Rounding up the weekend’s big news stories…
WONDER WOMAN GETS AN ORIGINS TRAILER
On Saturday, Warner Bros. gave us another look at its first DC Films release of 2017, unveiling an ‘Origins’ trailer for June’s Wonder Woman solo movie starring Gal Gadot. If you’re yet to see the trailer, or you just want to watch it again, you can find it here.
FIRST LOOK AT EDGAR WRIGHT’S NEXT FILM
Wonder Woman wasn’t the only big trailer to hit over the weekend, as well also got our first look at Edgar Wright’s latest with the release of the first trailer for Baby Driver [watch it here]. Fans attending SXSW got to see the film on Saturday night, but the rest of us will have to wait patiently until August.
SIMON PEGG AND NICK FROST REUNITING
Edgar Wright may be missing from the reunion, but Nick Frost has revealed that he’s working on a new project with Simon Pegg; details are scarce, and it’s yet to be decided whether it will be for TV or film, but Frost has teased a few details, and you can read his comments here.
Having extended his sequel plans for 2009’s Avatar from two movies to four, James Cameron has spent the best part of a decade hammering away at the scripts and preparing for the hugely ambitious back-to-back-to-back-to-back undertaking of Avatar 2, Avatar 3, Avatar 4 and Avatar 5. The first sequel has already been pushed back several times, and now Cameron has revealed that “2018 is not happening”. Meanwhile, Anghus Houvouras has been looking back at the first movie, and thanks it’s time we admit that Avatar was actually kind of terrible. Read his op-ed here.
RIDLEY SCOTT WANTS GLADIATOR SEQUEL
It looks like Ridley Scott has been bitten by the sequel bug. He recently revealed he had ideas for a further SIX Alien movies after Alien: Covenant, and now he’s been talking again about reuniting with Russell Crowe for the long-rumoured Gladiator sequel, and he knows how he can bring Maximus back from the dead. Read his comments here.
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH THE DARK TOWER MOVIE?
In just over four months time, Stephen King’s fantasy epic The Dark Tower hits the big screen; it’s been pushed back once, we’re yet to see a trailer (barring a leaked workprint in October), and now comes word that some last minute reshoots are underway. Something seems amiss, and it’s led Samuel Brace to ask, ‘What the hell is going on with The Dark Tower movie?’ Read his opinion piece here.
Originally published March 13, 2017. Updated November 30, 2022.
