Inglorious Bastards News & Enter The Dragon Remake!

* Vinnie Jones who happens to be a neighbor of a certain Quentin Tarantino has told everyone this week that he has a part in his next film. Jones is reportedly in the long time coming World War 2 epic Inglorious Bastards. Could be true, could be bollocks. Either way this film has been a long time coming and is something that all film geeks want to see.

* Addictive online game World of Warcraft is to be turned into a film with a 100 million budget. The film will be a prequel set 1 year before the events in the game and is set for release in 2009.

* Sixties Kids cartoon Johnny Quest is to be brought to the screen courtesy of the producers of the forthcoming Hitman, Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter. Johnny Quest is a young boy who accompanies his scientist father on a series of adventures. The cartoon was canceled due to being too expensive to produce.

* Re-Make Alert!! Warner Independent Pictures is planning on producing a new noirish version of Enter the Dragon. Kurt Sutter will write and produce this version which is currently going under the title Awaken the Dragon. No word yet on who will step into Bruce Lee's kung fu slippers but lets all start talking about Tony Jaa and Colin Chou now.

* Matthew Vaughan the director of Layer Cake and the forthcoming Stardust has been announced as the director of Marvel Comics Thor film. The script is apparently great with a good deal taking place in Asgard. No word yet on who will wield the hammer but please god don't let wrestler Triple H anywhere near this.

* Japanese anime Voltron is to make the leap to the big screen. The film will take place after an alien triggered apocalypse with the survivors stumbling on the metallic lions which form the robot Voltron, they then use the robot to battle the alien hordes. The script is by Justin Marks who also wrote the upcoming He-Man and erm Alvin and the Chipmunks.

* Stephen Sommers the director of the good (Deep Rising, The Mummy) and the bad (Van Helsing) has landed the job of directing the live action GI Joe movie. GI Joe was one of the better 80's toy lines (Known as Action Force in the UK) and involved a series of cool military characters fighting a terrorist organization known as Cobra. Ah its a great time to have grown up in the 1980's at the moment and we have the box office success of Transformers to thank for bringing back our most cherished or painful childhood memories.