Whether you prefer Gene Wilder or Johnny Depp in the role, one thing that almost everybody would agree on is that a prequel following Willy Wonka during his younger days before he built his confectionery empire, recruited an army of Oompa Loompas and became a recluse willing to lure innocent children to their doom sounds equal parts creatively bankrupt and completely unnecessary.
Darren Lynn Bousman first rose to prominence behind the camera after taking the reins of the Saw franchise and helming the second, third and fourth installments in the horror franchise after co-creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell moved onto bigger and better things, but in the thirteen years since he last played a game with Jigsaw, the filmmaker has failed to come close to replicating the same sort of commercial success enjoyed by the popular series.
Hollywood is slowly embracing more diversity and representation in the biggest projects to come out of Tinseltown, something a lot of people believed to be long overdue. And as the largest franchise in the business, it wasn't a surprise to discover that the Marvel Cinematic Universe would be at the forefront of an industry-wide push for a greater sense of inclusion.
On paper, Dracula and the Marvel Cinematic Universe hardly sound like a logical combination for those largely familiar with the movies and little else, but the iconic vampire has been a regular feature of the company's comic book back catalogue for decades.
Chris Evans' self-imposed exile from the Marvel Cinematic Universe didn't last very long, with word leaking out that he'd officially entered talks to return as Steve Rogers less than two years after the erstwhile Captain America finally got his long-awaited dance and happy ending with Peggy Carter at the end of Avengers: Endgame.
You can guarantee that almost every single one of Netflix's 190 million subscribers has found themselves in the exact same position on more than one occasion, where they spend just as much, if not more, time scrolling through the vast content library looking for something to watch than it takes to actually get through a movie from start to finish.
You have to commend writer Bob Gale and director Robert Zemeckis for sticking to their guns and refusing to let go of the rights to the Back to the Future franchise. If the property rested in the hands of almost anyone else in Hollywood, you could guarantee that either a fourth installment, remake or reboot would have happened by now, possibly even all three.
When you see Liam Neeson's name attached to a project, there's a 90% chance that it's going to be an action thriller of some description, where the actor plays a character on either side of the law who ends up being forced to dust off their skills to combat a threat to his life, or he gets lured out of retirement to pull off one last job.