Universal Pictures has revealed the first trailer and poster for the upcoming fantasy drama Welcome to Marwen. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film is inspired by the 2010 documentary Marwencol and stars Steve Carell as Mark Hogancamp, an artist and photographer who constructs a miniature World War II village in his back yard to aid his recovery […]
Robert Zemeckis to direct new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches
According to Variety, Back to the Future and Forest Gump helmer Robert Zemeckis is in final talks to write and direct a new adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel The Witches for Warner Bros. Pictures. Published in 1973, The Witches follows a young British boy and his Norwegian grandmother who find themselves up against […]
Robert Zemeckis producing new sci-fi Steel Soldiers
According to Variety, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis is set for a return to the sci-fi genre, having signed on to develop and produce Steel Soldiers for STX Entertainment and China’s Alibaba Pictures. Based on a script by Kev Kaufman (Space Cowboys), the sci-fi action movie takes place in a futuristic world where humans and androids fight […]
Tom Hanks to star in sci-fi robo drama Bios
The nicest man on the planet, Mr. Tom Hanks, stepped into the sci-fi flecked world of The Circle earlier this year with pretty disastrous results. Now Variety are reporting that he is to have another crack at the genre with Bios. Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik is attached to direct the story of a robot that […]
Gwendoline Christie joins Robert Zemeckis’ untitled drama
Gwendoline Christie has joined Steve Carell in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming untitled drama. The project will be directed by Zemeckis and produced from a screenplay he also wrote with Caroline Thompson The film is to be based off the 2012 documentary Marwencol, and will see Carell starring as a man that decides to build a miniature […]
Diane Kruger joins Robert Zemeckis’ Marwencol adaptation
THR is reporting that Diane Kruger has signed on to star alongside Steve Carell in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming feature film adaptation of Jeff Malmberg’s acclaimed 2010 documentary Marwencol. Zemeckis has spent several years in development on the project, which revolves around a man (Carell) who, after a violent assault, builds a miniature World War Two-era […]
History teams up with Robert Zemeckis for UFO drama series Blue Book
History has placed an order for a 10-episode drama series from executive producer Robert Zemeckis entitled Blue Book, which will explore the top secret United States Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s known as Project Blue Book. Blue Book follows Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a brilliant college professor recruited by […]
Robert Zemeckis, Matthew Vaughn and Sam Raimi top shortlist to direct The Flash
Warner Bros. hasn’t had the best of luck with directors on its Ezra Miller-headline Flash movie, with Seth Grahame-Smith and Rick Famuyiwa both departing the project due to creative differences. However, it looks like the studio may be closing in on another filmmaker to steer the Scarlet Speedster’s solo outing. The Wrap is reporting that Robert Zemeckis […]
UPDATE: Robert Zemeckis in talks to direct DC’s The Flash
Having passed through the hands of Seth Grahame-Smith and Rick Famuyiwa, it looks like Warner Bros. may have potentially found its next director for The Flash solo movie, with Screen Junkies reporting that Back to the Future and Forrest Gump helmer Robert Zemeckis is in talks with Warner Bros. about the film. ‘Ace Scooper’ El Mayimbe […]
Movie Review – Allied (2016)
Allied, 2016. Directed by Robert Zemeckis Starring Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Lizzy Caplan, Simon McBurney and Matthew Goode SYNOPSIS: In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of […]