‘This isn’t a paranoid future nightmare’: the explosive return of Chris Morris
Looking forward to this. Four Lions seems like a long time ago now.
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‘This isn’t a paranoid future nightmare’: the explosive return of Chris Morris
Looking forward to this. Four Lions seems like a long time ago now.
Musical with proven track record stuffed with big-name and fan-favourite stars. You’d have to be drunk not to greenlight this.
yes, but the idea of putting them in costumes that almost completely hide their appearance and add on top of that put some real dodgy CGI? that sounds like they were under the influence of some very strong hallucinogens when they designed this movie.
I predict a lot of movies about how great advanced artificial intelligence is and how it definitely doesn’t pose a threat to humanity.
You wouldn’t need an AI to tell me that it’s not worth greenlighting any more Terminator movies.
Is that Rhys Darby?
I’m too lazy to look it up.
Yes. It is.
Wasn’t he already in a movie with the same name? About the AI?
Wasn’t he already in a movie with the same name? About the AI?
That’s what she said.
You might want to have a look at the DC Movie TV thread.
National Treasure 3 in Development at Disney (x)
Disney moving ahead with a third Nicolas Cage‘s “National Treasure” movie with producer Jerry Bruckheimerand and screenwriter Chris Bremner tapped to write the script.
Bad Boys 4 in the Works at Sony Pictures (x)
Sony Pictures has launched early development of an untitled fourth Bad Boys movie with again Chris Bremner returning to write the script.
Warner Bros. Animation developing Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge (x)
In addition to the upcoming James Wan-produced live-action Mortal Kombat film in 2021, WB has working on an Mortal Kombat animated movie early this year, it will arrive sometime in “the first half of 2020.”
Ethan Spaulding (Batman: Assault on Arkham) is directing the film while Jeremy Adams (Supernatural, Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans) is writing the script. Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon will serve as a creative consultant.
Here are the voice-acting cast includes:
<p style=”text-align: left;”>I played through the story of MK11 which – to the extent it knows the ideas are batshit – takes itself pretty seriously.</p>
There’s actually some kind of narrative here, and basing it around Scorpions story seems smart, because, well he’s basically Supernatural Ninja John Wick.
Grey Griffin already sounds like a super-ninja.
I wouldn’t know about John Wick. I had to switch it off after the doggie scene. I wanted to fireball the screen (not Keanu though. Keanu is very nice).
Guns Akimbo trailer: I like this. High strangeness action comedy. Love what Radcliffe is becoming, with this kind of thing following up on Swiss Army Knife Man. Also, I need to see Deathgasm which I somehow haven’t yet.
I liked Swiss Army Man. Radcliffe has made some interesting choices. I quite enjoyed the one where he pratfalls out a window.
Guns Akimbo trailer: I like this. High strangeness action comedy. Love what Radcliffe is becoming, with this kind of thing following up on Swiss Army Knife Man. Also, I need to see Deathgasm which I somehow haven’t yet.
Deathgasm is fun but uneven. It tries a little too hard at times so not all the jokes land.
I like the original Spencer novels and the show was fun. This looks terrible though.
Marky Mark is no Robert Urich and no one could be a better Hawk than Avery Brooks.
No details, no producer, no director and certainly no actors attached, but they have a brand they can sell so they’re hoping to make a splash in the monster movie market.
I enjoyed the first one, but it was a bit too silly and didn’t really achieve any suspense.
‘Jaws’ is still the gold standard for this sort of film, I hope they remember that this time.
Robert Zemeckis Closes Deal To Direct & Co-Write Disney’s Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’
The original Disney movie is very weird.
In terms of live-action Pinocchios, the bar is not high:
In terms of live-action Pinocchios, the bar is not high
I don’t know, I quite liked A.I.
David Lynch’s Pinocchio or GTFO
I enjoyed the first one, but it was a bit too silly and didn’t really achieve any suspense.
I saw the second one on a coach trip. Everyone was excited as it was set in the jungles of Malaysian Borneo. Slight problem that Anacondas only exist in South America which ruined what was otherwise a rigorously realistic approach.
Slight problem that Anacondas only exist in South America
What, are you suggesting that anacondas never go on holiday? For all we know, there may be an entire industry devoted to Borneo package tours for reptiles.
Slight problem that Anacondas only exist in South America
What, are you suggesting that anacondas never go on holiday? For all we know, there may be an entire industry devoted to Borneo package tours for reptiles.
It’s all about the Eastern Asia Snake Jazz scene:
It’s a documentary.
Dual ‘Transformers’ Movies In The Works At Paramount
The Vanderbilt project, from what I heard, is based on Transformers spinoff Beast Wars which are robots that transform into robotic animals like Cheetor (Cheetah), Optimus Primal (Gorilla), Rhinox (Rhinoceros) and more. Vanderbilt has been on the project since April. There’s news today that one project is based in the Bumblebee universe.
Isn’t the bumblebee universe the same as Bay’s films?
Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions developing new version of ‘The Thing’ that will adapt a long-lost original novel, Frozen Hell(x)
“In 1938, acclaimed science fiction author John W. Campbell published the novella Who Goes There?, about a team of scientists in Antarctica who discover and are terrorized by a monstrous, shape-shifting alien entity. The story would later be adapted into John Carpenter’s iconic movie The Thing (following an earlier film adaptation in 1951). The published novella was actually an abridged version of Campbell’s original story, called Frozen Hell, which had to be shortened for publication. The Frozen Hell manuscript remained unknown and unpublished for decades, and it was only recently rediscovered.”
“Frozen Hell expands the Thing story dramatically, giving vital backstory and context to an already incredible tale.”
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge – Exclusive Official Trailer (2020)
Based on the worldwide hit game created by Ed Boon & John Tobias, Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge spotlights the once-in-a-generation tournament between the champions of Outworld and Earthrealm – a competition that will ultimately determine the fate of Earth and all its citizens. Lord Raiden, protector of Earthrealm, must gather the greatest fighters of his realm to defend it from the evil Shang Tsung in the battle to end all battles – Mortal Kombat!
Stars Joel McHale as Johnny Cage, Jennifer Carpenter as Sonya Blade, Jordan Rodrigues as Scorpion & Hanzo Hasashi, Steve Blum as Sub-Zero, Artt Butler as Shang Tsung, Darin De Paul as Quan Chi, Robin Atkin Downes as Kano, David B. Mitchell as Raiden, Ike Amadi as Jax Briggs, Kevin Michael Richardson as Goro, Grey Griffin as Kitana & Satoshi Hasashi, and Fred Tatasciore as Demon Torturer. Batman: Assault of Arkham’s Ethan Spaulding is directing Scorpion’s Revenge and Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans’ Jeremy Adams wrote the script. The release date for Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge is Spring 2020.
So it’s basically just the first movie again.
Isn’t the bumblebee universe the same as Bay’s films?
Ehhhhh, kinda? It’s clearly matching the visual aesthetic, and has Section Seven (including a younger version of Seymour Simmons) as antagonists, but the story doesn’t match up with the other Bay movies. But then again, the story of the Bay movies don’t match up with the story of the other Bay movies, so it’s anyone’s guess.
It also had Bumblebee losing his ability to speak and at the end transforming into the same car he is in the first Bay movie.
Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions developing new version of ‘The Thing’ that will adapt a long-lost original novel, Frozen Hell(x)
I’m not sure that’s going to work. I really enjoyed Frozen Hell as a work of pulp SF, but there’s a complete disconnect between the tone of the rediscovered first half and the second half which became The Thing. I think you’d end up with a film that was at best really hard to sell and at worst a complete mess.
I’m interested in what they mean by “adapt”? I’m guessing that they’re not planning to make it a period piece for example?
After 17 years in development (hell) I’ll believe this when I see it;
Especially as the recent BBC ‘Dracula’ set it’s second episode on The Demeter.
Why not a period piece? Carpenter could have made The Thing as a period piece and it would still have worked. He took a horror-with-SF-trimmings 1920s story and made a horror-with-SF-trimmings 1980s movie, but put Kurt Russell in vintage arctic gear and you could still make the exact same movie scene-for-scene (near enough).
The book Frozen Hell is 50% scientists standing around talking about ice floes, and 50% The Thing. If you’re not going to use that first 50% then you’re not adapting Frozen Hell you’re remaking The Thing. And if you are using that first 50% you’re going to have a very uneven movie. That’s why this announcement seems so weird to me.
It would be like splicing the first half of 2001 to the last half of Jaws. Maybe there’s an audience for that, but how the hell do you market it?
Trailer soon, hopefully.
Hey, look!! Bill Murray is going to appear in a Wes Anderson film!!
And Owen Wilson.
Swings and roundabouts…
Why not a period piece?
It costs more money.
Blumhouse are masters at spending only where they have to. That way if a film fails to live up to their hopes they can push it onto home viewing and only lose a fraction of what a big studio loses when one of their films turns out badly.
Unless they’re really confident that the brandname will guarantee a higher level of return not matter what, they’ll make this efficiently and far more cheaply than anyone else would.
The book Frozen Hell is 50% scientists standing around talking about ice floes, and 50% The Thing. If you’re not going to use that first 50% then you’re not adapting Frozen Hell you’re remaking The Thing. And if you are using that first 50% you’re going to have a very uneven movie. That’s why this announcement seems so weird to me.
I think it’s PR, in large part anyway.
‘The Thing’ is a sacred text for a lot of horror fans and they weren’t happy with the prequel a few years ago.
So instead of just remaking it again, Blumhouse are promising something different, something new, something that respects the source material.
We’ll see what they actually do though? If they’re smart (and I think they are) they’ll avoid the obvious reference points and embrace every chance to make it different… but still ‘The Thing’.
Dual ‘Transformers’ Movies In The Works At Paramount
The Vanderbilt project, from what I heard, is based on Transformers spinoff Beast Wars which are robots that transform into robotic animals like Cheetor (Cheetah), Optimus Primal (Gorilla), Rhinox (Rhinoceros) and more. Vanderbilt has been on the project since April. There’s news today that one project is based in the Bumblebee universe.
“Friends find, look behind. You go wrong way, you fool I say!”
Hello John Cena!!!
I can’t wait for this.
This is pure cinema.
I’ll see it.
Maybe multiple times,
With something like F & F , they gotta keep getting bigger and Better. too bad they couldn’t this time. 6’5″ Rock replaced by 6’1″ Cena smh
Those Fast and Furious look kind of fun. Maybe I should watch one of them.
It seems like family is somehow an important theme in this? Yeah?
(Actually seriously, I’m unlikely to watch this in the theatre, but maybe I should just start to catch up with it… at what point of do those things get really enjoyable to watch? I’m assuming not quite from the start?)
Five.
Fast Five is the highlight of the series. It’s also where the series starts to become more & more ludicrous. In a good way. Any pretence of realism goes out the window, and it just becomes sheer nonsense. In a good way.
The original film is also very good, but far removed from the series as it is now. 2 & 3 are skippable. 4 isn’t great, but sets up some story beats for the rest of the series.
So, recommended viewing order is 1, 4, 5 onwards.
I haven’t watched any of them either but feel like I should. Might have to see if any are on Amazon or Netflix.
It’s a very unique movie chronology.
You can start at 5, which is when it became the juggernaut it is today, and go from there.
1 and 4 are fine and fill in the back story of the main original characters if you’re curious.
2 is utterly ridiculous and actually great for a drunken movie night.
3 put me to sleep.
I don’t want to and i hate to becoming an anti-Disney, but i rather watch Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio version.
Reminder that Del Toro is producing a stop motion adaptation for Netflix next year. See that instead. https://t.co/FaK3CA18f7 pic.twitter.com/cLMJfbr0xh
— Stando Master Yeenie (@Yeenie_Mcbeenie) January 24, 2020
Disney have that covered too;
But we live in world where we can choose to watch either, or neither, or both.
Disney presents:
Hamilton.
With The Original Broadway Cast.
Filmed onstage at The Richard Rodgers Theatre.
In A Theater Near You.
October 15, 2021.#Hamilfilm pic.twitter.com/z4ohfWXzi3— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) February 3, 2020
I won’t be satisfied until I see Disney Presents The Avengers: The Musical on the Great White Way.
I won’t be satisfied until I see Disney Presents The Avengers: The Musical on the Great White Way.
Spider-Ham-ilton.
Disney presents:
Hamilton.
With The Original Broadway Cast.
Filmed onstage at The Richard Rodgers Theatre.
In A Theater Near You.
October 15, 2021.#Hamilfilm pic.twitter.com/z4ohfWXzi3— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) February 3, 2020
I saw Lin-Manuel mention this last week. Ironically, we saw the original cast on October 15, 2015 at the Richard Rogers (and went backstage after). It would be really cool if they filmed that night.
Disney presents:
Hamilton.
With The Original Broadway Cast.
Filmed onstage at The Richard Rodgers Theatre.
In A Theater Near You.
October 15, 2021.#Hamilfilm pic.twitter.com/z4ohfWXzi3— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) February 3, 2020
Given the price of live theatre tickets, even with occasional matinee discounts, I think I’ll see the show this way.
Final trailer.
I saw the SB sneak peek for Mulan on a TV, it looked horrible… I just rewatched it, it doesn’t look as bad… I guess that’s the display difference issue with TVs everyone talks about, that makes stuff look super cheap, like bad TV series cheap… =/
Anyways, even without looking like a cheap TV series, it still looks… I dunno… empty? kinda mundane too… meh whatever, not like I’m gonna watch it… I was just amazed by how different something can look on a TV… crazy…
I don’t know what you saw, Jon, but the preview I just viewed above looks pretty damned amazing. To each his own.
I saw the SB sneak peek for Mulan on a TV, it looked horrible… I just rewatched it, it doesn’t look as bad… I guess that’s the display difference issue with TVs everyone talks about, that makes stuff look super cheap, like bad TV series cheap… =/
Anyways, even without looking like a cheap TV series, it still looks… I dunno… empty? kinda mundane too… meh whatever, not like I’m gonna watch it… I was just amazed by how different something can look on a TV… crazy…
it has to do with a tv’s refresh rate. TVs specifically designed to watch sports on have a faster refresh rate, which gives regular programs a sped up, video appearance.
Fast Five is the highlight of the series
Five was the first appearance of the Rock.
With something like F & F , they gotta keep getting bigger and Better. too bad they couldn’t this time. 6’5″ Rock replaced by 6’1″ Cena
Just get Tom Cruise. He always manages to look taller than anyone else.
TVs specifically designed to watch sports on have a faster refresh rate, which gives regular programs a sped up, video appearance.
Yup and it’s why they have various modes for different types of viewing. If you watch a fast moving sport like football or basketball on a movie mode it can’t keep up with the action and looks very blurry.
Given the price of live theatre tickets, even with occasional matinee discounts, I think I’ll see the show this way.
It’s also the original cast who helped shape the roles which makes a huge difference.
Buckle up, Vin Diesel says Fast 10 could be split into two movies
So, presumably they’d have to call them Fast 10 and Furious 10.
Or, and stay with me here:
Fast & Furious 10 and Fast & Furious 11.
Or, and stay with me here:
Fast & Furious 10 and Fast & Furious 11.
Sorry, you lost me. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
I think doing it that way will confuse people.
Fast & Furious 10 Gold and Fast & Furious 10 Silver. 80% the same content, but you need to watch both movies to see the whole thing.
Maybe they should call them Hobbs10 and Shaw10, then see which one draws bigger box office.
The Quite Nippy And The Slightly Irritated
Speedy and Angry Vehicles!
It does raise the question of whether or not Vin Diesel ever learned to count past ten.
It does raise the question of whether or not Vin Diesel ever learned to count past ten.
He plays D&D, so he has dice for that.
Gareth Edwards has found his next film after his success directing Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The helmer is teaming with New Regency on an untitled sci-fi film that he wrote and will direct, Deadline has confirmed.
Plot details are under wraps, but is based on an original idea by Edwards and is set in the near future. New Regency will produce and finance the pic. Rogue One‘s Kiri Hart will produce.
Always good to hear original stories coming through. Looking forward to hearing more about it.
YAY!!!
‘Knives Out’ Sequel Officially A Go As Lionsgate Hints At Franchise
Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said Thursday during the company’s third-quarter earnings call that a sequel to Knives Out is officially a go, hinting that a production start for a follow-up to the money-making and critically acclaimed Rian Johnson whodunit is imminent.
The news comes as the film starring Daniel Craig, which earned Johnson his first Oscar nomination for his Original Screenplay, is nearing the $300 million mark at the worldwide box office. It was one of three films to come out during Lionsgate’s fiscal Q3 along with Midway and Bombshell. As a result, film revenue rose 30% in the quarter, the company said.
Johnson has been openly hinting he was keen to do a sequel to Knives Out, his contemporary spin on an Agatha Christie-esque murder mystery with Craig’s private investigator Benoit Blanc at the center of the tale. Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis and Michael Shannon led the strong ensemble cast.
The pic was a critical hit from its late November release, and was nominated for three Golden Globes including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Johnson also racked up nominations for Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTAs, the Critics’ Choice Awards and the WGA Awards.
“I had such a good time making it, such a great time working with Daniel, and now just seeing that audiences are responding to it, the idea of continuing it on seems like it would just be a blast,” the director told Deadline on Oscar nomination day. “But there’s a lot that has to happen before that can happen, first and foremost being writing a script. So, we’ll see.”
But there’s a lot that has to happen before that can happen, first and foremost being writing a script. So, we’ll see.”
Indeed, but I hope it happens.
Maybe they should call them Hobbs10 and Shaw10, then see which one draws bigger box office.
That would be an interesting idea actually. Do two versions of the same story but from alternate perspectives and release them simultaneously.
Rush-a-men?
So Locke and Key is up against it as the Standard deems it not plausible enough.
Huh? It’s a fucking horror story, they’re all implausible.
Oh and not to forget, to complete the image of a sneering culture elitist, the implausibility is due to it being based on a comic.
‘Chaos Walking’ Eyes January 2021 Release
Filmed back in 2017.
Nothing in the pitch made me think it was a movie. Even if the novel is great, it doesn’t leap out as a movie idea, to me.
Hmmm…
Chaos Walking: a world where the men make a lot of Noise.
A solitary girl.
The opening line is by a dog who says, “Poo, Todd!”
Star Wars and Avengers added to the chaos.
Liman and Kaufman’s adaptation of Ness’s novel sounds utterly implausible. Oh, I’ve just checked – there are 6 writers involved. One of them is the showrunner for The Magic Order.
Mulan looks like it’s going to be a somewhat unusual Disney movie, with all the war going on. Might be a really good movie for kids who are a little too old for the usual Disney fare.
The martial arts look pretty good, from the trailer.
Includes a bunch of names not on the previous poster, so they might just be cameos? Trailer tomorrow.
That’s a really poor choice of typeface down the sides of that Green Knight poster. It’s surprisingly hard to read.
Yeah that’s pretty much illegible.
Dramatic image, terrible text.
Is it getting similar feedback on Twitter?
It’s no bother to read. It says:
Ghosty McGhostface 2: It’s not easy being green.
The Hunt | Official Trailer | Universal Pictures
The most talked about movie of the year is the one nobody has seen … yet.
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don’t know where they are, or how they got there. They don’t know they’ve been chosen… for a very specific purpose … The Hunt. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, a group of elites gathers for the very first time at a remote Manor House to hunt ordinary Americans for sport. But the elites’ master plan is about to be derailed because one of The Hunted, Crystal (Betty Gilpin, GLOW), knows The Hunters’ game better than they do. She turns the tables on the killers, picking them off, one by one, as she makes her way toward the mysterious woman (two-time Oscar® winner Hilary Swank) at the center of it all.
From Jason Blum, the producer of Get Out and The Purge series, and Damon Lindelof, creator of the HBO series Watchmen and co-creator of the TV series Lost, comes a timely and provocative new satirical thriller that has already ignited a national conversation. Now, it’s time to decide for yourself. Written by Lindelof and his fellow Watchmen collaborator Nick Cuse and is directed by Craig Zobel (Z for Zachariah, The Leftovers). Blum produces for his Blumhouse Productions alongside Lindelof. The film is executive produced by Zobel, Cuse and Steven R. Molen.
In Theaters March 13
Okay that’s a clever poster.
Also, i’m looking forward to see Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch! (and i wish i post that first before paul showed up…)
Clue reboot with Ryan Reynolds gets The Muppets director (x)
The Muppets filmmaker James Bobin is now in talks to direct 20th Century Fox’s Clue remake starring Ryan Reynolds, reports Variety. Bobin also directed the underappreciated and excellent live-action Dora and the Lost City of Gold for Paramount Pictures.
Jason Bateman had been previously attached to helm the murder mystery, but departed the project due to scheduling conflicts with Netflix’s Ozark.
The writing team behind Zombieland and Deadpool Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick penned the script. They teased the potential of the film being R-rated.
The cast has not been set, but 20th Century Fox aiming for high-profile talent to join Reynolds, adds the site.
The original 1985 movie, based on the Hasbro board game, followed six guests who are anonymously invited to a strange mansion. After the host is killed, the visitors must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as bodies pile up. The cast included Christopher Lloyd, Madeline Khan, Michael McKean and Eileen Brennan.
Reynolds’ Maximum Effort is developing and producing the pic with Allspark Pictures, the film division of Hasbro.
‘The Green Knight’ looks very interesting. I’m not sure what they’re doing with the legend, not yet, but I’ll be keeping an eye on it.
Like I said, it is a ghost story: He’s battling his ghosts whilst embracing his inner girdle.
3 kisses for the fox. Oh no. (Don’t you dare, Dev).
The Green Knight looks great and mysterious and intriguingly everything. Cahir Castle! Why is no one talking about The Iron Mask?
Jackie Chan vs. Arnie.
“It’s the tower!”
“So stupid.”
‘The Green Knight’ looks very interesting. I’m not sure what they’re doing with the legend, not yet, but I’ll be keeping an eye on it.
Yeah. The trailer looks a bit like a Refn version of a fantasy movie. Could be very good. I haven’t seen anything by the director except for Pete’s Dragon, which is… well, different in tone, being a Disney movie and all. But that one was very competently made, at least.
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