“Gandalf, Warner Bros. is moving. Amazon’s forces are massing in the East; their eye is fixed on streaming-service domination” or something along those lines would have been uttered by Elrond when the news broke that an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings was being negotiated by the studio and online streaming giant. Forgive us […]
Fan Expo 2017: Star Trek: Discovery panel explores the character’s backstories and show’s themes
In just a couple of weeks, Star Trek will return to television for the first time in over a decade with the anticipated new series, Star Trek: Discovery. Set roughly a decade before The Original Series, the new series will explore the Federation’s growing influence in the galaxy as well as the difficult trials they […]
Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show to bring Middle-earth to the small screen
There are enough compendiums, indexes, and characters who were cut from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings oeuvre that are still to be explored from within the pages of J.R.R. Tolkien’s source material, that the news a large-scale TV project is being developed by Warner Bros. Television should be about as surprising as the return […]
Bryan Fuller on his Star Trek: Discovery exit and original plans for an anthology series
Having initially been brought on board to develop and serve as showrunner on CBS’ new series Star Trek: Discovery, Bryan Fuller exited the project this past October. During an interview with EW, Fuller shared a few words on his departure from the series, stating that: “I got to dream big. I was sad for a week […]
Quentin Tarantino’s Manson Family screenplay is being read by Hollywood studios this week
The latest effort by Quentin Tarantino is currently in the hands of Hollywood studios. The 9th film by the iconic director was always going to be a big event; such is the leisure at which he makes his movies. But with the recent Harvey Weinstein scandal forcing Tarantino to look away from The Weinstein Company […]
James Franco is Tommy Wiseau in new trailer for The Disaster Artist
Ahead of its release next month, a new trailer has arrived online for writer-director James Franco’s upcoming biographical comedy drama The Disaster Artist focusing on Franco’s role as Tommy Wiseau, director of The Room. Check it out here… With The Disaster Artist, James Franco transforms the tragicomic true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau—an artist […]
Mads Mikkelsen to star in graphic novel adaptation Polar
According to Variety, Mads Mikkelsen has signed on to star in Polar, an adaptation of Victor Santos’ Dark Horse graphic novel Polar: Came from the Cold. The film will see Mikkelsen as “the world’s top assassin Duncan Vizla, A.K.A the Black Kaiser who is retiring when his former employer marks him as a liability to […]
Sam Taylor-Johnson to direct Aaron Taylor-Johnson in A Million Little Pieces
Variety is reporting that Sam Taylor-Johnson is set to direct her husband Aaron Taylor-Johnson in a feature adaptation of James Frey’s book A Million Little Pieces. Originally published as a memoir telling the story of Frey’s rehabilitation from drug and alcohol abuse, the author subsequently admitted on The Oprah Winfrey Show that he had fabricated […]
Ryan Coogler on where we’ll find T’Challa going in to Marvel’s Black Panther
After making his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in last year’s Captain America: Civil War, Chadwick Boseman will be reprising the role of T’Challa this coming February as Marvel releases its first superhero blockbuster of 2018, Black Panther. And, during an interview with Deadline, director Ryan Coogler has been discussing where we’ll find the new king […]
Black Panther and Shuri spotted on set of Marvel’s Avengers 4
Yesterday we got a glimpse of Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye in his new Ronin costume on the set of Avengers 4 [see here], and now we have a few more spy photos, this time featuring Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa along with his sister Shuri, played by Letitia Wright; check them out here… https://twitter.com/MCU_Tweets/status/923327008490303490 As the Avengers and […]
