I was reading the other day on the internet that in the movie universe of DC Comics Ewan McGregor will be playing the villain The Black Mask in just one of the Harley Quinn movie projects as she is going to be starring in David Ayer's "Gotham City Sirens" and as yet according to IMDb.com an untitled "Harley Quin and Joker" movie along with a hopefully much anticipated "Suicide Squad 2"...looks like this character as well as Margot Robbie will be a busy bunny for quite a while yet!
I have to be honest when I first heard about the Black Mask being the villain in this first Harley Quinn movie project "Birds Of Prey" I had to Google this as I really didn't know much about this villain as I did other villains like the Joker, Raz al Ghul, Penguin, Two Face, Dr. Freeze, The Riddler, Poison Ivy, Bane, Catwomen etc etc, according to Wikipedia,-and here is where comic book fans may have to forgive me if I get this a bit wrong-, the Black Mask's real name is Roman Sionis a disguised obsessed crime lord who was forced by his wealthy parents to make friends with Bruce Wayne although his parents hated the Wayne's they still wanted to mingle in high society, he was dropped on his head as a baby and his parents paid people off to cover up this fact. He is also according to Wikipedia an expert in intimidation, torture and hand to hand combat and when he takes the mask off he is an expert in hypnosis.
This film will not only be introducing this new villain in a DC Comic Book spinoff movie but this film will also introduce Helena Bertinelli a.k.a Huntress who will be played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Dinah Lance a.k.a Black Canary who will be played by June Smollett-Bell, Gotham City Detective Renee Montoya who will be played by Rosie Perez and Cassandra Cain who will be played by Ella Jay Basco as according to ScreenRant.com's website the plot for "Birds Of Prey" is that Margot Robbie's character Harley Quinn forms a gang of super heroin's which includes Black Canary and Huntress to protect Cassandra Cain from the Black Mask after she stumbles upon a diamond that belongs to the Black Mask.
But I'm thinking if these characters are as psychotic as Harley Quinn was in "Suicide Squad" then the term "stumbled upon" is going to be very loose...more probably like this diamond was stolen from the Black Mask.
Anyhew...also according to ScreenRant.com's website filming for "Birds Of Prey" hasn't started yet but is thought to begin filming in early 2019 with according to IMDb.com's website February 7th 2020 in the USA release date.
According to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision's website Cathy Yan will be directing this for Warner Bros. with Sue Kroll producing via her Kroll & Co. banner along with Margot Robbie and her LuckyChap Entertainment and Bryan Unkeless' Clubhouse Pictures and the script for this is being written by Christina Hodson.
Thursday 22 November 2018
Tuesday 20 November 2018
FINALLY! STEPHEN KING "DOCTOR SLEEP" IS GETTING ADAPTED
You may or may not have already heard this news that Stephan King "Doctor Sleep" is FINALLY getting adapted into it's own movie...I would have thought that as other books of Stephen King has already been adapted like "IT", "Mr. Mercedes", "Carrie",-this got remade with Zoe Grace Moretz starring as Carrie-, "Dark Tower", "The Shining" (of course) etc that this would also get remade as especially as it is a sequel to "The Shining" which is such a fantastic film I would have thought that this would have been the first of all the other books adapted into a film as this is a sequel to "The Shining"...and this film had such a buzz to it as it was directed by the legendary director Stanley Kubrick and starred Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence.
If you haven't seen "The Shining" where the hell have you been? you really need to watch this film and if you haven't read this book you also really need to read this book...but if you haven't read "Doctor Sleep" then I will fill in the blanks:
"Doctor Sleep" follows Danny Torrence after the events that took place at the Overlook Hotel where he found out he had "the shining" ability to see things that had happened in the past like the ghosts of the dead twin girls that were killed by the father with an axe of the family who were hired before Danny's father to look after the hotel in the winter season when everyone leaves the hotel, things that were going to happen before they happen like the rivers of blood that come down the corridor and out of the elevators of the hotel and he can also use his gift to communicate with other people who can "shine" like he does like the chef Dick Halloran, he now is an alcoholic to stop his gift and he's still traumatized by everything that has happened at the hotel and his mother has died and he hasn't talked to Dick Halloran in ages but he has learnt to create lock boxes to stop seeing the ghosts especially that of Mrs. Massey, and he then moves to a new town to get away from everything and to try and stop drinking so he gets a job at the local hospital where people seem to know about his "shining" as it appears that everytime a white cat goes into the room of a elderly patient it tends to mean they're going to die and then Danny gets called to help the patient go, and on the weekends he has a job driving a train as part of the towns local attraction. Soon though he learns that they're is a little girl with "the shining" ability that seems stronger than his called Abra that is trying to communicate with him and he soon learns that she is in need of his help as not only does she not know what "the shining" is but this group The True Knot have been traveling round in caravans killing children for their "Shining" so they can remain young but this starts to go wrong as one of the kids they kill is ill with chickenpox and in turn they start dying, but the leader thinks that if they kill Abra then they will be young forever and this leads to a showdown between Danny using his ability as well as "the shining" of Abra's dying grandmother at the campsite that is next to The Overlook Hotel.
Anyhew...according to Variety.com's website Ewan McGregor has been cast as Danny Torrence in Warner Bros. adaption of this Stephen King book and also I have read on other websites about this that Stephen King has given his blessing for Ewan McGregor to be cast as Danny Torrence as I had heard that Stephen King had supposedly not liked Stanley Kubrick's adaption of his book "The Shining".
Also according to Variety.com's website Warner Bros. have got Mike Flanagan to direct and his producing partner Trevor Macy will produce along with Vertigo Entertainment's Jon Berg.
Also according to Deadline.com's website also starring alongside Ewan McGregor in this film will be Rebecca Ferguson who you may or may not have seen in "Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation" who played Ilsa Faust and who you may or may not have seen in "Mission Impossible: Fallout" will play the role of "Rose The Hat" the leader of The True Knot, Bruce Greenwood will also star in this film along with Carl Lumbley, Alex Essoe and Zahn McClarnon.
Also according to IMDb.com's website this is pencilled in to be released in the USA on the 24th January 2020.
If you haven't seen "The Shining" where the hell have you been? you really need to watch this film and if you haven't read this book you also really need to read this book...but if you haven't read "Doctor Sleep" then I will fill in the blanks:
"Doctor Sleep" follows Danny Torrence after the events that took place at the Overlook Hotel where he found out he had "the shining" ability to see things that had happened in the past like the ghosts of the dead twin girls that were killed by the father with an axe of the family who were hired before Danny's father to look after the hotel in the winter season when everyone leaves the hotel, things that were going to happen before they happen like the rivers of blood that come down the corridor and out of the elevators of the hotel and he can also use his gift to communicate with other people who can "shine" like he does like the chef Dick Halloran, he now is an alcoholic to stop his gift and he's still traumatized by everything that has happened at the hotel and his mother has died and he hasn't talked to Dick Halloran in ages but he has learnt to create lock boxes to stop seeing the ghosts especially that of Mrs. Massey, and he then moves to a new town to get away from everything and to try and stop drinking so he gets a job at the local hospital where people seem to know about his "shining" as it appears that everytime a white cat goes into the room of a elderly patient it tends to mean they're going to die and then Danny gets called to help the patient go, and on the weekends he has a job driving a train as part of the towns local attraction. Soon though he learns that they're is a little girl with "the shining" ability that seems stronger than his called Abra that is trying to communicate with him and he soon learns that she is in need of his help as not only does she not know what "the shining" is but this group The True Knot have been traveling round in caravans killing children for their "Shining" so they can remain young but this starts to go wrong as one of the kids they kill is ill with chickenpox and in turn they start dying, but the leader thinks that if they kill Abra then they will be young forever and this leads to a showdown between Danny using his ability as well as "the shining" of Abra's dying grandmother at the campsite that is next to The Overlook Hotel.
Anyhew...according to Variety.com's website Ewan McGregor has been cast as Danny Torrence in Warner Bros. adaption of this Stephen King book and also I have read on other websites about this that Stephen King has given his blessing for Ewan McGregor to be cast as Danny Torrence as I had heard that Stephen King had supposedly not liked Stanley Kubrick's adaption of his book "The Shining".
Also according to Variety.com's website Warner Bros. have got Mike Flanagan to direct and his producing partner Trevor Macy will produce along with Vertigo Entertainment's Jon Berg.
Also according to Deadline.com's website also starring alongside Ewan McGregor in this film will be Rebecca Ferguson who you may or may not have seen in "Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation" who played Ilsa Faust and who you may or may not have seen in "Mission Impossible: Fallout" will play the role of "Rose The Hat" the leader of The True Knot, Bruce Greenwood will also star in this film along with Carl Lumbley, Alex Essoe and Zahn McClarnon.
Also according to IMDb.com's website this is pencilled in to be released in the USA on the 24th January 2020.
Friday 2 November 2018
HOLY SHIT! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS REAL "GLADIATOR 2" MIGHT BE HAPPENING!
OMG! I have just read this and as I am a massive fan of this film I just had to put this up on here...and because this is probably the best news I have heard since I have been away from blogging and having to deal with being diagnosed with skin cancer.
According to DeadlineHollywood.com Ridley Scott has begun forward progress on a sequel to "Gladiator", and also according to this same article on this website the charge for this sequel is being led by Ridley Scott and his Scott Free banner.
If you haven't seen this amazing, cinematic genius, once in lifetime film as with the scale of it you'll never get another film like it, like "The Lord Of The Rings" films, why the hell not!? it's been out long enough for you to have seen it by now either on DVD, on TV or any streaming services,-I do realise here that I may have gone on a bit but I am just a MAHOOOSIVE fan of this film-, then I will fill in the blanks for you:
Russell Crowe plays Maximus Decimus Meridius commander of the armies of the north and is favoured by the leader of Rome Marcus Aurelius, and this of course causes tensions between him and his son Commadus who is played by Joaquim Phoenix, but he Commadus also is wanting of his father's power when he dies and he also wants the love of his sister Lucilla who has been widowed by her husband Lucius Farris and has a son also named Lucius just like his father, but when Marcus Aurelius tells Commadus that when he dies he wants to give his power to lead Rome to Maximus to stop the corruption that has occurred within Rome's politicians and this then turns Commadus to murdering his father not just because of this but because he thinks his father loves Maximus more than he does him and Marcus tells him that his faults as a son are his faults as a father. Also when Maximus tells what he thinks are his friends in his generals that he thinks that Marcus Aurelius has been murdered and that he means to go home as was promised to him after the war to his wife and son these generals arrest him and on Commadus's orders take him out to the woods and murder him and also on Commadus's orders the army goes to Maximus's house and burn and hang his wife and child and when Maximus finds this out by killing the marshes sent to kill him and riding home he then is sold into slavery and sold to Oliver Reed and taught how to be a gladiator and he soon becomes the best gladiator and in honour of his father Commadus puts on 180 days of games meant to be played out in the gladiatorial arena and invites the best fighters to this and therefore Maximus goes with the intention of killing Commadus, but of course when Commadus finds out that Maximus isn't dead he sets about trying to kill him with tigers on chains in the arena but Maximus kills them, and when he thinks people are conspiring against him and helping Maximus with the advise of one of his politicians he arrests a senator and lets it play out this plan to get Maximus out of Rome with the help of his friend "Sisero" and have 2 horses waiting for them, he then kills Sisero and arrests Maximus and has him in handcuffs and stabs him and then has Maximus dressed up ready to fight so he can take him on in the arena but he also arrests his sister who was a part of this conspiracy and tells her he wants her to love him as he has loved her and he wants her to have his children so that the Cesar blood line will live on and he'll kill her if she looks at him in a manner he finds displeasing, if she decides to take her own life or does anything that he doesn't like he'll kill her. Then Maximus despite his stab wound manages to kill Commadus and asks Lucilla to free the prisoners and he then dies going home to his wife and child in the afterlife.
Anyhew...according to DeadlineHollywood.com this sequel will focus on Lucius the son of Lucilla and will show how strong an influence Maximus left on him.
Also according to this same article Ridley Scott wants to direct this sequel and Paramount will be the studio developing the project with Universal Pictures having the option to co-finance this, but at the moment Paramount are setting Peter Craig on to write the script with Scott Free producing with Red Wagon's Doug Wick and Lucy Fischer and Walter Parkes and Laurie McDonald of Parkes + McDonald also producing.
Also according to this same article this could happen very quickly, and although this sounds very exciting this could take a bit of a back seat as according to this same website Ridley Scott is right now directing his first TV series for TNT "Raised By Wolves" which will be filmed in South Africa, he's also got several other projects in the pipeline such as the Scarlet Johansson starring drama about the photojournalist Lyndsey Addario, and a potential film about the formative years of Merlin for Disney which will be produced by Ridley Scott and Gil Netter and is being rewritten by Chris Weitz.
According to DeadlineHollywood.com Ridley Scott has begun forward progress on a sequel to "Gladiator", and also according to this same article on this website the charge for this sequel is being led by Ridley Scott and his Scott Free banner.
If you haven't seen this amazing, cinematic genius, once in lifetime film as with the scale of it you'll never get another film like it, like "The Lord Of The Rings" films, why the hell not!? it's been out long enough for you to have seen it by now either on DVD, on TV or any streaming services,-I do realise here that I may have gone on a bit but I am just a MAHOOOSIVE fan of this film-, then I will fill in the blanks for you:
Russell Crowe plays Maximus Decimus Meridius commander of the armies of the north and is favoured by the leader of Rome Marcus Aurelius, and this of course causes tensions between him and his son Commadus who is played by Joaquim Phoenix, but he Commadus also is wanting of his father's power when he dies and he also wants the love of his sister Lucilla who has been widowed by her husband Lucius Farris and has a son also named Lucius just like his father, but when Marcus Aurelius tells Commadus that when he dies he wants to give his power to lead Rome to Maximus to stop the corruption that has occurred within Rome's politicians and this then turns Commadus to murdering his father not just because of this but because he thinks his father loves Maximus more than he does him and Marcus tells him that his faults as a son are his faults as a father. Also when Maximus tells what he thinks are his friends in his generals that he thinks that Marcus Aurelius has been murdered and that he means to go home as was promised to him after the war to his wife and son these generals arrest him and on Commadus's orders take him out to the woods and murder him and also on Commadus's orders the army goes to Maximus's house and burn and hang his wife and child and when Maximus finds this out by killing the marshes sent to kill him and riding home he then is sold into slavery and sold to Oliver Reed and taught how to be a gladiator and he soon becomes the best gladiator and in honour of his father Commadus puts on 180 days of games meant to be played out in the gladiatorial arena and invites the best fighters to this and therefore Maximus goes with the intention of killing Commadus, but of course when Commadus finds out that Maximus isn't dead he sets about trying to kill him with tigers on chains in the arena but Maximus kills them, and when he thinks people are conspiring against him and helping Maximus with the advise of one of his politicians he arrests a senator and lets it play out this plan to get Maximus out of Rome with the help of his friend "Sisero" and have 2 horses waiting for them, he then kills Sisero and arrests Maximus and has him in handcuffs and stabs him and then has Maximus dressed up ready to fight so he can take him on in the arena but he also arrests his sister who was a part of this conspiracy and tells her he wants her to love him as he has loved her and he wants her to have his children so that the Cesar blood line will live on and he'll kill her if she looks at him in a manner he finds displeasing, if she decides to take her own life or does anything that he doesn't like he'll kill her. Then Maximus despite his stab wound manages to kill Commadus and asks Lucilla to free the prisoners and he then dies going home to his wife and child in the afterlife.
Anyhew...according to DeadlineHollywood.com this sequel will focus on Lucius the son of Lucilla and will show how strong an influence Maximus left on him.
Also according to this same article Ridley Scott wants to direct this sequel and Paramount will be the studio developing the project with Universal Pictures having the option to co-finance this, but at the moment Paramount are setting Peter Craig on to write the script with Scott Free producing with Red Wagon's Doug Wick and Lucy Fischer and Walter Parkes and Laurie McDonald of Parkes + McDonald also producing.
Also according to this same article this could happen very quickly, and although this sounds very exciting this could take a bit of a back seat as according to this same website Ridley Scott is right now directing his first TV series for TNT "Raised By Wolves" which will be filmed in South Africa, he's also got several other projects in the pipeline such as the Scarlet Johansson starring drama about the photojournalist Lyndsey Addario, and a potential film about the formative years of Merlin for Disney which will be produced by Ridley Scott and Gil Netter and is being rewritten by Chris Weitz.
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