Brad Curran at Kung Fu Kingdom gained an ample opportunity to discuss some career details with stunt coordinator Garrett Warren (Here Comes The Boom, Logan, Alita: Battle Angel). One of those details includes directing Mortal Kombat Legacy Season 3, following the success of the first two seasons from Warner Bros. and Machima.
All it seems we have now is time with Warner Bros. as fans of all things DC await further notification on the studio’s long (and often quietly) talked-about plans to reboot its DC Comics-based cinematic universe.
Those with access to an anime platform can still stream the heck out of the hit anime series, Attack On Titan. I still have yet to catch the new season and I’ll likely work on that during the holidays, while it’s still worth noting that roughly a year since news of a live-action film development at Warner Bros. gave some of us whiplash, it appears all has been inked and rendered official.
Denis Villeneuve’s thrilling delivery with Blade Runner 2049 is the precedent reportedly being set for Warner Bros.’s current push to revive 1976 sci-fi classic, Logan’s Run. Word from Deadline on Friday writes, The Town scribe Peter Craig is being eyed to pen the script for Fox’s noted X-Men film saga producer Simon Kinberg to direct.
Set in an idyllic 23rd century, actor Michael York starred as Logan 5, a Sandman embedded in an agency established to hunt down “Runners” against society’s established order of pleasureable life until death at thirty. When Logan is assigned to track down a secret safe haven for Runners, he learns his own life clock was pushed forward by four years, forcing him to become a runner himself.
David Zelag Goodman adapted the 1967 novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson for director Michael Anderson. The film eventually landed a short-lived television series prior to Hollywood stirring remake efforts in the 1990s and onward.
The report also notes the film could see a female lead which would amply service Craig having written The Hunger Games and both Mockingjay installments thereafter. Kinberg’s own directorial debut lands this November for X-Men: Dark Phoenix.
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 moved on with development on two game adaptations, and a San Andreas sequel.
News of Bay further reportedly indicates a step closer to what would hopefully be their answer to Mavel’s Deadpool.
Say what you will of David Ayer’s 2016 hit, Suicide Squad. Critiques notwithstanding, that Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment managed to snag up to $746 million dollars in global gross spoke only to its sequel potential moving forward while hopefully the studio gets its ducks in a row with its own line-up of DC adaptations leading up to Justice League in November and thereafter.
This brings questions regarding who will direct, which, in turn, now reveals Deadline‘s latest report sharing news of Warrior helmer Gavin O’Connor who will instead helm the brewing sequel. O’Connor’s name is one of several that have circulated in the past year, particularly Ayer who left the sequel in July prior to Jaume Collet-Serra turning it down. Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto are expected to reprise their roles as Deadshot, Harley Quinn and Joker.
Plot details and specifics aren’t yet known while a sequel could also potentially bring O’Connor together once more with actor Ben Affleck who cameoed in the first film as Batman/Bruce Wayne; Affleck starred in O’Connor’s 2016 crime thriller, The Accountant, for which both actor and director are positioning a sequel with a script by Bill Dubuque and the possible return of actor Jon Bernthal who stars in Netflix series, The Punisher, later this year.
Ayer is developing Gotham City Sirens following the fan favor actress Margot Robbie earned for her portrayal last year. The Hangover trilogy director Todd Phillips is on hand for a Joker origin film while we await what lies ahead with Focus and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot helmers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa for their own iteration that gives the notorious criminal couple their own movie.
O’Connor is also on board and developing a cinematic, badass revival of The Green Hornet for Chernin Entertainment and Paramount.
Focus and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot helmers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are tapped to direct the film which THR reports with a mix of inside sources describing it both “a criminal love story” and “an insane and twisted love story. When Harry Met Sally on benzedrine.”. Leto is in final negotiations with the studio as is Robbie who herself has been attached as the studio’s favorite fan pick following her portrayal of the iconic villainess whose romantic comic book history with Batman’s longstanding archnemesis dates back to the early 1990s.
Legendary and Warner have teamed up to revive the classic monster universe. Starting with the 2014 release of Godzilla, it culminated with the phenomenal success of Kong: Skull Island earlier this year (which has grossed $565 million, globally) that a sequel, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, starring Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, and Millie Bobby Brown, is currently in production.
A few years in the making, the film marks the latest foray for Legendary and Warner Bros. in an effort toward a cinematic universe that will include the March 10, 2017 release of Kong: Skull Island, and culminate in the release of Godzilla vs. Kong on May 29, 2020. Godzilla: King Of The Monsters opens March 22, 2019.
Isayama Hajime’s popular 2009 manga, Attack On Titan, continues to be a hallmark of fandom for many an otaku following its success as a 2013 animated series with a second season on deck for this April. The live-action films were an entertaining feat as well – depending on who you ask, that is, even as some elements and assets were ultimately altered and changed to befit the production led by VFX wiz, Higuchi Shinji.
That said, one might have wondered if this would turn out to be yet another Hollywood property, and lo and behold, it’s Deadline with the exclusive word that Warner Bros. is looking toward the rights with an eye on Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them helmer David Heyman to direct. If all goes well, it will he Heyman in the director’s chair, thus adapting the tale of a brother and sister forged in the heat of battle in an epic saga years in the making as remnants of what’s left of mankind in a city walled off from the outside world following the emergence of towering, man-eating monsters known as titans.
Heyman’s film, for which he is also up to direct its sequel, released back in November and, to date, has pulled in a global gross of over $800 million dollars, which is a pretty stocky number to his credit. Good on Warner Bros. if this deal makes it through the rounds and all the I’s are dotted and T’s are crossed, while the report also mentions this as the latest move toward adapting a Japanese IP following buzz over Akira…
…Personally, I’m not too keen on holding my breath for the latter. Besides, I’m an asthmatic. Screw that.
Comment below and let us know what your thoughts are on this latest prospect!
With an adaptation of Samura Hiroaki’s Blade Of The Immortal still looming, acclaimed filmmaker Miike Takashi is now off to another endeavor with news of the forthcoming live-action foray, Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure. Warner Bros. and Toho are reportedly aiming to produce the film for a release next Summer, based on Araki Hirohiko’s eight-part manga with emphasis on the fourth installation, “Diamond Is Unbreakable”.
via Anime News Network:
The story is set in Morioh, located in S City in M Prefecture of Japan, and it follows the misadventures of Jōsuke Higashikata and his companions, as they are involved in a series of bizarre incidents in their town.
Araki launched the manga via Shueisha in 1987 before following in the years after with light novels, video games and a slate of animated series and films. Rounding out the cast are Death Note TV series actor Yamazaki Kento as Higashikata Jōsuke and Kamiki Ryunosuke from Bakuman and Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno as Hirose Kōichi, with Nana Komatsu as Yamagishi Yukako, Okada Masaki as Nijimura Keichō, Mackenyu (Chihayafuru) as Nijimura Okuyasu, Yamada Takayuki as Katagiri Anjūrō, Iseya Yusuke as Kūjō Jōtarō, Mizuki Alisa as Higashikata Tomoko and Kunimura Jun as Higashikata Ryōhei.
As for all else, next to Gintama and Bleach, I have my homework cut out for me.
It’s summer with July here and nearing that time again! Yes, craziness as usual will ensue at Comic-Con International: San Diego where fans will attend Hall H to see what’s new and exciting with any number of hotly anticipated titles. Warner Bros. Pictures put the word out on Monday with all the goods, including film titles and guest appearances, as well as some extra details therein.
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