zombieland did the trick.
First I found myself, in my usual manner dreading the trailers. I was hoping that at least they would all be horror trailers to kind of get me in the mood. My disgust at the number of trailers I have to sit through after the torturous “First Look” or “The twenty” – you know those stupid commercials »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Marla Newborn)

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About six months ago, we reported on Jason Statham being cast in the remake of the 1972 action crime-thriller, The Mechanic, about a hitman who takes on an apprentice. At the time there was word that the remake would be a remake in name only, and the story would be changed to a modern-day spy thriller. However, with the latest casting news, it appears the story will be pretty similar if not the same as the original.
Promising news, I say.
Variety is reporting that Donald Sutherland and Ben Foster (Pandorum, X-Men: The Last Stand) are set to co-star with Statham in The Mechanic remake, which is set to be directed by Simon West (Con Air - one of my favorites, Fyi ) from a screenplay by Karl Gajdusek. Foster is set to play Statham’s hitman apprentice, Steve McKenna (the original role was played by Jan-Michael Vincent), and Sutherland will play »
- Ross Miller

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For the upcoming remake of the Charles Bronson film, The Mechanic, Jason Statham will be joined by two great supporting actors, Donald Sutherland and Ben Foster, which should bolster the film quite a bit.

Entertainment Weekly has a little blurb about it, saying only that Sutherland will play Foster's father - though not a foster father - who is also Statham's handler. Foster, seen last in Pandorum, though admittedly not by too many people, will play a hitman-in-waiting. »
- Colin Boyd

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