Compared to the rest of the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy's central quartet, Daisy Ridley faces the toughest battle in trying to outrun the shadow of the franchise for the rest of her career.
It may have inspired a thousand dudebros to get similar ink, but the majority of fans were never sold on the multitude of tattoos sported by Jared Leto's Joker in Suicide Squad. Even director David Ayer admitted that he might have gone a little too far, and if anything, it was incredibly vain for the Clown Prince of Crime to turn his body into a shrine to himself, especially when he's typically focused on chaos for chaos' sake instead of self-gratification.
The majority of Netflix's 200 million subscribers might be native English speakers, but sci-fi is a universal language. The genre is born from big ambitions and sometimes even bigger ideas, with some of the streaming service's best original projects set within the realms of science fiction hailing from all over the world.
Based on the massive numbers pulled in by a variety of movie and television titles across several platforms, the holiday season is the ideal time to release high profile original content exclusively to streaming.
Shortly after it was confirmed last November that 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg had been tasked with the latest attempt to reboot Predator, the filmmaker took to social media and admitted his disappointment in the news being made public, revealing that he'd been working on it for a good couple of years already in secret.
Not long after Man of Steel was released, it became pretty evident that Batman was the DC superhero Zack Snyder really wanted to get his hands on. Obviously, though, when he was first announced to be directing the Superman reboot, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises had yet to arrive, and Snyder didn't want to step on any toes.
Disney's nonstop procession of live-action animated remakes based on the studio's back catalogue brimming with classics has so far brought in over $9 billion at the box office, but the quality has been all over the place. In fact, only seven out of the sixteen so far have managed to secure a Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and just three have even made it above the 80% mark.
Neil Marshall may have made a seamless transition into one of the most reliable pairs of hands that any big budget TV show could hire to direct an episode or two having helmed memorable installments of Game of Thrones, Black Sails, Hannibal and Westworld, but he's yet to recapture the momentum of his early feature film career.
You've got to feel sorry for Tails, who made a fan-pleasing cameo appearance during the credits of last year's Sonic the Hedgehog, only to be completely ignored and overlooked as the rumors and speculation for the in-development sequel have almost entirely focused on Knuckles.
As the first fresh content from the world's biggest franchise in eighteen months, not to mention the Marvel Cinematic Universe's official expansion onto the small screen and the kickoff of Phase Four, WandaVision was always going to be appointment viewing for a huge number of Disney Plus' 90 million or so subscribers.