The rebooted TV series you never knew you wanted - Heroes Reborn - is pushing forward. NBC's reboot is assembling another swarthy crew of normal folks harboring superhero abilities that so far includes Zachary Levi, Robbie Kay and Jack Coleman.
Since 2013 Hunger helmer Steve McQueen has been developing a project for HBO that the cable giant has since qualified for a limited series order. McQueen will direct all six episodes of Codes Of Conduct that Deadline dubbed "an exploration of a young African-American man’s experience entering New York high society, with a past that might not be what it seems." The director collaborated on the scripts with World War Z co-writer Matthew Michael Carnahan.
For a majority of classic war movies, the battles are fought by the infantry, slogging through the unimaginable horrors of ground assaults, and from airborne military personnel tasked with serving their country from the sky. As times change and technology continues to advance though, so does tactical warfare, which is now supplemented with the use of drones. In Andrew Niccol's Good Kill, the emotional conflict that those drone operators are burdened by is explored via Ethan Hawke's Air Force major, Tom Egan.
Paramount Pictures is returning to the dark, gloomy well first spotted in 2002's The Ring for its third instalment in the franchise, Rings. Described in a recent report as a "prequel" to the events of the two pre-existing movies, each starring Naomi Watts as an intrepid journalist, the movie has since gone on to secure its male lead. Fresh from filming YA adaptation The 5th Wave alongside Chloe Grace Moretz, Alex Roe is now locked in to star.
In one of the most interesting pieces of casting news to land this week, THR reports that Charlotte Gainsbourg has entered talks to appear in sci-fi sequel Independence Day 2. The actress is known for her aggressively method performances in Lars Von Trier's back catalogue of works including Nymphomaniac, Antichrist and Melancholia, so stepping away from character-driven pieces and into the realm of blockbuster fare is certainly an unexpected move for Gainsbourg.
Take a look at the landscape of popular network television and what do you see? A whole lotta supernatural, that's what. If it's not zombies being mowed down in The Walking Dead, or playfully reinvented in iZombie, there's plenty of otherworldly characters tackling monsters in Supernatural, Penny Dreadful and Sleepy Hollow. Another supernatural subset now on the small screen are making a return in WGN America's Salem.
Once upon a time the idea of competing projects for major studios was a no-no. Then Deep Impact and Armageddon came along and effectively canceled each other out. The lesson learned in that case was: it doesn't really matter if another movie embracing the same subject matter is also in development, it only matters if it's better. So, that being said, yet another King Arthur movie has now appeared on the industry radar to rival Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Knights Of The Roundtable.
Ridley Scott's unstoppable streak of cranking out a movie a year continues with his upcoming sci-fi adventure The Martian. By the sounds of things certain parts of production are wrapped (Jessica Chastain finished shooting her parts weeks ago) and others are still in full swing on what appears to be a full-scale replica of Mars. Just kidding.
Of all the live-action adaptations of Shakespeare's beloved Romeo And Juliet, three spring to mind. The fiercely loyal 1968 version starring Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting; Baz Luhrman's 1996 modern day re-telling starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes; and of course, Lloyd Kaufman's brilliantly goofish Tromeo & Juliet. Those three stand out as arguably the most recognized out of the countless takes on the Bard's star-crossed tale. But there could be another imminent arrival destined to outshine them all.
After the likes of Wanted, Kick-Ass and Kingsman: The Secret Service all received stellar film adaptations, another of Mark Millar's original comic book tales has now been earmarked for adaptation - and it's not even hit shelves yet.
