Last year’s Solo: A Star Wars Story featured the surprising return of Darth Maul, arguably the single coolest character of the entire Prequel Trilogy. His appearance sent shockwaves through the Star Wars fanbase, most of whom felt that the visually striking villain was wasted in his twenty-ish minutes of screen time in The Phantom Menace. Now, the man behind Maul, Ray Park, may have just teased another on-screen appearance for the Sith Lord.
Of course, its coincidental release date with Toy Story 4 has led to a hilarious marketing campaign for upcoming Child’s Play reboot. In a slew of posters that are slowly infiltrating subway stations around the country, the killer doll has taken to violently breaking toys that look just legally different enough from Pixar's classic characters.
Dan Aykroyd has been trying to get a Ghostbusters 3 off the ground for decades, a movie that just seemed impossible to make until Jason Reitman announced his involvement earlier this year. In a brand new interview detailing the long and troubled production history of a proper threequel, Aykroyd teased a major connection between it and the 1984 original.
Last month saw the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Disneyland’s latest theme park area inspired by everyone’s favorite galaxy far, far away. While I don’t think anybody on Earth would bet against the success of a Star Wars theme park, sometimes it’s easy to forget just how obsessive fandom culture can become. Case in point, within the first week of the themed area’s opening, three separate fans have purchased its $25,000 R2- droid.
Could you imagine if, in today’s obsessive film climate, a major franchise blockbuster announced a title, produced posters and marketing material with that title, and then up and changed it mere months before release? It may seem unreasonable now, but that’s exactly what happened to Star Wars: Return of the Jedi some three decades ago.
For the better part of two years, fans have demanded Warner Bros. release Zack Snyder’s original cut of Justice League. The director left the project toward the back end of production, with Joss Whedon stepping in to take his place, resulting in a tonally jarring CGI spectacle that failed to resonate with critics and audiences.
Twenty-two years later, Men in Black: International does its best to keep up with the spirit of the original film, but it stumbles nearly every step of the way.
With the rerelease of Rob Zombie’s 3 From Hell on the horizon, the metal musician-turned-director has taken to social media to share behind the scenes looks at some of his earlier productions, including a look at a beautiful unused one-sheet for 31.
