During an interview with Yahoo! Movies to promote the upcoming release of Bumblebee, director Travis Knight has credited Steven Spielberg, executive producer on all of the Transformers movies, for coming up with the concept for this first spinoff.“The original idea for this film actually was Steven [Spielberg’s],” said Knight. “We can thank him for this […]
Matt Reeves will reportedly turn in his rewrite of The Batman before the New Year
Since signing on to the project last summer as a replacement for Ben Affleck in the director’s chair, Matt Reeves has been hard at work shaping his vision for Warner Bros. and DC Films’ long-planned The Batman solo movie.Official updates on the film have been hard to come by – instead we’ve mainly just had […]
Child’s Play creator Don Mancini isn’t happy about the upcoming remake
Earlier this year, Child’s Play creator Don Mancini revealed his plans to bring Chucky to the small screen for a TV series continuation of the cult horror franchise, only for MGM to subsequently announce its own rival project with a reboot of the original 1988 film.Mancini – who has written all seven Child’s Play films […]
Picard series will be very different in tone to Star Trek: Discovery
As part of its expansion of the Star Trek franchise, CBS All Access is developing a sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation which will see Patrick Stewart reprising his fan favourite role as Jean-Luc Picard.The new series will catch up with the former U.S.S. Enterprise captain some twenty years after we last saw him […]
Marvel’s Runaways gets a new season 2 trailer
With less than a week to go until Runaways returns, Hulu has released a new promo for the second season of the Marvel series which sees the teens trying to make use of their powers together; watch it here…SEE ALSO: Marvel’s Runaways gets a season 2 trailer and poster“The Runaways have left their homes (and evil […]
Aquaman director James Wan explains why he wanted to tell “a standalone story”
While it remains firmly entrenched in the DC Extended Universe, director James Wan has revealed to Den of Geek that he deliberately set out to tell “a standalone story” with Aquaman – one that wasn’t “necessarily part of a ‘cinematic universe.’”“We’ve seen him in other films, but I really wanted to tell a standalone story,” said Wan. “People […]
Elseworlds’ Lois Lane actress says Superman spinoff show is possible
With Lois Lane making her Arrowverse debut this week alongside Tyler Hoechlin’s Man of Steel in The CW’s Elseworlds crossover and Jon Cryer set to play Lex Luthor in an upcoming episode of Supergirl, there’s been a lot of speculation that we may not be too far away from the arrival of a new Superman […]
Morbius, the Living Vampire finds its female lead in Adria Arjona
Now that Venom has proven to be a smash hit at the box office, Sony is moving full steam ahead with its ‘Universe of Marvel Characters’, beginning with the Jared Leto-headlined Morbius, the Living Vampire movie.With filming slated to begin in February, Deadline is reporting that Sony and director Daniel Espinosa (Life) have found their […]
Peter Jackson looking to help out with Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series
Although it was rumoured earlier this year that Peter Jackson could be set for a return to Middle-earth with Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series, the director subsequently debunked the reports, and confirmed that he’ll have no creative input into the hugely ambitious fantasy series.Well, with his latest project Mortal Engines now in cinemas, […]
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan to play lovers in Ammonite
Deadline is reporting that Kate Winslet (The Mountain Between Us) and Saoirse Ronan (Mary, Queen of Scots) have signed on to star in the romantic drama Ammonite, which is being written and directed by Francis Lee (God’s Own Country).Ammonite will take place in the 1840s in a UK coastal town, and will follow “the unlikely […]
