Following the success of the digital series Transformers: Combiner Wars, Machinima and Hasbro have announced that development is underway on the final two chapters of The Prime Wars Trilogy, Transformers: Titans Return and Transformers: Power of the Primes. “Transformers has always been fueled by the brand’s rich, compelling characters and storylines, and Transformers: Combiner Wars tapped […]
Emily Carmichael and Kira Snyder writing Pacific Rim 2
Back in May of this year it was reported that Derek Connolly (Jurassic World) had been brought in by Legendary to pen the screenplay for Pacific Rim: Maelstrom, the follow-up to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 sci-fi action blockbuster, which is set to explode into cinemas in February 2018. Well, in an interview over at Ars […]
Alexandre Desplat to score Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Having been replaced on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story by Michael Giacchino due to scheduling conflicts, Alexandre Desplat has now lined up his next project, with Luc Besson taking to Twitter to reveal that Desplat will be scoring his upcoming sci-fi epic Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets… Alexandre Desplat had to […]
Netflix renews Narcos for third and fourth seasons
Coming hot on the heels of the release of season two, Netflix has announced that it has renewed the hit crime drama Narcos for two additional seasons, which will see José Padilha (Elite Squad, RoboCop) and Eric Newman (Children of Men) continuing to serve as executive producers. Check out the announcement video here… The first […]
Adam Driver and Rooney Mara to star in Leos Carax’s Annette
In news coming out of the American Film Market, Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Rooney Mara (Carol) are to star in Annette, the English-language debut of Holy Motors director Leos Carax, which also has Rihanna (Home) set to feature in a minor role According to Variety, Annette “depicts the rise and fall […]
Michael Palin and Adam Driver reportedly set for Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Back in April it was announced that Terry Gilliam is set to take another crack at The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, with filming expected to get underway this September. Well, according to FlickReel, Gilliam has now enlisted Michael Palin for the role of Don Quixote, while Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Adam Driver could […]
The Jim Henson Company bringing Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men to the big screen
The Jim Henson Company is set to adapt Terry Pratchett’s 2003 Discworld novel The Wee Free Men, with Pratchett’s daughter Rhianna set to pen the script for a big screen adaptation. Here’s the official description from the announcement: THE WEE FREE MEN, is the first in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch […]
T.J. Miller to voice a character in The Emoji Movie
A recent video posted online by Sony Pictures Animation, the production company behind such kid-friendly animated mega-hits as The Smurfs and Hotel Transylvania, has revealed that T.J. Miller is the first to join the cast of Emojimovie: Express Yourself. In the video, Miller auditions for a role in the movie by testing out his best emoji […]
Neill Blomkamp not optimistic on Alien 5 chances
The world was pretty excited when Neill Blomkamp released his concept for an Alien sequel, and things seemed to be going pretty well, looking like it would be worked on alongside Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel. But this has all seemed to have fallen apart and now Blomkamp doesn’t see much chance of the sequel going […]
Christopher Lambert says Mortal Kombat reboot is actually a sequel and will feature time travel
A couple of weeks ago we brought you a rather dubious rumour / fan-casting for New Line Cinema’s long-gestating Mortal Kombat reboot, and now we’ve got another report which seems equally outlandish, although this one comes from the mouth of actor Christopher Lambert, who portrayed the thunder god Raiden in the 1995 original. According to […]
