Tony Black on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the unhelpful rumour machine… We may be living in the age of the geek, but when you examine all the rumour around Rogue One: A Star Wars Story this week, you can’t help but wonder if that Birth. Movies. Death article doing the rounds about ‘broken […]
Simon Kinberg explains why Fantastic Four failed, but says there are big plans for the franchise
It was a story that dominated a lot of the summer last year: Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four, its troubled production and its failure at the box office. The director dismissed the movie shortly before its release and went radio silent shortly thereafter, but its producer – and one of the directors of the non-Trank reshoots – […]
X-Men: The real Apocalypse is its continuity!
Tony Black attempts to make sense of the continuity of the X-Men franchise… Have you ever attempted to make sense of the X-Men movie continuity? As in pick apart the entire timeline of events across the eight, soon to be nine films in the franchise? Of course not, you all have lives. You have friends […]
Why Do Fox Keep Misfiring With The X-Men? | Flickering Myth Podcast Mini
Subscribe on iTunes. Support Flickering Myth, buy a t-shirt. Email in your podcast questions: oli@flickeringmyth.com After Oli’s interview with the man behind 20th Century Fox’s X-Verse, Simon Kinberg, his and Luke’s picture of the man has been thrown out of kilter. He says the right things and shares the same passion for comics as we […]
The Martian author Andy Weir developing new project with Ridley Scott and Simon Kinberg
Variety is reporting that Andy Weir, author of The Martian, is developing a new project at 20th Century Fox, which will be produced by Ridley Scott and Simon Kinberg. Weir pitched the project, the details of which are being kept under wraps, and has also been hired to pen the script for what will be […]
Major DC Extended Universe shake up! Ghostbusters trailer reaction | Flickering Myth Podcast #26
Subscribe on iTunes. Support Flickering Myth, buy a t-shirt. Email in your questions: oli@flickeringmyth.com Join Oli and Luke in this week’s Flickering Myth Podcast for… SCOOPERHERO NEWS – a major shake-up for how the DC Extended Universe is going to be run over at Warner Bros., suggesting those “lots of fights” rumours about Zack Snyder clashing […]
The Week in Movies – Ben Affleck “humiliated” by Batman v Superman, first Assassin’s Creed trailer, Tom Hardy in Star Wars: Episode VIII and more…
The Week in Movies discusses the last seven days in cinema, including rumours of Ben Affleck feeling “humiliated” behind the scenes at the reaction to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the first trailer for the Michael Fassbender-starring Assassin’s Creed, a reported cameo for Tom Hardy in Star Wars: Episode VIII and much, much more… The […]
Avengers: Infinity War name change! Ben Affleck “humiliated” over BvS | Scooperhero News
Subscribe on YouTube for new episodes every Friday. Support Flickering Myth, buy a t-shirt! Join Oli and Luke for a run down of the week’s biggest superhero news – including Ben Affleck reportedly feeling “humiliated” over Batman v Superman, Wonder Woman wraps shooting, Marvel “committing” to doing a Black Widow movie…and then getting accused of […]
Exclusive: Gambit solo movie update – “We’ve got to get the script right,” says producer Simon Kinberg
During Flickering Myth’s chat with X-Men: Apocalypse’s producer Simon Kinberg, the conversation drifted to a few of the other projects he’s involved in. Deadpool 2, Fantastic Four 2, the third Star Wars Anthology movie – he’s a busy guy. But with 20th Century Fox quietly dropping the Gambit solo film from its October 2016 release slot, we asked for an […]
X-Men, Fantastic Four and Marvel crossovers, what went wrong with FF and where the hell is Gambit? – The Simon Kinberg Interview
Flickering Myth’s Oli Davis sits down with the grand architect of 20th Century Fox’s X-Verse Simon Kinberg to talk about X-Men: Apocalypse, a crossover with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and what – exactly – happened with Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four disaster from 2015? You can watch the interview in the video below, or read it in prose […]