MR. & MRS. SMITH Review: A Fresh Revamp Profiling Matrimony In The World Of Espionage
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is now streaming on Prime Video.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is now streaming on Prime Video.
Putting a serial spin on 2005’s Doug Liman-directed action spy rom-com now brings an official trailer for Amazon Prime’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Maya Erskine stars along with Donald Glover who also created the series with Francesca Sloane.
I’ll say this much however: The official trailer looks pretty dope, albeit a bit upgraded in some ways from its more analog roots with Harrison Ford’s more dated setting but then again all the new films seem to have this unavoidable trait. Still, it took lord knows how many parsecs of travel time to finally see it and here it is. Nice work Ron!
Wednesday has been a great day for anyone looking forward to news on what’s what for the small screen. Deadpool fans waiting for the big screen sequel have certainly been taken into account here and with the announcement of a new adult animated action comedy series slated for next year.
FXX has reportedly placed a ten-episode series order with Marvel Television and FX Productions for the currently untitled, animated Deadpool series adaptation of the hit comic and subsequent 2016 Winter blockbuster. Donald Glover (Atlanta, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Untitled Han Solo Star Wars Spin-Off, Jon Favreau’s The Lion King) and Stephen Glover will serve as showrunners, as well as writers and executive producers of the series along with Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory.
Marvel Television is producing in association with FX Productions and ABC Signature Studios for FXX. Loeb was on hand for the announcement with Presidents of Original Programming for FX Networks and FX Productions, Eric Schrier and Nick Grad.
“Donald Glover is an incredibly gifted and versatile artist who’ll bring the untitled Marvel’s Deadpool series to life with the same intense, singular vision as his breakout hit Atlanta,” said Nick Grad. “With the success of Legion, we’re looking forward to again partnering with Marvel Television to create a series that is bold, striking and entirely original.”
Loeb added, “How much more fun could this be? Deadpool, Donald and FX – the perfect fit for the Merc with the Mouth! We’re thrilled that our relationship with FX that started with Legion continues with what is sure to be a groundbreaking show in adult animation.”
— Chris Miller (@chrizmillr) January 30, 2017
I grew pretty fatigued in the months before and after Sony’s 2014 attempt at a summer sequel with Marvel wall crawler, Spider-Man, and before I go any further, I still am, sort of. All of the tedious energy it takes to cover comic book movies – from micro updates on images to casting announcements and confirmations is why I largely don’t cover comic book movies as much as I’d like to, and especially with all of the developments there were at the time for actor Andrew Garfield’s succession into battling the Sinister Six along with the studio’s further push for a possible female Spider-man project in the works.
Thus, and in the spirit of togetherness following last year’s post Sony e-mail hacking updates, we’ve mostly scratched all of that for the time being and largely in part due to the spotlight now on actor Tom Holland who has been more than enthusiastic on social about his place in the current Marvel universe as the friendly neighborhood web-flinger prior to his debut in this year’s Captain America: Civil War. He proved himself then, though now as a solo act (with the exception of Robert Downey Jr. further setting the table as billionaire Avenger Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron Man), Holland now takes the stage in director Jon Watt’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, as our hero tries to balance out life as a high school student in Queens, New York City, and as a superhero in the making opposite. Actor Michael Keaton trades in the wings of Batman and Birdman for that of supervillain, Vulture, among the film’s other antagonists.
The beautiful Marissa Tomei also returns as Aunt May from Civil War, joining a cast that rounds out with Donald Glover, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tony Revolori, Tyne Daly and Bokeem Woodbine. Spider-Man: Homecoming, which premiered its first official trailer late Thursday evening on Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show on ABC is online ahead of its July 7 release.
Check it out!
Lucasfilm announced today that Donald Glover, an acclaimed actor, award-winning writer, and Grammy-nominated artist, will be playing the part of Lando Calrissian in the still-untitled Han Solo Star Wars film, helmed by directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Glover will join Alden Ehrenreich — previously cast as Han Solo — in bringing two iconic Star Wars characters back to the big screen, but at a time in their lives previously unexplored. This new film depicts Lando in his formative years as a scoundrel on the rise in the galaxy’s underworld — years before the events involving Han, Leia, and Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back and his rise to Rebel hero in Return of the Jedi.
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