Yes, Daft Punk is doing the soundtrack to the Tron sequel now titled Tron Legacy. Yes, it is as awesome as you think it is. Check out a track from the soundtrack below. Thanks to Ellice for the heads up. She rocks my socks.

A while back we learned that Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Patriot) had acquired the right to Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. I foolishly hoped time would pass and the film(s) would never get made. Or at least not get made by Emmerich himself. David Chen of /film sat down with Mr. Emmerich today at Comic-Con where he was promoting the release of 2012 and revealed that Robert Rodat (Saving Private Ryan) would soon be finished with the first script.

The premise of The Foundation series is that mathematician Hari Seldon spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory. Using the law of mass action, it can predict the future, but only on a large scale. Using these techniques, Seldon foresees the fall of the Galactic Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a dark age lasting thirty thousand years before a second great empire arises. To shorten the period of barbarism, he creates two Foundations – small, secluded havens of all human knowledge, on opposite ends of the galaxy.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I can’t think of two people less qualified to tackle this project. Sure Emmerich can produce special effects driven crap that can pass as mildly entertaining for a brief time, but Foundation is real science fiction. Foundation is not Will Smith dragging an alien through the desert complaining about how he’s missing a barbecue. If not these two, who would you like to see adapt Asimov’s classic series?

Check out Chen’s Original Article on /Film here.

Back in October we found out that a live action World of Warcraft movie was in the works. Most of us feared the worst, Uwe Boll. Thankfully, that is not the case. Instead Variety is reporting that Sam Raimi will begin work on the film immediately following Spiderman 4. This is good news and bad news. For most of you nerds out there it means you’ll get to see your favorite MMORPG brought to the big screen by one of the most talented directors around. Sadly, it means Evil Dead 4 is that much further away. WoW is reportedly budgeted at 100 million and should begin by mid 2010.

E online spoke to David Arquette today and he had this to say about the on again, off again Scream sequel:
We are going to be doing Scream 4. Kevin Williamson is writing the script at this moment, and hopefully Wes Craven is going to direct.
Neve Campbell publicly stated she doesn’t want anything to do with another Scream. Is it even possible for Williamson to draft a fourth installment without Campbell reprising her role as Sydney Prescott, and even if Craven came back to direct, would it be any good? The real question is does anyone care? I say the answer is no. This is a colossal waste of time. I would honestly rather see a sequel to Arquette’s Eight Legged Freaks. Now that idea has promise. What say you?

Chan-Wook Park’s amazing looking tale of a priest accidentally turned vampire will be releasing to select U.S. cities July 31st. Park is the man responsible for giving us the vengeance trilogy*, and if you haven’t seen those you’d better get off your ass. If early buzz is any indication Thirst might be Park’s best film to date. Check out the trailer below and make sure to get out and see it as soon as it hits your city.

* The vengeance trilogy is Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.

Dug this up over at The Quiet Earth. Hardkor 44 is WWII science fiction (possibly steampunk)project being put together by Poland’s Platige Image. The concept art alone is enough to make me drool. Platige most recently did SFX work for Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist. More details will be announced tomorrow when Platige premieres their short The Kinematograph. You can see the trailer for that below.

Fanboys everywhere were relieved to hear that Brett Ratner wouldn’t get his filthy inept mitts all over the Conan remake. Sadly he’s been replaced with the possibly even more hacktacular Marcus Nispel. For those of you who don’t already know Nispel is the man responsible for ruining the Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes. He also directed the inexplicably awful Pathfinder. There are a lot of fanboys out there who are really excited about this. Is Nispel really better than Ratner? It’s not so much a step up or a step back. It seems more like a step to the side. I can only hope at this point that this project never sees the light of day.

* Is Nispel’s only goal as a director to make shitty versions of other people’s films?

* Who do you want to direct a Conan remake?

Action star, and at this point I use the term “star” very loosely, Steven Seagal will not be making an appearance in Sylvester Stallone’s testosteronefest The Expendables after all. Though Seagal and producer Avi Lerner have worked together on a number of films a reliable source tells Moviehole that “there is just too much bad blood between them”. It’s kind of a shame that they couldn’t bring Seagal back to the big screen. On the other hand it’s now rumored that Bruce Willis is in talks to replace him. I suddenly feel a little better. Besides in a streetfight John McClane would totally kick Casey Ryback’s ass. Can someone please throw Van Damme a cameo. Did anyone see JCVD? He deserves it.

Invictus, previously known as The Human Factor, is Clint Eastwood’s drama about the life of Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) after the fall of apartheid during his first term as president when he campaigned to host the 1995 Rugby World Cup as an opportunity to unite his countrymen. The film snagged a December 11th, 2009 release date and will compete against Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones. Both films are being released in the heat of Oscar season and are expected to be top contenders. I already smell nominations for Freeman as Mandela and possibly for Matt Damon who plays the Rugby team captain Francois Pienaar. Who do you have your money on? Jackson or Eastwood?

Thanks to JoBlo for posting this kick ass pic of Brolin as Jonah Hex.Not as gruesome as I was hoping, but it will do. Hex is the story of a scarred bounty hunter who tracks a voodoo practitioner bent on liberating the South by raising an army of the undead. The cast includes Brolin, John Malkovich, Michael Shannon, Michael Fassbender, and the theatrically challenged but ridiculously hot Megan Fox. I’m a fan of the comic, and I think they did a terrific job casting, but does anyone else think that Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who) directing was a bit of a misfire?