With the first official images from Dune, Denis Villeneuve’s latest science fiction epic, released a few days ago, hype for the film has ramped a notch further. As has promotion for the movie.
Of the many pandemic-stroke-apocalypse-stroke-doomsday movies experiencing a resurgence in the age of coronavirus, few are funnier or better-made than Shaun of the Dead. The self-proclaimed romantic comedy with zombies has gone down as a cult classic, and now it’s drawing new admirers. Several Shaun fans have already noticed a real-life similarity between our pandemic and that depicted in the movie. Here’s what was best described as “Shaun of the Dead goes stateside”:
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Whatever it is, it’s going to ignite the wrath of Snyder cultists on forums from Boston to Bangkok. Having refocussed their franchise-building efforts on standalone movies, Warner Bros. could be about to take the DC Extended Universe in an even more radical direction. Self-professed entertainment news website FandomWire have reported that the studio are planning to reset the Justice League in the upcoming Flash movie, with all of Snyder’s movies set to fall by the wayside in this revamped lineup. Here’s what the Fandom had to say:
Given the paucity of new film content of late, I’m sure you were as glad as I was to see the first official stills from upcoming sci-fi epic Dune. The pic will (hopefully) hit cinemas on December 18th, marking the source material’s long-awaited return to the big screen – the last time Frank Herbert’s novel had a cinematic adaptation came back in 1984.
With the release of Batman v Superman, Henry Cavill became only the second actor to play Superman in multiple movies. The other? The incomparable Christopher Reeve. Two performances from wildly differing takes on the character, with Reeve’s films approaching Kal-El with charm and warmth, while Cavill was forced to sludge through Zack Snyder’s miserable beat-em-ups. On the face of it, not an easy gap to bridge. But Instagram user zerologhy has decided to give it a go.
Will Smith, star of Independence Day, Men In Black, Shark Tale, to name a few, has posted a fitting meme for the pandemic era lockdown fatigued world. Click the Instagram link below to check out his I Am Legend-themed observation about how we’ll all tell our grandkids the story of what living in the pandemic was like. Spoiler alert, we’re going to lie a lot:
