Rounding up the big news stories from the weekend…LANDO CALRISSIAN AND DARTH VADER JOIN THE LION KINGDirector Jon Favreau has revealed the first casting for his upcoming remake of the animated Disney classic The Lion King, with Donald Glover set to voice Simba and James Earl Jones reprising his role from the original as Mufasa. […]
Cary Fukunaga in talks for Atomic Bomb drama Shockwave
According to Deadline, director Cary Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation) and screenwriter Hossein Amini (Drive) are in talks with Universal Pictures for an adaptation of Stephen Walker’s non-fiction book Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima. Here’s the official description of the book: On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton bomb—dubbed Little Boy by its […]
Michelle Rodriguez joins Steve McQueen’s Widows
According to Empire, Fast & Furious star Michelle Rodriguez has joins the cast of Steve McQueen’s (12 Years a Slave) next film Widows, where she will join the previously announced Viola Davis (Fences) and Cynthia Erivo, star of Broadway’s The Color Purple musical.Widows has been scripted by McQueen and Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), and is […]
Kit Harington, Liv Tyler, Peter Mullan and Mark Gatiss join the BBC’s Guy Fawkes series Gunpowder
Kit Harington (Game of Thrones), Liv Tyler (The Leftovers), Peter Mullan (Top of the Lake) and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) have signed on to star in the upcoming three-part historical thriller series Gunpowder from the BBC. Scripted by Ronan Bennett (Top Boy), who devised the project with Harington and Daniel West, the series will explore the […]
Sam Raimi is heading to the Bermuda Triangle
THR is reporting that Sam Raimi has signed on to direct a mystery thriller based around the Bermuda Triangle, which is being produced by Skydance Productions and has been written by Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time).The project is one of three competing Bermuda Triangle projects in development, with […]
Amblin picks up “female John Wick” project Ruthless
Following the box office success of Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 2, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment is getting into the assassin game, picking up the script for the action thriller Ruthless.The project is being dubbed a “female John Wick” and follows “a retired assassin who returns to the game after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer […]
Logan tracking a $60 million domestic opening weekend
The reviews are in, with many hailing it as one of the best superhero movies of all time (read Rob Kojder’s ★★★★ review here), and with just two weeks to go before it opens in cinemas, the first box office tracking numbers for Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine swan song Logan have now arrived online.According to Forbes, the […]
Natalie Dormer set for a Picnic at Hanging Rock
Deadline is reporting that Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer has signed on for a TV adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s classic novel Picnic at Hanging Rock, which is slated to go into production this month ahead of an Australian premiere later in the year. As with the novel, the six-part series will explore the mysterious […]
J.J. Abrams, Stephen King and Hulu invite us to take a trip to Castle Rock
Fresh from their collaboration on 11/22/63, J.J. Abrams and Hulu are set for a return to the world of Stephen King, this time for an anthology series entitled Castle Rock, which of course takes its name from the fictional Maine town that appears in many of King’s novels.The news was revealed with the release of […]
Samuel L. Jackson thinks Nick Fury could appear in Captain Marvel, but not Black Panther
Having sat out Captain America: Civil War, Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury will make his return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe next year as part of Avengers: Infinity War, and the star has been chatting to We Got This Covered about whether we can expect to see him popping up anywhere else in Phase Three.“I’d […]
