The adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower was an under-advertised flop, and the source material’s creator has now spoken out about its failure. “The major challenge was to do a film based on a series of books that’s really long, about 3,000 pages,” King told Vulture. “The other part of it was the decision to do a PG-13 feature adaptation of books that are extremely violent and deal with violent behavior in a fairly graphic way. That was something that had to be overcome, although I’ve gotta say, I thought [screenwriter] Akiva Goldsman did a terrific job in taking a central part of the book and turning it into what I thought was a pretty good movie. The TV series they’re developing now … we’ll see what happens with that. It would be like a complete reboot, so we’ll just have to see.” Read more here.
According to The Hashtag Show – who have a fairly spotty track record – the Uncharted movie is looking to cast Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston in a very large role, which the site speculates could be that of Victor ‘Sully’ Sullivan – friend, mentor and father figure to Nathan Drake. Read more here.
Having attempted to bring Batman to the big screen nearly two decades ago, Darren Aronofsky is now turning his attention to The Man of Steel. “I mean, you know, Superman would always be interesting, but they’re already deep into reinventing him, so that’s not going to happen for a long time,” the mother! director told CinePop. “A lot of the great superhero titles are done, people have used them up. So now it’s kinda characters that aren’t as interesting. You never know. We’ll see what comes my way.” Read more here.
It has recently become the highest grossing domestic horror film of all time, moving past The Exorcist, and now the Stephen King adaptation has entered 2017’s top 5 at the US box office. After just two full weeks of release, It has claimed $266 million domestically, surging ahead of Despicable Me 3 which sits in sixth spot with $261.8 million. Read more here.
After years of development, James Cameron’s Avatar sequels are finally heading into production, and could come with a very large price tag. The four follow-ups to the highest-grossing movie of all time have a reported budget in excess of $1 billion, and will be shot together in succession in 3D. Read more here.
With the first trailer set to debut next week at New York Comic-Con, Universal Pictures has released a new poster for the upcoming sci-fi action sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising featuring John Boyega and Scott Eastwood. Check them out here.
Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Young Sheldon, which you can read here.
Originally published September 27, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.
