Last month, it was announced that 20th Century Fox would follow Marvel Studios’ lead by bringing in a creative consultant to oversee the development of its future superhero movie slate, with Scottish comic book writer Mark Millar (Wanted, Kick-Ass) taking on responsibility for the studio’s upcoming Marvel output. During the New York Comic Con, Word […]

Frankenweenie, 2012.Directed by Tim Burton.Featuring the voice talents of Charlie Tahan, Winona Ryder, Robert Capron, Martin Landau, Christopher Lee, Martin Short, Conchata Ferrell, Catherine O’Hara, Tom Kenny and Atticus Shaffer.SYNOPSIS:A young scientist conducts an experiment to bring his beloved dog back to life, only to find himself facing up to unintended – and sometimes monstrous […]

Doomsday Book, 2012. Written and Directed by Jee-woon Kim and Pil-Sung Yim.Starring Doona Bae, Seung-beom Ryu, Sae-byuk Song, Kang-woo Kim, Joon-ho Bong and Ji-hee Jin. SYNOPSIS: Three short films, together making an anthology. One chapter concerns a young man who becomes a zombie. Another shows the anarchic and zany troubles a family run into at […]

Stan Lee Media, Inc. – a former company of comic book legend Stan Lee – has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Disney over the rights to Lee’s Marvel Comics creations, including Spider-Man, X-Men and The Avengers, and are seeking to gain control of said properties, as well as a slice of the alleged $5.5 billion […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Skyfall by discussing their favourite James Bond films; next up is Simon Moore with You Only Live Twice… Face it. There is no objective reason to love You Only Live Twice. This is not a film you come to see in film school, where you […]

Way back in 2007, New Line Cinema secured the movie rights to Microsoft and Epic Games’ hit third-person sci-fi action shooter Gears of War, hiring screenwriter Stuart Beattie (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) to develop a script with a view to releasing a big-budget adaptation in the […]

Ill Manors, 2012. Written and Directed by Ben Drew.Starring Riz Ahmed, Ed Skrein, Natalie Press, Mem Ferda and Anouska Mond.   SYNOPSIS: As a war rages between rival drug dealers and the police, eight characters struggle for survival amid the cycle of violence. I am going to begin this review by saying Plan B should […]

Argo, 2012. Directed by Ben Affleck.Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Taylor Schilling, Kyle Chandler, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Zeljko Ivanek, Clea DuVall, Tate Donovan and Victor Garber. SYNOPSIS: During the Iranian revolution, a CIA agent concocts a plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador. In 1980, […]

Back in 2007, Warner Bros. hired director George Miller (Mad Max) to work on an adaptation of DC Comics’ Justice League, with Miller subsequently turning to a cast of up-and-coming actors to portray the legendary superhero team in what was planned as a big-budget motion-capture animation. Despite the studio pulling the plug on the project […]

As we all know, Hollywood hasn’t got the best of track records when it comes to adapting video games. However, Fox is now hoping to buck that trend on the small screen with a television series based upon Electronic Arts’ first-person-shooter Battlefield: Bad Company, which will take the form of “an hourlong action comedy” and […]