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Back on May 19th 2014 we shared with you a photo of JJ Abrams’ note to the cast and crew of Star Wars Episode VII. Well now that filming is wrapping up, JJ and the other producers have sent out a less personal (read: not hand written) note to the cast and crew on their final day of work. See that note, after the jump.

The following comes from James Rose. Note the Episode VII crew hat in the background:

The note reads:

To the Extraordinary Cast and Crew of Episode VII:

It is a true honor and absolute joy to come to set every day and work alongside each of you. Your professionalism, passion and patience is more deeply appreciated than we could ever express. From the deserts of Abu Dhabi, to the Forest of Dean, to the stages of Pinewood, you have risen to every challenge and been as wonderfully kind as you are brilliantly talented. Our ambition here is large, of course, and it must be: we are here to make a film that entertains millions of people, of all ages, for generations. To create an experience people will cherish watching as much as we will cherish having made it, together. How lovely it would be if you had, in addition to your name on the screen, some actual real tangible proof that you were part of it! Here, then, is that proof. Wear it well, wear it healthily, wear it proudly. But, mostly, thank you.

With Love,

JJ Abrams   Kathleen Kennedy   Bryan Burke

The original post by Russ Fischer  featuring JJ Abrams’ original note from May 19th 2014 follows:

We recently saw the first couple photos from filming on Star Wars Episode VII, and now a new image has surfaced. This one does not show a set or a costume, or even a physical place. It is a note from J. J. Abrams to the crew (and likely intended to be read by all of us) that features a bit of wry humor: “Amazing but true: the world awaits this film.” Check out the note below.

In case the handwriting gives you pause here’s a transcription via ScreenCrush:

Dearest Cast and Crew, What an honor it is to work beside all of you, on Star Wars Ep VII. I can’t thank you enough, for all work past and future. Let’s take good care of not just ourselves, but of each other. Amazing, but true: the world awaits this film. Let’s give ‘em something GREAT. xo JJ

As a bonus, here’s the video message Abrams sent along for the Stars of the Saga talk show at Star Wars Weekends at Walt Disney World:

Star Wars: Episode VII opens on December 18, 2015. The cast features John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker.

JJ Abrams Star Wars Note

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Is LL Cool J actually going to be in a Marvel movie? Which iconic Superman character will co-star in Supergirl? Have any female directors been approached for Wonder Woman? Will Bullseye be on the Netflix Daredevil series? When is Victor Zsasz coming to Gotham? Who does Arrow want to play The Flash in the movies? Where in Chicago is Batman v Superman filming? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits.

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Several new Supergirl roles have been revealed via TV Line, including Jimmy Olsen!

Artist Tim Flattery posted some images of Doc Ock concepts from Spider-Man 2. Thanks to CBM.

Despite earlier rumors, Bleeding Cool reports only male directors have so far been approached to direct Wonder Woman.

No one. RT @cameronstear: Who’s going to be playing Bullseye in the Marvel Netflix Daredevil? Please reply or give me a hint Steven?

— Steven DeKnight (@stevendeknight) October 31, 2014

Seems like Bullseye won’t be on the Daredevil Netflix series.

On Location Vacations and Comic Book Movie have come across a ton of info on where Batman v Superman is filming in Chicago.

Full disclosure, we’re probably going to put this in its own article because it deserves it, but just so you Superhero Bits readers can see it first, here’s How It Should Have Ended for the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer.

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I know, it’s too early to start throwing Christmas movies at you. But this only looks like a Christmas movie. In fact, I believe this trailer for Jingle All the Way 2, starring Larry the Cable Guy, is actually a bunch of footage dressed up as a real movie for Halloween. Sadly, Larry does not play the character originated by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1996 movie. That might be a pretty good trick. He’s just another dad trying to get a great gift for his kid. Hint: this Jingle All the Way 2 trailer is not the gift.

Trailer via Fox, which will probably make more money on this sequel than you’d like to know.

Two desperate dads compete in a no-holds-barred battle to be the best father and make this the best Christmas ever! Fun-loving, laid-back dad Larry is having a bear of a time finding the perfect Christmas gift for his eight-year-old daughter, Noel. The season’s hottest toy, The Harrison Bear, is all sold out, and Noel’s new stepfather wants to keep it that way, so he can be the one to make her holiday wish come true. When Larry learns all Noel wants for Christmas is the bear, he’ll stop at nothing to make his little girl happy and get her the toy of her dreams.

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The picture above isn’t a Halloween party shot; it’s a behind the scenes pic from James’ Franco‘s film adaptation of the novel Zeroville. And Seth Rogen isn’t really playing screenwriter and director John Milius. In fact, he’s playing a character called Viking Man… who is a very thinly-disguised representation of Milius. Zeroville features quite a few such figures. Some of the book’s characters are famous (Martin Scorsese is represented, for instance) while others are fairly obscure.

See the full Zeroville shot, complete with an appearance from Will Ferrell, below.

Badass Digest pointed out Franco’s Instagram post.

Seth Rogen zeroville

What role is Ferrell playing here? We don’t know — he could be one of a couple producers that factor into the story as Franco’s character Vikar finds his place in the filmmaking business as an editor.

The rest of the Zeroville cast, as we’ve previously reported, is similarly full of Franco’s friends: Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Dave Franco, Jacki Weaver, Horatio Sanz, Joey King, and Megan Fox all factor into the project. Fox and King play two of the most important characters, a mother and daughter pair who recur throughout the novel. And Jacki Weaver should have some great scenes as a Hollywood veteran who becomes a friend and mentor to Vikar.

IMDB claims to have info on a couple of the other famous personality appearances, withMia Serafino playing Ali MacGraw and Kevin Makely playing Steven Spielberg.

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Like the torn-apart Frank Cotton in the original film, Hellraiser keeps trying to pull itself back together. Harvey Weinstein has experimented with reboot and sequel ideas for the past few years, attaching a couple different directors at different times for projects that ultimately failed. But a year ago Clive Barker revealed that he had pitched Weinstein on a loose remake idea that the producer liked. Suddenly, Barker was reunited with his directorial debut and working on the newest version of the tale.

Now Barker has finished the second draft of the film that will reboot and expand upon the story seen in the original Hellraiser. (And which was created in Barker’s novella The Hellhound Heart.) A few details are below, thanks to the author.

EW spoke to Barker on the occasion of the release of the Nightbreed director’s cut blu-ray, which finally presents Barker’s 1990 film in a cut that resembles his original intentions.

Talking about that movie is also a good excuse to bring up Hellraiser, the “very loose remake” of which continues to develop:

I think the phrase is ‘reboot,’ although I’ve never really understood what that meant. I wanted to make sure we sounded some fresh notes. The movie actually begins on Devil’s Island. I wanted to fold into the Hellraiser narrative something about the guy—the Frenchman Lemarchand—who made the mysterious box, which raises Pinhead. I figured, ‘Well, what would have happened to him?’ He might well have been taken to Devil’s Island [a penal colony] and I thought that would be a pretty cool place to start the movie. We’re waiting for Bob to come back to us and see when we’re going to actually make the movie.

In Barker’s original novella, Lemarchand was one of a few people who had devised a method of communicating with the extra-dimensional Cenobites. (That group includes Pinhead, who became the film series’ poster child.) Lemarchand has been portrayed on film before, in Hellraiser IV: Bloodline, the last film in the series to get a theatrical release. (There are five more direct to video sequels. The last one, Hellraiser: Revelations, was made in a matter of weeks so that the Weinsteins would retain rights to the franchise.)

The idea of Barker writing the reboot is pretty good, but at the same time I’m a lot less interested in further explorations of the same ideas already seen in the Hellraiser films than I would be in development of other concepts related to what we already know. But I’m not assuming anything just yet; let’s see where Barker’s script goes.

And while Barker plans only to write this reboot, with directing duties left to someone else, he could get back into the chair eventually:

We’ve got some really cool things coming down the pike. They’re movies which I’m able to watch over as a producer rather than as a director, [but] each time another thing gets added to the rest of the things that we’re doing, I get more tantalized by the idea of actually doing it as a director myself. So, I don’t think I’ll wait too long until I sign on for something myself.

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Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness.

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