For the past few months Guy Ritchie has been hard at work on the film version of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., which is due in cinemas this winter. However he’s also got a King Arthur movie percolating away, which already has a July 2016 release date set.
With that deadline in place he’s now putting the cast together, as TheWrap reports that Idris Elba is in talks to star in the film, which now has the franchise-ready title, Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur.
Assuming he signs on the dotted line, Elba will portray Bedivere, who serves as the right hand man to Arthur’s father, and is tasked with teaching Arthur how to lead an army. The title character is yet to be cast, with Ritchie planning to test for the part next month.
Ritchie is set to direct from a script by Joby Harold (Edge of Tomorrow). It’s not clear when it will shoot, although it’s likely to be before the end of the year.
The first thing anyone thinks of when they hear the name Beyoncé is kinky S&M sex and master-slave relationships. No? Well that might change a little now as the singer is the person who’s been chosen to tease the trailer for the Fifty Shades Of Grey movie.
Stephen King recently revisited the world of The Shining with a semi-sequel novel, Doctor Sleep. It’s not surprising that Hollywood has reignited interest in the world of Stephen King’s book.
The moment 3D became popular there was talk in Hollywood of making a new Ring movie, with the feeling that having the creepy Samara crawling out of the screen would be very popular with audiences. However while there’s been rumours of remakes and sequels, it’s been trapped in development hell.
Hollywood loves sequels and spin-offs, but usually these revolve around the characters or situations from a movie – not the props. However Annabelle is a film that’s based around the creepy doll we saw in The Conjuring.
When a live action/CG version of the classic character Paddington was announced, Colin Firth was due to voice the bear. He stuck with the project right up until last month, when just five months before release he dropped out, suggesting he didn’t think he could do the bear justice.
After quite a while in development where moviemakers were trying to work out how to translate the massive success of RL Stine’s books onto the screen, despite the fact it’s essentially an anthology with all sorts of different stories.
For many years Universal has been trying to work out what to do with its classic monsters, but despite attempts such as The Wolfman and Van Helsing, nothing has really worked. Now they’re hoping to create something much bigger, as Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek, Transformers, The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and Chris Morgan (Fast & Furious franchise) have signed up to develop an entire cinematic universe involving characters such as Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man and more, according to 
Ouija has been on quite a journey to the screen. It’s been around five years since the idea was first mooted, and in that’s time it’s been planned as a full-on gore-fest, a mega-budget tentpole release and a family friendly adventure film, but it’s finally becomes creep-fest that’s more aimed towards teens and with a relatively modest budget.