Variety is reporting that True Detective and Bond 25 director Cary Joji Fukunaga is teaming with Nicole Kassell (Watchmen) for a potential TV adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757. The trade reveals that the series will be a retelling of the novel, which “re-centers the […]
First image from Alex Garland’s Devs featuring Sonoya Mizuno
FX has released the first image from Devs, the upcoming limited series from Ex Machina and Annihilation director Alex Garland, which features actress Sonoya Mizuno (Ex Machina) who stars as Lily Chan, a young computer engineer who investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she […]
Joker director debunks The Batman crossover speculation, Leonardo DiCaprio casting rumour
Last week, Variety reported that incoming Dark Knight Robert Pattinson may have dropped a potential spoiler regarding The Batman, after the actor reportedly requested that some comments about Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker were redacted during an interview. Given that Joker exists separately from the established DC Extended Universe, and The Batman’s DCEU status remains unclear after […]
Absolute Carnage and The Walking Dead lead bestselling comics and graphic novels of August 2019
Marvel enjoyed another big month in August, with the publisher topping the Diamonc Comic Distributors direct sales chart with Absolute Carnage #1, followed closely by its 80th anniversary celebration Marvel Comics #1000. Meanwnile, The Walking Dead Vol. 32 – the final collection in the long-running zombie series – proved unsurprisingly to be the bestselling graphic […]
Boom! announces Klaus and the Life & Times of Joe Christmas
Boom! Studios has announced the December release of the special oversized one-shot Klaus and the Life and Times of Joe Christmas, a new entry in the Eisner Award-nominated reimagining of the Santa Claus mythology from writer Grant Morrison and artist Dan Mora. Nothing’s calm but all is bright in this once-in-a-lifetime special KLAUS event—a completely silent issue! […]
Millie Bobby Brown reuniting with Netflix for A Time Lost
Netflix is set to reunite with Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown on the feature film project A Time Lost, which is based on an original story idea by Brown and her sister Paige Brown. As per Deadline, the film will follow “a long-standing feud between two Long Island families that comes to a head […]
House Targaryen Game of Thrones prequel nearing green light at HBO
With its first pilot currently in post-production, Deadline is reporting that HBO is close to giving the green light to a second Game of Thrones spinoff – this one from A Song of Ice and Fire creator George R.R. Martin and Colony co-creator Ryan Condal. The untitled project is said to take place some 300 […]
Game of Thrones’ Richard Dormer to lead Discworld series The Watch
Game of Thrones star Richard Dormer is set to lead the cast of The Watch, the BBC’s upcoming live-action fantasy series based upon Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld novels. Dormer is set to portray Sam Vimes, Captain of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, described as a group of “misfit cops [who] fight to save a ramshackle city of […]
South Park renewed for three more seasons by Comedy Central
Comedy Central has announced that it has renewed South Park for three additional seasons of ten episodes apiece, which will extend the animated show’s record as the longest-running prime-time scripted cable series to at least 26 seasons. “Apparently, our efforts to get our own show canceled have fallen short,” said South Park creators Trey Parker […]
Marvel to team Conan with Moon Knight, Solomon Kane and Dark Agnes for Serpent War event
Hot on the heels of the news that Marvel will be introducing Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane and Dark Agnes into its comic book universe, the publisher has now announced that they will make their debut in Conan: Serpent War, a four issue event series which also features the character of Marc Spector, a.k.a. Moon […]
