GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
Jonathan Swift’s satire Gulliver’s Travels has been much-admired throughout the ages. But has anyone been able to fully capture his masterpiece properly? Arguably not, either the political invective is traded for hollow spectacle, or Gulliver’s rudderless descent into misanthropy is glossed over. 
But fear no more, because this Christmas Jack Black will once and for all become the definitive Lemuel Gulliver!
Jack Black will star as Gulliver, a big–talking mailroom clerk. Oh yeah, the film’s been updated, it would have been stupid to keep the setting in boring old 1702! Also how else would they have been able to shoehorn a Guitar Hero scene into the film?
After Gulliver is mistakenly assigned to write a travel piece on the Bermuda Triangle he suddenly finds himself a giant among men when he washes ashore on the hidden island of Lilliput. I’m sure we’ll witness a classic dose of sharply-observed Swiftian satire that’ll hone in on the petty quarrels of early Georgian government with merciless accuracy and not just Jack Black playing a tired version of himself like normal.
Plus Catherine Tate’s in it too.
Out late December 2010
THOR
Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertain
ment present the epic adventure, “Thor,” which spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the realm of Asgard.
At the centre of the story is the mighty Thor (Chris Hemsworth), a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth by his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins) and is forced to live among humans. A young scientist, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), has a profound effect on Thor, as she ultimately becomes his first love. It’s while here on Earth that Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.
Due in May 2011
