"DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS" UPDATE PART 2

 This is a continuation from the last post but I just thought I should probably break up the posts as there was a lot of info for you to read in that last post so I didn't want to bog anyone down or confuse any readers with yet more info on this or more importantly bore you to death.

I was just reading on Deadline.com's website that as part of Entertainment One's $4 billion acquisition of the toy maker giant Hasbro former HBO President of Programming Michael Lombardo who has now been named President of Global Television for eOne is now looking to build up eOne's slate by making potential multiple series' and movies based on some of Hasbro's own IP like the scripted series based on the board game "Risk" that will be developed as part of a first look deal with eOne by "House Of Cards" creator Beau Willimon, an animated series that's based on "Clue" that's currently in works over at Fox Studios, a scripted series that's in development at Netflix based on the game "Magic: The Gathering" that will star Brandon Routh, a holiday special "Play D-oh Squished" that will be hosted by Sarah Hyland that will be developed over at Amazon's IMDb TV, and the unscripted series that will be based on "Mouse Trap" being developed at Fox Studios and the other unscripted series based on "Guess Who?" that will be developed at NBC.

In this same vein as trying to build up eOne's slate Michael Lombardo has secured "Red Notice" director Rawson Marshall Thurber to spearhead eOne's "Dungeons and Dragons" television series that could bring with it a whole host of A-list names as this first series is set to be an anchor for potential other series' and spin-offs as Michael Lombardo has said that "We don't want it to just be one show, so we are building out, developing out a multi-pronged approach for television, a number of scripted shows and unscripted, and we hope to be taking this out to the marketplace early next year".

Collider.com thinks that as Rawson Marshall Thurber made one of Netflix's most popular films "Red Notice" which stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds and has managed to secure the three superstars as well as Thurber for two more films in the franchise that Netflix may be the frontrunner in streaming this and bringing this NEW! series and many more and possible spin-off series' to the masses who might be a little bit wary given the current pandemic to go back to cinemas and are choosing to stream content on various platforms at home such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, IMDb TV, Shudder etc etc.

"DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS" FILM AND TV NEWS!

I just saw this on the internet and I just had to put this up on here...but I know I'm late to the party on this because you may or may not already know that there was going to be a NEW! film adaption of this world famous multiple player fantasy board game.

But today whilst I was on Collider.com's website there was a headline that as I liked the last "Dungeons and Dragons" film despite there being mixed reactions from critics, which starred Jeremy Irons as Profion the leader of the Red Dragons who wants to take control of the throne and wants to overthrow the queen played by Thora Birch who is leader of the Gold Dragons who is locked in a war with the Red Dragons, and there were mages (wizards in training) a quest to help the Queen, a friend of the lead character Ridley Freeborn who was played by Justin Whalin called Snails who was played by Marlon Wayans dies but it looks like at the end of the film with stones piled on top of one another at his memorial shaking that he might get risen from the grave somehow...sorry if your reading this and this seems a bit shaky on details but I haven't seen this movie in a while and it get's me very frustrated when I can't seem to find this film either on Amazon Prime or on DVD format because this film is great to watch like "Eragon" when there's nothing to watch on TV.

Anyhew...according to Collider.com's website this movie that will star Chris Pine who you may or may not recognise from films like "This Means War", "Wonder Woman", "Wonder Women 1984", Michelle Rodriguez who you may or may not recognise from the "Fast and Furious" film franchise who plays the character Letty, Hugh Grant who you may or may not recognise from the film "The Gentleman", Rege-Jean Page who you may or may not recognise from "Bridgerton", and Justice Smith who you may or may recognise from "Detective Pikachu" is pencilled in for a March 3rd 2023 release date with the movie already marked on IMDb.com's website as in post production having filming ending in August 2021...so we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed that this makes it to a screen near you.

Also according to Collider.com this isn't the only adaption of the hugely successful role playing game as the creator behind the "John Wick" franchise Dereck Kolstad is going to helm a series that according to an interview with  Collider.com's website and Dereck Kolstad " I want to do a tinier sliver of that world. And it's been a joy". Dereck Kolstad went on to say in this same interview with Collider.com that:

"...I don't want to suddenly throw on screen and say 'Here's the buffet'. You'd much rather keep the story intimate. When you think of our favourite movies, I'd rather do the First Blood version. It's a guy in the woods being hunted. And it's very small, but you allude to the other things through conversation. You have your USS Indianapolis (in JAWS), you see something in the background. You hear a name that 3% of the audience is like "Ho ho! I think we're going to see him soon".  

In this same Collider.com interview Dereck Koldstad has been playing around with the idea that the first season will likely have six to ten episodes and that he likes the Disney+ approach to series' like "The Mandalorian" where "...it doesn't have to be a certain number of pages or certain number of format length..." and that the first and second episodes are more planned out within the Season 1 arc with him saying that "Here's the first episode, and I think any episode is the second most important because it's the second episode that get's it's talons in you. Everyone will watch the pilot , but are you going to stick with it?".

Dereck Kolstad also said that he wasn't sure yet what the title of this series would be yet or what characters he'd get to include in the series because of the many legal meetings he's had to have because of the shifting rights issue with the movie version of "Dungeons and Dragons" that will also be produced by Paramount Pictures, but what he did say about one possible detail about where this series would be set is that he said he "...go deeper and deeper into the Underdark..." people who are familiar with the game will know the Underdark is a setting within the mythology of the game, a series of connected, underground, globally spanning tunnels and bridges that is often home to more nefarious, shadier, magically intimidating characters that will be familiar to any Dungeon Master...so sounds like to me this series could see "The Witcher" style dark epic scenery with just as fantastical monsters in it like orcs, trolls, mages etc etc. 

Or this could just be me as there is no further details available at this time but one thing Collider.com did seem to suggest was that as Paramount Pictures was producing this series as well as the film there could be a possible link between this series and film.

"FINAL DESTINATION" IS BEING REBOOTED BY NEW LINE CINEMA!

I was reading this the other day on the internet and I still don't know what to make of this as according to The Hollywood Reporter's website that the director of "Spiderman: No Way Home" has joined the creative team behind this reboot of the "Final Destination" film franchise that will be a HBO original release that is simply called "Final Destination 6" at the moment.

Jon Watt's will also according to IMDB.com's website will be producing as well as writing the story for this reboot, along with Guy Busick, Lori Evans Taylor also writing this "Final Fantasy 6". Also according to IMDB.com's website Richard Brener and Dave Neustadter will be executive producing. Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor will produce this project.

Also according to The Hollywood Reporter's website also joining this creative team is Dianne Mcgunigle and Jon Watt's wife and manager as a producer.

I didn't know what to make of this as the last time I checked there has been 5 "Final Destination" films and by now everybody knows the story/ premise of these movies,-which is if your not sure I'll fill in the blanks for you, someone gets a premonition that during some kind of situation like in one film a girl gets a premonition that there's going to be a massive pile up on a major road that will kill a load of people and she stalls her car on the on ramp of the same road stopping people going on the road but one by one they all die as death doesn't like to be cheated, then there's a guy who get's a premonition before he boards a flight that people are going to die so stops getting on the plane and guess what happens to these people that get off the plane they start dying one by one, and then there's someone getting a premonition before they get on a rollercoaster etc etc,- so how on earth can you reboot this franchise as surely there are only so many times you can make a film using the story where death doesn't like to be cheated before it get's boring and predictable what's going to happen and even though The Hollywood Reporter's website says that the first movie grossed $112 million worldwide and trying to throw new writers into the mix in order to reboot this film franchise still won't work because it just looks like New Line Cinema and HBO Max are just trying to make money off of this already successful film franchise because their maybe wanting to do a horror film but are stuck for ideas for an original horror movie because how can you do a reboot of this storyline that's fresh and original that will bring new audiences as well as already fans of this film to want to watch this film especially now during the pandemic as people really don't want to travel to the cinema or anywhere I imagine if they don't have to, so if it's just going to be a rehash of other "Final Destination" films people will definitely not want to go to go to the see that as they'll feel that they've been cheated out of money to buy tickets and popcorn or whatever people eat at the cinema just to walk out of that screening feeling like they shouldn't have bothered and that it maybe would have been better to watch this at home on a streaming service.

So let's hope this new story for this "Final Destination 6" movie doesn't disappoint as according to IMDb.com's website says that a group of first responders escape death's grasp, they start to be killed by increasingly unlikely and killer mishaps...let's guess these mishaps mean people will die one by one in gruesome ways like in the one of the "Final Destination" films for example two girls got mysteriously trapped whilst in a tanning bed, a star athlete got his head chopped off whilst weightlifting in the gym, another "Final Destination" film had someone that didn't believe that death was slowly killing the group off with his own nail gun whilst stacking shelves at the local hardware store.

There's not a release date for this yet so I'll update this post when I find out more.

 

 

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING RIGHT NOW! RAYLAND GIVENS IS COMING BACK FOR A NEW! LIMITED SERIES OF "JUSTIFIED"!

OMG! I can't believe this when I first read this on Collider.com's website as me and my sisters absolutely loved and completely binged on this TV series when it first aired on TV in the UK so I just had to put this up on here. 

You may or may not have already heard this but there is going to be a NEW! limited series of "Justified" that is going to be based on another Elmore Leonard crime novel "City Primeval: High Noon" that is going to be aired on FX Entertainment network...and more exciting than this Timothy Olyphant who played the original Rayland Givens in the series of "Justified" will be reprising this role.

According to Collider.com's website Timothy Olyphant will not only be reprising his role as Rayland Givens from this amazing series but he will executive produce this series with Michael Dinner set to direct this series according to IMDb.com's website.

Also according to Collider.com's website Dave Andron will showrun as well as according to IMDb.com's website saying that Dave Adron will also be writing this NEW! series along with Michael Dinner. Graham Yost, Sarah Timberman, Chris Provenzano, Peter Leonard, Taylor Elmore, VJ Boyd and Carl Beverly will executive produce this series, but according to Collider.com's website Chris Provenzano and Taylor Elmore will also write. Some episodes will be written as well by according to Collider.com's website by Carl Beverly, VJ Boyd, Eisa Davis and Ingrid Escajeda with Walter Mosley serving as a consulting producer.

According to Collider.com's website the official synopsis for this NEW! series is:

" Having left the hollers of Kentucky eight years ago, Rayland Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S Marshal and a part time father to a 14 year old daughter. His hair is greyer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road is behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent, sociopathic desperado who's already slipped passed through the fingers of Detroit's finest once and aims to do it again. Mansell's lawyer, formidable Motor City native Carolyn Wilder, has every intention of representing her client, even as she is caught in between cop and criminal, with her own game afoot as well. These three characters set out on a collision course in classic Elmore Leonard fashion, to see who makes it out of the City Primeval alive."

A premier date for this NEW! FX Entertainment network show has yet to be revealed so watch this space for more updates on this. 

!NEW! MUST READ EVAN RYDER BOOK ALERT: "OMEGA RULES"!

If your anything like me and have started reading Eric Van Lusterbader's NEW! book series after "The Jason Bourne" series of books that he co-wrote with Robert Ludlum or if you haven't gotten into this latest book series then I strongly suggest you start as where the hell have you been if you haven't read these books or why not? these are just as amazing, fast paced as the "Jason Bourne" books and just as action packed as these books.

I first started reading these books purely by accident but completely loved the first book as I was about to go on a family holiday and I'd forgotten to pack a book I was reading at the time so I went into the WHSmith's store that was in the departure lounge and found "The Bourne Enigma" and absolutely loved this book and just completely tore into this book and had to know if there was a second book to this...I think I may have annoyed everyone in my family with how much I would talk about this book and how I would read a bit of both "The Bourne Enigma" and " The Bourne Initiative" during the day and then read more at night and then talk about it the next day.

If you haven't read "The Bourne Enigma" I'll fill in the blanks for you, Jason Bourne is invited to Boris Karpov's wedding to a Ukrainian women who as Boris Karpov worked in Russian intelligence the Russian's don't trust her because of her being Ukrainian, but whilst Bourne is at the wedding Karpov tells Jason Bourne he needs to speak with him and that it is important, but before Karpov can tell Jason Bourne what he needs to tell him he ends up dead and his body is displayed in a way that makes the police think it was a religious ritualistic killing and immediately arrest Jason Bourne when they see him at the scene of the crime, but he talks the police into letting him go and finding out who actually did kill them and if he can't find them then the police could arrest him. Jason Bourne then finds out that this is the work of a known hitman Borz who is working with the Ukrainian, this leads to Jason Bourne having to track Borz down to Cairo and nearly dying from a poisoned dart in his hand but thankfully he has a friend Sara in the Egyptian intelligence who has also been tracking Borz down.

In "The Bourne Initiative" Jason Bourne's old friend Soraya Moore finds evidence of there being a international black weapons market online that sells everything from guns to chemical weapons and that there will be an online sale of an unknown weapon in a limited amount of days that will be unleashed on the world and to get into this market you need a encryption key which according to Moore's information involves Jason Bourne, but as she is a friend of Jason Bourne both her and Jason Bourne have no idea how this involves him. And more confusing for Jason Bourne an old "friend" of his contacts him out of the blue saying she can help and that this all somehow leads back to a known arms dealer/psychopath Kyrie who steals girls from villages and believes that if he tortures them and says spells that these girls will only be loyal to him no matter where they end up so,-he believes he is a witch doctor and imbued with the spirits of the gods,-anyway, Jason Bourne ends up having to kill his "friend" and Keyrie and destroying his whole camp as he it turns out is the one that's going to put on this black website's sale and that the website is run by the Russians and it ends with Jason Bourne and Sara watching his friend's sister dancing ballet as after he rescued both his friend and her sister from Keyrie's camp he set up a bank account for her as her little sister always wanted to be a ballet dancer in a big dance company and anonymously with Jason's help she achieved that.

And as you can imagine I Googled to see if there was going to be a third book in this series but annoyingly I found that the third book in this series was abandoned and that Eric Van Lusterbader had decided to stop writing the " The Jason Bourne" series of books and was going to start a new series of books so I naturally started reading this series of books which are just as amazing and you really need to read these if you haven't already.

The first two books in this NEW! series of books are called "The Nemesis Manifesto" and "The Kobalt Dossier" with a new heroine Evan Ryder.

If you haven't read "The Nemesis Manifesto" i'll fill in the blanks for you, Evan Ryder works for Ben Barnes who works for the Department Of Defence and has "his own shop" so to speak where he runs his own assignments for spies covertly and Evan Ryder is his best, and unfortunately this means lots of other countries want her dead, so she needs to find out who is coming after her and this leads her and another agent to find out about a underground well funded neo-Nazi group called Nemesis that captured and drugged her using experimental drugs and a Russian agent called Lukashenka before they escaped. It is then found out that this group is funded by people in high places included the secretary of the President of The United States and that he is really a spy working for the Russians and he has been recruiting other people and running a smear campaign against Ben Barnes saying he's been sending anti-semitic emails to people to stop him from investigating the group. But this ends with Evan Ryder and the other agent of Ben Barnes to blow up the compound of Nemesis.

"The Kobolt Dossier" is about how the Russians have their best spy who is  trying to kill her, but her identity is so secretive only one man in the Russian intelligence network knows her real identity and this somehow involves Evan Ryder, her sister who died in a car accident and her family. So of course Evan Ryder goes to investigate when the FBI find that her nieces and nephews have gone missing along with their father who later turns up dead and with his head buried in the garden with a message in his mouth so of course the FBI think Evan Ryder has something to do with this and this leads back to a cult called Omega who is led by a women who has gone mad and really believes in the Bible story in Genesis where the sins of man will be cleaned from the Earth in one giant flood and only the chosen will survive and Evan Ryder learns that this woman not only believes this but she has kidnapped Evan Ryder's niece and nephew to do experiments on them to make "a perfect person" ie a human who is free from corruption, greed, hate and illness and she believes this all involves the brain.

So if this hasn't wet your appetite to get in to this book series I don't know what will but if your already wanting more then you are in luck...there is another book on the way that if your anything like me you'll already pre-ordered this but if you haven't I urge you to do this now, this NEW! book is called "Omega Rules" and is suppose to be out on the 24th May 2022...save this date for your diary. 

And if you haven't pre-ordered this book yet you can find this on WHSmith's website now.

OH DEAR GOD IT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING! STOP THE PRESS' "GLADIATOR 2" IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING!

 You may or may not have already heard this but I was just reading on Collider.com's website and I still can't believe this is real and not just a joke...Ridley Scott has confirmed that the script for this sequel is written and this will enter production after his latest film "Kitbag" has finished.

I think I'm still in shock as I am a massive fan of this film and this film is so epic in everything such as the story, actors performances as there was massive amounts of awards given to this film not the actual guy who delivered this, amount of extras used on the epic locations in the film etc and the two major characters in the film Maximus Decimus Meridius and Commadus played by Russell Crowe and Joaquim Pheonix both die at the end so I always thought that your not going to be able to do a sequel that is going to be as epic as this film...but I guess I was wrong if Ridley Scott is going to try, fingers crossed and hopefully this doesn't end in tears and ends up looking like an epic fail trying too hard to be like the last "Gladiator".

So hopefully the idea for this sequel will be better than the idea that was floating around in an an early draft of the script in 2006 where according to this same article on Collider.com's website Maximus was to be resurrected by the Roman gods and sent back to Earth to halt the development of Christianity. Thank goodness then that this never saw the light of day and that Ridley Scott preferred a more grounded historical fiction approach. As Ridley Scott said in an interview with Deadline.com's website that:

"...We have a good footprint, a good logical place to go. You can't just do another Gladiator type movie. You've got to follow...there's enough components from the first one to pick up the ball and continue it."

So this would tally with how Collider.com says that this sequel will follow the character Lucius the son of Lucilla who was named after his father who was friends and served in the army with Maximus, so this would show according to this same article on Collider.com's website a 25-30 year time jump which apparently Russell Crowe is expected to make an appearance in, but just how I don't know because his character died after Commadus stabbed him in the side and put his armour on in the Coliseum to "conceal the wound".

According to Collider.com's website this will enter production after Ridley Scott's next film "Kitbag" finishes...but I just have one thing I'd like to ask when on earth is there going to be another series of "Taboo" as this lockdown would have been perfect for another series with a captive audience...I know this sounds bad but I was just thinking that this sequel is also perfect because people will definitely want to see this whether either in cinemas or streaming so it'll definitely be a money maker but this could also be risky as hell because if it doesn't make it up as good as the first then it will get absolutely panned by everyone and will leave everyone thinking "why did Ridley Scott not just leave this film at one".

NEW! MORBIUS THE LIVING VAMPIRE TRAILER AND NEW! 30 SECONDS TO MARS TRACK FT ILLINEUM "WOULDN'T CHANGE A THING" UPDATED VERSION SO MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!

I know you may or may have not seen this trailer or heard this song already but being a massive fan of 30 Seconds To Mars I just had to put these up on here.

If you haven't seen this NEW! trailer yet here is the Youtube.com link below for you to have a little gander at, or if you have seen it here is the link for you to have another look at it:

MORBIUS Trailer 2 (2022) - YouTube

The plot for this movie is that Dr. Michael Morbius who will be played by Jared Leto has a rare blood disease and in an attempt to cure himself as you can see from this trailer he inadvertently infects himself with some form of vampirism.

This might just be me but I'm just going to say it, this looks like Sony are again trying to get another under the radar box office hit like they did with "Venom" as this film also cast an actor audience wouldn't normally see playing a comic book character but it worked with Tom Hardy and now Jared Leto,-but lets be honest even if your like me and a little bit curious to see Jared Leto as "Morbius the Living Vampire", comic book adapted films do seem to be making a boat load of money lately-.

This also might just be me but I'm going to say it anyway this might be a breach of the compromise agreed by Sony and Marvel but this could have been a good opportunity to reintroduce the character Eric Brooks aka "Blade" as according to Marvel.com's website "Blade" and "Spiderman" in the comic books both "Spiderman" and "Blade" take down Loxias Crown/Hunger who will be played in the movie by Matt Smith...and the character "Blade" is a vampire hunter anyway that's part vampire part human so you could have him hunting Morbius anyway...but if your like me and have seen the NEW! "Eternals" movie you'll have heard the voice of "Blade" in the after credit scenes with the character "Black Knight" so what this means I have no idea but I have theories so please don't quote me on any of these as their just my opinions and may not actually be true...

Anywho...I was just doing some Googling on "The Black Knight" as ever since I heard before I watched "The Eternals" movie that "Blade" was in this movie and not in "Morbius" movie I just couldn't believe it because having watched the "Blade" movies it makes more sense to me if his character is in "Morbius" and not in "The Eternals" movie especially as his character is half human, half vampire and hunts and kills other vampires because they killed his mother and made him a monster so I thought that this character could be maybe hunting "Morbius" in this film that I thought would make more sense than being in "The Eternals" film,-well as I write this I think that this makes more sense than putting Harry Styles in another after credits scene as a Titan/brother of Thanos that wants to help Thena and the other "Eternals" that go on the ship across the universe to find other "Eternals",-anyway I digress I read on Wikipedia that Sony could be using the storyline from the comic books of "MI-I3" which according to Wikipedia is part of the "Secret Invasion" crossover event that involves "The Black Knight" fighting with a team to stop vampires from invading Britain and also involves " The Black Knight" finding out that he has a fake "Ebony Blade" and that this fake was made by Dracula and encourages him to kill and that he has to go to Wakanda to get the real "Ebony Blade" back but still holds on to the vampiric blade...or they could be using the story from the comic books after "The Defenders" and "The Otherworld" where "Dane Whitman/Black Knight" is now in modern times and he learns that "The Ebony Blade" has a blood curse that every time the sword draws blood it drives it's user closer and closer to madness.

So Sony could like I read on Collider's website the other day could be opening this cinematic universe up to it's more supernatural areas of the comic books or I think it could be making this cinematic universe dark like the DC universe so it can compete against the likes of all the Avengers films, "Doctor Strange" and make more people buy tickets to see these darker more action packed films like "Venom", "Blade" and "Morbius" in cinemas when they do get released.

Anyway...this film has a pencilled in date of January 21st, this has now changed to April 1st 2022 and will be directed by Daniel Espinosa, the screen play and the screen story has been written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless.

If you haven't heard 30 Seconds to Mars ft Illenium "Wouldn't Change a Thing" here is the Youtube.com link below to have a little gander at or just listen to it again if you have heard it:

ILLENIUM - Wouldn't Change a Thing (feat. Thirty Seconds to Mars) - YouTube

I may be biased as I am a big fan of 30 seconds to mars but even though this does sound different to their other songs as this sounds a bit more poppier,-if that's even a word-, than other songs of the band I do like it...it has a more chilled vibe to it...and if you haven't heard some of Illenium's music before here is a Youtube.com link to some of his other tracks:

Gryffin, Illenium - Feel Good ft. Daya - YouTube

Illenium - Fractures (feat. Nevve) - YouTube

And you might have heard this track that Illenium is on:

The Chainsmokers, ILLENIUM - Takeaway (Official Video) ft. Lennon Stella - YouTube