The International trailer for Keanu Reeves‘ directorial debut Man Of Tai Chi has hit the Internet. The movie opens stateside sometime later this year. Reeves plays the controller of a Beijing underground fight-to-the-death club who brings in a skilled tai chi practitioner (Tiger Hu Chen, Reeves’ Matrix stuntman and trainer) to fight in his deadly martial arts fighting circus . . . wait, circus(?) . . . I mean circuit.

I went into this thinking I wouldn’t be interested, but after checking out the trailer I think I might just buy a theater ticket. The fight scenes look crisp and interesting and the slippery slope that Chen’s character is put on should provide some entertaining drama.

What do you think?

Via: Deadline

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Every day the internet produces an astounding amount of goodies and gems. Most hilarious, some amusing, but all worth at least a few seconds of your time. We here at Nerd Bastards try to bring you the best bits of news and nerdery the webz has to offer, with a bit of snark thrown in. But sometimes not everything makes the cut. Monday through Friday we’ll be bringing you our inbox leftovers, our forgotten bookmarks, the nerdy bits that simply slipped through the cracks. You can submit items to Nerdy Bits by emailing us at nerdybits@nerdbastards.com.

Above: Honestly, what can I add to this picture. Just, just soak it up and enjoy it. [Reddit]

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Each and every week we scour the Internet for nothing but the best in nerdy art. We leave no digital stone unturned, we poke and prod every nook and cranny of the Interwebz. Why? Because we love you, and we love to bring you weekly Nerd Art Dumps.

Above: Is a Zombie bite contagious to aliens species? No idea, but Andy J. Hunter is going to help us find out soon enough thanks to changing up this famous E.T. scene to a full out zombie horde. Elliott is going to have to pedal fast if he wants to stay ahead of the undead shambling because all the magic fingers in the world aren’t going to save him now. E.T. gonna hunger for flesh. [Geek Tyrant]

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The news keeps rolling out about the third film in the Bill & Ted franchise. Keanu Reeves talked with GQ and said this about the plot details for Bill & Ted III:

“One of the plot points is that these two people have been crushed by the responsibility of having to write the greatest song ever written and to change the world,” and they haven’t done it.

So everybody is kind of like: ‘Where is the song?; The guys have just drifted off into esoterica and lost their rock.

We go on this expedition, go into the future to find out if we wrote the song, and one future ‘us’ refuses to tell us, and another future ‘us’ blames us for their lives because we didn’t write the song, so they’re living this terrible life. In one version we’re in jail; in another we’re at some kind of highway motel and they hate us.”

What do you think about that?  It could work out, there’s a lot of material in that search for the greatest song. The movie still needs financing and a studio to produce the film so perhaps this is an attempt by Keanu to hype up the fan base and garner interest from studios. If that’s the case then expect some more info to come out in the days to come.

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There’s two things I really like about San Diego Comic Con. 1. Cosplay tits. Everywhere you look there’s giant boobs spilling out of tight costumes. It’s  a real feast of flesh (see Power Girl above) 2. Getting a first look at footage from upcoming blockbusters and listening to creatives/performers talk about their films. I dunno if it’s all really worth waiting in line for 4+ hours (oh yes, there’s a lot of waiting. A LOT!), but it’s certainly an exclusive, very personal experience. An involving one to say the least. Speaking of the latter…

While Hollywood studios are still in the process of securing down their convention plans, the run down of panel presentations trickling in thus far are proving SDCC 2012  is gonna be a epic year.

So…who in Hollywood is coming to Comic Con?

Marvel Studios is planning, well… to be marvelous. Some early work from Iron Man 3 will be presented. Word has it they’ll end up officially announcing those two secret film projects in development. Disney will be showing off Wreck-It Ralph and Oz: The Great and Powerful and maybe… just maybe The Lone Ranger.

The good shit just keeps on rolling.

Warner Bros. will bringing along The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, as well as Zack Snyder‘s Man of Steel. Legendary Pictures will take sloppy seconds to preview Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim.

That’s kind of it for the meat and potatoes, but the icing on the proverbial con cake would be Sony and Universal Pictures. Sony will be bringing along  Joseph Gordon-Levitt‘s Premium Rush, Kevin James’ martial-arts comedy Here Comes the Boom, and Will Smith and M. Night Shymalan‘s post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie After Earth. I imagine The Total Recall reboot will probably appear again as well.

Universal hasn’t announced much yet, but it’s suspected they will bring stuff from The Bourne Legacy, Keanu Reeves’ samurai epic 47 Ronin and Dark Horse Comics adaptation of R.I.P.D. with Ryan Reynolds.

I almost forgot. Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate will have a little somethin’, somethin’ in The Twlight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 and The Expendables 2.

Studios not attending this year’s convention include 20th Century Fox, Relativity Media, DreamWorks, and Paramount Pictures. Bummer.

Got a pass for SDCC 2012? Then tell us what films (or Cosplay tits) you’re most looking forward to by sounding off in the comments below.

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After more than 20 years off the screen, it looks like Bill & Ted may be coming back for another round of attempting to save the world by traveling through time.  The latest rumors appear to be more than just rumors, as both Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter (that’s the other guy) have been commenting that the script for Bill & Ted 3 is done and looks good.

Bill & Ted’s adventures started Excellent in 1989 and turned Bogus in 1991, with some added storyline coming in the form of an animated series, a horrible live-action television show (sans Reeves and Winter) and a comic book.  The latest addition will turn the franchise into a trilogy, where it will join the ranks of such classics as Star Wars and Indiana Jones.  Oh wait… those are all screwed up now, aren’t they?

Well, regardless of how many films make a trilogy, the question still remains whether these two 40-something actors can bring back the old magic and produce a flick that is going to do more than just make people ill.

The new movie’s plot appears to revolve around finishing the original story by having Bill & Ted write the fabled song that will end up saving the world.  What they save the world from remains to be seen.  One can only hope that they’re not attempting to save it from this film, as they would be a tad too late.

Both actors have expressed interest in doing a third film, though only if the script was acceptable.  Winter isn’t doing much else these days, so it’s understandable that he’d give the green light.  And Reeves?  Well, how good does a script have to be for him to jump on board?

Despite the thumbs up from the Excellent duo, there still remains the possibility that this potential abortion never makes it to production.  Seriously, how many people want to see two middle-aged dudes acting borderline mentally handicapped while attempting to save the world?  Oh wait, that’s most of the movie-viewing audience in America, isn’t it?  If Bruce Willis can make 47 Die Hard films, Reeves and Winter certainly deserve a chance to try their hands at another B&T extravaganza.

On the plus side for Reeves, this may be his big chance to finally win that Oscar, reprising the role that made him a household name and, as a result, tolerable enough to be cast in dozens of other films.  Or maybe not.

Source: Blastr

*EDITORS NOTE: Special thanks to Nerd Bastards contributor Jason McAnelly for covering today’s “Most Excellent” news.

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I’m sure you spend all of your time wondering where the child stars of movies past are now. We’ve compiled a fair amount of before and after pictures for y’all to check out, some of which you probably expect and some of which will be a surprise to you. Let’s get started!

Let’s start with something that we all expect to see. Taylor Momsen is most known for her role as Cindy Lou Who in the 2000 film, How The Grinch Stole Christmas.  Over the course of the years, she landed a role on Gossip Girl and she’s now some badass singer chick.  Or something.  She blames her parents for her shitty attitude and bitchiness, actively tells young girls to twiddle themselves and flashes her tits at concerts.  No big deal.  She’s really matured!

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Alex Winter is a very busy man since his stint as the popular Bill S. Preston Esq. in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. He’s gone on to be a part of the behind the scenes of filming and has since become a well respected director, who knew? Deadline reported that the actor-turned director has been trying for some time  to make a narrative film about Napster for 10 years, and it’s finally moving forward on the project with the help of VH1.

Winter originally inked the deal with Paramount’s MTV Films and even wrote a script to go along with it,  but then The Social Network was released and the project was kicked to the curb in favour of Mark Zuckerburg and his Facebook. Instead of just throwing in his hat and calling it a lost cause, Winter is now going back to all the sources for his script, armed with a camera.

Here is what Winter had to say:

“The rise and fall of Napster and the birth of peer-to-peer file-sharing technology created by Shawn Fanning when he was a college student, changed music to movies, and made possible everything from Julian Assange, WikiLeaks to the iPod and Facebook…It became an expression of youth revolt, and contributed to a complete shift in how information, media and governments work. And it is a fascinating human story, where this 18-year-old kid invents a peer-to-peer file-sharing system, and brings it to the world six months later.”

Now that does sound exciting but Winter’s also spoke about the reborn interest in a new Bill & Ted feature that`s underway. Alex said that he and Keanu Reeves have a Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure sequel script by original scribes Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, and stated “it’s early days on that project.” This just can’t come soon enough but if this is only in the èarly days and Alex is working on his Napster documentary then this could mean that another Bill & Ted movie could be years away. If only we had a phone booth.

Via: Geek Tyrant

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