Paramount has hired BAFTA-winning Under the Shadow and I Came By director Babak Anvari to helm the next movie in the Cloverfield franchise. Deadline’s sources report that Anvari will direct from a script written by Joe Barton (HBO Max’s Gotham City Police Department), but there are no additional details regarding how this will link to […]
Live-action Speed Racer series in development from J.J. Abrams and Apple TV+
Prepare to polish the Mach 5 and take your place on the starting grid, because J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot pit-crew are looking to develop a live-action Speed Racer series for Apple TV+. According to Variety Apple have given the green light to a series order for Speed Racer, which will be written by […]
J.J. Abrams and Stephen King reuniting for Billy Summers limited series
Having collaborated on 11.22.63, Castle Rock, and Lisey’s Story, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is teaming with Stephen King once again, this time for a limited series adaptation of the author’s latest bestseller, the crime novel Billy Summers. Published back in August of last year, Billy Summers revolves around the titular character, a hitman and former […]
Star Trek: Discovery’s Kalinda Vazquez to write original Trek movie for J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot
With the much ballyhooed Quentin Tarantino Trek movie seemingly a distant memory, and Noah Hawley’s take on the voyages of the Starship Enterprise jettisoned for now, Deadline have exclusively revealed that Paramount has tasked Kalinda Vazquez with writing an original Star Trek film for J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production company. Nothing is known about the […]
Cloverfield direct sequel in development from The Batman TV spin-off showrunner
13 years after its release and two spin-offs on, Cloverfield will be getting a direct sequel written by Joe Barton, the new showrunner behind HBO Max’s The Batman spin-off centred around the Gotham City Police Department, per The Hollywood Reporter. Released in 2008, Cloverfield was a found footage film which followed a group of friends in New York […]
J.J. Abrams developing TV adaptation of Patrick Ness’ dragon fantasy novel Burn
According to a report from Deadline, J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot production company are working on an adaptation of Burn, the new fantasy novel from author Patrick Ness. As per Amazon, here’s the plot description for the book: On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the […]
J.J. Abrams developing Justice League Dark, The Shining spin-off Overlook and an original series for HBO Max
J.J. Abrams, his wife Katie McGrath and their production company Bad Robot has just signed a big deal to develop three more television series for WarnerMedia and its upcoming streaming service HBO Max. Abrams will develop a Justice League Dark series as well as a spin-off from Stephen King’s The Shining titled Overlook and an original series called […]