One year from today the highly anticipated sequel to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner will come out in theaters and now we have an official title: Blade Runner 2049. Very little is known about the long-gestating film, but director Denis Villeneuve revealed to Entertainment Weekly that the film will take place decades after the original and will again be […]
Movie Review – Arrival (2016)
Arrival, 2016. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O’Brien and Tzi Ma. SYNOPSIS: A linguist is recruited by the military to assist in translating alien communications If aliens landed on earth, how would we react and how would we try to communicate with them? This is […]
Exclusive Video Interviews: Denis Villeneuve and Josh Brolin on Sicario
To coincide with the upcoming release of Sicario on DVD and Blu-ray on February 1st, we’ve got a couple of exclusive video interviews with director Denis Villeneuve and star Josh Brolin; check them out here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db68sMPozrk https://youtu.be/13N_Gkp3rvU In Mexico, SICARIO means hitman. In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic […]
Denis Villeneuve on the pressure of directing the Blade Runner sequel
Appearing at the Venice Film Festival where his latest film Arrival premiered in competition, Canadian director Denis Villeneuve has been speaking about his next sci-fi project, the as-yet-untitled sequel to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, and the pressure he feels as he attempts to follow one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time. “First of all, […]
Jake Gyllenhaal and Denis Villeneuve reuniting for Jo Nesbo’s The Son
Having collaborated on both Prisoners and Enemy, director Denis Villeneueve and star Jake Gyllenhaal are set to reunite for an adaptation of Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo’s The Son. Variety reports that the project follows “a once-gifted 15-year-old and promising wrestler, whose life spirals out of control when his cop father commits suicide. He winds […]
Director Denis Villeneuve talks Blade Runner 2 and Sicario – Exclusive Interview
Director Denis Villeneuve has sat down with Flickering Myth’s Kat Kourbeti to talk about his latest movie – the Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro starring Sicario. He also talks about his next big project, the sequel to Ridley Scott’s science-fiction classic, Blade Runner 2 (which might now be called Androids Dream, after […]
Second Opinion – Sicario (2015)
Sicario, 2015. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal, Maximillano Hernandez and Daniel Kaluuya. SYNOPSIS: An idealistic FBI agent (Blunt) joins a task force on the war on drugs after discovering a cartel “death house” in Arizona. What she sees during her time there changes her forever, as […]
Movie Review – Sicario (2015)
Sicario, 2015. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal, Maximillano Hernandez and Daniel Kaluuya. SYNOPSIS: An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. Do the ends justify […]
Denis Villeneuve would love to direct a James Bond movie
Denis Villeneuve has been making media rounds all over the world in promotion for his war on drugs thriller Sicario [read my extremely positive review here], and in an interview with ComingSoon ended up discussing his affection for 007 and his desire to direct a film in the franchise one day. SEE ALSO: Watch our exclusive […]
Lionsgate developing sequel to Sicario
Following the film’s strong US box office debut this past weekend, Lionsgate is reportedly developing a sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario, this time around focusing on Benicio Del Toro’s mysterious hitman character Alejandro. Villeneuve will be involved with the project in some way, although it is unclear at the time if he will be back […]
