As if Justin Lin, the director of Star Trek Beyond, didn’t have enough pressure on his shoulders already - as a newcomer to the Star Trek film franchise. Beyond, the third entry in the reboot series, arrives as the Star Trek franchise celebrates its fiftieth anniversary.
No one has to tell director Paul Feig that he’s treading on hallowed ground with his reboot of the 1984 classic Ghostbusters. “I get it,” Feig says, regarding the trepidation that some fans feel toward the very idea of redoing the film.
It seems like just yesterday when the first Ghostbusters film was released in 1984, if you happened to be eleven years old at the time. For those kids of the 1980s though who refuse to let go of that era, here’s a terrifying dose of reality: Kate McKinnon, the star of the Ghostbusters reboot, was less than six months old when the first film was released.
Duncan Jones, the director of Moon and Source Code, is tired of seeing great video games being turned into lacklustre films, and it was his desire to reverse this trend that motivated him to want to bring Warcraft: The Beginning to the big screen, along with his own personal relationship with the Warcraft universe, which has spanned more than twenty years.
If Terrence Malick ever made a science-fiction film for a major Hollywood studio, it might resemble Midnight Special, which is the latest effort from Jeff Nichols, the writer-director of such acclaimed movies as Mud and Take Shelter, films that have earned Nichols comparisons with the brilliant but reclusive Malick.
