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Fox’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK Gets Leigh Whannell To Pen A New Script For The New Reboot

It’s been a few years since Robert Rodriguez was tapped to helm a remake of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York. That announcement followed news that broke in 2013 of its development at Fox and now, while still without a director, it hasn’t stopped the studio from bringing people aboard to help bring the new revisal to life. Enter Upgrade helmer Leigh Whannell whose work as a respective producer and director on select installments of the Insidious and Saw horror franchises have made a name for him in the last decade or so. Whannell is now next in line to pen the script after Neil Cross, a move in which he’s looking toward a fresher mix of both the original elements and new ideas instead of hampering it with the usual tropes that crippled the Robocop and Total Recall reboots. Starring Kurt Russell, the original 1981 cult classic set […]

Toy Fair 2016: Fox Is Gearing Up For An R-Rated Version Of THE WOLVERINE 3

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Actor Hugh Jackman has come quite a long way since 2000. Sure, director Gavin Hood’s 2009 Marvel iteration, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, still remains a let down that lives on so as not to be forgotten in lieu of watching their beloved comic book staples hit the big screen. Nevertheless, a sea change was brought this month with the blockbuster success of R-rated Marvel adaption, Deadpool, thus leaving room for more properties to get the same treatment. Those expectations can finally be attributed to the forthcoming production of Jackman’s final stint in The Wolverine 3, according to Comicbook.com. The article shows an imgur post of a pamplet from this months events at Toy Fair 2016 in New York City where 20th Century Fox made their latest presentation. Take a look below with the graphic on the right listing The Wolverine helmer James Mangold, Jackman and the “R” attribution. View post on […]

Fox Ramps Up Pilot, A.P.B., Natalie Martinez To Star

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It’s been a quite a minute since we’ve last heard anything on actress Natalie Martinez’s upcoming bid in the martial arts drama, Warrior. That’s something I’ve been looking forward to since they filmed a pilot and those hopes haven’t waned on me since, although nowadays fight fans will find her throwing down on the hit Audience Network MMA drama, Kingdom. As for all else this week, Deadline is now reporting that the actress will be wearing a badge in her forthcoming stint in Fox’s new cop drama pilot, A.P.B.. The show’s focus stems centrally from New York Times writer David Amsden’s July article, Who Runs the Streets of New Orleans, which covered the steps a rich entrepreneur took toward advancing privatized police in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. The premise of the show will follow Martinez in the role of Amelia Murphy, a NOLA detective with a penchant for sarcasm and […]

Fox Steps Up To Adapt LETHAL WEAPON For Television

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The era of reboots and remakes continues on screens big and small as there are plenty to talk about that are forthcoming or otherwise developing. This week now, we may add the long popular Lethal Weapon franchise in the mix with Fox committing to a pilot according to a new report at THR. This is actually strange considering I last expected it would go to the big screen. Actor Chris Hemsworth’s name circulated once last year for a brewing film reboot under the working title, Lionhunters, with news of a reboot dating back as far as 2008 at the behest of franchise producer Joel Silver. Shane Black was tasked to provide script treatment by Shane Black followed by a retouching with Gangster Squad screenwriter Will Beall in 2011 for Fast And Furious franchise helmer Justin Lin to direct. Richard Donner helmed all four films between 1987 and 1998 in which […]

Martial Arts Drama Series, WARRIOR, Rebooted At Fox

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With one of the biggest and more prominent ingredients in television being the application of martial arts fight sequences, it’s without argument that the upcoming television series, Warrior, would have been a hit for NBC if they snagged it for series. Unfortunately they missed their chance several months ago and the show was without a network, leaving the show’s producers at Universal TV with the hopes of finding a new home for the series, and now they have. Deadline reports Fox is now picking it up and starting from scratch with an entirely new script which focuses on a broken heroine’s vigilant fight for justice with the help of a mystical martial arts master. Actress Natalie Martinez was last cast to lead the show with Will Yun Lee and Holt McCallany among others upon filming the pilot earlier this year, so further updates are pending on what changes and doesn’t […]

Live-Action MEGA MAN Gets Greenlit At Fox

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The live-action videogame genre continues its push in film following recent updates on games like Assassin’s Creed, Borderlands, Mortal Kombat and Tekken to name a few. The word now is that a live-action version of the classic Nintendo franchise, Mega Man, is now in development at Fox with Peter Chernin of Chernin Entertain producing. Launching in 1987 from Capcom with Rock Man as its Japanese title, the 8-bit Nintendo franchise focused on the story of Dr. Light, whose work ends up stolen by Dr. Wily and is converted into a squad of evil battle droids with specific skills, with the goal of world domination. In response, Light upgrades his lab assistant, Rock, arming him with a canon and battle armor and software to help absorb the powers of Wily’s droids upon their defeat. The news comes just a few months after it was announced that Disney XD would be broadcasting […]

Léa Seydoux To Lead With Channing Tatum In GAMBIT For Fox

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It’ll be a few months before we see Blue Is The Warmest Color actress Léa Seydoux in Daniel Craig’s next James Bond spy epic, Spectre. Until then as of a few weeks ago, the actress was one of three in line for the lead female role of Belladonna Boudreaux in title actor Channing Tatum‘s upcoming Marvel adaptation, Gambit next to actresses Abbey Lee and Rebecca Ferguson. Since then, Ferguson, who kicked a perpetual load of asses this summer in director Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, dropped the film for the new Emily Blunt thriller, The Girl On The Train. As for the part of the Marvel femme fatale, Deadline reports that Seydoux herself has snagged her place in Gambit amid talks for the role. Tatum is producing as is Reid Carolin, Lauren Shuler Donner and Simon Kinberg with a script by Josh Zetumer, based on the 1990-created X-Men […]

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Fox Series '24' Gets A 2016 Spin-Off

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Plans have been up in the air for a while now with regard to the future of Fox’s long-running series, 24, particularly with the notion that principle actor Kiefer Sutherland might not be returning to the scene as counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer. That said, this week brings news that the studio is well underway with plans to revive the show in the same limited series fashion as last year’s 24: Live Another Day, as confirmed by TVLine over the weekend. The new show will feature a new twentysomething male lead alongside another older female agent, as well as keep the “real-time” element so familiarly known to fans of the current series. Manny Coto and Evan Katz will return to serve as writers and executive producers on the new series that may or may not see Sutherland and actress Yvonne Strahovski return as possible guest stars. I suppose the question now is […]

A Feature Film For Saman Kesh's 2013 Short, CONTROLLER, Is In The Works At Fox!

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This is kickass. Remember independent filmmaker Saman Kesh‘s 2013 shortfilm, Controller? Well, it’s heading to the big screen with word from Deadline that Fox has picked up the rights to Kesh‘s sci-fi action love story set in near-dystopian New Taipei which sees a telekinetic woman held captive as she orchestrates her own rescue through controlling her boyfriend and turning him into an invincible killer. The shortfilm is much more cerebral than it sounds, preceded by the three-minute short, I_U; You’ll know what I mean if you’ve already seen it as it’s since been an online hit through several media outlets, and if not, CLICK HERE to take a look at it for yourself. It’s a story brimming with awesome visuals and stunning action and brutality layered with darkly-lit romance, and it absolutely works. And it serves Fox right for noticing, as is the affect that proof-of-concepts appear to be having […]