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ROAD HOUSE: Meet The Players In New Character Posters For The Prime Video Action Thriller
I’m still of the opinion that Doug Liman’s Amazon MGM production of Road House still deserves its run in theaters. At any rate, I’m looking forward to it in March as it arrives on Prime Video for the next action-packed iteration of the classic thriller here starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
ROAD HOUSE: Bar Room Brawls And Close Calls In The Official Trailer For Doug Liman’s Remake Of The 1989 Action Classic
Director Doug Liman wrote a compelling and nuanced op-ed presented at Deadline on Wednesday, elucidating the case for his boycott of the upcoming SXSW premiere of his new movie, Road House.
ROAD HOUSE Opens Its Doors As Cameras Rolls For Prime Video Reimagining Of The Patrick Swayze Action Classic
It was last November when the long-gestating remake of 1989 United Artists action thriller, Road House, managed to set actor Jake Gyllenhaal and director Doug Liman together on the project. As of Tuesday, the film, once designated for MGM, is now home at Prime Video with additional casting info announcing Billy Magnussen, Daniela Melchior, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Lukas Gage.
CHAOS WALKING Trailer: Thoughts Come To Life In The New Novel-Inspired YA Sci-Fi With Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland And Mads Mikkelsen
This one took some several years to finally see the light of day what with reshoots and scheduling among actors being a factor. Alas, Doug Liman’s newest thriller has arrived with a first trailer for Chaos Walking, and it looks all kinds as epic as YA sci-fi fans might expect. Release date is pending.
Warner Bros. Advances EDGE OF TOMORROW Sequel With New Writer
On Friday, Mike Fleming Jr. over at Deadline confirmed interest at Warner Bros. in a sequel to the 2014 hit sci-fi, Edge Of Tomorrow (a.k.a. Live. Die. Repeat for its home release). The film featured Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt in the story of an untrained public relations officer swept into a timeloop forcing him to re-live his death as he trains to survive amid an alien invasion.
Doug Liman To Helm Action Sci-Fi Drama Pilot, IMPULSE, For YouTube Red
Newly launched SVoD service YouTube Red is bringing Jumper to the small screen. For this, we turn to brewing developments of the new sci-action drama series, Impulse, based on the third book in Steven Gould’s Jumper novel series as YouTube Red looks to ramp up its line of programming, including sci-fi drama Lifeline from producer by Dwayne Johnson and Studio71, gaming comedy Good Game from producer Dan Harmon, and a Step Up reboot.
Impulse will have its 2018 premiere on YouTube Red ahead of a series order with The Wall and Edge Of Tomorrow (a.k.a. Live.Die.Repeat.) helmer Doug Liman directing and executive producing. The hour long gender-bending pilot from Universal Cable Productions and studio-based Hypnotic is the first UCP series for YouTube, telling of Henry, a rebellious 16-year-old girl whose oddball standing from her peers often leaves her longing to venture away from her small town life. She eventually discovers she has the extraordinary ability to teleport.
Maddie Hasson leads the cast from a script by Jeffrey Lieber (Lost, NCIS: New Orleans), Jason Horwitch (Marvel’s Luke Cage), and Gary Spinelli from a story by Lieber, and with Missi Pyle, Sarah Desjardins, Enuka Okuma and Craig Arnold and David James Elliott starring.
“This unique thriller pulled us in right from the opening scene,” said Susanne Daniels, Global Head of Original Content, YouTube. “We are thrilled to be in business with Doug Liman and everyone at UCP and Hypnotic.”
“We are very excited to be working with Susanne, YouTube and Hypnotic on Impulse,” said Jeff Wachtel, Chief Content Officer, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, and President, UCP. “It’s always fun to start work on a new series, especially when it’s with a partner like YouTube that is continually breaking new ground.”
The show also adds to UCP and Hypnotic’s raft of projects including George R.R. Martin’s Nightflyers which has a series order at Syfy with a writer’s room being setup for the show.
Liman is also on deck to direct Edge Of Tomorrow sequel, Live Die Repeat And Repeat as well as YA novel adaptation, Chaos Walking. His latest crime drama, American Made, opens on September 29. (Deadline)
WB/DCEU's JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK Lands The Director Of The GAMBIT Movie He Is No Longer Directing. Or Whatever.
Welp… 2016 has been quite the damper in movie expectations, especially pertaining to 20th Century Fox’s dwindling Gambit film inspired by Marvel Comics. That one is was supposed to be releasing at some point next year provided production already started, though the word now is that its previously-attached director, Doug Liman is no longer involved while its star moves on to play a mermaid. Or something.
Yes, I’m frustrated – which is a nice way of saying how slightly pissed I am. No, no, feel free to laugh. It’s silly, really. It’s as silly as trying to keep up with comic book movie news as oftentimes the updates are more fickle and are either rumor-based or solid fact until not. Such is what the long-awaited Justice League Dark movie has endured, to say the least, since its rumored development to 2012 with Guillermo del Toro in talks to direct.
Obviously that appears to not be happening which now brings us back to Liman who, according to Variety, is now being tapped to direct the live-action DC Comics property for Warner Bros. with del Toro and Scott Rudin producing and Michael Gileio scripting. The property itself covers an ensemble of paranormal and supernatually gifted heroes, namely interdimensional hellbound detective John Constantine and haphazardly-created mutant superhero, Swamp Thing, among a roster of others, and is being said to play a major role in the current DCEU.
The news comes in the wake of Warner Bros.’s most recent half-a-billion dollar success, Suicide Squad from director David Ayer amid a wave of negative reviews and calls for the studio to (in one allegedly former studio employee’s words) “make the fucking donuts”. At best here, Liman may very well do just that considering the cult support he’s earned by fans for the hugely under-appreciated 2014 “All You Need Is Kill” adap, Edge Of Tomorrow, for a sequel yet to happen.
Further details are pending on the film while we await news on Liman’s forthcoming Amazon Studios sniper drama, The Wall, and Summit film, Chaos Walking. As for Gambit…well…
Doug Liman To Helm The First Of Six-Part Jaunt VR Series, INVISIBLE
Set in modern day Manhattan, the series will unravel the secrets of a prominent New York City family, the Ashlands, blessed with a supernatural gift passed down through generations. As capacity of their extraordinary ability continues to grow in power, the birth of an exceptional new child draws public interest and their family secret teeters on the brink of becoming exposed.
Tom Hardy Confirmed For SPLINTER CELL
Roughly a year and a half since a press release was issued officially announcing New Regency and Ubisoft Motion Pictures’ live-action adaptation of the popular game, Splinter Cell with actor Tom Hardy set to star, the official word has come in confirming Hardy is now working on the script with director Doug Liman. Liman‘s attachment came as of March this year just months away from the forthcoming release of his new sci-fi action adventure, Edge Of Tomorrow.
In a new report from IGN, Liman attributed a few details about what fans might expect upon the film’s production. “Everything about Splinter Cell will be younger.” he says. “It’s a chance to come up with a new franchise that is fresher and newer and younger, and Tom Hardy is such an incredible actor.”. The Bourne helmer also added “Some of the tropes of the game will for sure be in the film, but also the fun of that is when you lose them. To strip that stuff away and really make the character have to operate without it.“.
Based on the highly acclaimed Ubisoft video game franchise created from a series of books began by late military sci-fi author Tom Clancy, Splinter Cell centers on the story of Sam Fisher, a highly-trained special ops soldier who works in a fictional black-ops sub-division called “Echelon”. The team is best known for its use of cutting edge weaponry and unique combat skills to take on terrorists and neutralize powerful enemies, in action-packed stories ripped from real-world headlines. American Hustle scribe Eric Warren Singer is adapting the live action screenplay for Basil Ilwanyk to produce.
Splinter Cell is one of currently two known live action video game adaptations Hardy is reported to be appearing in, with the other being director Reuben Fleischer’s upcoming production of the classic Midway game, Spy Hunter. In the meantime, further details remain to be seen with the long-awaited release of his next big role in director George Miller’s reboot road thriller, Mad Max: Fury Road, which is releasing on May 15, 2015.
Liman‘s new film, Edge Of Tomorrow releases this Friday.
H/T: Total Film
Check Out A New 13-Minute Featurette + TONS Of Video For EDGE OF TOMORROW
Right about now, actor Tom Cruise and actress Emily Blunt are kicking off their three-city tour headling the gloval event premiering their newest live-action feature-length graphic novel sci-fi action adventure, Edge Of Tomorrow, from Warner Bros. The film has already gained positive reviews from MANY critics around the web who have attended advanced screenings before the film’s nationwide North American release on June 6. And this week, netizens now get to see a new 13-minute featurette discussing the film below, as well as TONS of other video material you can now catch below, with Cruise and Blunt joined by co-star Bill Paxton, director Doug Liman, and much more.
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[UPDATED] Reset The Day In An Extended, Enhanced Trailer And Six Featurettes For EDGE OF TOMORROW!
The story unfolds in a near future in which a hive-like alien race, called Mimics, have hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, shredding great cities to rubble and leaving millions of human casualties in their wake. No army in the world can match the speed, brutality or seeming prescience of the weaponized Mimic fighters or their telepathic commanders. But now the world’s armies have joined forces for a last stand offensive against the alien horde, with no second chances. Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and then dropped—untrained and ill-equipped—into what amounts to little more than a suicide mission. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an Alpha down with him. But, impossibly, he awakens back at the beginning of the same hellish day, and is forced to fight and die again…and again. Direct physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop—dooming him to live out the same brutal combat over and over. But with each pass, Cage becomes tougher, smarter, and able to engage the Mimics with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt), who has lain waste to more Mimics than anyone on Earth. As Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated battle becomes an opportunity to find the key to annihilating the alien invaders and saving the Earth.
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