G4 have posted a mas­sive 16 minute walk­through of the Revenge of the Fallen video game, work­ing through as either Bum­ble­bee or Starscream. A boss fight with Dev­as­ta­tor is also included.

A short while ago we had word of a short­list of poten­tial Conan movie direc­tors; their spe­cialty was in hor­ror movies. The list included Christoph Gans, Neil Mar­shall and direc­tor of choice, Mar­cus Nis­pel. Nis­pel helmed the The Texas Chain­saw Mas­sacre and Fri­day the 13th remakes and more wor­ringly, the ter­ri­ble Viking movie, “Pathfinder”.

A new direc­tor was sought after Brett Rat­ner stepped down from the helm due to sched­ul­ing con­straints. The movie is likely to have a smaller bud­get and could begin pro­duc­tion as early as August this year, with reports sug­gest­ing Bul­garia as its locale.
Dirk Black­man and Howard McCain are cur­rently work­ing through Dean Don­nelly and Joshua Oppenheimer’s first draft.

An announce­ment as to who shall play Conan is expected shortly.

MTV are report­ing that Star Trek and Crank: High Volt­age actor Clifton Collins Jr. is in talks for a role in the Thor adaptation:

“I had a lit­tle meet­ing. I think I can say that much. […] [’Thor’ direc­tor] Ken­neth Branagh is a bad-ass. I’ve been a fan of his as an actor and I know he’s gonna be amaz­ing as a direc­tor for this piece.”

“Believe me, I’m itch­ing to say all kinds of stuff,”

[…]

“It’s going to be a beau­ti­ful thing, I’m sure,” said Collins. “It’s an amaz­ing comic book. If you grew up read­ing these comic books, he was def­i­nitely a bad-ass, that guy.”

No word yet on the char­ac­ter he might play.

Edward, owner of Collector’s Par­adise, has writ­ten to inform us of a sign­ing event with Marc Guggen­heim to take place this Sat­ur­day June 13th. Marc Guggen­heim is one of the writ­ers work­ing on the Green Lantern movie adap­ta­tion. He has also worked on CSI, Broth­ers & Sis­ters and Law & Order.

Address

Collector’s Par­adise
7131 Win­netka Ave
Win­netka CA 91306

The Ger­man dubbed footage of Wheelie attempt­ing to steal from Mikaela and being caught in the act is now avail­able in Eng­lish (with Japan­ese sub­ti­tles). Turns out Wheelie is an incred­i­bly feisty lit­tle robot, I’d imag­ined he’d be quite timid.

First web chat date?
“You’re hot but you ain’t so bright“
“That’s my eye you crazy bitch”

Thanks for the heads up Randy!

Hot Topic are sell­ing a range of Trans­form­ers mer­chan­dise to coin­cide with the movie’s release. A lot of the cloth­ing fea­tures car­toon char­ac­ters, rather than opt­ing to use the fig­ures from the movies. To mark the occa­sion, they have a con­test to win tick­ets to the US Pre­mière of Revenge of the Fallen on June 22nd.

Con­test to win tick­ets to US Pre­mière, June 22nd

One Grand prize win­ner will receive:

# Two (2) Round-Trip Air­fare Tick­ets
# Hotel Acco­mo­da­tions, One (1) Room for Two (2) Nights
# Two (2) Tick­ets to the pre­mière of Trans­form­ers: Revenge of The Fallen!

Enter the Trans­form­ers Con­test

Mer­chan­dise

I’ve included some of the best shirts below, avail­able for $19 each at the moment. Click the images below or view all the Hot Topic gear. I par­tic­u­larly like the Free­dom shirt:

Para­mount Pic­tures UK have updated with some inter­est­ing and fun Trans­form­ers good­ies for us to pick out.

Sound­wave Satel­lite mode

The offi­cial UK Revenge of the Fallen site reveals Soundwave’s satel­lite mode in ren­dered CG form:

And Gen­eral Tekno over at TLAMB has man­aged to extract the clean ver­sion for us all:

Revenge of the Fallen Robot auditions

Five robot audi­tions (e.g. a drill and a George Fore­man grill) have been posted in jest, the video embed­ding doesn’t seem to be work­ing cor­rectly so I rec­om­mend you check them out on the PPUK site: TF2 Robot Auditions

Trans­form­ers 2 Wallpapers

A 1920x res­o­lu­tion of the standee is also avail­able for download:

In the trail­ers for Trans­form­ers 2 two web­sites were revealed on t-shirts, the​re​al​eff​in​gdeal​.com and giant​eff​in​gro​bots​.com/. Each of them relates to alien con­spir­a­cies and are peri­od­i­cally updated with new sto­ries, some made up and some link­ing to real news items.

The­Re­al­Eff­in­gDeal (TRED) is run by Sam Witwicky’s new flat mate Leo. Giant­Eff­in­gRo­bots (GER) is report­edly the voice of Agent Sim­mons, coun­ter­ing the child­ish giant robot claims. Recent updates on each of the sites has spurred me to make this post, espe­cially as the ROTF mar­ket­ing builds up.

Click the ever excit­ing more link to read the rest of this entry if the TF2 viral cam­paign holds your inter­est. I’ve cov­ered some of the best bits. A lot of the UFO non­sense on Leo’s site isn’t overly inter­est­ing, but hid­den within are some good Trans­form­ers gems.

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