GO DIRECT A STAR WAR After the shock news that Phil Lord and Chris Miller had been fired from their positions on the Han Solo spin-off movie, it was revealed yesterday by Disney and Lucasfilm that Ron Howard would be taking over. Ron Howard has a lot of connections to George Lucas, appearing in the director’s […]
Transformers Bumblebee spin-off will take place in the 1980s
We’re less than a week away from the release of Transformers: The Last Knight, but Paramount Pictures is already turning its attention to the future of the franchise, specifically the Bumblebee spin-off that will focus on the yellow Autobot scout. The latest issue of Empire, via TFW2005, reveals that the film, directed by Kubo and the Two Strings‘ Travis Knight, will […]
Akira movie update, Universal’s Dark Universe in potential legal problems and more – Daily News Roundup
AKIRA The long-gestating Akira movie has seemingly been in development forever by this point. Several director names have been rumoured and attached, but no cast has ever been announced or even a whiff of a production start date. Original director Katsuhiro Otomo has no issues with his vision being remade into a live-action format, but in […]
Hailee Steinfeld joins Transformers’ Bumblebee spin-off
It looks like there’s some movement on the much-discussed Bumblebee spin-off from Paramount’s Transformers franchise. Pitch Perfect 2 star Hailee Steinfeld has entered talks to star in the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and will play a tomboy who has a job as a mechanic after school. Kubo and the Two Strings director Travis Knight will helm the film from a […]
Michael Bay says the Bumblebee Transformers spinoff will be a prequel aimed at a younger audience
With Transformers: The Last Knight set to hit cinemas this June, Paramount Pictures will soon be turning its attention to its first Transformers spinoff movie, centred on the fan-favourite character of Bumblebee. The project found a director last month in Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings), and now Michael Bay has offered up a few hints […]
Michael Bay was pitched an R-rated, Tarantino-esque Bumblebee Transformers spinoff
This past weekend we got our first glimpse of the next phase of the Transformers saga with the trailer for Transformers: The Last Knight, the first offering to come out of Paramount’s ‘writers room’, which saw the studio assembling a team of top screenwriting talent to shape the future of the blockbuster franchise. We already […]
The Week in Movies – New Batman v Superman and Captain America: Civil War trailers, All Deadpool Everything, and more…
The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema – including the final Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer, the DC and Captain America: Civil War Superbowl teaser spots, all the Deadpool success news and much, much more… The Week in Movies is an excerpt from the weekly Flickering Myth Super Newsletter. […]
Paramount sets release dates for Transformers 5 and 6 and Bumblebee spinoff
Having set up a writers room last year to plot out the future of the franchise, Paramount Pictures and Hasbro have today announced a new slate of three Transformers films, set for release in 2017, 2018 and 2019. First up comes Transformers 5, which sees Michael Bay returning to direct from a script by Art Marcum […]
Bumblebee cameo spotted in set video from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
There had been talk from Paramount executives about their franchise movies not being in a shared universe when saying plans for movies like a Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover would probably never happen. However, it does seem as though Transformers exist in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle universe, as evident by a set video taken by this […]