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‘WARRIOR’ TV Series Spin-Off Lands At Paramount+ With Additional Cast
It was last Fall that Warrior helmer Gavin O’Connor made it known that a television spin-off of his hit 2011 film was in the works and in talks to streamers to help shop the series. On Thursday, Mike Fleming Jr.’s exclusive re-affirmed the show’s existence with word that Lionsgate Television is developing the ten-episode series for Paramount+. The report also notes that actress Gina Rodriguez (Miss Bala, I Want You Back) will join retired two-time UFC champion Daniel Cormier, who was attached as of September of 2021, to star in the series among its four main principal cast members. O’Connor is aiming to direct all ten episodes, and is creating the show with Adair Cole, with whom he will also serve as showrunner. The series, titled in previous reports as “Warriors”, wasn’t something O’Connor had in mind much less a sequel in the years since the inaugural MMA drama featuring Joel […]
HALO Teaser Reveals Master Chief For New Paramount+ Series Coming In 2022
I’m out of the loop on most things gaming, post-2000, so I’m dead in the water when it comes to any kind of Halo game play or trivia. The good news though is that if you’re subbed to Paramount+ and happen to be a fan, then you’ve come to the right place in case you’ve stumbled upon the first official teaser for the forthcoming live-action series dated for 2022. Monday’s presser notes the reveal occured during Xbox’s 20th anniversary celebration today (the teaser also leaked early on Facebook on Monday according to trade reports). Actor Pablo Schreiber (American Gods) leads the cast as as Master Chief, Spartan-117, the main for the show as inspired by the game franchise that launched 20 years ago. More on the series: In its adaptation for Paramount+, HALO will take place in the universe that first came to be in 2001 with the launch of […]
SNAKE EYES: ‘Warrior’ Series Star Andrew Koji Nabs The Role Of Storm Shadow For Paramount And Hasbro Film Spin-Off
Regarding some of the best casting news ever, it now appears that the forthcoming G.I. Joe spin-off a la Snake Eyes has found its antagonist in actor Andrew Koji for the role of Storm Shadow. Koji, who is expected to recur for a second season offering in Cinemax series, Warrior, inherits the role from actor Lee Byung-Hun who portrayed the character in 2009 and 2013 under directors Stephen Sommers and Jon M. Chu. Storm Shadow launched via Marvel Comics for Hasbro’s popular G.I. Joe IP in 1984 and its subsequent animated series. His real name is Tomasiburo (or Thomas) Arashikage, once a student of his uncle, the Hard Master alongside Snake Eyes. In a misguided attempt to kill Snake Eyes, Tomasiburo attempted to poison him, only to miss his target. The Hard Master perishes as a result, ensuing a circumstantially complex tragedy that since forged a rift between both warriors […]
Leonardio DiCaprio To Take On THE BLACK HAND For Paramount
Read enough fake news online and you might find yourself going insane over actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s involvement in a new Scarface remake. Here’s a tip: Stop reading fake news and read this instead. In the meantime, you can assure yourselves that the active actor and producer will have a hand in adapting New York Times bestselling author Stephen Talty’s seventh narrative non-fictional novel, The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History, for the big screen. Titled, The Black Hand, for short, Paramount Pictures now have the rights to the film with DiCaprio set to star. A quick click over at Talty’s website gives you the following description of the book which hits stores in April: Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian […]
Paramount’s Hasbro Movieverse Gets A Writers’ Room
Last December saw some fantastic news of upscaling over at Hasbro, Inc.’s Allspark Pictures label to develop a conjoined cinematic movieverse along with Paramount Pictures for several of its properties. As such, an announcement made on Thursday for a writers’ room to convene and bring it all together, and who better to lead the charge than award-winning writer Akiva Goldsman? He’s recently been running things to help lead producer and director Michael Bay’s slew of upcoming Transformers movies and Bumblebee spinoff, and so with his feet already dug in, it appears he’s ready for the task, and in the good graces of an arsenal of stellar writers to boot. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Paramount Pictures and Hasbro, Inc. today unveiled its top talent writers room which will have responsibility for developing Hasbro’s cross-property interconnected onscreen universe featuring the brands G.I. Joe, Micronauts, Visionaries, M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike […]
Plot Details Emerge Amid Paramount Deal To Release xXx: THE RETURN OF XANDER CAGE
It only took about eleven years but a third installment to the xXx franchise is now underway with plans to film scenes in Toronto, Canada and in the Dominican Republic. xXx: The Return Of Xander Cage is the official title amid news that following earlier speculation, Paramount Pictures is now boarding the film to distribute with Revolution Studios, Roth Kirschenbaum Films and Diesel’s One Race Films producing. D.J. Caruso is directing the script from scribe Chad St. John with revisions by F. Scott Frazier which THR says will reboot the franchise. As such, the trades are reporting new plot details with one version featuring specifics on Diesel and Thai action star Tony Jaa, reading as follows (UPDATE: Diesel posted a new casting photo on his Facebook page hours after this report, essentially correcting THR’s initial write-up which reads as follows): The film will see operative Xander Cage coming out of self-imposed exile […]
Hasbro's Allspark, Paramount To Develop A Shared Cinematic Universe For TRANSFORMERS, G.I. Joe And Others
Leave it to Hasbro to pick back up on just how to bring your favorite toys to life on screen! Already in progress is a slate of at least four more Transformers movies, but now we can include further knowledge of an expanding movieverse that will cross Transformers’ characters with that of other properties. Together with Paramount Pictures, Hasbro chairman, president and CEO Brian Goldner along with executive vice president and chief content officer Stephen Davis and head of film development Josh Feldman are well underway in gathering a writers’ room that will produce scripts to mingle Transformers with characters from G.I. Joe, Micronauts, Visionaries, M.A.S.K. and ROM; The former already has two live action films under its belt with a third installment that’s been lingering since Jon Chu’s 2013 hit, G.I. Joe: Retaliation which added $675 million dollars gross total from both Chu’s film and its 2009 predecessor from Stephen […]
Zombies And Ghosts Headline Paramount Pictures's New Home Release Initiative
Paramount Pictures is reportedly trying something new for its home distribution model, and they’re doing it with the October horror flicks, Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension. Don’t ask me about the latter because it’s not really my cup of tea, but the former does have its fair bit of fervor particulary over its affinity for ancillary next to its adherance to gore and all things zombie lore. No argument from me here; the studio wants to get these home to consumers at a feasibly quicker pace and their latest press release details exactly that: Paramount Pictures announced today the home entertainment release dates of the first two films in the studio’s groundbreaking digital revenue-sharing initiative with theatrical exhibitors. “SCOUTS GUIDE TO THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE” and “PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSION” will debut on digital platforms for sale and rental beginning December 8 and […]
Oscar-winning Writer Akiva Goldsman Tapped To Lead Efforts For A TRANSFORMERS Cinematic Universe
Cue the anti-Bay rage! Deadline is reporting that Oscar-winning writer Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind, I Am Legend) is negotiating with Paramount Pictures to head his own “writers room” to contemplate the future of the Transformers movies, thus focusing on spin-offs and potential two-part sequel following last year’s Transformers: Age Of Extinction. This probably doesn’t bode well with critics and fans of the classic Hasbro toy franchise and TV series who have had a bone to pick with Bay for one reason or several since he brought the warring Autobots and Decepticons to life in 2007 starring that actor who is not famous anymore. But then again, for a franchise that has made close to four billion dollars since then, they probably just don’t give a damn, because, well… giant alien robots fighting each other, and explosions makes money. So… yeah. There’s no word yet on whether or […]
G.I. JOE 3 Eyes D.J. CARUSO To Direct
There isn’t much news happening regarding Paramount’s G.I. Joe 3, even though it has already swapped a few hands between at least two directors, namely Jon M. Chu who took the reigns for the 2013 sequel, and Martin Campbell as of last November. Since then, news moved forward with Eagle Eye and I Am Number Four helmer D.J. Caruso who is now apparently in talks to direct. Depending on whether or not you enjoyed either of Caruso‘s films mentioned above, the director definitely has the chops to continue the evolved vision from both films, adding sci-fi with that extra touch of stellar action and hi-tech espionage to boot that made the second film so enjoyable to watch. Jonathan Lemkin is writing the script which will center around actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson‘s reprisal as classic Joe character, Roadblock, with John Wick co-star Adrienne Palicki returning as Lady Jaye among our […]
Frakes On Directing STAR TREK 3: #BringInRiker!
The long-gestating development of Paramount Pictures’s third installment in the rebooted Star Trek franchise is currently in-limbo over who will direct it. Roberto Orci, who helped write the first two films was long rumored to direct the film before stepping aside as Cornetto Trilogy helmer Edgar Wright became the most recent notable favorite to direct after filming a scene in last year’s Star Trek Into Darkness. The response has largely been positive for Wright after fans were saddened when he and Marvel hit a creative fork in the road back in May with potentially directing Ant-Man, and so it seems now fans have something substantive to look forward to the third film. However, you needn’t look further than the most recent news mentioning the name of actor and filmmaker Jonathan Frakes who is now on record “unabashedly” sharing his interest in directing Star Trek 3, according to Komo News. Frakes […]