LET'S START CRANKING UP THAT OLD BLOGGING MACHINE AND LET'S GET READY FOR THE NEW! BATMAN FILM

God...it feels like an age since I was last on here,-I apologise to anyone who see's the "God" bit and may or may not feel offended by this but there was no offence intended,- and I apologise to everyone about that but there has been a lot going on so I felt the need to take a step back for a bit.

So this post and any others that follows this one is going to be a bit of catch up on NEW! music and films news, any home premiere's that you may have seen or not seen and movie suggestions for if your still stuck at home not knowing what to watch or in case there's nothing on the TV, that is going to ease me back into blogging.

So sorry if you may or may not have already heard this news before.

Yesterday I saw that there is now a full trailer for the NEW! R-Patz Batman and there is now a date of release for this movie,-well a pencilled in date of release at least, especially with all the delays this film has had due to COVID-19 stopping filming or R-Patz and another member of the film crew testing positive for the virus etc etc-, which I'll put the Youtube.com link below for you to have a little gander at if you've not seen it yet or if you just want to watch it again:

THE BATMAN – Main Trailer – Warner Bros. UK & Ireland - YouTube

And so we the audience have had to get by with still images of what this NEW! Batman will look like, what the NEW! Batmobile will look like and what the teaser trailer looks like...see Youtube.com link below if you haven't already seen this:

The Batman - DC FanDome Teaser - YouTube

So I think it's fair to say that all Batman fans including me have been on tenterhooks about this new Batman film and have been curious to know how this NEW! Batman film will all look like. 

Well...I have to say after seeing the NEW! Batmobile I was excited to see what else this film had in store, and after seeing this NEW! trailer for this film that will be directed by Matt Reeves and has been written by Matt Reeves, Peter Craig and according to IMDb.com Mattson Tomlin it did leave me with the immortal words in my head from "Gladiator":

"I will win the crowd, I will give them something they have never seen before..."

I might be paraphrasing here but it was interesting to see that this film does show a different side to Batman/Bruce Wayne's character like I've heard Matt Reeves say in interviews he's given about this film, saying that he wanted to show the detective side of the character more.

According to SlashFilm.com the story for this NEW! Batman is that:

"...Batman has been operating in Gotham City for over a year now, and while not everyone is used to the masked vigilante yet, he's clearly built a rapport with Commissioner Jim Gordon..."

Who will be played by Jeffrey Wright who you may or may not have seen in the James Bond film "Casino Royale" playing the character Felix Leiter, other newcomers to this film are Zoe Kravitz who will play the character of Selena Kyle/Catwoman, Paul Dano who will play the character The Riddler/Edward Nashton who you may or may not have seen in other films like "Prisoners" where he played the character Alex Jones or you may have seen him in "Knight and Day" where he played the character Simon Feck and new for this film Colin Farrell who will be playing the character of Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin and the other villain of the piece John Tourturro who you may or may not have seen in "Transformers: Dark Of The Moon" where he played the character Simmons who was the ex FBI agent who worked in a diner after everyone thought he was crazy for believing in aliens trying to communicate with humans, who will play the character Carmine Falcone...and more importantly than this Andy Serkis will play the character of Alfred.

This film will be produced by Matt Reeves and Dylan Clark, and will be executive produced by Simon Emmanuel, Michael E. Uslan, Walter Hamada and Chantal Nong Vo.

The pencilled in date for this is 4th March 2022.

 

GOODBYE JASON BOURNE...HELLO THE EVAN RYDER SERIES OF BOOKS FROM ERIC VAN LUSTBADER!

God it feels like I've not put anything up here for ages! but I apologise for that but this lockdown has been a little bit of a trying time,-not that I'm not saying it hasn't been a trying time for everyone else during this COVID 19-, what with migraines, flu, sore throats, slipping on the kitchen floor and badly hurting myself...it really has shown me how clumsy I am and that I really can't be left alone to my own devices!

Anyhew...back to the point of this post, I'm a huge fan of "The Jason Bourne" film franchise and when I was going on a family holiday and I'd completely forgotten to pack a book that I was reading at the time I saw in one of the shops in the departures lounge "The Bourne Enigma" and completely tore into this book on said holiday and was completely hooked from there so as soon as I came back to the UK,-before COVID 19 in case your wondering,- I bought the follow up to this book "The Bourne Initiative" which I also completely tore into and loved but after I read this book I really wanted to be able to read the next book in the series so I started to Google when this was coming out but found out that shortly before lockdown via Waterstones.com that publishing of the next book in the series was to be abandoned and they had no information on when this was going to come out.

So one day when I was googling to find more information about this I found out that Eric Van Lustbader who had co-wrote many of the original Jason Bourne books with Robert Ludlum and then after Robert Ludlum's death he continued this book series and according to an interview with "The Real Book Spy" website Eric Van Lustbader said that:

"Originally, the whole idea from the Ludlum estate was for me to write a book in conjuncture with each Bourne film that came out. So, in the beginning, it was like every two or three years. But the films became so popular and successful that the publishing company called and asked if they could get a book each year..."

Yikes! one book a year that sounds like a lot of pressure even for me and I'm not even a writer! not only this but in this same interview with "The Real Book Spy" Eric Van Lustbader goes on to say that:

"I had my own books too and that meant that I'd have to write two books a year..."

He then goes on to say that:

"So, it's official, I've talked to the executive of the Ludlum estate- who is a friend of mine, and who originally asked me to take up Bourne for him- and I'm eternally grateful to him. It's been a great ride, but it's time for me to do something else."

  And that:

" I had pretty much said everything that I wanted to say with Bourne, and that I wanted to do something different. Something more..."

Enter "The Nemesis Manifesto" and the new female protagonist Evan Ryder, neo-Nazis, double agents, triple agents, inter agency wars, Russian sleeper agents in the high echelons of American politics and that's just some of the things you'll read in this NEW! book, but according to this same interview with Eric Van Lustbader on "The Real Book Spy"'s website this is just one of the authors upcoming book projects as the next book in this NEW! book series "The Kobalt Dossier" is according to Waterstones.com is expected to be published on the 8th July 2021...definitely one for the diary! and the other book projects is "The Sum of All Shadows" the fourth book in Eric Van Lustbader's Testament book series. 

CATCH UP PART 2...NEW! BATMAN SUITE REVEAL!

Okay you may or may not have heard this news before but as a massive Batman fan I just really wanted to put this up on here as according to Collider.com's website this not only reveals what Robert Pattinson will look like in this NEW! Batsuite but it also shares a snippet of what the music for this NEW! film will sound like.

Here is the YouTube.com link for you to have a gander at if you haven't seen the video yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-GW7_e2aJA

This NEW! suite judging on the Bat symbol on the front of the suite looks like it may be a little bit more mechanical, a little bit rough around the edges but apart from that it doesn't look like much has been changed from Christopher Nolan's Bat suite i.e it still looks like a proper Bat suite and not looking like the Bat suite that Ben Affleck wore that looked like it was made out of paper mache  and it also seemed to look to me like,- and I'm thinking here of how the Bat suite looked in the film "Batman vs. Superman",- the suite was bigger more robotic looking and the head part looked more like a helmet than part of the suite...can't think why the film makers did this maybe to make the Bat Suite more adapted to other more modern threats but now that I think about it how on earth this design was going to work as this must have made the Bat suite more heavier and less functional flying in the face of how Christian Bale's character Bruce Wayne said to Morgan Freeman's character Lucius Fox in Christopher Nolan's "Batman" film that he needed to be lighter and that he was carrying too much weight and that Lucius Fox says that he understands what Bruce Wayne is saying by him wanting to be able to turn his head every time you park the car...now that I've read this back I do think I may have slightly over thought this a bit and may have slightly geeked out over Ben Afleck's Bat suite and Robert Pattison's Bat suite and shown how I really didn't like that Bat suite design and I think the less said about "Batman vs. Superman" the better as that film wasn't very good.

Anyhew...this new music that you can hear in this test camera footage that was debut by Matt Reeves who is directing and writing this new Batman film that will star Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne, Zoe Kravitz as Selena Kyle a.k.a Catwomen, Jeffrey Wright as Jim Gordan, Paul Dano as Edward Nashton a.k.a The Riddler, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, Colin Farrel as Oswald Cobblepot a.k.a Penguin, Jon Torturro as Carmine Falcone, and Peter Sarsgaard as Gotham D.A Gil Colson has been composed by Michael Giacchino and may suggest with the red in the footage like Collider.com seems to say on what the tone and style of this film is along side this epic Nolan style music that for me does sound like it has elements of the "Star Wars" Imperial March in it...very foreboding and dark if you ask me, which might suggest this conspiracy that Bruce Wayne is said by the internet supposed to find out that involves all of Gotham's villains and is suppose to show what the other adaptions of Batman haven't shown before with Bruce Wayne being a really good detective so says the internet is going to be maybe dark with some unexpected twists...but that could just be looking into this too much.

Anyway this film is pencilled in so says Collider.com for a June 25th 2021 release date.

HOLD THE BUS! "BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC" NEWS!

Oh. my. god! I know I'm suppose to write a continuation to the last post I put up on here but I just saw this on Collider.com's website and I just had to put it up on here right away...I mean it's "Bill & Ted" people!,- as you can probably tell I'm just a tad bit excited about this-.

Anyhew...according to Empire Magazine's website this picture is hopefully fingers crossed just the first in a long line of movie news and updates about this looooooooooong awaited threequel (as Empire Magazine's website puts it). Here is the picture below for you to have a gander at:



According to Empire Magazine's website Chris Matheson and Ed Soloman who wrote the previous two "Bill & Ted" films, this film will see not only Bill and Ted on their journey to write the greatest rock 'n' roll song that will save the entire universe but audiences will see them all grown up with their daughters who according to Collider.com's website will be played by Samara Weaving,-if you're like me and looking at this surname and it sounds familiar then you'd be right her uncle is Hugo Weaving who played "Agent Smith" in "The Matrix" films-, and Brigette Lundy-Paine.

According to this same article on Collider.com's website this new "Bill & Ted Face The Music" will see William "Bill" S. Preston Esq. and Theodore "Ted" Logan facing middle age and having not written this greatest rock 'n' roll song ever that's going to save the entire universe and it feels like time is running out, and this isn't helped by a visitor from the future telling them that time's time and they should get cracking on writing this song or else life itself will cease to exist.

According to an interview Dean Parisot the director of this film did with Empire Magazine "Bill & Ted Face The Music" has "...gone from a homework assignment to saving all space and time . We bypassed all those possible traumas in the middle...", he went on to say in this same interview that "...they have an hour and 18 minutes. And let's say that they have to travel all over the place to try and figure it out."

well it just wouldn't be a "Bill & Ted" movie without seeing both "Bill & Ted" travelling around the world within a tight deadline like the first "Bill & Ted" film brought back Genghis Khan, Billy The Kid, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Plato etc for a homework assignment presentation.

I can't wait for more information on this new film to drop this film is pencilled in for a release on August 21st 2020.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 7 AND 8 NEWS!

I was reading the other day on the internet that in a recent interview Vanessa Kirby had teased that she would be coming back to reprise her role from "Mission Impossible: FallOut" as White Widow the middleman for MI6 and according to this website which I didn't know but I guess you live and learn the daughter of Max from "Mission Impossible I" and along with according to Comingsoon.net's website Henry Czerny will be reprising his role from "Mission Impossible I" as playing the character Eugene Kittridge who you may or may not recognize as the one who thinks that Ethan Hunt is the mole and is working with Max a Czech arms dealer who works with rogue CIA operatives....I was thinking how on earth could this character come back as Ethan Hunt so spectacularly cleared everything up and showed he wasn't the mole it was Jim Phelps and his wife Claire.

Rebecca Ferguson is expected to return to these films along with Tom Cruise, director Christopher McQuarrie who it has also been said on the internet is going to shoot a seventh and eighth instalment back to back, Simon Pegg who played the character Benji Dunn. Also SkyDance will also be back to produce the next two "Mission Impossible" films and also according to ComingSoon.net's website Ving Rhames who played the character Luther Stickle a.k.a "the net ranger" from previous "Mission Impossible" films will also return to these films.

Also according to Comingsoon.net Shea Whigham who you may or may not recognize from "Fast and Furious 5" and "Fast and Furious 6" as the FBI colleague of Paul Walker's character Brian O'Connor who get's his nose broken in both those films by the character Brian O'Connor has signed on to star in both "Mission Impossible 7" and "Mission Impossible 8" along with Pom Klementieff is also signed on to star in "Mission Impossible 7" and "Mission Impossible 8" and Haley Atwell and Nicholas Hoult who according to the internet is going to be cast as the villain of the film.

Also according to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision section of their website "Mission Impossible 7" is pencilled in for a release on July 23rd 2021 with the 8th instalment of this franchise pencilled in for a release on August 25th 2022.

LET THE MOVIE NEWS CATCH UP BEGIN!...MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 7 AND 8, INDIANA JONES 5, BATMAN SUITE REVEAL!

God a lot of movie news seems to have been happening while I've been away during a recent house move but today I saw on various websites news on all these films that I just had to put up on here.

First I have seen on Collider.com's website the surprising news that Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg will be back to direct and star in "Indiana Jones 5"...-bloody hell! really after "Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull"?-, I've heard rumours about this for a while now but according to another article on Cinemablend.com's website and according to one article on Collider.com release dates for this film have been delayed or pushed back on numerous occasions,-the last release date July 9th 2021-, directors and writers have been attached to this film then for various reasons left but now the original scriptwriter David Koepp is back to pen the script and according to Cinemablend.com's website he thinks "they've got a good idea this time".

And also according to Cinemablend.com's website Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy has said that this will be a continuation not a reboot and that Harrison Ford will definitely be involved so that puts shot to all the other rumours that Chris Pratt, Chris Pine or Bradley Cooper could be cast as Indiana Jones...but also according to this same article on Cinemablend.com's website according to Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy "(they are) working away, getting the script where we want it to be and then we'll be ready to go"...so this sounds to me like nothing is really ready or confirmed yet and neither is any other cast members sooooo I'm not holding my breath for this film to come around anytime soon...but it has to be better than the last film and I was thinking that maybe for this to happen the film studio need to breathe new life into it like let someone new direct this other than Steven Spielberg,-I know you're probably all shouting "how can you get someone else to direct this other than Steven Spielberg he made this franchise!", but I thought that too and I even couldn't believe I was thinking it but what if you kept him on as a executive producer and advise a new director on how to keep this franchise authentic and Indiana Jones-y like "Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom",- and let there be other new characters in this film maybe possibly kill off or see Professor Jones in a retirement home but somebody maybe visiting him as they need his help in some way like deciphering notes from a diary or a text or a language of some kind but something has to be done to make this better than "Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull" as did anyone really know what they were doing on that film as the story seemed to go all haywire with the Russians getting involved with the help of Ray Winston and wanting an alien's head so as to take over the world...I think.

But even more recent than these articles on Cinemablend.com's website was an article on Collider.com's website that was published on February 14th says that Harrison Ford said in an interview on CBS's Sunday Morning show that he plans to start doing Indiana Jones in the next two months...so with this being said and there still been no word on other cast members or script writers or anything else recently I am just as surprised as the writer of this article Matt Goldberg on Collider.com's website that they're still going to do a "Indiana Jones 5" film.

MORBIUS:THE LIVING VAMPIRE CATCH UP!

I know I'm very late to the party on this one, but when I saw the trailer of this up on Facebook the other day I just had to put this up on here as for me this trailer has been a long time coming and when I finally saw it I just breathed a huge sigh of FINALLY!

If your like me and haven't seen the first trailer for "Morbius: The Living Vampire" don't worry here is the YouTube.com link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thkyfGbdYzY

This to me looks bloody amazing and I can't wait to see this when it comes to cinemas in the UK according to IMDb.com on July 31st 2020 with Sony/Marvel coming to an agreement finally to see Sony/Marvel characters being more intertwined...i.e as part of this new agreement between Sony/Marvel will work together on a "Spider-Man 3" movie, and that Disney/Marvel will co-finance 25% of this for a 25% equity stake in this so says Deadline.com's website with the proviso that Spider-Man appears in one more Disney/Marvel film...so  this could mean that Spider-Man could make an appearance in "Venom 2" that will be directed by Andy Serkis who you may or may not recognise from films such as "King Kong" he played the CGI gorilla, and "Lord Of The Rings" he played Golem and now Sony can make references to the MCU in their films and that Sony can in their future films allude to the MCU so says WeGotThisCovered.com but only if Tom Holland is involved with that particular production...and also according to WeGotThisCovered.com's website in this new "Morbius: The Living Vampire" movie J.K Simmons's character will have a small supporting/cameo role that will act as a bridge for the two universe's with not only this but a mural in the background of one of the scenes of "Morbius: The Living Vampire" of Spider-Man and graffiti saying "murderer" on the wall supposedly alluding to the doctored pictures that The Daily Bugle printed framing Spider-Man of killing the character "Mysterio" at the end of "Spider-Man: Homecoming", and a surprise cameo from Michael Keaton's character from "Spider-Man" it looks like from this first trailer of "Morbius: The Living Vampire".

But also according to WeGotThisCovered.com's website the president of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige doesn't want characters like Morbius and Venom to be the centre of attention and won't make them core characters in the bigger and more impactful MCU spanning arcs and only want them to have small or quick cameo roles and not have much involvement in the franchises more important films, but Sony though would like to see these characters play a prominent role in future "Avenger's Endgame" style event movies and have a big impact on the MCU...and if you ask me this might make more sense as this would mean that Venom and Morbius can get their own films and it wouldn't look like Venom, Morbius and Spider-Man have all been thrown together in one film just to make it interesting to see what that would look like in a film but story wise wouldn't make any sense why or how their in a film together as all these characters are never in the same comic books together and the only reason you've put them in one film together is so as to make the film studio a hell of a lot of money but it would probably just be a big flop for the studio.

Also according to Deadline.com's website this third Spider-Man film is set to be released in cinemas on July 16th 2021 and will be produced by Amy Pascal through her banner Pascal Pictures which she has done on the other two Tom Holland Spider-Man led films.

Also according to ComicBook.com the cast for the first two Spider-Man films Tom Holland, Zendaya, Marissa Tomei, Jacob Battalon, and Jon Favrou will be set to return for this third film, with Kevin Feige directing alongside Jon Watts meaning that Peter Parker/Spider-Man will be able to continue his adventurers in the MCU with Sony and these other characters from the Spider-Man films can continue onto their own film franchise's separate from the MCU.