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Sony and Blumhouse revving up for a reboot of Stephen King’s Christine

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Another day, another Stephen King adaptation gets the greenlight from Hollywood. With a new iteration of Firestarter just around the corner, Salem’s Lot sequel series Chapelwaite not far behind it, and Lisey’s Story landing on Apple TV+ this week, Sony Pictures and Blumhouse Productions have just announced that they’re buffing up King’s 1983 vehicular horror […]

Bryan Fuller recalls NBC originally wanting Hugh Grant or John Cusack as Hannibal instead of Mads Mikkelsen

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Although Anthony Hopkins gave an iconic and award-winning performance as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Mads Mikkelsen reinvented the character for a whole new generation in NBC’s Hannibal. However, in a recent interview with Collider, Bryan Fuller, the creator of the TV series Hannibal, recalled the network’s original resistance to casting Mikkelsen in the […]

Gillian Anderson’s Media would have appeared as Princess Leia and Fred Rogers in American Gods season 2

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In the wake of the surprising departure of original showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green after the conclusion of the first season, Gillian Anderson was one of several stars to exit Starz’s Neil Gaiman adaptation American Gods, with The X-Files star opting against a return as the New God Media for season two. In the […]

Bryan Fuller exits Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles TV series

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Last year it was announced that Anne Rice and her son Christopher Rice are teaming with Paramount and Anonymous Content to adapt the book series The Vampire Chronicles for the small screen, with Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) subsequently boarding the project in a producing capacity. Well, it seems that The Vampire Chronicles has now gone the […]

Bryan Fuller criticises Bohemian Rhapsody trailer for hetwashing

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Earlier this week we saw the first teaser trailer for Bohemian Rhapsody, the long-gestating biopic of legendary British rock band Queen and front-man Freddie Mercury. The teaser appeared to generate a lot of excitement, but one person who wasn’t particularly impressed was Hannibal and American Gods creator Bryan Fuller, who took to social media to […]

Bryan Fuller no longer part of Apple’s Amazing Stories

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A few months ago Apple announced its intention to develop scripted series with one of the first being a reboot of Amazing Stories with Hannibal showrunner Bryan Fuller at the helm. While they had yet to fully begin development on the series, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed Fuller has left the project over creative differences with Apple. Fuller has […]

Bryan Fuller to work on Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles for television

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After departing the second season of Starz’s American Gods adaptation, Bryan Fuller has moved on to become a part of The Vampire Chronicles, an adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel series. Last year Rice and her son Christopher partnered with Paramount and Anonymous Content to develop the series. Christopher Rice, who is also writing the series, made the announcement […]

Blu-ray Review – American Gods: Season One

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Ricky Church reviews American Gods season one… For many years, Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods was thought to be unfilmable. It was felt the novel was too grandiose for the big screen, with too many characters and too much story to fit into one 2-hour or 2-hour plus film. Almost 20 years later, Michael Green and Bryan […]