Son of a Gun, 2014. Directed by Julius Avery. Starring Ewan McGregor, Brenton Thwaites, Alicia Vikander, Jacek Koman, Matt Nable, Tom Budge and Nash Edgerton. SYNOPSIS: JR busts out of prison with Brendan Lynch, Australia’s most notorious criminal, and joins Lynch’s gang for a gold heist that soon pits the two men against one another. […]
Marvel’s Secret Wars: Battleworld unleashes Master of Kung-Fu
Can one man defeat an entire empire? We’ll find out in May as Marvel unleashes the Secret Wars: Battleworld miniseries Master of Kung-Fu, a new four-issue limited series from Haden Blackman (Elektra) and Dalibor Talajic (Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe) which takes us inside the mystical land of K’un Lun for a series of brutal […]
The Fantastic Four trailer breaks records, Simon Kinberg comments on reboot
Last week 20th Century Fox gave us our first look at director Josh Trank’s upcoming reboot The Fantastic Four, and despite – or should that be because of? – all the negativity from fans towards the film, the studio is touting a whopping 42 million views for the trailer, setting a record for Fox. SEE […]
Is this the line-up for the live-action Teen Titans series Titans?
Back in September it was announced that Warner Bros. had secured a pilot order for another live-action DC Comics series, this time based around the young superhero team Teen Titans. We already knew that the TNT show would centre on Dick Grayson, “who emerges from the shadow of Batman to become Nightwing, the leader of […]
Rumoured shortlist of directors for Thor: Ragnarok
Since Marvel’s big Phase Three announcement, much of the attention has been on the remaining Phase Two installments Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man, along with the 2016 releases Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange. However, we now have a few tidbits of information about one of Marvel’s 2017 releases in Thor: Ragnarok – […]
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes battle across time in Avengers: Millennium
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are set to assemble this month to face a new threat thousands of years in the making in Avengers: Millennium, a new Marvel Infinite Comic series from writer Mike Costa (Scarlet Spiders, A+X) along with artists Carmine Di Giandomenico (All-New X-Factor) and Geoffo & Mast (Deadpool: The Gauntlet, Iron Man: Fatal Frontier). […]
Exclusive: Zak Penn talks Pacific Rim 2
It was announced last year that Zak Penn (The Incredible Hulk) had been hired to write the screenplay for Pacific Rim 2 along with original writer and director Guillermo Del Toro. On the latest episode of the Flickering Myth Podcast, we caught up with Penn to talk about his new documentary Atari: Game Over, as well as […]
Jeremy Renner talks Paul Bettany’s Vision and Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron
We’re only a few months away from Avengers: Age of Ultron, which means Earth’s Mightiest Heroes have been out in force talking about the movie. In an interview with Jeremy Renner with The Hollywood Reporter talking his latest movie The Throwaways, he talked about Paul Bettany’s Vision – and has admitted he has no idea […]
Michael Rowe talks his version of Deadshot versus Will Smith in Suicide Squad, crossover with The Flash
It can be argued that the success of the Suicide Squad in TV’s Arrow has been a factor in the decision for Warner Bros. bringing them to the big screen with David Ayer directing the team. Speaking with Comicbook, TV’s Deadshot Michael Rowe talked about the Suicide Squad and his thoughts on the movie version which […]
Spider-Man writer David Koepp gives his thoughts on saving the Spider-Man franchise
Back in 2002, comic book movies were not as common place as they are today. 20th Century Fox had just released Bryan Singer’s X-Men two years earlier and Sony had just launched the Sam Raimi directed Spider-Man to much critical acclaim. Original writer David Koepp (Jurassic Park) would not return for its sequels Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3, but […]