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REVIEW: Mortal Engines (2018)
As I’ve written previously, I was very excited about Mortal Engines. With a brand new world from a brand new director shepherded by one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation, this had all the makings of a success. I kept thinking about what one of the pundits said how the casting seemed to...
Read MoreAwesome Cheese: The Three Musketeers (2011)
When I heard Paul W. S. Anderson was making a Three Musketeers movie, I felt a mixture of intrigue and trepidation. The Three Musketeers, who originated in the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas, have a storied history on screen, whether it’s the myriad Disney versions (particularly one starring Chr...
Read MoreWhy I’m Excited: Mortal Engines
Like most fans, I’ve followed, Peter Jackson since he made the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. It was an audacious plan, to say the least: three films shot together with a scope that, while now commonplace, was unparalleled 18 years ago. The rest, as they say, was history, with Return of th...
Read MoreChris Pratt in Talks to Lead The Saint
Chris Pratt is about to follow in the footsteps of James Bond. Deadline exclusively reports that the actor is in early talks to headline a new film adaption of The Saint, the TV series based on the novels by Leslie Charteris featuring Simon Templar, the iconic character made famous by Roger Moore. I...
Read MoreArtemis Fowl Trailer Sneaks Online
While everyone is waiting on bated breath for the Avengers 4 trailer, Disney is pushing a different kind of literary adaptation as the Artemis Fowl trailer released earlier today. Based on the popular series of children’s novels written by Eoin Colfer – in particular the first two books – Arte...
Read MoreThe Great Gatsby Origin Story Coming to Youtube
It looks like we’re about to see how Gatsby got the party started. Deadline reports that Stampede Ventures has put in development a project called Gatz, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The concept of this show is based on an academic theory that Fitzgerald had been writing about...
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