Since finishing up with the Harry Potter series director David Yates has been linked to numerous projects, including the Stephen King adaptation The Stand, a potential Doctor Who feature film and a remake of Scarface, not to mention Tarzan, which is set to go into production early next year. Now we can add another to […]

Having directed the last four instalments of the Harry Potter franchise, British filmmaker David Yates has had his pick of projects to follow up his time with the Boy Wizard; he’s been linked to the long-rumoured adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, and a potential Doctor Who movie, while he’s also been attached to a […]

The Mummy reboot seems to shedding directors like mouldy bandages. Len Wiseman (Underworld) left the production last year due to scheduling conflicts. Hired in his place was Andres Muschietti (Mama). But now he has left, with his ideas of a darker take on the property clashing with Universal’s more family orientated approach. This wouldn’t be the first […]

After the departure of Len Wiseman (Total Recall) a couple of months back, Universal Pictures now appears to have finished its search for a new director to take on the proposed reboot of The Mummy franchise, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that Mama helmer Andres Muschietti is in talks for the studio’s latest adaptation of […]

Anghus Houvouras on the casting of Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch in The Avengers: Age of Ultron… At the onset of 2013, if you’d asked me which comic book adaptation would be the most anticipated and be the in-development project that garnered the most attention, I would have answered The Avengers: Age of Ultron without […]

Luke Owen on the RoboCop remake… It would be fair to say that RoboCop is a stone-cold classic. It would also be fair to say that it’s not only one of the best sci-fi films of the 1980s, but one of the best science fiction movies ever made. It blends a dystopian future with over-the-top […]

Last month it was announced that Joss Whedon had found his villain for Marvel’s hotly-anticipated sequel The Avengers: Age of Ultron and now the fanboy favourite writer-director has given his first words on the casting of James Spader (Stargate, Boston Legal) as the malevolent artificial intelligence. “Spader was my first and only choice,” Whedon tells […]

With the first trailer released this morning [watch it here], Chris Cooper looks forward to a RoboCop for the 21st century…. “What’s up with his right hand!” “He looks like a man in a suit!” “Why is Samuel L. Jackson wearing a dead cat on his head?” Well, the last one I can agree with. […]

It was the news heard around the world when Warner Bros. announced Ben Affleck as their Bruce Wayne and the Dark Knight for 2015’s Batman vs. Superman. While some have reacted well to it (the Flickering Myth writing staff are positive about the news), the news has been met with some very negative reactions from […]

Anghus Houvouras asks whether anyone cares about The Fifth Estate…. There was a day and age where breaches of trust perpetrated by Governments believing themselves to be above the law would have felt more like fiction than fact.  The kind of stuff you’d find in a Tom Clancy novel or the plot to the latest […]