Having recently moved production to San Francisco after shooting in Australia from early in the New Year (with an extended lockdown break), director Destin Daniel Cretton has announced on Instagram that principal photography has now wrapped on Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. View this post on Instagram WE. […]
Marvel’s Shang-Chi temporarily halts production as director self-isolates
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, an upcoming instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is temporarily suspending the first-unit production due to coronavirus concerns. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the decision was made after the film’s director, Destin Daniel Cretton, decided to get tested for COVID-19 and was recommended by a doctor to self-isolate […]
Movie Review – Just Mercy (2019)
Just Mercy, 2019. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Rafe Spall, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Drew Scheid, Steve Coulter, Mary Kraft, Rhoda Griffis, J. Alphonse Nicholson, and Karan Kendrick. SYNOPSIS: Just Mercy shadows world-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson as he recounts his […]
Movie Review – Just Mercy (2019)
Just Mercy, 2019. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Rafe Spall, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Drew Scheid, Steve Coulter, Mary Kraft, Rhoda Griffis, J. Alphonse Nicholson, and Karan Kendrick. SYNOPSIS: World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death […]
New trailer for Just Mercy starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson
Ahead of its US release this Christmas Day, Warner Bros. has revealed a new trailer for the upcoming drama Just Mercy. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, the film stars Michael B. Jordan as gifted young lawyer who defends those wrongly convicted by a flawed justice system, and also features a cast that also includes Jamie […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Just Mercy
Just Mercy, 2019. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Rafe Spall, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Tim Blake Neslon, Rob Morgan, Darrell Britt-Gibson, and Kirk Bovill SYNOPSIS: Charting the embryonic stages of civil defence attorney Brian Stevenson’s (Michael B. Jordan) illustrious career, Just Mercy recalls the very first cases he […]
First trailer for Just Mercy starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson
Warner Bros. has debuted the first trailer for director Destin Daniel Cretton’s upcoming crime drama Just Mercy. Based on Bryan Stevenson’s bestseller Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, the film stars Michael B. Jordan as gifted young lawyer who defends those wrongly convicted by a flawed justice system. Joining Jordan in the cast […]
Marvel taps Destin Daniel Cretton to direct Shang-Chi
Deadline is reporting that Marvel has enlisted Destin Daniel Cretton to direct its upcoming superhero movie Shang-Chi, which will be the studio’s first film to be fronted by an Asian protagonist. Destin’s previous credits include Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle, both of which featured Captain Marvel star Brie Larson, who will also appear […]
Short Term 12 director to adapt graphic novel The Sculptor
Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle director Destin Daniel Cretton is teaming up with Michael Mitnick (The Giver) and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps to adapt Scott McCloud’s acclaimed graphic novel The Sculptor. THR reports that the story follows David Smith, a struggling New York artist “who makes a deal with Death for the supernatural […]
Brie Larson to reunite with Short Term 12 director for Just Mercy
Having recently wrapped production on the superhero blockbuster Captain Marvel, it is being reported that Oscar winner Brie Larson is now in final talks to join the cast of Warner Bros. Pictures’ courtroom drama Just Mercy. Should Larson sign on, she would reunite with her Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle director Destin Daniel […]