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STUBER: Iko Uwais Joins Dave Bautista And Kumail Nanjiani For The Upcoming Action Comedy

Indonesian action star, actor Iko Uwais is continually rising to the occasion these last several years. His latest stake in Beyond Skyline put him on par for further profusion in film and it now has him on deck to join actor Dave Bautista and title star, actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani for upcoming action comedy, Stuber, for 20th Century Fox. Details on Uwais’s role remains pending per Patrick Hipes’s exclusive at Deadline which confirms it as so. Michael Dowse is directing the film from a spec script by Tripper Clancy which centers on Bautista as a tenacious detective who commandeers an unsuspecting Uber and its driver, played by Nanjiani, over one night of high jinks and mayhem. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are producing the film with Jake Wagner serving ad executive producer and Jeremy Kramer is overseeing for Fox. The film adds to Uwais’s career which has been […]

Korean Action Drama, A BITTERSWEET LIFE, Is Getting A Remake With Michael B. Jordan Starring

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Director Kim Jee-Woon’s 2005 action drama, A Bittersweet Life, certainly lended one of the most brutal and memorable titles Korean cinema had to offer near the start of the millenium with actor Lee Byung-Hun front and center. Fast forward to present day where Twentieth Century Fox is poised to advance a remake effort with the promise of actor Michael B. Jordan leading the cast. Jennifer Yuh, Nelson (Kung Fu Panda 2, Kung Fu Panda 3) is being tapped to direct the remake with the goal of steering it as potential franchise starter with Jordan playing a high-level mob enforcer who becomes romantically embroiled in a deadly cover-up with his boss’s young mistress. 21 Laps’s own Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and Dan Cohen are producing in association with CJ Entertainment with Jason Young overseeing for Fox. Jordan is next slated to appear in the February 16, 2018 release of Creed helmer Ryan […]

Fox’s NEUROMANCER Taps Tim Miller To Direct The Cyberpunk Novel Adaptation

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More than a year after departing efforts to return to the director’s chair for Deadpool 2, Tim Miller will instead be boarding Twentieth Century Fox’s latest move to sci-fi, Neuromancer. Simon Kinberg is producing the film now hailing as a major project for Miller’s notable VFX workshop, Blur Studios, following decades of industry attempts to bring William Gibson’s 1984 cyberpunk novel to the big screen. Case was one of the best console cowboys until he stole from one of his employers, who in turn damaged his nervous system so that he cannot access cyberspace anymore. Broke and destroying himself, Case is contacted by Molly, a heavily modified razorgirl, to work for a shadowy colonel who needs a cyberspace cowboy for a secret mission. The employer fixes Case’s damaged brain, but implants a slow dissolving poison to make sure the cyberspace wiz does his bidding, in attempting to abduct a perverse […]

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THE MARRIAGE PACT: Justin Haythe To Pen Psychological Thriller Novel Adaptation For Fox

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New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond’s new psychological suspense novel The Marriage Pact, gets published on July 25 courtesy of Random House’s Bantam label with foreign editions to be made available thereafter. In its wake, a film adaptation will now arrive with word that 20th Century Fox has nabbed the feature film rights for Justin Haythe to adapt screenplay with Chernin Entertainment producing. In The Marriage Pact, after receiving an enticing wedding gift, newlyweds Alice and Jake decide to join an exclusive and mysterious group known only as The Pact. The goal. of The Pact seems simple: to keep marriages happy and intact. However, the young lovers are about to discover that for adherents to The Pact, membership, like marriage, is for life. For Jake and Alice, the marriage of their dreams is about to become their worst nightmare. 20th Century Fox’s Kira Goldberg will oversee the project for […]

Rupert Wyatt Parts Ways From Fox's GAMBIT

Lee B. Golden III

I’m a little discouraged by some of the news now circulating online (I’m not even gonna bother covering Pacific Rim 2 as I’ve just about run out of patience here to even ponder a thought enough to blog about it). To be quite frank, it gets tiring and a little draining when reading about projects that go awry for some reason or another. The same is the case for Fox’s current development of the Marvel adaptation, Gambit with Channing Tatum starring and producing. The word now is that it’s director, Rupert Wyatt, just walked from the film with THR citing creative and budgetary issues pertaining to the script, which was written by Josh Zetumer. So, first we lose Tatum, then we get him back, and then we lose Wyatt. And all while Fox is looking to start production soon for the sake of having a new frontman for its Marvel […]

Stop The World! Watch The New DEADPOOL Trailer Right Now!

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Following the riproaring thunderstorm of residual uber-excitement stemming from reactions toward the epic Comic-Con trailer for Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice in July, and with the exception of the stellar reception drawn from Warner Bros.’s Suicide Squad, it became quite clear that topping these would not be an easy feat. And then came Colossus, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, swords, brown pants, vehicular manslaughter and frontman Ryan Renyolds solidly in his element as the titular “merc with a mouth” in what can easily be deemed as the next level in Marvel superhero movie fandom. I speak of the latest official trailer for director Tim Miller’s long-awaited comic book adaptation, Deadpool, based on a character created by Rob Liefield and well into a decade in the works for the big screen, and it’s easy to understand the delight and resolve being felt in the air right now. Years of worry over a […]

It's Official! Channing Tatum Closes The Deal To Play GAMBIT!

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Apparently NOW the word now after all the ruckus about actor Channing Tatum disbanding from Twentieth Century Fox’s production of the comic book adaptation, Gambit, is that he’s officially closed a deal to star. A new report by CBM via THR suggests there was uncertainty as to whether or not Tatum would be able to return for multiple movies seeing as how the studio is looking forward to replacing Hugh Jackman as its Marvel franchise mainstay while he finishes his last stint as The Wolverine. Gambit was created by Jim Lee and Chris Clairemont and unveiled in X-Men comic book universe beginning in 1990, sporting a cajun accent with impeccable charm and the ability to charge most objects with energy, rendering them explosive. Tatum has long been in the running to star, and much to the delight of executives at Fox, including Lauren Shuler Donner who has produced all of […]

Sci-Fi Thriller RE-KILL Leads The After Dark Films/Fox Relaunch. Watch The New Trailer!

Lee B. Golden III

Three years is a longtime to wait for a film to release after its completion. After Dark Films exemplified this with its three-year deal based at Lionsgate for the production and distribution of genre titles, specifically including Wrong Turn 6 helmer director Valeri Milev‘s action horror thriller, Re-Kill. A dystopian zombie splatterfest is something that surely speaks to the niche it’s meant for and that may have followed through in 2012. Obviously the film eventually fell into distribution hell with the likely ending of the deal, although thankfully progress has been made with the company’s relaunch at Twentieth Century Fox for its ‘8 Films To Die For’ slate, as per a new report from Dread Central that Re-Kill will finally get its just dues on the big screen on October 16, 2015. SYNOPSIS: It’s been 5 years since the outbreak that wiped out 85% of the world’s population, but the […]

Singer: "Ideas For An X-Men/Fantastic Four Crossover Are In Play"

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It’s never enough for a lot of comic book fans to see through to the end of a franchise. Once they love something, they prefer it stick around, which is natural with regard to the respective comic book universes of Marvel properties, X-Men and Fantastic Four. Both franchises have film slates of their own at Twentieth Century Fox with the latter reformatting for another go-around on August 7 by director Josh Trank, while former remains steady with its next installment, X-Men: Apocalypse, prepping for its theatrical run on May 27 next year. Franchise principal helmer Bryan Singer is directing the film following last year’s X-Men: Days Of Future Past which is getting a special extended “Rogue Cut” edition this summer, and it just so happens he was on hand to discuss that briefly with Yahoo (via Variety) in lieu of its release. Amid a series of questions, however, one inquiry […]

THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN Is Getting A Reboot From Fox

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It’s neither too early or late to remake a movie, especially for the folks over at Twentieth Century Fox who are now on the cusp of reviving more live-action superhero movie lore for millenials. For this, we turn to the 2003 installment of Blade helmer Stephen Norrington’s The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which played a bit loose with the original source material and had some pretty gamey visual effects but still provided the necessary steampunk spectacle. Word now has it that John Davis is now on board to produce the forthcoming reboot with Ira Napoliello and Matt Reilly overseeing. The film is based on the 1999 graphic novel by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill and centers on a group of extraordinary individuals brought together to protect the interests of the British Empire in the late 1800’s. Such characters included vampiress Mina Hasker, big game hunter and occasional tradesman Allan Quartermain, […]

Josh Boone To Direct X-Men Spin-Off, THE NEW MUTANTS, For Fox

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Time will tell what the future holds for Professor Charles Xavier and his team of heroic mutants when Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse arrives next year in May. In the meantime, Fox is reportedly devloping a spin-off from their current franchise titled The New Mutants, and has officially closed a deal with The Faults In Our Stars helmer Josh Boone to write and direct. In 1982, Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod created the first team of which there are three, with the other two from seperate creative groups in 2003 and 2009, continuing the saga centered on the stories of young mutants trained at Xavier’s School For The Gifted. The project is yet another add-on to the studio’s own handling of the live-action translation of the X-Men franchise since Singer boarded X-Men in 2000, as at least a few more titles are active in some capacity at Fox, including the current […]

Is 'Kingsman' Helmer Matthew Vaughn Up To Remake FLASH GORDON?

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Director Matthew Vaughn’s got a fan base. He’s certainly made sure of that with hits like the 2008 film, Kick-Ass, the 2012 mutant superhero epic, X-Men: First Class and this year’s gentleman’s action-packed adventure adaptation, Kingsman: The Secret Service, and if you want more with him at the helm, feel free to take a gander at what’s happening with the long-developing remake, Flash Gordon. Plans to remake the film have been around for a while now, notably for Sahara helmer Breck Eisner to direct for Colombia Pictures long before it was finally picked up by Twentieth Century Fox in April last year. Now, THR is reporting that Vaughn is now in talks to direct the film based on the 1934 comic strip which saw its way to several film releases. The most notable film adaptation hails from the British 1980 feature with actor and then-Playgirl centerfold Sam Jones in the […]

YA Novel, THE YOUNG ELITES, Now In Trilogy Development At Fox, Temple Hill

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The YA audience of book fanatics and moviegoers still prove to be a particularlu viable source for the people over at 20th Century Fox and Temple Hill Entertainment. Their current success with last year’s The Maze Runner, has become a thing with a sequel on the way this September, and with this, they’ve now taken it upon themselves to pursue another live-action venture – this time with author Marie Lu’s late 2014 Putnam Juvenile publication, The Young Elites. THR reports that Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are producing the film for Temple Hill, set in a time when a rampant disease called the “blood fever” which transforms some of its victims, even granting them special powers and gifts. Some of these survivors become known as the Young Elites, protected by a secret society from the Inquisition Axis, including Adelina Amouteru, a silver-haired, one-eyed scarred woman whose abilities are discovered to […]