Beauty and the Beast, 2017 Directed by Bill Condon Starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Ewan McGregor, Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Kline, Sonoya Mizuno, Hattie Morahan, Audra McDonald SYNOPSIS: An adaptation of the Disney fairy tale about a monstrous-looking prince and a young woman who fall in love. […]
X-Men: The real Apocalypse is its continuity!
Tony Black attempts to make sense of the continuity of the X-Men franchise… Have you ever attempted to make sense of the X-Men movie continuity? As in pick apart the entire timeline of events across the eight, soon to be nine films in the franchise? Of course not, you all have lives. You have friends […]
Movie Review – Mr. Holmes (2015)
Mr. Holmes, 2015. Directed by Bill Condon. Starring Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hattie Morahan, Hiroyuki Sanada and Patrick Kennedy. SYNOPSIS: An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes looks back on his life, and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman. In a period where remakes, reboots, sequels and any other chance to bring […]
Ian McKellen will not return as Magneto in X-Men: Apocalypse
Back in February, Patrick Stewart indicated that his good pal Ian McKellen would be returning to the role of Magneto for next year’s X-Men: Apocalypse, however McKellen has now confirmed to Digital Spy that he won’t donning the helmet for the 2016 sequel. “I haven’t heard [the rumours], I don’t think I am, no, no, […]
Watch the Mr. Holmes press conference with Ian McKellen and Laura Linney
Ahead of its release next Friday, Ian McKellen and Laua Linney were in London this week for the official press conference for Mr. Holmes, which you can watch right here… https://youtu.be/2enM9mzK1OA MR. HOLMES is a new twist on the world’s most famous detective. 1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, […]
Ian McKellen is Cogsworth in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
According to Variety, Disney has found a thespian to play butler-turned-clock Cogsworth in their live-action Beauty and the Beast adaptation: Sir Ian McKellen. Directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn), the film will star Harry Potter alum Emma Watson as Belle, The Guest‘s Dan Stevens as the Beast, Luke Evans as Gaston, Frozen‘s Josh Gad as Le Fou, Emma […]
Kodi Smit-McPhee will play young Nightcrawler in X-Men: Apocalypse
Director Bryan Singer has announced via Instagram that Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Let Me In actor Kodi Smit-McPhee has joined the cast of X-Men: Apocalypse as fan-favorite teleporting mutant Nightcrawler. The size of the role is, unfortunately, still a mystery, and there’s no word on whether or not Nightcrawler will be the son of Mystique and Azazel […]
Patrick Stewart may join Wolverine 3, Ian McKellen returning for X-Men: Apocalypse
With the news (which we reported at Flickering Myth) that director Bryan Singer is in pre-production on the latest X-Men blockbuster, X-Men: Apocalypse, some other interesting news on the plans possibly in place for the rest of the X-Universe. Professor X (well, the older version) himself Patrick Stewart has been speaking this week to Oregon […]
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen weren’t asked back for X-Men: Apocalypse
In an interview with Larry King, Patrick Stewart announced that neither he nor Ian McKellen were asked to be a part of the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse movie. It’s a little bit strange considering the two have appeared in every installment save for Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class, but director Bryan Singer’s goal is to explore […]
Sherlock rides again… and again
Robert Downey Jr., Jonny Lee Miller, Ian McKellen and Benedict Cumberbatch have all played Sherlock Holmes in either film or television during the last four years. Now I know that people say that Hollywood reproduces the same shlock year on year, but when it is literally the same character stories recreated, within the time it […]