So it look like Warner Brothers is moving The Losers back to April – April 23th this time. So the release is just 9 weeks away. Good for Jeffrey Dean Morgan fans and hopefully good for The Losers. Also released the same week are McGruber and the Wall Street remake.

Last week, Warner Bros. Pictures moved director Sylvain White’s The Losers from April 9 to June 4 in order to get it away from Clash of the Titans‘ April 2 release and to fix some things from a recent test screening.

It sounds like the studio will be able to do this much quicker as they’ve now decided on an April 23 release date for the action-thriller, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Holt McCallany, Oscar Jaenada, Jason Patric and Peter Macdissi.

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ETA: It seems the title is “The Fields” and not The Texas Killing Fields, which is the older name.

Looks like Jeffrey Dean Morgan is keeping busy.  Last week he signed on to The Unblinking Eye, playing a retired police detective, and today it was announced he’ll be starring in The Texas Killing Fields, set to film this April in Louisiana.  Looks like he’ll play a police detective in this one too. (It’s called “The Fields” on IMDB).

This looks like it could be a great film and hopefully soon we’ll hear a lot more about it.

Here’s the announcment from Movieweb:

The film is based off the true story of two Texas police detectives who teamed up to solve numerous unsolved crimes. Sam Worthington has already joined the cast, as we previously reported, as a local homicide detective. It was said in the initial report that Worthington’s character was assisted by a New York detective, but it wasn’t clear if Morgan was cast in that particular role.

Ami Canaan Mann, daughter of filmmaker Michael Mann, will direct from Donald F. Ferrarone’s script. It was said production would start this April in Louisiana.

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Is it April June yet?  The release date for Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s The Losers apparently has been pushed back to June 4. Oh no! But are we fans really surprised by this???

And it looks like Denny and Izzie will battle it out on the big screen when Katherine Heigl’s The Killers opens the same week!

WB wants CLASH OF THE TITANS to remain king of the box office for a while this coming spring, that means shuffling any of their other movies that might keep that from happening. THE LOSERS which was supposed to open one weekend after, is now moved all the way to summer…
The graphic novel adaptation, THE LOSERS will now open on June 4th, 2010, which is very interesting because one weekend after that is the release of THE A-TEAM
We said before that both movies are similar in some ways… maybe WB should turn up the competition even more and release THE LOSERS on the same weekend of THE A-TEAM, now that would be a plan that comes together!

Jeffrey Dean Morgan looks into The Unblinking Eye…I like that title!

Looks like Jeffrey Dean Morgan has a new role set to start filming in May. It looks interesting, just from the brief synopsis below.

 Watchmen” star Jeffrey Dean Morgan has signed on with director Michael Bassett (“Solomon Kane”) for the psychological thriller “The Unblinking Eye,” which Juliusz Kossakowski and Kevan Van Thompson will produce through their Wind Fish Motion Pictures operation.

AV Pictures, which also handled world sales on Bassett’s “Wilderness,” is selling the title in Berlin.

Bassett penned the script, in which homicide detective John Callisto (Morgan), now a retired recluse after being nearly murdered by a serial killer, is tracked down by a relentless journalist. As the two confront each other, dark secrets from both their pasts come to light.

The pic, which AV said is budgeted at just over $10 million, is set to shoot in May.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan in All Good Things – playing a detective again

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Hold on tight, Jeffrey Dean Morgan fans! It looks like The Losers blitz starts today! First we saw the official trailer and now an interview with director Sylvain White in the Los Angeles Times.

And check out this brand new picture! It looks like a recreation of the official Jock movie poster we saw debut at last year’s Comic Con.

And doesn’t Jeffrey Dean Morgan look great??

“The Losers” are on a mission — and don’t even think about calling them “The B-Team.”

Above is a cast photo from the new commando adventure “The Losers”  which opens on April 9, two months before that other military-ops movie, “The A-Team,” which has a somewhat similar plot: An elite team is sent on suicide missions but survive and return to go after their duplicitous superiors. But “The Losers” director Sylvain White says that his action film marches to its own drummer.

White, whose profile surged with “Stomp the Yard,” said the “Losers” script by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt presented him with a chance to make a movie that had international action and tension but also a lighter sense of itself than the Jason Bourne and most recent James Bond films. The script, as comics fans already know, adapts the Vertigo series by Andy Diggle and Jock, who themselves reinvented a very different DC Comics franchise of the 1970s that was set in WWII.

“When I first read the screenplay, what struck me, the initial spark, was the opportunity for a really interesting mix of tones. It struck me almost as a comedy disguised in an action film. I felt recently there had been a lot of action movies that embrace grittiness and realness but also fall into a very straight and dark tone, generally. I thought here there was a really interesting balance drawn from the 2004 and 2005 [comics] reinventions of ‘The Losers’ that had hard, gritty action with a fun, light tone.”

The cast has considerable name recognition with the fanboy world: There’s Zoe Saldana, who is coming off “Star Trek” and “Avatar,” Jeffrey Dean Morgan of “Watchmen” and Chris Evans from the “Fantastic Four” films.

White said Saldana is a revelation amid the gunfire ballet of “The Losers.”

“She is incredible in this film and she had already shown that she can really handle the drama, and with this she shows how great she is with the intense action stuff and there’s a great balance that she brings. Her character brings a lot of the controversy to the plot and drama to the plot, but at the same time she is the savior. She is probably the hardest fighter of them all too. Instead of the damsel in distress, she’s the one that gives the call to action. She’s the one that gives them the opportunity to redeem themselves.”

The Paris native said he’s not concerned about that other commando film, especially since “The Losers” get deployed to theaters first.

“I wasn’t aware the other movie was coming when I was busy fabricating and creating this film. All I can do is make the movie I want to make and do the best I can. I’m not worried about the ‘A-Team,’ our movie comes first and has a very different plot. … As far as aesthetic, there are a lot of gimmicks with action movies right now, a lot of frenetic edit, techy exposition and nonsense. With this movie I really tried to give it a certain elegance.

The Warner Bros. film is a Dark Castle Production from Joel Silver, who’s producing along with Weed Road’s Akiva Goldsman and Kerry Foster. Silver said “Losers” had a strange path because at one point he was developing a rival project, a remake of “The Dirty Dozen,” while Goldsman had “The Losers.” The latter, despite the title, looked like the winner.

“It kept getting more traction than our picture; it just seemed fresher and younger than our picture. I was kind of saddled with a creaky story. … I hope someday to still pull that movie off, but right now this looked like the better way to go. When ‘The Losers’ kind of shutdown and looked like it wouldn’t happen at Warners, I went to the studio and said, ‘Hey, let us do it.’ And Akiva came back on board with us.”

Silver said that Morgan, especially, seems to bring his character, Clay, to life right off the pages of the Vertigo comics, and that Saldana is proving herself to be a true movie star. “She’s sensational,” Silver said, “whether she’s blue or not.”

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