Having acquired the rights to Terminator for a hefty $20 million, producers Megan Ellison and David Ellison are wasting little time in capitalising on their investment. Not only is a new movie trilogy in the works, with the first instalment set for release in 2015 under director Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones), but it’s now […]

When Zack Snyder cast Henry Cavill as the lead in Man of Steel, it wasn’t the British actor’s first brush with Superman. Back in 2004, Cavill was cast as the iconic superhero in Superman: Flyby, a planned reboot from director McG (Charlie’s Angels) and screenwriter J.J. Abrams (Star Trek Into Darkness), which ultimately fell apart […]

Next year Hugh Jackman will make his seventh appearance as the Wolverine in director Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, while yesterday’s news about X-Men: Apocalypse coming in 2016 means there are three further potential outings for Logan on the horizon, including the X-Force movie from Jeff Wadlow and James Mangold’s sequel to The […]

The Family, 2013. Directed by Luc Besson.Starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron, John D’Leo, Tommy Lee Jones, and Jimmy Palumbo. SYNOPSIS: A Mafia boss and his family must relocate to France under the FBI’s witness protection program. Instructed to keep a low profile, the Manzoni’s end up attracting more attention then they want […]

First Alan Moore, and now Jason Statham… In a recent interview, the British hardman actor has spoken about about superhero movies, and says he’s not interested in taking on a role as a costumed crime-fighter. “It’s all about money, kids pay money to go and see them,” Statham tells Digital Spy. “The fascination is superheroes, […]

Martin Scorsese is a director who has stayed relevant throughout his entire career, and to this day he continues to make great movies while other directors at the same stage in their careers seem to have lost their way a little. The Italian-American filmmaker currently has several projects on the horizon post-The Wolf of Wall […]

Leonardo DiCaprio is teaming with Roy Lee (Sherlock Holmes) to produce a biopic of Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson for Warner Bros. For those who don’t know, Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip focussing on a boy genius, his pet tiger and their adventures, and ran between 1985 and 1995, as well as […]

Yesterday, Bryan Singer announced that 20th Century Fox’s X-Men franchise would see another release in 2016 with X-Men: Apocalypse, and now it’s been announced via The Hollywood Reporter that writer-producer Simon Kinberg has signed a three-year deal with a view to expanding the studio’s Marvel properties “into full-blown universes, with the hope of creating for […]

The Flickering Myth writing team discuss Bryan Singer’s announcement of X-Men: Apocalypse… What a busy few days we’ve had here at Flickering Myth in terms of comic book news. Firstly we had the news that Gal Gadot was playing Wonder Woman in Batman vs. Superman (read our reaction here) and then Thursday saw the debut […]