Netflix has shared a new “mature-rated” trailer for American Primeval, the hotly-anticipated western drama limited series from director Peter Berg (Lone Survivor) and writer Mark L. Smith (The Revenant), which is set in 1857 during the exploration and birth of the American West; check it out below… This is America…1857. Up is down, pain is […]
Sam Neill and Rosemarie DeWitt join Netflix’s Untamed
Deadline has revealed that Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) and Rosemarie DeWitt (The Boys) are set to join Eric Bana in Netflix’s limited series Untamed. Untamed is described as a mystery thriller following “Kyle Turner (Bana), a special agent for the National Parks Service who works to enforce human law in nature’s vast wilderness. The investigation of […]
Quentin Tarantino jumped ship from Star Trek because he didn’t want it to be his final movie
There have been more stories surrounding Quentin Tarantino’s Hard-R Star Trek film then there have been Captain’s Logs, and now writer Mark L. Smith has been speaking about why the director’s ‘Pulp Fiction in space‘ never came to fruition. The Revenant screenwriter was speaking with Collider about his latest venture, George Clooney’s The Boys in […]
Taylor Kitsch to lead Netflix Western series American Primeval
Taylor Kitsch (The Terminal List) is set to lead the cast of Netflix’s American Primeval, a six-episode Western limited series from Mark L. Smith (The Revenant), which will reunite the actor with his Battleship and Lone Survivor director Peter Berg. As per Netflix, the series is described as “a raw, adventurous exploration of the birth […]
Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek would have included Captain Kirk, gangster scenes and time travel, says writer
Back in December 2017, it was announced that director Quentin Tarantino was considering developing an R-rated Star Trek movie alongside Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot, which he described as “Pulp Fiction in space.” Now, in an interview on the Bulletproof Screenwriting podcast (via TotalFilm), The Revenant screenwriter Mark L. Smith, who was set to co-write the film, has explained […]
Benedict Cumberbatch set for The 39 Steps limited series
Benedict Cumberbatch is about to find himself on the run as he teams with Patrick Melrose director Edward Berger and screenwriter Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) for a limited series TV adaptation of The 39 Steps. Based on the novel by John Buchan, which was famously adapted for the big screen by Alfred Hitchcock in […]
Mark L. Smith on writing Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek movie
Back in December of 2017 came the rather surprising news that Quentin Tarantino had pitched an R-rated Star Trek movie to Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot, which he described as “Pulp Fiction in space.” Fast forward three years and it’s looking increasingly unlikely that we’ll get to see Tarantino’s Trek, with Paramount still undecided as […]
Netflix taps George Clooney to direct and star in Good Morning, Midnight
Fresh off adapting the novel Catch-22 into a limited series at Hulu, George Clooney is heading over to Netflix to turn Lily Brooks-Dalton’s 2017 sci-fi novel Good Morning, Midnight into a feature film. He will star in as well as direct the film with Mark L. Smith (Overlord) adapting the novel into a screenplay. Good Morning, Midnight follows […]
The Revenant screenwriter to pen Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek movie
Earlier this month came the rather surprising news that Quentin Tarantino had pitched a Star Trek movie to Paramount Pictures and producer J.J. Abrams, with the studio immediately decided to press ahead with development. Well, according to Deadline, the project now has a screenwriter in Mark L. Smith, whose credits include The Revenant, along with […]
Movie Review – The Revenant (2015)
The Revenant, 2015. Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter and Domhnall Gleeson. SYNOPSIS: A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820’s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. Cinema can be a beguiling, beautiful […]
