Chris Evans has been attached to play Tom Jackson in the feature film adaptation of the BBC’s Steven Moffat-penned 6-part 2007 miniseries, Jekyll, since late July now, and while few updates on the project have been given since then, Deadline reports that Lionsgate has pegged Zombieland and Gangster Squad director Ruben Fleischer to helm the project. Between Jekyll and […]
Michael Fassbender confirms meeting about a role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Michael Fassbender has been attached to numerous franchises in the past five years alone, between his work as Magneto in the X-Men films, David in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant and Aguilar in Assassin’s Creed, but he missed out on one that would have been the biggest of them all. During an appearance on Happy Sad Confused (via EW), […]
War for the Planet of the Apes bringing back a character from the 1968 film
It looks like the latest instalment of 20th Century Fox’s rebooted Planet of the Apes series is set to introduce a character who will be familiar to fans of the original 1968 movie, with Entertainment Weekly unveiling a piece of concept art for War for the Planet of the Apes featuring Nova, played by Amiah Miller. […]
Ben Mendelsohn in negotiations for Robin Hood: Origins
After years of earning critical praise for his turns in low-budget, independent films, actor Ben Mendelsohn has finally started branching out and showing off his acting chops in big-budget studio features, perhaps best evidenced by his role as the diabolical Orson Krennic in the soon-to-be-released Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. According to Variety, he’s looking […]
Ignacio Serricchio cast in Netflix’s Lost in Space
The upcoming Lost in Space reboot for Netflix has added another cast member. Deadline reports that the series has cast Bones star Ignacio Serricchio as Don West, played in the original series by Mark Goddard. West is a “roughneck smuggling luxury goods on the side who finds in the Robinsons the family he never thought he would find”. Lost in […]
Vin Diesel says a Groot spinoff movie “is inevitable”
While doing interview rounds for the currently released XxX: Return of Xander Cage, it’s no surprise that Vin Diesel is also getting asked questions pertaining to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and his Guardians of the Galaxy character Groot. In an interview from MTV International, Diesel discusses a fantasy scenario between Groot and The Hulk, while going […]
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will digitally de-age Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese are set to reunite for the first time since 1995’s Casino with The Irishman, a biopic of mob hitman Frank Sheeran, and it seems the film will be employing the same kind of digital de-aging we’ve seen recently in Captain America: Civil War and Rogue One: A Star Wars […]
Daniel Clowes adapting his graphic novel Patience for Focus Features
Focus Features has announced that it has acquired the film rights to Daniel Clowes’ New York Times bestselling graphic novel Patience, and has tapped Clowes to pen the script for a movie adaptation. Clowes was previously nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his Ghost World script, based upon his own comic, and has also […]
Will Smith wants Deadshot return in Gotham City Sirens
Earlier this week Warner Bros. announced that it is officially moving forward with the Harley Quinn-led Suicide Squad spinoff Gotham City Sirens, which will reunite star (and now producer) Margot Robbie with director David Ayer. Well, Will Smith has now revealed that he’s open to joining the reunion, with the actor telling MTV that: “I’d […]
Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig set for Everything Is Coming Up Profits
Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig are teaming up for a musical based upon Steve Young and Sport Murphy’s nonfiction book Everything Is Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals, THR is reporting. The project is being spearheaded by producer Marc Platt (Wicked, La La Land), and has Steven Levenson (Masters of Sex) on […]
