Tyler Perry, Die Hard 5 AND…

In This Post:

— Tyler Perry as Alex Cross

— Die Hard 5

— Expendables 2

#Alex Cross

For all of you used to Tyler Perry dawning a wig, layers of make-up, and simply being Madea, look out!  You wouldn’t recognize him if you ‘crossed’ him now 😉 Ok, that didn’t fit in well. But i had to force it! Moving on, behold a poster…

Tyler Perry is playing a cop named Alex Cross, based on a series of James Patterson novels.  Morgan Freeman played him in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider and Idris Elba was in the running to take on the lea roles in the reboot before he stepped down and Tyler Perry took on the mantle (…of the Bat 😉 )  As with ALL Hollywood reboots/revamp the character is always taken back to the very beginning or to a stage quite earlier than the previous onscreen adaptations that the production houses would have people forget about pretty soon in most cases ( Batman and Robin vs Batman Begins).  Here’s the first trailer and please note how ripped Matthew Fox (Lost) has become to take on the role of the psychotic villain with a military past (if i heard right)

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Matthew Fox Before…

After

Tyler Perry as Alex Cross

Rob Cohen (xXx, Fast and the Furious) is at the helms of this one.  Release date; October 19th, 2012.

Source: Collider

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#Die Hard 5

…is titled A Good Day to Die Hard. The general storyline revolves around the legendary John McClane -played by Bruce Willis!!!- hanging out in Russia and trying to patch things up with his son and all of a sudden, bad things start happening! Ok, that’s my version, but nothing specific so far apart from the general plot-point of him trying to reconnect with his son and something going wrong that involves helicopters, explosions, blood…  Check out the set video below from the set in Budapest;

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Opening Date: February 14th, 2013

Source: Collider

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#Expendables 2

Lovers of testosterone over-dose, assemble! 😉 Here are recent images from the set of epic awesomeness that is Expendables 2 that finds Sylvester Stallone and Co. including the earlier mentioned Bruce Willis, Arnie the Terminator himself, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Chuck Norris ( i should probably stop there 😉 ) and a whole slew of other action stars plus a few up and coming new faces going against the main villain of the story…The Muscles from Brussels: Jean-Claude Van Damme.  Here are the recent pics:

Synopsis: “The Expendables are back and this time it’s personal… Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren),Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) — with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) aboard — are reunited when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory where the odds are stacked against them. Hell-bent on payback, the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces, wreaking havoc and shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time — six pounds of weapons-grade plutonium; enough to change the balance of power in the world. But that’s nothing compared to the justice they serve against the villainous adversary who savagely murdered their brother. That is done the Expendables way….“

This movie assaults our viewing via theaters, August 17th 2012.

Source: Collider

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