Teaser poster for "The Dark Knight Rises"; Iceland + synopsis = "Prometheus"?; Malkovich in "Siberian Education" adaptation; Danny Boyle eyes Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson;

• Opening on July 20th, 2012, The Dark Knight Rises is directed by Christopher Nolan, stars Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman and it is expected to see the first teaser trailer later this week with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II, but it seems that the first teaser poster was released online, which gives some hopes for all those who want to see the trailer as soon as possible. Just look at the poster:

• According to Collider, "Ridley Scott’s Prometheus remains shrouded in secrecy, but the production is moving to Helka, Iceland for two weeks of shooting. The country won’t be featured in the film, but Scott tells IceNews that what they shoot “will be 15 minutes in total, if all goes to plan. We are shooting the beginning of time.” Lead actors Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, and Noomi Rapace will all be on hand for the shoot. Part of the filming will be at the “Dettifoss waterfall  — Europe’s most powerful by volume of water" and the same source published an official synopsis via JoBo: "Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life’s ultimate mystery". It seems great, by the way! I'm curious/excited about this movie!

• John Malkovich (Dangerous Liaisons) has signed on to star in Siberian Education, the adaptation of the Nicolai Lilin's autobiography of the same name and, according to Variety, Malkovich will play “Grandfather Kuzja, who teaches his grandson Kolyma (played by Lithuanian actor Arnas Fedaravicius) the morals of “honest criminals’”. It looks so interesting and I think it has the potential to be a kind of award winner motion picture if the director knows how to tell the story and the movie style it requires. I already had a look on the book (which is about a man who grew up in a criminal underworld) and it seemed so interesting and now I've an excuse to buy it as sooner as possible!

• Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) has settled on the thriller Trance as his next film project. He plans to shoot it in 2012 and then edit it with a March 2013 release in mind. Michael Fassbender (Hunger) was rumored for the lead role of the leader of a heist team gang partners with an art gallery assistant who masterminds the crime but then gets amnesia and forgets the location of the portrait they stole. Fassbender passed on the role, but James McAvoy (Atonement) started being considered for a role in the flick. Recently, some sources reported that Boyle is eyeing Colin Firth (The King's Speech) to replace Fassbender and Scarlett Johansson (Lost In Translation) for a supporting role (the hypnotist the gang hires to get into the assistant’s memory, maybe). It may seem to have a kind of silly plot, but it may have to be a potential kind of Memento... I don't know... It seems to be an interesting project to follow.