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Hasbro and Legendary will partner up to build film and television projects based on the hit trading card game.
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STREET FIGHTER: Legendary Courts RackaRacka For The Live-Action Adaptation
THR’s Borys Kit is reporting that Aussie sibling film duo Danny and Michael Philippou are in final talks to direct an upcoming live-action adaptation of Street Fighter. The news comes following the acquisition of exclusive TV and film rights earlier this month from Capcom to Legendary Entertainment. The Philippou brothers are best known as the faces of the RackaRacka YouTube channel, creating spectacular and often explosive stunt action and comedy videos online. Their latest feature film effort, supernatural thriller Talk To Me arrives this summer from A24. Details are pending on their approach to the new Street Fighter film. As Kit notes in his report, however, “if they are being hired off the strength of their breakout, tension and gore may be on the agenda.” Interesting. The Philippous are now the latest in line of helmers to direct their own adaptation of the hit tournament fighting game property which launched […]
STREET FIGHTER: Legendary, Capcom Partner For New Feature Adaptation Of Hit Fighting Game
Trade news sources all reported on Monday that a new Street Fighter film is now in development. Via The Wrap, “exclusive license” has gone to Legendary Entertainment who are shepherding the film with Capcom. Story, plot and casting details are all unknown for the film which now adds to the monumentally successful franchise based on Capcom’s line of hit fighting video games which launched in 1987, spawning a wave of other trendy fighting games that arose in subsequent years. Apart from the original video animations that emerged, live-action adaptations were made and released in 1994 by director Steven E. de Souza (Universal Pictures’ Street Fighter), and in 2009 by Andrzej Bartkowiak (20th Century Fox’s Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li), and then in 2016 by actor and filmmaker Joey Ansah (Machinima’s Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist). I’ll leave you my thoughts on the latter installment in the Instagram embed below, but […]
DUNE: PART TWO Commences Principal Photography For 2023 Rollout
Cameras are now rolling in Budapest, Abu Dhabi, Jordan and Italy for Dune: Part Two, according to an announcement on Monday. Oscar nominee Denis Villeneuve is back to direct the second installment following the film’s critical and commercial acclaim from its release last year, taking six Academy Award wins including Bests in visual effects and for composer Hans Zimmer’s original score. Hailing from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Entertainment, Dune: Part Two sees Villeneuve directing from a script he co-wrote with Jon Sphaits, continuing his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s acclaimed bestseller. The film centers on the interplanetary upheaval over spice on the desert planet, Arrakis, wherein the fate of Paul Atreides, the noble son of the House Of Atreides, will be decided as a war looms between an evil Baron and the warrior dwellers of Arrakis. As the studio describes it, the sequel “will explore the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as […]
News Briefs: THE OLD GUARD 2 Adds Cast, More For THE BOYS, ‘Cobrai Kai’ Trio Snags DUKE NUKEM, S.S.’s Latest Gets An Arthouse #encoRRRe
• Victoria Mahoney, second unit director on Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, will direct the mix of new and returning cast members for The Old Guard 2 for Netflix. The original comic on which the film is based was created by Leandro Fernandez and Greg Rucka, the latter who penned the script which now sees Theron reprising her role alongside her original co-stars, in addition to Chiwetel Ejiofor, Veronica Ngo, and the latest additions of Uma Thurman and Henry Golding. (Netflix) • With more room for animation in its roster with a second season of “Diabolical” in the talks, Amazon Studios is now gearing up for a fourth serving of hit series graphic novel adaptation, The Boys. The news comes following its season three premiere on the streamer on Wednesday. (Variety) • It’s taken more than twenty years to happen but the latest word on a live-action adaptation of […]
QUARTERMASS: British Sci-Fi Hero Adaptation In The Works For Legendary
Screenwriter David Farr is officially leading the charge for Quartermass, a feature film adaptation based on iconic British sci-fi hero “Bernard Quatermass”. Legendary Entertainment is backing the film in partnership with Hammer Films whose Simon Oakes is producing. Made popular by the successful BBC 1950s series, and a trio of films from Hammer Film Productions from the mid-50s to the mid-60s, the Quatermass character is often pointed out as a precursor to “Dr. Who.” Professor Bernard Quatermass is a fictional rocket scientist originally created by writer Nigel Kneale who, as a pioneering force of the British space program, encounters terrifying extra-terrestrial lifeforms and must draw from science to save humanity. Heralded as Britain’s first television hero alongside Sherlock Holmes, Quatermass’ monumental influence spanned films, television serials, radio programs and print media over a fifty-year period. Hammer Film Productions’ Quartermass And The Pit is perhaps the best-known iteration of the character; […]
THE TOXIC AVENGER: Legendary Acquires Feature Film Rights For Troma’s Cult Classic
Are you ready for more of The Toxic Avenger? Then look no further than Legendary Entertainment as they’ve just acquired the feature film rights for the cult-classic franchise that once flew the flag for low-budget indie horror banner, Troma. Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz directed the original 1984 film set in Tromaville, New Jersey, and follows Melvin, a mild-mannered nerd who is consistently bullied and picked on until he falls into a fat of toxic waste. He soon turns into the repulsive-yet-lovable mutant hero, Toxie, who stands up to bullies and corruption with irreverent zeal – doing good and brutally mauling evil in no-holds-barred fashion. Opening to a tame reception in 1984, the film eventually became a cult success a year after its release, preceding several sequels in 1989 and 2000. The Toxic Avenger also expanded into a stage musical production, a children’s cartoon TV series, and a Marvel Comic. […]
NYT Best Seller Brian K. Vaughan Scores Three-Year Deal At Legendary
New York Times bestselling and award-winning comic book creator, television and film writer Brian K. Vaughan has officially signed a three-year deal with Legendary Entertainment. The move signals the first such deal for Vaughan whose work has been highly sought after, with Legendary tasked to adapt several of his comics, in addition to ramping up exclusive, original projects developed by Vaughan for film and television across multiple platforms. “Through truly inspired storytelling, Brian has created immersive, compelling worlds that are devoured by fans worldwide,” stated Nick Pepper, President of Legendary Television Studios. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to work with Brian to bring his visions and extraordinary library of work to the screen.” Added Vaughan, “Legendary was instrumental in helping to revolutionize the way the world thought of ‘comic-book movies,’ so it’s a tremendous honor to work with them on adaptations of some of my and my talented collaborators’ past […]
Legendary Advances Dark Horse Comic Series, BLACK HAMMER, For Film And TV Development
Looking to tap into its proven track record and DNA in franchise development and fandom, Legendary Entertainment is officially setting things in motion to adapt decorated graphic novelist Jeff Lemire hit genre-bending, multi-layered Dark Horse comic series, Black Hammer, for film and television. As of Tuesday according to an announcement by Legendary, Lemire and co-creator/illustrator Dean Ormston will serve as executive producers. The epic multi-book saga centers on a band of former heroes–Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien–exiled from Spiral City following a multiversal crisis. Time has long passed since their heyday as champions, now resigned to living simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming village from which there is no escape – that is, until they employ all of their super abilities to free themselves from this strange purgatory. Little do they know a mysterious stranger will emerge in order to bring them back into […]
MY HERO ACADEMIA Is Powering Up For A Live-Action Adaptation
Legendary Entertainment is well on the way to develop a live-action adaptation of MY HERO ACADEMIA, based on Horihiko Kohei’s explosive hit manga!
Legendary, AfterShock Partner For Image Comics’ GOD COUNTRY
Renowned writer Donny Cates will pen a feature adaptation for his 2017 graphic novel, God Country. Written by Cates and illustrated by Geoff Shaw, the Image Comics publication was an explosive hit upon release preceding its four-time reprint before being collected in trade paperback. The film centers on Emmett Quinlan, an elderly widower rattled by dementia. Emmett isn’t just a problem for his children–his violent outbursts are more than the local cops can handle. When a tornado levels his home–as well as the surrounding West Texas town–a restored Quinlan rises from the wreckage. An enchanted sword at the eye of the storm gives him more than a sound mind and body. He’s now the only man who can face the otherworldly creatures the sword has drawn down to the Lone Star State. The adaptation of the critically-acclaimed novel will mark a first for AfterShock Media CEO, Jon Kramer, and President, […]
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