The Wachowskis Returning to Sci-Fi with Jupiter Ascending

[Destructus86]

Speed Racer is completely under-rated.

 

[dude stannis]

Haven't seen Speed Racer.

It's.... different. Make of that what you will.

 

[Sawyer]

Haven't seen Speed Racer.

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[Tacit Ronin]

Speed Racer is completely under-rated.

It's a near masterpiece.

 

[Sebastos]

Haven't seen Speed Racer.

That's makes two of us...yeah that's right.

 

[dude stannis]

While you guys get around to watching Speed Racer...

Wachowskis and Warners are Location scouting

WE HEAR that Lana and Andy Wachowski want to make their next big budget, big name, big effects movie in Chicago. Which makes sense since they operate out of their super secret North Side Ravenswood Kinowerks post and effects studio, and Andy has a home here. Their project is “Jupiter Ascending,” the duo’s first major science fiction action franchise screenplay since The Matrix.

Sounds terrific, right? Imagine the economic impact on the economic, especially when a Wachowski project like this will take at least two years.

But wait! Warner Bros. isn’t thrilled about Illinois. They want to make it in the U.K. in what had been the “Harry Potter” facilities. Granted, the U.K. tax incentives are not as aggressive as ours, but they don’t cap labor at $100,000 as Illinois incentives do, nor do we incentivize the ever-growing VFX component.

If successful, this will be the first of their 22 movies that will have been made in Chicago. It would be a tremendous boom for the city in terms of revenue, not to mention the prestige and all that goes with it. More importantly, it would ignite a real Hollywood on the Lake.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

That's makes two of us...yeah that's right.

*coughthreecough*

Chicago's a cool burg. My mom grew up near there and I got to visit when I was about 12. Would love to go back someday. Good luck to them, would like to see more movies filmed stateside.

 

[Octoberist]

I can't wait.

 

[Project862006]

Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis Offered Lead Roles

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has offered the leads in the Lana and Andy Wachowki-directed Jupiter Ascending to Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis. Plot is being kept under tight wraps, but for the Wachowkis, the film is their first major science fiction action franchise play since The Matrix. Like that trilogy, Jupiter Ascending is an original creation by the duo, and it’s on track to start production later this year. It comes at a time when Tatum is becoming a formidable leading man, particularly with his back-to-back box office successes The Vow and 21 Jump Street. Kunis, meanwhile, is coming off Black Swan and Friends With Benefits and stars in the Seth MacFarlane-directed comedy Ted and Sam Raimi-directed Oz: The Great And Powerful. The Wachowskis just finished Cloud Atlas. They had circulated to financiers a script last spring for a hard-R drama they wanted to direct about a gay relationship between a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi, but had trouble setting it up. Before Cloud Atlas, the siblings hadn’t directed a film since the 2008 misfire Speed Racer. Still, nobody forgets about their last original creation, the groundbreaking Maxtix trilogy, and the $1.6 billion worldwide gross turned in by the three films. Will Jupiter Ascending do for Tatum what The Matrix did for Keanu Reeves? Stay tuned. He’s repped by UTA and Management 360, Kunis by CAA and Curtis Talent Management.

 

[redhawk23]

The Wachowskis stopped being relevant in like 2003 when Matrix Reloaded came out.

Speed Racer and Ninja Assassin were terrible.

The adaptation of V for Vendetta the wrote and produced, despite Moore's misgivings, has huge cultural cache.

 

[dude stannis]

Well, if anyone can make Tatum interesting, it would be the guys who made Neo.

 

[redhawk23]

^ I had never liked him in anything but I was completely surprised by his acting in 21 Jumpstreet. Actually, I was amazed by how good everything in that movie turned out to be in general.

 

[RKO]

Putting Channing Tatum in everything these days. It's like they're just trying to piss me off.

 

[Project862006]

^2 box office successes in 2012 alone will do that

 

[KRIM]

The only possible way I can see Tatum working as a lead is if the role is similar to that of Neo and Terminator, where stilted acting might well work for the part. Otherwise, the Wachowski's are shooting themselves in the foot if they want this guy to head an already risky venture.

 

[RKO]

^2 box office successes in 2012 alone will do that

He must have a pretty damn good agent.

 

[kvz5]

He's really going to be one of the biggest male stars today, is he?

 

[dude stannis]

I'd have prefered Natalie Portman over Mila Kunis. Not really a big fan of hers. But Tatum seems to be having a resurrection, people liked him in Haywire and 21 Jump Street. Playing off The Rock in G.I. Joe 2 would likely hide his crappiness.

But if they're playing scientists and astronauts I'm gonna laugh my ass off.

 

[RKO]

My movie sense is tingling and is telling me it'll be something like In Time, probably.

 

[Octoberist]

I hope not. I want something more fantastical, or 1970's sci-fi heady.

 

[dude stannis]

I'm hoping it actually takes place on Jupiter.

 

[Octoberist]

or a floating city

 

[dude stannis]

Or a floating city on Jupiter.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

I don't mind if both of them end up taking the roles. But I wish Portman was still attached to this project. Well, at least she'll appear in two Malick films so it's all right.

 

[venus_ice]

He's really going to be one of the biggest male stars today, is he?

I find him 0% appealing. Same with Kunis. I guess they're playing emotionless drones of some kind? The only thing I could think of to explain this.