The adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower has had a difficult journey to the screen. It’s been talked about for decades, and while this got serious in the last few years with the likes of Javier Bardem attached to the project, it’s stalled numerous times, not least Universal getting cold feet about committing to three films and two connecting TV series.
However, now Sony Picture has taken over, Ron Howard is behind the camera, and Idris Elba is starring as gunslinger Roland Deschain. The character is busying tracking the evil Man In Black (Matthew McConaughey) across various dimension, to try and stop him destroying The Dark Tower, which is where all universes meet.
One of the more interesting things about Dark Tower is the fact that while it’s a fantasy/western series, it connects to many other King novels via characters and places. It appears that will remain to a certain extent, with the movie using a child called Jake, who has a power called ‘The Shine’, which of course refers to Danny’s power in The Shining (although they can’t call the power The Shining, as Warner Bros. owns the rights to that).
A selection of new images from the movie have now arrived, which you can take a look at below. The film is due out next February. [Read more…]
When it was announced they were planning to make a new Power Rangers movie, a lot of people rolled their eyes. However that’s been turning around, with things such as the news Elizabeth Banks and Bryan Cranston would appear, that it was getting a bigger budget and certainly wouldn’t be as cheesy as the TV show.
When it was first announced, Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur was supposed to be the start of a massive interconnected franchise based around the Knights Of The Round Table. However, it looks like they’re hedging their after moving it all around the release schedule and then changing the name to King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword.
Synopsis: ‘John Krasinski’s big-hearted family comedy takes a touching look at the ties that bind. Krasinski plays John Hollar, a frustrated graphic novelist anxiously awaiting the birth of his baby with girlfriend, Rebecca (Anna Kendrick). When his mother, Sally (Margo Martindale), is diagnosed with a brain tumor, John flies back home, where denial runs deep in the family tree. While his loving but fractured family pulls together to prepare Sally for surgery, John takes a second look at the life he left behind.’
After several years in pre-production, director and cast changes and plenty of time when it looked like it would never happen, a new film based on Stephen King’s It has started shooting. Actually it’s two movies, with the first dealing with a group of children’s interaction with a sewer-dwelling monster that takes the form of an evil clown, and the second with what happens once they’ve grown up and return to take on the menace again.
La La Land is certainly one of the years more intriguing movies – an original musical starring Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling, from the director of Whiplash. It’s been a bit of a secretive one, but now we get our first proper look with a teaser trailer, which is enigmatic but looks pretty interesting.
While recent years have seen fights over whether same sex couple should have the right to marry, it’s easy to forget that it’s not too long ago that in parts of the US, people of different races were barred from marriage. Loving takes a look at a relationship that sparked a vital court case.
Universal’s hopes of building an Avengers style universe around classic monsters is moving apace, with a reboot of The Mummy currently shooting with Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp signed up to be the Invisible Man and Russell Crowe on board to be Dr. Jeykll/Mr. Hyde. Now the films have found their Frankenstein, as 
Back in 2014, there was a bit of a furore over the fact that, despite being held up since its 1968 inception as a beacon of progressive values on things like race, Star Trek had never had an on-screen openly LGBT character (although some had appeared in books). At the time, then director of the third rebooted Star Trek movie, Roberto Orci, said he was open to the idea of being more inclusive in the film, but after that we heard nothing.
Normally movies like to view fraternities as either places of ribald fun, or else elitist organisation that look down on the plucky underdog. However, Goat plans to take a more dramatic view of them, peering into the sometimes dangerous world of hazing pledges.