Despite granting it a ten-episode straight-to-series order last year, FX Networks has announced that they have scrapped their plans for a Deadpool animated series from Donald Glover and Stephen Glover. “Due to creative differences, FX, Donald Glover, Stephen Glover and Marvel Television have agreed to part ways on Marvel’s Deadpool animated series,” reads the official […]
Noah Hawley on his Doctor Doom movie plans and Legion future with Disney’s impending takeover
Last summer during the San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that Legion creator Noah Hawley would be taking on the reins of a Doctor Doom solo movie for 20th Century Fox. Despite the impending Fox acquisition by Disney, Hawley has confirmed that he remains in development on the project, and now he’s shed a little […]
Suicide Squad director explains The Joker’s original role in the film’s ending
Before Warner Bros. drastically altered last year’s Justice League with a round of significant reshoots, the studio took its chainsaw to another DC Films release in David Ayer’s 2016 supervillain team-up Suicide Squad. One of the biggest changes to that film revolved around The Joker, with Jared Leto’s role cut significantly, and the Clown Prince […]
Avengers 4 screenwriters tease Captain Marvel’s unprecedented power level
While it’s a little unclear whether Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel will appear in next month’s Avengers: Infinity War [various comments from directors Anthony and Joe Russo suggest that she will and she won’t], we do know that Carol Danvers will be leading her own 90s-set solo movie next year, followed by an appearance in the […]
Disney releasing remastered editions of John Williams’ first six Star Wars scores
There may be no sign of the original movies being re-released in their pre-Special Edition form, but the official Star Wars site has announced that Disney Music Group will be marking Star Wars Day this May by releasing remastered editions of John Williams’ scores for the first six Star Wars movies, A New Hope, The […]
EA shuts down Visceral Games, new Star Wars game to be retooled
EA has announced that it is closing its Visceral Games studio, and as a result it will be retooling its long-gestating Star Wars video game, which has been in development since 2014 under Amy Henning (Uncharted). “In its current form, [the game] was shaping up to be a story-based, linear adventure game,” writers Patrick Söderlund, […]
Zak Penn reveals that he may be writing a new Marvel movie
During an interview with Screen Rant to promote his new movie Ready Player One [read our review here], The Incredible Hulk and The Avengers screenwriter Zak Penn has revealed that he’s about to start work on a mystery new Marvel project. “I think I’m probably gonna come back,” said Penn. “I think I’m gonna do […]
Transformers’ Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel to star in Think Like a Dog
Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen co-stars Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel are set to reunite on the upcoming family comedy Think Like a Dog, Variety has revealed. The film is being written and directed by Gil Junger (10 Things I Hate About You) and “follows a 12-year-old tech prodigy whose science fair experiment […]
Scarface remake enlists new screenwriter
Last month it was announced that Universal’s long-gestating Scarface remake looked to be getting back on track, with filmmaker Antoine Fuqua returning to the project almost a year after vacating the director’s chair in favour of The Equalizer 2. Now, according to Deadline, the studio has enlisted screenwriter Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (Miss Bala, Contralepo) to pen a […]
Malik Vitthal to direct “Get Out meets End of Watch” supernatural thriller Body Cam
Variety is reporting that Malik Vitthal, director of the short films Leela, Watts and Volts, and Pastor Stuart, is set to make his directorial debut on Body Cam, a supernatural thriller for Paramount Players. The film is described as “Get Out meets End of Watch” and follows several LAPD officers who find themselves “haunted by […]
