Tag: Adaptation
REVIEW: Haunted Mansion (2023)
I saw Haunted Mansion this weekend. Coming out a week after “Barbenheimer,” I didn’t expect anything from this film, and I don’t think anyone else did, either. Pirates of the Caribbean notwithstanding, Disney’s theme park adaptations don’t tend to do well finan...
Read MoreNetflix Teases Live-Action Avatar
Netflix has revealed the first images of the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender main cast in character. Check out the first look at Aang (Gordon Cormier), Katara (Kiawentiio), Sokka (Ian Ousley), and Zuko (Dallas Liu) in live-action here: And here’s the first teaser for the series: The t...
Read MorePhoebe Waller-Bridge to Helm an Amazon Tomb Raider TV Series
Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Jan 28, 2023 | 0
Many modern-day filmmakers and creatives can be characterized as franchise destroyers, creative cancer, or utter frauds, such as anyone out of Bad Reboot. However, few individuals are more deserving of these titles than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, destroyer of James Bond and the soon-to-be destroyer of I...
Read MorePercy Jackson And The Not So Physically Correct Casting
BlabberingCollector | Jun 21, 2022 | 0
It seems Disney and Rick Riordan are on their way to butchering the Percy Jackson series AGAIN because the 2010 and 2014 films were so critically acclaimed that Disney felt they needed a do-over and a second chance to flop. As previously reported, Riordan and Disney decided to race-swap a very blo...
Read MoreA Plague Tale Television Adaptation Announced
Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Mar 18, 2022 | 1
The award-winning game A Plague Tale: Innocence is getting a television adaption from Merlin Productions and Focus Entertainment, as reported by Matthieu Turi to English-speaking fans on his Twitter account. Turi, best known for assistant directing Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, will be...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Prince of Egypt (1998)
The Prince of Egypt was DreamWorks SKG’s second film release and their first traditionally animated movie. In 1998, a faith-based, $60 million epic was quite a gamble for the fledgling animation studio. Simon Wells, Steve Hickner, and former Disney story artist Brenda Chapman would direct the fil...
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