Ridley Scott is set to bring Prometheus closer in line to his original Alien movie with the upcoming sequel Alien: Covenant, and the filmmaker has revealed that as such, the new film will feature the classic Xenomorph alien. “Well, really it’s Alien,” Scott tells The Wrap when asked about the Prometheus sequel. “They’re going to […]
James Cameron says Avatar sequels have to prove the original wasn’t “some big fluke”
It took James Cameron over fifteen years to bring Avatar to the big screen, so it’s not really much of a surprise that six years after the release of the film, he’s still hammering away at development on his planned sequels. Initially planning to shoot two movies back-to-back for release in 2014 and 2015, the […]
Kathleen Kennedy says Lucasfilm will “certainly move forward” with Indiana Jones 5
Over the past couple of months there’s been a lot of talk from both Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford about a fifth Indiana Jones movie, and now Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy has confirmed that “we’ll certainly move forward” with another outing for the globe-trotting archaeologist and adventurer. “We’re all trying to figure out when the […]
Quentin Tarantino plans to write novels and plays after retiring from filmmaking
For the past couple of years, Quentin Tarantino has been suggesting that he’ll call time on his career as a filmmaker after reaching ten movies, and with his eighth film The Hateful Eight now just under a fortnight away from release, the director has reiterated that stance during an interview with THR, as well as […]
Marvel officially announces Apocalypse Wars event
Last weekend it was revealed that Brazil’s Comic Con Experience that Marvel is set to launch a new X-Men event entitled Apocalypse Wars, and now the publisher has officially announced the arc, which will present three blockbuster stories across Extraordinary X-Men, Uncanny X-Men and All-New X-Men. “In the same vein as the classic event “Fall […]
Fox renews Wayward Pines for second season
FOX has announced that M. Night Shyamalan’s hit series Wayward Pines is set to return for a ten-episode second season in 2016. “Wayward Pines was a huge hit for us this past summer,” states President of Entertainment Fox Broadcasting Company David Madden. “We were absolutely blown away by the mysterious and surprising world that Night and […]
The Week in Spandex – X-Men: Apocalypse, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, The Defenders, Iron Fist, Batman v Superman, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Powers and more
In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at X-Men: Apocalypse, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Ant-Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Infinity War, The Defenders, Iron Fist, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Batman v Superman: Dawn of […]
Supergirl Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Human For a Day’
Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Supergirl, ‘Human For a Day’… With Charles Halford under loads of latex this week, Supergirl continues to be worth its network weight in gold. Chiefly because it pulls a Superman II on Melissa Benoist. Yes this is clichéd. Yes I saw it coming in the closing moments of episode […]
The Flickering Myth Reaction to the first trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse
The Flickering Myth writing team share their opinion on the first trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse… Yesterday 20th Century Fox gave us our first official look at May’s big X-Men sequel with the release of the trailer for Bryan Singer’s latest mutant superhero epic X-Men: Apocalypse. What did our writing team make of the trailer? Well, […]
Dwayne Johnson joins Will Gluck action comedy
New Line Cinema has snapped up the rights to an as-yet-untitled action comedy from director Will Gluck (Easy A, Annie) and screenwriter Dave Callaham (The Expendables, Godzilla), which has Dwayne Johnson attached to star. Deadline reports that plot details are being kept under wraps, but its seen as “a throwback to those mismatched buddy action […]
