Warner Bros. and New Line Pictures have won a hotly contested auction for The King, a package deal from Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions, which will see The Rock starring as the Hawaiian king Kamehameha the Great. Robert Zemeckis (Allied) from a script by Randall Wallace (Braveheart). Kamehameha was the founder and ruler of the […]
Robert Zemeckis has revealed his thoughts on directing a Marvel or DC movie
Robert Zemeckis is one of the biggest names in directing but would he consider helming a Marvel or DC movie in the future? Director of such classics as Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, and Cast Away, Zemeckis is as accomplished as it gets. One of the biggest markets for directors […]
Steve Carell and Robert Zemeckis’ Welcome to Marwen gets new trailer and character posters
A new trailer has arrived for Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming film Welcome to Marwen, starring Steve Carell (The Office) in a story based on true events. Along with the new trailer is a batch of character posters from Moviefone, showing each of the actors’ toy counterparts in close-up detail. Check them out below… When a devastating attack […]
Steve Carell enters a fantasy world of WWII miniatures in first Welcome to Marwen trailer
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 […]