With Thor: Ragnarok set to incorporate elements of the Planet Hulk comic book arc, director Taika Waititi has taken to Instagram to tease the inclusion of one the main characters from the storyline in Korg the Kronan. Watch this space… #Ragnarok A photo posted by Taika Waititi (@taikawaititi) on Sep 30, 2016 at 5:15am PDT […]
Keean Johnson joins Alita: Battle Angel in key role
Nashville star Keean Johnson has scored a key role in the upcoming manga adaptation Alita: Battle Angel, with THR reporting that he’s set to play Hugo, the male love interest opposite Rosa Salazar’s title character. He won the part ahead of competition from Avan Jogia (Tut), Douglas Booth (Jupiter Ascending), Jack Lowden (Dunkirk) and Noah […]
Samuel L. Jackson on the Marvel and DC rivalry
Much has been made of the “rivalry” between Marvel and DC this year, which isn’t too surprising given that we’ve seen Warner Bros. fleshing out the DC Extended Universe with the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad, while Marvel Studios launched Phase Three with Captain America: Civil War and the […]
A Game of Thrones spinoff is sounding increasingly likely
With just two seasons of Game of Thrones remaining, there’s been a lot of speculation as to whether HBO will look to extend its stay in Westeros with a spinoff series – and judging from the latest comments from HBO programming president Casey Bloys, it’s now a case of when rather than if we’ll get […]
Watch the unofficial The Adventures of Indiana Jones animated short
Back around the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, artist Patrick Schoenmaker was commissioned by Lucasfilm and ACME Archives to create a special print which envisioned the adventurer and archaeologist as an animated cartoon. This sparked Schoenmaker’s imagination, and he’s spent the past five years working on an unofficial animated […]
FX’s Archer to end after its tenth season
Back in June FX announced that it had renewed its acclaimed animated show Archer for three addition seasons of eight episodes apiece, and now the series’ creator Adam Reed has revealed that he expects it to end following its tenth season in 2019. “The plan is to end Archer after season 10,” Reed told the […]
M. Night Shyamalan developing animated comedy Eleven Little Indians for Fox
Variety is reporting that filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan is teaming up with Family Guy writer Alex Carter for an animated comedy series entitled Eleven Little Indians, which has been picked up by Fox. The show “examines three branches of a large Indian family — one has achieved the American dream; another has just arrived in […]
Duncan Jones’ Mute picked up by Netflix, will be related to Moon
With production now underway on Warcraft hemer Duncan Jones’ long-gestating sci-fi project Mute, star Alexander Skarsgard has revealed on the Empire podcast that the film is set to be distributed by Netflix. “I think they’ll do what they did with Beasts Of No Nation,” where they do a theatrical simultaneously to a Netflix release,” said Skarsgard. […]
Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon to wage war against the Taliban in Horse Soldiers
Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon have signed on to appear in Horse Soldiers, which is based upon Doug Stanton’s book of the same name and will be directed by Nicolai Fuglsig, with Jerry Bruckheimer producing. The film tells “the tense true story of a U.S. Special Forces team and their untested captain sent to a […]
Roy Orbison biopic The Big O in development
Legendary American musician Roy Orbison is set to receive an official biopic, with his estate pledging their cooperation to The Big O: Roy Orbison, which is being scripted by Ray Gideon and Bruce Evans (Stand By Me, Starman). The film will follow the Texan singer’s life, from his breakthrough single ‘Ooby Dooby’ and subsequent hits […]
