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FAST AND LOOSE Is Back On Track At Netflix, Michael Bay To Direct Will Smith Action Thriller
Setting things in motion once more is the reteamimg of Will Smith and director Michael Bay for Netflix action thriller, Fast And Loose. Deadline’s Justin Kroll notes that a start date hasn’t been made but the film would nonetheless be a likely next for 6 Underground helmer Bay who launched the Bad Boys franchise featuring Smith and co-lead Martin Lawrence in 1995. Fast and Loose follows a man who wakes up in Tijuana with no memories. As he pieces together his past, he learns heâs been living two lives: one as a crime kingpin and the other as an undercover CIA agent. The film had been in the works for years with David Leitch coming aboard to produce the film via his 87 North label with Kelly McCormick back in 2020. Leitch left the project prior to Netflix – the latter who parted from the film back in 2022 following […]
THE RAID: Hughes, Bay And Evans Lead The Way For A Philly-Set Reimagining Of The Hit Indonesian Action Thriller
Patrick Hughes (The Expendables 3, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, upcoming The Man From Toronto) is circling back once more for an opp to direct a new take on the 2011 hit Indonesian crime thriller, The Raid. The news comes years after Hughes was in the space to direct a version of the film that was in development, with Hughes to direct prior to parting from the project’s development under XYZ Films, Sony and Screen Gems at the time. In 2017, WarParty partners Joe Carnahan and Frank Grillo were also vying to take the wheel with a script by Adam G. Simon (Man Down) which also took on new life in 2020 as a seperate film temp-titled “Zeno”. Netflix is heading up The Raid in a move that advances its flourishing relationship with the original The Raid helmer Gareth Evans, who has gone on to solidify his business […]
SONGBIRD: Dystopian Pandemic Pandemonium In The First Teaser Trailer
If there was one movie that appears to actually tap into subjective perceptions of folks keen on criticizing the actual science behind the Covid-19 pandemic, you could rightly enlist Adam Mason’s new film, Songbird. The addition of Michael Bay as toplining producer certainly bodes well to promise this ought to be a heavy-handed and menacing enough thriller for the history books. EW got first dibs on images and key poster art, the latter which you can view just below the following synopsis and press details courtesy of STX Films, as well as the official trailer above. A release date remains pending. Four years into quarantine the virus has changed and so have we… In the terrifying thriller SONGBIRD, the COVID-23 virus has mutated and the world is in its fourth year of lockdown. Infected Americans are ripped from their homes and forced into quarantine camps known as Q-Zones, from which […]
6 UNDERGROUND Trailer Touts Italian Wonder, Lands A New Poster
Chris Evangelista at Slashfilm has some reservations with the new official poster for Netflix action thriller, 6 Underground. I say it’s way better than the ridiculous Thundercats rumor which still continues to circulate the social medias like terrible memories of an ex that won’t go away – in any case, it’s the lead-off this week along with the newest trailer for the Michael Bay-directed action thriller about a team of rich people out to save the world from something terriblehorriblenogoodandveryverybad… Or something. Six individuals form a vigilante squad after faking their deaths in order to take down notorious criminals. All of them were brought to the team by its leader (Reynolds) for their unique skills and a desire to erase their past and change the future. December 13 is the date, y’all! Peep the goods ’til then!
6 UNDERGROUND: Ryan Reynolds Among Half-A-Dozen Armed Billionaires And Taking Out Global Evil In The First Trailer
Wanna see what a Michael Bay movie looks like on Netflix? 6 Underground now has an official teaser trailer breaking out the big, blockbuster action fare headed by Ryan Reynolds who revealed the December 13 release date via Instagram just hours earlier. The film reunites Reynolds with Deadpool cohorts Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, scribes penning the tale of six billionaires who fake their own deaths and form an elite vigilante squad in order to take down notorious criminals. And that’s exactly what the trailer above entails. I ain’t mad. MĂ©lanie Laurent, Payman Maadi, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Corey Hawkins and Adria Arjona also star, along with lots of action, explosions, car chases, big-scale stunts, sweeping skyscraper views and, for some reason, a giant AF magnet that works with effortless timing. Wow.
BLACK FIVE: Michael Bay Lines Up New Ensemble Action Drama For Sony
The trades ran pretty light with this one, but once he wraps Six Underground for Netflix, Michael Bay will segue into an early 2020 start for ensemble action drama, Black Five. Details are unknown about the production which is housed at Sony Pictures. Bay is reportedly partnering once more with fellow 13 Hours producer Erwin Stoff to produce the new film. Ehren Kruger, who penned the second, third and fourth Transformer films of the five-part film saga, is penning the script. Bay’s history of making iconic, bustling, fast-talking, set-destroying action cheese and spectacle precedes him further with the likes of Bad Boys 1 & 2, Armageddon and The Island. All guilty pleasure in my book with highs and lows. Indeed, there are legit reasons to critique him but I won’t pretent Black Five doesn’t excite me. That Bay is still directing is pretty good news itself, so now all we […]
6 UNDERGROUND: Bay’s Skydance/Netflix Actioner Adds Two More For Late August Start
CĂ©sar Award winning actress MĂ©lanie Laurent (Beginners, Inglorious Bastards) and Payman Maadi (The Night Of, A Separation, 13 Hours) are the latest additions to the ensemble cast of the upcoming action film, 6 Underground. The film hails from Netflix and Skydance Media with prolific Transformers franchise helmer Michael Bay in his first pairing with starring actor and Deadpool franchise star Ryan Reynolds. Plot details are continually kept under wraps for 6 Underground which is otherwise based on an original idea from Deadpool 1 and 2 scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick who are writing and executive producing. Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger will produce 6 Underground along with Bay and Ian Bryce. Rounding out the cast to date are Corey Hawkins (BlacKkKlansman, 24: Legacy (TV), Straight Outta Compton), Adria Arjona (Triple Frontier, True Detective (TV), Pacific Rim Uprising), Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Murder On […]
SIX UNDERGROUND: Skydance, Netflix Pair Up For New Michael Bay Helmer, ‘Deadpool’ Star And Writers
I mean it when I say it: Spend your money on Deadpool 2 like nothing else matters. Also, feast your eyes on this latest prospect signaling courtesy of Skydance Media, announcing a new partnership with Netflix to co-produce and release Six Undergroud. Plot details are nil but the presser highlights it as an original concept from Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, in which Ryan Reynolds will star with notable Transformers franchise helmer Michael Bay being tapped to direct. I’m suddenly reminded all of Bay’s films and the often lingering comedy and quips throughout between breif moments of dialogue and explosions and considering Reynolds’ acumen for deadpan humor, characteristic of his on-pointe delivery as the R-rated merc with a mouth, I’m surprised Reynolds hasn’t starred in a Bay film yet. Welp, I guess that’s about to change and it could be a winning combination too. Six Underground is reportedly gearing up […]
6 UNDERGROUND, ROBOPOCALYPSE Novel Adaptation Up For Big Screen Treatment From Michael Bay
It’s not hugely clear where on the timetable director Michael Bay’s previously-announced take on DC property, Lobo, will be placed. Until then, it’s anyone’s guess as we now look toward reports on the noted Transformers franchise helmer’s latest mention with two projects. One of the two hails from 2011 per author Daniel H. Wilson’s novel, Robopocalypse, which had initially been in the works since 2009 with Steven Spielberg at the helm prior to being put indefinitely on hold several years later. Publication house Doubleday released a sequel novel in 2014. They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies… Now they’re coming for you. When the Robot War ignites humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united. Robopocalypse is a brilliantly conceived action-filled epic, a terrifying story with heart-stopping implications for the real technology all around us… Further […]
LOBO: Michael Bay To Direct The Long-Awaited DC Comics Adaptation
Just short of two years since we last heard on anything pertaining to a Lobo adaptation, trades are now reporting that Michael Bay is being sought after by Warner Bros. to direct the film. Bay, best known for his riduculous, explody and destructive approach to blockbusters since the 90s and to date with all things Transformers at Paramount, will meet once more with Warner Bros. pending script rewrites by Jason Fuchs since his attachment in Spring of 2016. A big-screen adaptation of the long-running DC property has been in the works since around 2009 while the character itself has already made the rounds in comic books and animated properties. Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen launched the character in 1983, telling of a Czarnian alien bounty hunter and often villian who re-emerged as an anti-hero biker in the 1990s. San Andreas helmer Brad Peyton was last tapped to direct and his since […]
The Final Trailer For TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT Swells With Blockbuster Promise
It almost feels like a shoe-in, really. Transformers: The Last Knight will open theatrically on June 21 and as the likely franchise exit of director Michael Bay nears, the promotional campaign needs little to no help in its viral marketing campaign on top of having such a staunch arsenal of trailers to boot. This includes the final trailer which over the weekend and you can view that one in the Twitter embed below. Bearing this in mind, from an artistic and filmmaking standpoint though, a lot remains to be seen even if this one sees enough box office earnings to beat the $1+ billion dollar milestone of its predecessor. The films have definitely covered a lot of ground in serving the necessary blockbuster spectacle, and often at the risk of stumbling over itself in the writing with characters that have come and gone. It does beg asking why we should […]
Optimus Prime Makes A Dark Deal In The Newest TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT Trailer
There’s plenty to take issue with when it comes to anything live-action and Transformer movie-related. Granted however, each of them guarantee a good time at the movies in some capacity and one can certainly have hoped that the franchise in its current growth would reconfigure some of its faults and flaws with each installment. Surely enough that extends to Transformers: The Last Knight ahead of its release this July and a brand new trailer arrived on Wednesday leaving plenty of footage to fawn over in its wake next to that of others. Mark Wahlberg is back and battling the giant robot aliens with Earth even worse off than in previous installments and there are more movies in store after this, too, so one wonders just where this will go. In the meantime, no, I’m not hugely familiar with the IP so the shots here in the trailer with our aliens […]
New Threats Loom In The Newest Poster For TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT
There are definitely a few films coming in 2017 with notable lead characters appearing to share a similar theme. One of them happens to be The Fate Of The Furious over at Universal Pictures and the other, at Paramount Pictures brings us to Michael Bay’s Transformers: The Last Knight, which now immerses us in a world more desolate and dystopian, riddled and damaged from battle after battle as seen in the first trailer which premiered last week. And at the center of the carnage lies Optimus Prime who last soared into space to seek out the depth and mystery behind the events of Age Of Extinction back in 2014. A lot more appears to have happened since then and you can see it all in the trailer while the pieces slowly start to come together ahead of the film’s release on June 23, 2017, with actors Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, […]
TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT Forsees War, Dystopia, And An Uncertain Future In The First Official Trailer
Monday has been crazy-packed with news and updates and especially with word of the first teaser trailer for Michael Bay’s new movie, Transformers: The Last Knight. Production officially wrapped on Sunday as announced via social media from the director himself who returns to the helm daring to continue the streak of big box office success that now encompasses the current franchise leading up to 2014’s Transformers: Age Of Extinction. For this, we get the return of actor Mark Wahlberg from the previous film along with Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson who starred in the first trilogy. Also starring are Jerrod Carmichael, Laura Haddock, Iaabella Moner and the one and only Sir Anthony Hopkins next to an onslaught of old and new autobots and decepticons continuing their war with the fate of the universe hanging in the balance, and with the Earth at the center of it all. The previous film […]
TRANSFORMERS 5, 6 And 7 Get Dates
There’s no telling how Paramount’s forthcoming Transformers films will bridge together with Hasbro’s properties following their announcement last December. Rest assured however, more Transformers films are definitely on the way with Akiva Goldman’s writers’ room overseeing exactly how it will all play out with director and actor, Michael Bay and Mark Wahlberg returning for fifth installation. That film has finally set a course for June 23, 2017, while a reported Bumblebee spin-off has been dated for a June 8, 2018 release before a seventh installation on June 28, 2019. More to come. H/T: Deadline, CBR
Michael Bay Returning To Helm Fifth Consecutive TRANSFORMERS Film
Michael Bay is probably the bane of a lot of movie critics, but I’m guessing that doesn’t phase him in the very least. The past two years have been gracious to Bay since cooking up a global billion dollar success story with Transformers: Age Of Extinction, the fourth movie in a growing franchise that now sees actor Mark Wahlberg returning for the fifth. Alas, sure Bay has been busy with the newly released 13 Hours and current post-production remaining for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Out Of The Shadows this summer as producer. Of course though, who better to pick up the slack than Bay himself who just confirmed he’ll be returning to the director’s chair? So what does this mean for the next film? Will he change things up a bit more to improve how the stoies are forumlated and told? Who knows? Bay is going to do Bay […]
Watch The New Red-Band Trailer For 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI
Say what you will about director Michael Bay, but he sure knows how to sell a movie, and the latest trailers for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi has done exactly that. And there’s no question that even three years after the deadly incident, it still raises eyebrows for many to this day in lieu of next year’s elections, and admittedly for most reasons less genuine than others depending on which side of the fence you’re on. Talking points aside, the new green and red band trailers are as sensational as you could expect from a Bay film. So regardless of your interpretation of the events or even Mitchell Zuckoff’s 2014 book, the film is coming in January with a cast that embodies the heroes audiences will surely cheer on right down to the bittersweet end. John Krazinski, James Badge Dale, Toby Stephens and Max Martini star. SYNOPSIS: On the evening of September […]
Michael Bay's 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI Unveils Its First Trailer
Blockbuster director Michael Bay is tentatively off the radar from making alien robots fight each other in epic death duels. Still though, it’s in films like his latest, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi, that he continues to illuminate the best image of military might, and here and now through the conception of Chuck Hogan’s script based on the tumultous events that took place in Libya in 2012, and Mitchell Zuckoff’s subsequent book in 2014. There’s no question to the divisiveness of the source material here: An American ambassador was killed and it led to an endless inquiry by our Congress with little to zero results, thus spinning into a mainstream media frenzy between party lines. Guaranteed however, as effective as these films are, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi looks very appealing in cinematic form with a cast led by John Krazinski, James Badge Dale, Toby Stephens […]
No Bows And Arrows For Amell's 'Jones' In A New TMNT 2 Set Pic!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 comes out next year with David Green at the helm, and for what its worth, at least the fans have something to look forward to. The first film grossed well over $480 million dollars under Clash Of The Titans helmer Jonathan Libesman directing, so you can imagine there’s plenty of reason to move forward with a sequel that will further expand the franchise in a new age of fandom. Sure, its an age everyone has, and will always have an opinion on, and you can count on there being plenty, especially if you were waiting to see Arrow star, actor Stephen Amell as Turtles’ ally, the sportsgear-wielding masked vigilante Casey Jones with a full head of hair. Nope, not the case here, but this is the Casey we’re getting, so there’s that. There’s plenty to hope for though here. I’ve never seen Earth To Echo, […]
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