Before the addition of the Dark Knight, Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice started its life as a straight-up sequel to Man of Steel, with Snyder and screenwriter David S. Goyer signing on to the project back in June of 2013. However, a month later, it was announced at the San Diego Comic-Con that the […]
Will Ferrell heading back to the North Pole
Producers Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen are sending Elf star Will Ferrell back to the North Pole, having acquired the rights to Guy Lawson’s New York Times Magazine article ‘Ice Pack: An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole‘. The film will tell the true story […]
Domhnall Gleeson to play National Lampoon co-founder in Netflix movie A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Domhnall Gleeson is in talks to star in Netflix’s A Futile and Stupid Gesture, a feature film exploring the origins of National Lampoon, the groundbreaking U.S. satirical magazine. Gleeson will portray Henry Beard, one of the three co-founders of the National Lampoon alongside Robert Hoffman and Doug Kenney. Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth) […]
Arrow’s Katie Cassidy to appear in The Flash and Vixen
Arrow star Katie Cassidy is set to join fellow Arrowverse show The Flash for a guest appearance in the penultimate episode of the second season. “You will see her on an episode of The Flash playing the Earth-2 version of Laurel Lance,” revealed executive producer Marc Guggenheim (via EW), who also confirmed that Cassidy will lend […]
Jack Thorne to pen the BBC’s His Dark Materials adaptation
Back in November, it was announced that the BBC is teaming up with New Line Cinema and Bad Wolf for an eight-part adaptation of Philip Pullman’s epic fantasy His Dark Materials, and now Deadline has revealed that the project has secured acclaimed screenwriter Jack Thorne (Skins, This Is England, The Last Panthers). “It is such […]
Katherine Kelly to lead Doctor Who spinoff Class
Back in October, it was announced that Doctor Who would be getting a spinoff entitled Class, and now the BBC has revealed that Katherine Kelly will lead the cast as a Coal Hill School teacher in charge of a group of students played by Greg Austin, Fady Elsayed, Sophie Hopkins, and Vivian Oparah. “We searched far […]
DC announces YA novels featuring Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman and Catwoman
DC Entertainment and Random House are teaming up for a series of Young Adult novels featuring Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman and Catwoman, Entertainment Weekly has revealed. Wonder Woman will be written by Leigh Bardugo (Six of Crows), and is set for release in August 2017, followed by Batman by Marie Lu (Young Elites), Superman by […]
Echo Kellum promoted to series regular for Arrow season 5
TV Line is reporting that Echo Kellum has been promoted to series regular for the fifth season of the DC superhero show Arrow, which will get underway in the fall. Kellum portrays genius tech developer Curtis Holt, who is based upon the DC character Mister Terrific. In the most recent episode of the series, ‘Beacon […]
The Walking Dead showrunner defends cliffhanger ending
Warning: Spoilers for the season six finale of The Walking Dead follow. You have been warned… It’s not very often that The Walking Dead misfires, but for many fans it did so in a big way last night with its season six finale, as Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s villain Negan made his hotly-anticipated debut. Bringing one […]
Rumour: Justice League to feature war with Atlantis rather than Darkseid
With production on Justice League Part One set to get underway next week, El Mayimbe of Heroic Hollywood is back with some alleged details on Zack Snyder’s next DC offering. Rather than having the League battling Darkseid – as set up by Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – Mayimbe claims that the film will see a war erupting […]
