It was announced late last night that Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the directing team for the upcoming Han Solo Star Wars spinoff, have been removed from the project. While we don’t know the exact details of their departure, save for reports that their style clashed with that of screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan’s vision for the movie, this does […]
Ron Howard adapting Hillbilly Elegy
Deadline is reporting that Imagine Entertainment has won a bidding contest for the rights to J.D. Vance’s New York Times bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, setting Ron Howard to direct an adaptation, as well as producing with Imagine partner Brian Grazer. Hillbilly Elegy describes Vance’s poor upbringing in the Rust Belt, where he grew up among […]
Ron Howard options The Last Days of Jack Sparks
Screen Daily is reporting that Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment has optioned the movie rights to British author Jason Arnopp’s supernatural novel The Last Days of Jack Sparks, enlisting Arnopp to pen the script. The 2016 novel “follows titular pop culture journalist Jack Sparks who is researching a book on the occult. After sparking a Twitter […]
Movie Review – Inferno (2016)
Inferno, 2016. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan, Ben Foster, and Ana Ularu. SYNOPSIS: When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot. […]
Jennifer Lawrence set for Zelda Fitzgerald biopic with Ron Howard
THR is reporting that Jennifer Lawrence has signed on to play the jazz age icon Zelda Fitzgerald in a new biopic which is being developed by Inferno helmer Ron Howard. The biopic – currently titled Zelda – has been written by screenwriter Emma Frost (The White Queen), and tells the story of Fitzgerald, a socialite, […]
Second Opinion – Inferno (2016)
Inferno, 2016. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Ben Foster, Omar Sy, Sidse Babbett Knudsen and Irrfan Khan. SYNOPSIS: When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly […]
Movie Review – Inferno (2016)
Inferno, 2016. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan, Ben Foster, and Ana Ularu. SYNOPSIS: Robert Langdon must regain his memory and his problem solving skills in order to save the world’s population from a deadly new plague. Full disclosure: I read the book Inferno when it first came […]
Movie Review – The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016)
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years, 2016. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Ron Howard, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon (archive footage) and George Harrison (archive footage). SYNOPSIS: Documentary about the Fab Four’s early years performing at sold-out venues around the world. The only other official documentary that’s ever been made […]
Ron Howard on bringing Stephen King’s The Dark Tower to the screen
After spending years developing the project, producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are now less than half a year away from realising their dream of bringing Stephen King’s The Dark Tower to the big screen. However, as we’ve seen and heard, director Nikolaj Arcel’s film is not going to be a direct adaptation of King’s fantasy […]
Disney’s Splash remake to star Channing Tatum and Jillian Bell
Just this past June, producer Brian Grazer teased during an interview that a remake of his over three-decade-old surprise hit Splash, which starred Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah, was in the works with an interesting twist; today, that project has been revealed, as Deadline reports that a remake of Splash starring Jillian Bell and Channing […]
