Before Warner Bros. drastically altered last year’s Justice League with a round of significant reshoots, the studio took its chainsaw to another DC Films release in David Ayer’s 2016 supervillain team-up Suicide Squad. One of the biggest changes to that film revolved around The Joker, with Jared Leto’s role cut significantly, and the Clown Prince […]
Avengers 4 screenwriters tease Captain Marvel’s unprecedented power level
While it’s a little unclear whether Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel will appear in next month’s Avengers: Infinity War [various comments from directors Anthony and Joe Russo suggest that she will and she won’t], we do know that Carol Danvers will be leading her own 90s-set solo movie next year, followed by an appearance in the […]
Zak Penn reveals that he may be writing a new Marvel movie
During an interview with Screen Rant to promote his new movie Ready Player One [read our review here], The Incredible Hulk and The Avengers screenwriter Zak Penn has revealed that he’s about to start work on a mystery new Marvel project. “I think I’m probably gonna come back,” said Penn. “I think I’m gonna do […]
Noah Hawley on his Doctor Doom movie plans and Legion future with Disney’s impending takeover
Last summer during the San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that Legion creator Noah Hawley would be taking on the reins of a Doctor Doom solo movie for 20th Century Fox. Despite the impending Fox acquisition by Disney, Hawley has confirmed that he remains in development on the project, and now he’s shed a little […]
How To Stop Studio Interference In Movies
Neil Calloway argues that studios shouldn’t risk so much on big films… The news this week that the Aquaman solo movie has some issues should come as a surprise to no-one. Frankly it’s par for the course these days. First, it’s a rumour which should be taken with a huge pinch of salt – with […]
Donald Glover’s Deadpool animated series scrapped over creative differences
Despite granting it a ten-episode straight-to-series order last year, FX Networks has announced that they have scrapped their plans for a Deadpool animated series from Donald Glover and Stephen Glover. “Due to creative differences, FX, Donald Glover, Stephen Glover and Marvel Television have agreed to part ways on Marvel’s Deadpool animated series,” reads the official […]
DeWanda Wise wants to play X-Men’s Storm
Having been forced to exit the Captain Marvel movie due to scheduling conflicts with the second season of her Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It, actress DeWanda Wise has revealed that she already has her eye on another Marvel role. “While we’re putting things out into the universe,” wrote Wise on Instagram. “Per your DMs, […]
Transformers’ Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel to star in Think Like a Dog
Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen co-stars Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel are set to reunite on the upcoming family comedy Think Like a Dog, Variety has revealed. The film is being written and directed by Gil Junger (10 Things I Hate About You) and “follows a 12-year-old tech prodigy whose science fair experiment […]
Watch the trailer for Hooligan Escape: The Russian Job
Ahead of the World Cup in Russia this summer, Signature Entertainment is set to release the hard-hitting Hooligan Escape: The Russian Job here in the UK next month, and you can take a look at the DVD artwork, synopsis, and trailer below… SUPPORT FLICKERING MYTH: Order via Amazon UK The Russian Job. Five English football […]
Scarface remake enlists new screenwriter
Last month it was announced that Universal’s long-gestating Scarface remake looked to be getting back on track, with filmmaker Antoine Fuqua returning to the project almost a year after vacating the director’s chair in favour of The Equalizer 2. Now, according to Deadline, the studio has enlisted screenwriter Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (Miss Bala, Contralepo) to pen a […]
