Luke Owen gets on the phone with writer Simon Barrett… Last year I spoke with Adam Wingard just a couple of months after his project The Woods had been revealed as a sequel to 1999’s The Blair Witch Project and a few weeks before the film was released [read that interview here]. At the time […]
Why Are There So Many British War Films Being Made?
Neil Calloway looks at the rise in British World War II movies… This week brought the news that Ridley Scott would be directing a film set during the Battle of Britain. It’s a surprise he hasn’t done it before; he was born two years before war was declared and his father was a career officer […]
Moonlight star Trevante Rhodes comments on Green Lantern Corps rumors
Moonlight won big at the Oscars taking home Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and now it’s time for the stars involved in the groundbreaking, landmark achievement to branch out onto wider projects. One such prospect is the rumor that star Trevante Rhodes is currently in talks to play John Stewart for the eventual DCEU […]
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast was originally going to set up a Gaston spinoff
In the wake of the box office success of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, which grossed $1.264 billion earlier this year, Disney executive Sean Bailey revealed that while a sequel had been ruled out, the studio would be exploring “possible spinoff and prequel scenarios”. Well, it seems the original plan was for the live-action movie […]
Breaking Down Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Anghus Houvouras on the Star Wars: Episode VIII title reveal and what it could mean for the movie… It’s funny how little it takes to get people excited these days. The anticipation for the eighth episode of the Star Wars is high. So much so that it was named Flickering Myth’s most anticipated film of 2017. […]
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 will delve into Nebula’s relationship with Thanos and Gamora
Karen Gillan will be reprising her role as Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and recently took part in an interview with The Wrap to discuss how the sequel (which is arguably the most anticipated comic book movie of the year) will develop the character. “What I love about the second movie for […]
Flickering Myth’s most anticipated movies of 2017
Flickering Myth get excited for the year ahead of us… After a fairly below-average year at the cinema last year, we here at Flickering Myth are feeling rather hopeful for 2017. There are some fantastic films lined up; including a load of comic book movies, the return of Christopher Nolan and King Kong, a new […]
Kong: Skull Island tracking $135 million global opening
Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures unleashes the Eighth Wonder of the World this week as Kong: Skull Island rolls out in 65 markets, and Deadline is reporting that the second instalment of the MonsterVerse shared universe is tracking a global opening of between $110 and $135 million. Domestically, projections for Skull Island place in the the […]
Ben Affleck says he took on Batman role as he hated Daredevil
Ben Affleck’s casting as The Dark Knight in Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice caused quite the uproar online, with Affleck’s previous superhero outing – the 2003 Daredevil movie from 20th Century Fox – still having left a bad taste in the mouths of many comic book movie fans. Affleck did of course […]
Patrick Wilson excited to work with James Wan and Jason Momoa on Aquaman
Earlier this week, Watchmen actor Patrick Wilson was cast as Ocean Master – the half-brother of Arthur Curry – in the upcoming Aquaman solo film. His casting reunites him not only with the DC Extended Universe (he was the voice of the President of the United States in this year’s Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice), but with The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2 director […]
