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Current Best Actor nominee Brendan Fraser is looking back twenty years later on his screen test for a scrapped J.J. Abrams take on the classic Superman character. As DC fans may recall, Peter Ramsey—a storyboard artist and director whose credits include Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Rise of the Guardians—brought the scrapped Superman: Flyby back […]
Cloverfield fans should be elated: a new installment of the horror film franchise is in the works. Deadline reports that the forthcoming Cloverfield chapter is being helmed by director Babak Anvari, with J.J. Abrams, Hannah Minghella, and Jon Cohen as producers, Joe Barton writing the script, and Matt Reeves, Bryan Burk, and Drew Goddard serving as […]
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot has partnered with Mattel Films and Warner Bros. to produce a live-action movie adaptation of the popular toy brand Hot Wheels, Variety reports. A press release from Mattel and Warner Bros. didn’t delve into plot details since the adaptation is presumably in its early stages. It does, however, mention the project […]
The Oscar-winning editor of the original Star Wars franchise had a few choice words for J.J. Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy, and the series’s latest sequel trilogy. “It seems to me that Kathy Kennedy and J.J. Abrams don’t have a clue about Star Wars,” Marcia Lucas said in an interview for J.W. Rinzler’s book Howard Kazanjian: A Producer’s […]
WandaVision director Matt Shakman has just been tapped to direct the next Star Trek movie that will be coming out of Paramount and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot. According to Deadline, Shakman chose to direct Star Trek out of a laundry list of other projects he could have taken on. After WandaVision just landed a boggling 23 Emmy nominations, Shakman has become an […]
While Michael B. Jordan has accomplished a lot during his acting career, he’s not perfect. The Creed star was sure to keep it real with fans recently, when he recounted bombing his audition for J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens. During an appearance on the Just for Variety podcast, Jordan explained that he couldn’t connect with the script, and because […]
Vanity Fair has learned that J.J. Abrams has signed on to produce a film adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ 1990 children’s book, Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Warner Animation Group envisions this movie, along with an adaptation of another one of the author’s previous books, Cat in the Hat, and a spin-off based on the mischievous duo popularly known as Thing One […]
For his first major interview since wrapping up his time in the Star Wars universe, John Boyega—who will soon be seen in Steve McQueen‘s upcoming Small Axe series—said what’s long needed to be said about the franchise. The resulting piece from Jimi Famurewa, out via British GQ on Wednesday, is an enthralling and truly candid […]
While John Boyega has never been shy about expressing his opinion towards Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, he wouldn’t go as far as to say that the film was embarrassing. On Sunday, Boyega responded to a tweet referring to Episode IX as being embarrassing. “Embarrassing? LOL you wish,” he wrote. “Very fulfilling, some disappointments but yet not that big […]
J.J. Abrams‘ production company Bad Robot will develop TV and film projects for DC’s Justice League Dark from Warner Bros., Deadline reports. Bad Robot’s rumored involvement with the Justice League Dark universe comes a few months after WarnerMedia announced its deal with Abrams worth a reported $500 million. The pact will task Bad Robot with creating content across its wide-array of platforms. JLD features […]
