Marvel is set to launch its new Infinity Wars event this coming Wednesday, and the publisher has unveiled a behind-the-scenes trailer for the new series which features comments from writer Gerry Duggan, editor Jordan D. White and Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Check out a preview of Infinity Wars #1 […]
Deadpool director planned to make Negasonic Teenage Warhead a villain in the sequel
With Deadpool helmer Tim Miller opting against a return to the director’s chair on this year’s superhero sequel due to creative differences with Fox and producer and star Ryan Reynolds, actress Brianna Hildebrand has given us a hint at one direction that Deadpool 2 could have went had Miller remained on board the project. Speaking to Red […]
Blade Runner 2049 composer Benjamin Wallfisch to score DC’s Shazam!
Following the release of the first trailer last weekend during the San Diego Comic-Con International, it has now been announced that composer Benjamin Wallfisch (Blade Runner 2049, It) is set to score the upcoming DC superhero adventure. The news may not come as too much of a surprise given that Wallfisch has teamed with director […]
Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles heading to the small screen
Kim Newman’s novel Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles is set for a TV adaptation courtesy of Playground Entertainment, the production company behind Little Women, Howards End and King Lear. The novel, published in 2011, is written as the memoirs of Colonel Sebastian Moran, the trusted lieutenant of Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis Professor Moriarty, and […]
Jason Scott Lee set for villain role Disney’s Mulan
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story star Jason Scott Lee has signed on to play the villain Bori Khan in Disney’s live-action remake of its animated film Mulan. The actor has previously worked with Disney on its 1994 live-action The Jungle Book, where he played Mowgli, as well as lending his voice to 2002’s Lilo & […]
Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery is heading to the big screen
The Haunting of Hill House author Shirley Jackson’s 1948 short story The Lottery is set for a feature film adaptation courtesy of Paramount Pictures and producer Frank Marshall (Jason Bourne, Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom). The controversial story, first published in The New Yorker in 1948, takes place in a small New England town where it […]
Ryan Reynolds to produce R-rated Home Alone reimagining Stoned Alone
THR is reporting that Ryan Reynolds is on board to produce and potentially star in Stoned Alone, an R-rated reimagining of the 1990 holiday classic Home Alone, which reteams the Deadpool star with studio Fox. The film revolves around a “20-something stoner who, after missing the plane for his holiday ski trip, gets high and […]
Gina Prince-Bythewood to direct comic book adaptation The Old Guard
With Sony’s planned Spider-Man spinoff Silver & Black seemingly stuck in development hell, THR is reporting that director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Cloak & Dagger, The Secret Life of Bees) is moving on to another comic book-based project in The Old Guard. An adaptation of Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez’s Image Comics series, The Old Guard revolves […]
Netflix gives series order to zombie comedy Daybreak
Netflix has given a 10-episode series order to Daybreak, an adaptation of Brian Ralph’s dark zombie comedy graphic novel, Deadline has revealed. The series has been created by Aron Eli Coleite (Star Trek: Discovery) and Brad Peyton (Rampage) and follows a 17-year old high school student called Josh who is searching for his girlfriend in […]
James Franco in talks to direct ESPN film Those Guys Have All the Fun
According to THR, James Franco is in talks with Focus Features to direct Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN, a feature exploring the birth of the sports network which is based upon the 2011 book by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales. Franco scored major critical success with last year’s […]