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The Greatest Action Directors of All Time

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the greatest action directors of all time… The action genre has never particularly had the greatest respect associated with it. Maybe there’s a feeling that they’re dramatically anaemic, or sometimes intellectually inferior, but this isn’t always the case. It’s a genre that doesn’t always have consistent specialists, because certain directors who […]

A Look Back at The Expendables Franchise (And a Look Forward…)

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Ten years on from the release of the first movie, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Expendables franchise and then looks at where it can go now (and who needs to join the crew)… When The Expendables was first announced in late 2009, my excitement levels went through the roof. Initially it was Sylvester Stallone, […]

Henry Cavill and Chad Stahelski Do Highlander? I’m There!

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the prospect of a Highlander remake directed by Chad Stahelski and starring Henry Cavill… Right off the bat, I will state this…I love Highlander. The original film was very much a product of its time. Creative, wild, a little overblown, little regard for logic, but somewhat groundbreaking too. As a stylistic […]

Why John Wick 4 will be the action event of 2022

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Tom Jolliffe looks ahead to John Wick: Chapter 4, with a cast that is shaping up beautifully… With three films under his belt, John Wick shows no signs of hanging up his gun-fu weaponry, or retiring from judo throwing his way through hordes of enemies. The Keanu Reeves star vehicle, which boosted his appeal like […]

Netflix’s Black Samurai enlists Chad Stahelski and Leigh Dana Jackson

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Netflix has tapped John Wick helmer Chad Stahelski and Raising Dion executive producer Leigh Dana Jackson for an adaptation of Marc Olden’s 70s blaxploitation novels Black Samurai, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed. Olden’s Black Samurai books were published in the 1970s and follow Robert Sand, an American soldier in Japan who learns the way of […]

Chad Stahelski wants to adapt Ghost of Tsushima as a Japanese-language film

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There is a gameplay setting on Ghost of Tsushima which allows you to switch the audio to Japanese language with English subtitles in order to provide players with a more authentic experience, and it appears that Chad Stahelski (John Wick), director of Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions’ forthcoming adaptation, wishes to make this his default […]

Keanu Reeves wages war on the High Table in John Wick: Chapter 4 Comic-Con trailer

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With both John Wick star Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski on hand at the San Diego Comic-Con yesterday for various panels, Lionsgate has taken the opportunity to drop the first trailer for the hotly-anticipated fourth instalment in the hit action thriller franchise John Wick: Chapter 4, which sees Reeves’ former assassin waging war on the […]

Netflix teases Jamie Foxx vampire hunting action-comedy Day Shift with images and behind-the-scenes video

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As part of Netflix’s Geeked Week, the streamer has offered a peek at Day Shift, which sees star Jamie Foxx, producer Chad Stahelski, and director J.J. Perry discussing making the vampire action comedy. Check out the video below, along with some three new images of Foxx and co-star Dave Franco… In Day Shift, Jamie Foxx […]

Chad Stahelski teases John Wick: Chapter 4 story, says the film has a “conclusion to an emotional thread”

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In an interview with Collider during CinemaCon, John Wick director Chad Stahelski teased what fans can expect from the storyline of John Wick: Chapter 4 when it debuts in theatres in March 2023. “I think Chapter 4 is a good continuation of all three previous films, and it’s got a bit of a conclusion to it, which is […]

John Wick’s Chad Stahelski adapting The Nemesis Saga for TV

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Sony Television and producer Neal H. Moritz (The Boys) are set to team with John Wick helmer Chad Stahelski for Project Nemesis, a TV series adaptation of Jeremy Robinson’s kaiju book series The Nemesis Saga. “I can’t say how excited I am to help bring Jeremy Robinson’s Project Nemesis to the screen,” states Stahelski. “From the […]