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Kingdom
-April 18-
Starring Jet Li and Jackie
Chan. A teenage boy finds
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an ancient Chinese war.
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The Flight of
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Forgetting
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• He was also a public figure
• who backed Dr. Martin Luther
• King Jr. during the civil rights
• era. During King's "I Have a
• Dream" speech. Heston stood
• on the podium right behind the
• famous speaker.
• Many of the things that
• Heston will be remembered for
• are the qualities that made him
• stand out in his films: rugged,
s manly and stone-faced charac
• ters that embodied the
• American spirit.
Actor Charlton Heston
Charlton
Heston dies
at 84
Legendary American
actor and political
activist passes away
By Connor Sattely
entertainment editor
cissoNH<» psti.edu
Aetor Charlton Heston died
Saturday. April 5 in his home in
Beverlv Hills. Calif.
The classic actor, who played
se\eral "larger-than-life" rolls
such as Moses, was struggling
through Al/iemer's disease.
He is survived by his two
children and three grandchil
dren. along with his wife of 64
vears. Lydia.
“I’m neither giving
up nor giving in.”
-Charlton Heston
A statement from the family
read. "We knew him as an ador
ins husband, a kind and devoted
father, and a gentle grandfather.
with an infectious sense of
humor. Me served these far
greater roles with tremendous
faith, courage, and dignity. He
loved deeply, and was deeply
loved."
No official cause of death
was given
Heston had been suffering
from Al/heimer's since August
of 2002. "I'm neither giving up
nor gi\ing in." he had said
when he received the diagnosis.
Some of his most well-known
roles inluded Moses (77m Ten
Commandments), Michelangelo
(The Agony and the Testacy),
and Ben-Hur ( Ben-Hur). The
latter won him an Oscar in
1959.
In 1968. Heston starred in
another Hollywood classic.
Planet of the Apes, as a rugged
astronaut stranded on a foreign
planet.
His last job in Hollywood
came in 2002. when he played
Josef Mengele. the Auschwitz
doctor who conducted inhuman
tests on behalf of Nazi
Germany, in My Father, Rita
Alyuem 5555.
He appeared in over 100
films in a career spanning more
than half a century.
Heston was also well-known
for his political activism. He
was an outspoken defender of
gun rights and served as the
President of the National Rifle
Association.
G.I. Joe: a real American hero
Filming started in
February for new
67 movie to hit
theatres in 2009
By Kvan Koscr
t i'l’Y editor
oinks I IIH" |iMU'ilu
.A real American hem? Well,
not anymore. Due to hit theatres
on Aug. 7. 2000. the long-await
ed live-action movie for the
adored toy line, comic book and
television series has finally made
its debut. Its roots trace back to
2003 when Hasbro began devel
opment on a film based on their
G.I. Joe toy line. Work on a
script began when two Hasbro
developers. Brian Cioldner and
l.oren/o di Bonaventura. chose
Michael B. Gordon as screen
writer due to his suecess in writ
ing the script for MH).
Flic movie is hcin>! written as
'origins story
Bonaventura. "There are a lot of
different way s that the audience
has connected with G.I. Joe over
the vears." he savs. "so. were
going to do our best to honor as
many |eonnections| as we can."
By March of hist year. Skip
Woods was rewriting the script
“We’re going to get it
right this time.”
-Lorenzo di Bonaventura
lor the new 0.1. Joe feature film.
According to Bonaventura. "our
president has pui us in a position
internationally where it would he
very dilficult to release a movie
called Ci.l. Joe." He went on to
explain the reasoning behind
adding in Alex Mann into the
film, a character from the British
line of toys: "to add one char; 1
One of only two movie pictures released of Snake Eyes (Ray Park)
An old-school GI Joe photo starring the famous team
ter to the mix is sort of a fun
thing to do." The seript. as writ
ten In Woods, was apparently
leaked online via the Latin
Review, w hich explained that the
lamed. villainous COBRA
Organization had been cut out of
the movie and replaced with a
boss whom was a
CIA agent gone
Howe v e r
when word not
out that the bad
iiuvs fans loved
to hate
being axed, fan
response toward
the entire produc-
tion was nega-
ll\C. In I espouse (.'ONTRIHITHD PHOTO
to these uoiries. [) en j s y uai d .who plays Hawk
B o n ;t tent ti r ;i
promised in subsequent rewrites
that "we're going to get it right
this time." On his behalf, he
explained his problems with the
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that, for a cartoon at least, “they
were probably the stupidest evil
organization
Nevertheless, during a press con
ference. Hasbro made the “offi
cial" promise to fans that the vil
lains would return to production
and there was no chance of the
same year.
Under Paramount Pictures, the
movie is being directed by
Stephen Sommers, responsible
for titles such as The Mummy and
Van Helsing.
Unfortunately, many fans and
critics alike are afraid that a
movie based upon the "Real
American Hero" toy line won't
be well received with interna
tional audiences. Fears that a
movie about the U.S. military
won’t be embraced by foreign
audiences who aren't loving
Uncle Sam these days are start
ing to linger on their minds.
Bonaventura explains, "What
[the Joes] stand for. and what
Duke stands for specifically in
the movie, is something that I'd
like to think a worldwide audi
ence might connect with." Also,
to increase international appeal,
the producers have taken the
acronym of G.I. Joe, which orig
inally stood for Government
Issued Joe and gave it a new
twist: GIJOE, which now stands
for Global Integrated Joint
Operating Entity. This new take
on the Joes also has them sta
tioned in Brussels.
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organization
being cut.
Following the
success
Transformers.
another Hasbro
toy line, in July
of 2007, the
final draft of the
script gained
enough momen
tum to finally be
greenlit
August that
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