We know Henry Cavill was almost James Bond in the early 00s, but now we are getting more insight from Casino Royale director Martin Campbell. In a new interview with Express UK, the filmmaker looks back at a time when Cavill was almost the iconic 007. “He looked great in the audition. His acting was […]
Daily Ridley to scale the Shard for Martin Campbell’s The Cleaner
Daisy Ridley isn’t hanging about when it comes to announcing future projects, because the returning Rey has just signed on to erm…hang about on the side of London’s iconic Shard for Martin Goldeneye Campbell’s high-stakes action-thriller The Cleaner. According to Deadline The Cleaner will be set in present day London and star Ridley as (wait […]
Ruby Rose and Maria Bakalova join Eva Green in Dirty Angels
Former Batwoman star Ruby Rose has signed on to star alongside Eva Green in Dirty Angels, the upcoming action film from Millennium Media which reteams Green with her Casino Royale director Martin Campbell. As per THR, the film “is set against the backdrop of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and follows a group […]
Movie Review – Memory (2022)
Memory, 2022. Directed by Martin Campbell. Starring Liam Neeson, Guy Pearce, Taj Atwal, Harold Torres, Monica Bellucci. Ray Stevenson, Stella Stocker, Antonio Jaramillo, Ray Fearon, Lee Boardman, Rebecca Calder, Natalie Anderson, Atanas Srebrev, Scot Williams, Sigal Diamant, Doug Rao, Daniel De Bourg, Mia Sanchez, J.R. Esposito, and Kalina Stancheva. SYNOPSIS: An assassin-for-hire finds that he’s […]
Liam Neeson action thriller Memory gets a poster and images
After sharing the trailer last month, Open Road Films and STXfilms have now released a poster and images for Memory, the upcoming action thriller from director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) and starring action veteran Liam Neeson alongside Guy Pearce, Monica Bellucci, Taj Atwal, Ray Fearon, and Harold Torres; check them out here… Directed by Martin […]
Liam Neeson stars as a hitman with Alzheimer’s in trailer for Memory
Academy Award winner Liam Neeson has continued to churn out hitman related action films with diminishing returns, even firing off a trio of pandemic era releases – The Marksman, The Ice Road, and Blacklight – to keep fans of his very particular set of skills happy, and now he’s at it again in Martin GoldenEye […]
Ti West’s new horror X gets a batch of character posters
Ahead of its release this March, five new posters have been released from director Ti West’s 1970s-set horror X featuring stars Brittany Snow, Jenna Ortega, Scott Mescudi, Mia Goth and Martin Campbell; check them out here… “In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when […]
Movie Review – The Protégé (2021)
The Protégé, 2021. Directed by Martin Campbell. Starring Michael Keaton, Maggie Q, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Patrick, Patrick Malahide, Ekaterina Baker, Madalina Anea, Ori Pfeffer, Jack Derges, Lili Rich, Florin Piersic Jr., Caroline Loncq, Gamba Cole, Velizar Binev, and Florin Zhang. SYNOPSIS: Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody (Samuel L. Jackson) and […]
Goldeneye and Casino Royale director Martin Campbell is open to returning for Bond 26
With No Time to Die set to be Daniel Craig’s fifth and final portrayal of James Bond, the beloved action series will inevitably be rebooted once again by introducing a new version of the iconic British spy. Now, in an interview with Collider, Martin Campbell, who has previously rebooted the franchise twice by directing Pierce Brosnan’s Goldeneye in […]
Green Lantern director Martin Campbell admits he shouldn’t have tackled a superhero movie
Not everyone is built to helm a superhero film. From the fan reaction to respecting the source material, tackling a film from Marvel or DC is no easy task, and not many filmmakers understand this quite like Martin Campbell. Campbell directed Green Lantern back in 2011 and the film was a commercial and critical bomb. […]