Back in August Netflix announced that it had renewed its hit supernatural drama Stranger Things for a third season, with creators The Duffer Brothers then revealing that a fourth season would likely be its last. While this was sad news for fans of the show (and presumably Netflix execs), executive producer Shawn Levy has now […]
Sex and the City 3 has been shelved
If you were looking forward to seeing the cast of Sex and the City reuniting for a third outing on the big screen, we have some bad news for you as Sarah Jessica Parker has revealed to Extra that plans for Sex and the City 3 have been scrapped. “It’s over,” said Parker. “We’re not […]
Skydance sets showrunners for live-action Sword Art Online series
Having snapped up the live-action rights to the Japanese light novel series Sword Art Online back in 2016, Skydance Television has now set Patrick Massett and John Zinman (Friday Night Lights, The Blacklist) to serve as showrunners, writers and executive producers on the planned series. The pilot episode of Sword Art Online will be penned […]
David Cronenberg’s Scanners is heading to the small screen for a TV adaptation
According to Deadline, Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res and Bron Studios have come out successful in a bidding war for the TV rights to David Cronenberg’s classic sci-fi horror Scanners, and are currently developing a small screen adaptation of the movie. Released in 1981, Scanners revolves around a group of people with telekinetic powers called “scanners”, […]
Monica Bellucci to star in sci-fi horror Nekromancer
Deadline is reporting that Monica Bellucci has signed on to star in Nekromancer, a new horror movie from Australian filmmakers Kiah and Tristan Roach-Turner (Wyrmwood). Plot details on Nekromancer are being kept under wraps, but the outlet states that the “genre-mashing sci-fi horror [will] see the return of the Wyrmwood directors to the mix of […]
Pretty Little Liars creators set The Heiresses pilot at ABC
Following on from the news that Freeform has given a pilot order to Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists, Deadline is reporting that Pretty Little Liars creator I. Marlene King and author Sara Shepard are reuniting for an adaptation of Shepard’s 2014 novel The Heiresses, which has received a put pilot commitment from ABC. The Heiresses […]
Mia Kirshner cast as Spock’s mother in Star Trek: Discovery
During an interview with TrekMovie, Star Trek: Discovery showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg have revealed that Amanda Grayson – Spock’s mother, and the adoptive mother of Sonequa Martin-Green’s Lt. Michael Burnham – will be making an appearance this season. The showrunners revealed that Amanda is set to be portrayed by Canadian actress Mia Kirshner, whose […]
James Cameron says Terminator 6 views the later sequels as “a bad dream”, will introduce a new female lead
Over the past week or so we’ve heard several details on director Tim Miller and producer James Cameron’s plans for a sixth Terminator movie. We know that both Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton will be returning to the franchise, and that the new movie will serve as a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. […]
Alan Tudyk has co-written a K-2SO story for Star Wars Adventures
Having starred as K-2SO in last year’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, actor Alan Tudyk has now turned his hand to writing for the former Imperial droid, with Nerdist reporting that Tudyk has co-written a back-up story in IDW’s upcoming Star Wars Adventures #3. Entitled ‘Adventures in Wookiee-Sitting’, the all-ages tale sees Captain Cassian Andor […]
Kaya Scodelario and Josh Hutcherson set for Romeo and Juliet update Die in a Gunfight
The Mark Gordon Company has set Kaya Scodelario (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games), Olivia Munn (X-Men: Apocalypse) and Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets) to star in the action romance Die in a Gunfight, a modern update on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Die in […]
