With Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. set to return to TV screens this coming week, showrunners Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen have been chatting to EW about the show’s upcoming tie-in with Marvel Studios’ next big screen release Doctor Strange. “Our ties are at times very direct and at times are more thematic,” said Whedon. “The tie this […]
R.I.P. Curtis Hanson (1945 – 2016)
Osac-winning filmmaker Curtis Hanson has passed away aged 71, with the Los Angeles Police Department announcing that the L.A. Confidential director was found dead in his home on Tuesday. He had been battling Alzheimer’s, and died of natural causes. Hanson began his career in 1970, co-writing an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror, and […]
Mark Wahlberg working with David O. Russell and LeBron James on new projects
Having collaborated on I Heart Huckabees, Three Kings and The Fighter, actor Mark Wahlberg and director David O. Russell are set to team up for a fourth time, with Wahlberg revealing on Facebook that they are currently working on a script for a biopic about Father Stuart Long, a boxer who found God and became […]
Warner Bros. and Toho teaming up for Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure movie from Takashi Miike
Cult filmmaker Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) is set to bring Hirohiko Araki’s bestselling manga series Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure to the big screen, with Variety reporting that Warner Bros. and Toho are teaming up to produce the live-action adaptation. The site reports that the movie will be based on the fourth part of the […]
J.J. Abrams hopes to make a Portal movie announcement soon
Back in 2013, J.J. Abrams’s Bad Robot Productions announced a partnership with video game developers Valve, revealing that they would be working on big screen adaptation of the hit games Half-Life and Portal. There was little news on either project until earlier this year when Abrams confirmed that both were still in development, and now […]
Exclusive Interview – The Journey’s Director Nick Hamm and Timothy Spall
The Journey takes the 2006 power sharing negotiations for Northern Ireland at its starting point – and shows how a small piece of protocol turned out to be the key to unlocking the door to peace. At the time, senior members of the Democratic Unionist Part and Sinn Fein weren’t allowed to travel alone. So […]
Whiplash causes Academy friction, deemed “adapted” screenplay
Deadline reports today that Whiplash, Damien Chazelle’s superb Sundance winner, has been somewhat surprisingly classified by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as an adapted script, rather than a original screenplay. Even stranger still was that the Academy apparently didn’t inform the director or the films distributor, Sony Pictures Classics, about the decision […]
Read Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar prequel comic Absolute Zero
Thanks to Wired, a seven-page prequel comic to Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic Interstellar has arrived online for our reading pleasure. Entitled ‘Absolute Zero’, the the “lost chapter” has been written by Nolan with art from Sean Gordon Murphy and explore’s Dr. Mann’s earlier Lazarus mission to find a hospitable planet for humanity… Read the full comic […]
Easter Egg – TARDIS spotted in Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer?
With the trailer for Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron being out for less than a day, here at Flickering Myth we believe we could have spotted the first Easter egg from the hotly-anticipated Marvel sequel. It appears our favourite Time Lord is making a background cameo at 1 minute and 33 seconds into the trailer. […]
Ms Marvel’s Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy to direct Damon Lindelof’s Star Wars movie
So much of the recent Death Star style blue-print plans for the galaxy far far away have been focused on the small screen output, with the futures of Rian Johnson’s proposed trilogy, Taika Waititi’s solo-outing, a Kevin Feige-produced film and Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron all up in the air. Now you can add another Star […]
