Don't know if I've ever seen this happening before the movies release, but it looks like there's some new Batman v Superman footage in a Jeep commercial!
Very light spoilers ahead.
In the commercial, we see Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) using a Jeep to get closer to the fight between Superman and Zod that took place in Man of Steel. It's not very long, but it is more than the brief glimpse of him watching the fight from a distance that we've seen in trailers. Check it out below.
Tim Miller and Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool film underwent a lot of changes as it made its way to the big screen. Regardless of these changes that needed to be made, the movie still ended up awesome, made fans happy, and also made the studio an ass load of money.
Since the film was released, we've posted a few bits of information regarding some of the changes that have been made, but thanks to Mr. Sunday Movies we have a video that breaks down everything regarding scenes that had to be deleted from the script, characters that didn't make it into the film, and some of the jokes that ended up being cut.
The creator of the video offers this introduction:
The amount of people who have given Deadpool a watch has proven that there is massive success to be had in an R rated comic book franchise. But like all movies there are a number of Deadpool scenes left that ended up being deleted including extended joke sequences that will probably end up on a gag reel, crippling insults and things deemed too violent even for this movie.
The Deadpool movie also went through a number of drafts that had the inclusion of an alternate set of villainous henchmen, the major action sequences being shaved right down, a PG-13 cut that nobody probably wants to watch and a list of unexpected names on the Dead Pool bar kill list.
There was also an extended sequence of Wade Wilson travelling the world in an effort to cure himself of cancer that has a horrific ending, Ajax ending up in jail early on the film after running a human enhancement facility and a visual gag coming at the expense of Deadpool’s forgetfulness and her blindness.
That’s not all of course! There’s a stack more in this video as will as more to be revealled over the coming months. So check it out, or don’t. But chances are if you’re reading this you probably already have. I mean you wouldn’t be reading this BEFORE watching the video, right? That’d be weird. But I respect your decision making. Keep it up.
A few weeks ago, I was invited to attend an early press day for Jon Favreau’s upcoming adaptation of The Jungle Book. Just to let you know up front where I was coming from in regards to this movie: I didn’t go to D23 last year, so up until this point I hadn’t seen any footage aside from what was in the first trailer — and to be frank, I wasn’t super impressed with that. I recently rewatched the 1967 Disney animated movie for the first time in probably 20 years, and even though I enjoyed it as a kid, I found it to be a lot less engaging than I remembered. So you can understand whey I went into this presentation with incredibly low expectations, and even thinking it might be a waste of time.
But what I saw blew me away.
Favreau came out on stage at the Disney-owned El Capitan Theater in Hollywood and showed us a couple of pieces of test footage that his visual effects vendors showed him before he started production that convinced him he could make the movie the way he wanted to make it, and it was as if we were watching a nature documentary. In one of them, a bird flies into the shot, lands on a branch in the jungle, looks around, and flies away. It looked 100% real, but every single thing in that shot was created in a computer.
He moved on to show us a few actual scenes from the movie that were still works in progress — the VFX team is going to be tweaking and finalizing footage all the way up until the movie’s release — but everything looked basically flawless to my eyes. There was a scene that involved a stampede of wildebeests that reminded me of The Lion King, as well as some shots that looked like they came straight out of the original animated movie. The footage is absolutely breathtaking, and the 3D — something I normally actively despise — was fantastic. This is going to be a movie worth paying extra to see in the best possible format, and while we’re on that note, we saw the footage on a laser projection with Dolby Extended Dynamic Range, and I can’t recommend that highly enough if you have the chance to seek it out. It’ll be playing that way in a handful of theaters in big cities across the country, and for the film nerds out there, it’s 100% worth looking into.
But enough about the format specifics. The main question I had coming in was, “Why would Jon Favreau make this movie?” The director addressed that head-on:
“The question was, why do it? I didn’t go into Disney and say, ‘I gotta make Jungle Book! You know what we need? Another Jungle Book now!’…Alan Horn, especially, was very passionate. He had grown up with the books, and I had grown up with the movie. We both connected to it in a slightly different way. The idea of going out to the jungle and shooting this, it wouldn’t have had the magic that the ’67 film had. There was a dreamlike quality to it, a surreal quality to it. It was a high water mark for character animation…
What Alan said was, ‘Look at the technology. Look at Life of Pi. Look at Avatar. Why not use the technology to create a whole world that transports you? Why be limited by going off and shooting plates? Let’s really embrace this new technology and see what we could do if we push it to its limit.’ Thankfully, because the Disney properties have translated well, especially going from animation to live action, there was a certain confidence the studio had to give me the resources that were required to do something like this. You only see this technology being used when things are blowing up. Big action spectacles are the only films that seem to make studios comfortable enough to use this level of artistry and technology in storytelling. So the unique opportunity I had is to use it for humor and emotion and showing nature and showing animals and getting into that real deep mythic imagery that always marries well with technology and always has.”
Favreau certainly didn’t do this himself — in fact, he gave huge props to his crew and constantly downplayed his involvement to make them look better. It looks like they deserve the credit they’re getting, too, because the visuals on this thing are just unbelievably good. Favreau hired Rob Legato to be the Visual Effects Supervisor, and he utilized some of the same tactics he used on Avatar to bring this movie to life. Legato was there as well, and he talked about how Avatar looked photo-real, but it was set on a world that doesn’t exist in real life. With The Jungle Book, he’s trying to make a photo-real world that the audience can actually recognize as what we know of a real jungle. Favreau was inspired by Gravity, so he took a similar tack and didn’t just shoot the movie and then hand it off to a visual effects team. He actively collaborated with the VFX people before, during, and after shooting, letting his relationship with the artists at effects houses MPC and Weta dictate the production. Favreau felt like nobody had outdone Avatar’s use of 3D, so they used the same technology to make this movie, shooting in native 3D with the same camera system in the hopes of one-upping it.
But for the director, it wasn’t just about making the movie look great. He wanted to make sure the story was solid, too. He praised Pixar and Disney Animation, saying that the reason they have such high batting averages creatively speaking compared with live-action features is because there’s a tremendous effort put into making sure the story is perfect before filming begins. Taking a page out of their playbook, he had a head of story for this movie, created animatics for the whole movie, filmed an entire motion-capture version of the film, and then took that and shot the one live-action thing that appears in the entire movie — the young Neel Sethi — and shot him as if he were an element. “If the kid is walking twelve feet in the cut of the movie that we had, we built twelve feet of jungle. And each set was built for a shot,” he explained. All of this happened in two soundstages that were side by side in downtown Los Angeles; while they were shooting on one, another was being prepped for the next shot, so they had an incredibly efficient methodology for filming.
“Could we do something that took it to the level where you were watching something that was either photo-real or pleasantly beautiful and elegant and hypnotic, even if we couldn’t achieve that level. Could we avoid an uncanny valley? I thought by not doing the kid, and setting the kid as a live action element…[he was] a live action kid in an illustrated environment.”
In his speech to us, the director often referred to Walt Disney and the way he pushed his team from Snow White to Bambi to make the animals look more realistic. Favreau spoke about how different animals are expressive in different ways in real life, and how they tried to use those aspects to make the talking seem natural here. They looked at movies and TV shows like Beverly Hills Chihuahua and Dog With a Blog to find out what NOT to do when trying to create convincing talking animals, and Legato praised the bear scene in The Revenant as a high bar for them to try to meet when it comes to realism.
They wanted everything to seem as realistic as possible — even to the point of the specific creatures in the jungle. When Walt made the original animated movie, he didn’t care that orangutans didn’t belong in the jungles of India where the film is set. Walt just liked the idea of King Louie being an orangutan; it didn’t matter that it wasn’t realistic. But for Favreau’s movie, they even managed to find a way around that: during the research phase, someone on his team stumbled across a creature called the gigantopithecus, a extinct species of ape that grew to nearly 10-foot-tall that existed in that part of the world. So now they had their “realistic” King Louie (voiced by Christopher Walken). “We tried to inform it enough so you could see the soul of the actor, but not enough that it took you out of the reality of the movie,” Favreau explained when talking about incorporating the actors’ personalities into the designs of the characters. (Bill Murray looks great as Baloo — you get the sense that’s exactly what he’d be like if he were a talking bear.)
Favreau talked about finding the right actor to take on the role of Mowgli:
“We were a little scared because we looked at 2000 kids and he was number 2000. I was getting a little worried because to me, casting is everything. When somebody — especially a kid — is on screen for that much of the movie, you don’t want somebody that you grow tired of, or might be good for a couple of scenes or to play the kid on a TV show. You need somebody who’s going to hold the screen and is going to be interesting to watch…you have to be able to see something you can work with. My style of working is very real. He didn’t have bad habits. He had a physicality and the way he moved his body around reminded me of Mowgli from the movie. There’s some footage when they’re walking past the waterfall, and it just looks like something that could have been out of the old cartoon. With the other actors, it was also difficult because Bill Murray’s not the easiest guy to get a hold of, you may have heard. So it takes a tremendous amount of persistence and resilience and passion. I don’t like getting my second choice. Like when I cast Robert in Iron Man, I knew my job was going to be taken care of. So sometimes fighting it out through all of the obstacles of getting your cast together makes your life easier down the road because half your job as the director is done. You have to breathe life into this thing, otherwise it is just an exercise in technology, and that’s not entertainment. It needs to have a beating heart in there. That’s what a cast brings you.”
To wrap up, I asked him in a Q&A session about the length of the film. The ’67 movie is very short —only 78 minutes (“We’re longer than that,” he cracked) — and I wondered what he and his team did to build out the story a little bit. Here’s what he said:
“We went back to the structure of the story, and also looked at what Rudyard Kipling did, because he offers up lots of different — it’s not really one continuous story in the hundred year old version of it. But if you see, like, the way we treated the elephants here. Different than the ’67, more like what Kipling did. [They’re] these elevated, god-like figures that created the jungle. So we kind of picked between the two. But for story structure, the ’67 has a lot to offer and I tried to stick with it as much as you could.
What I really tried to do was focus on the images that I remembered from it before going back to look at it again, which is interesting. It was a trick I learned on Iron Man. It’s not necessarily what’s in the material that’s the most important, it’s what you remember. And I find that everybody has a collective memory that’s very similar. And there are images that I remembered very clearly that I listed off, and those are the things that were top priority. And as you go back and you start to break story and figure it out, you start to see that Walt and his team came up with a lot of the same conclusions and a lot of the same story points, so there’s a certain familiarity there. But just the nature of building things out, it’s not a musical, so the whole structure feels different anyway. But we tried to incorporate enough of the music so that it ticked the boxes of, ‘This is what I remember. If I went to see this movie and didn’t see that, I wouldn’t feel satisfied.’ That was the balancing act.”
Special thanks to the folks at Disney for inviting me out. I think this article is exactly what they were hoping for — someone who wasn’t excited about the movie becoming a convert after seeing the footage — and I’m playing right into their hands in that regard, but it’s because I was truly knocked out by how great the film looks. When you go see this, know that every single aspect of the movie aside from Neel is created in a computer, and prepare for your mind to explode.
The Jungle Book hits theaters on April 15th.
Comic book movie fans have waited a long time for this moment.
Entertainment Weekly reports that Justice League — Part 1 is set to begin filming on April 11th in Iceland and England, with Zack Snyder directing. That's less than three weeks from now, and Snyder is reportedly already in the UK prepping the shoot. Many expected Justice League — Part 2, which has a 2019 release date already scheduled, to film back to back with Part 1 (which will arrive on November 17th, 2017), but that's not happening. Part 2 will shoot separately at a later date. Here's a statement from Snyder:
"The idea that we could begin to boot up a Justice League concept was a cool thing. It was a little bit of an ‘about time’ moment, and I don’t blame [the studio] for feeling that way, because it's a long time coming. But I do feel like it’s a little bit of a creative hurdle. It seems like an easy thing to do at first glance, the idea that, ‘Oh, we just get the rest of the superheroes in there.' But you have to [establish] a world where they can exist.
The studio really wants us to try and pace it up, as far as — now we have an idea where we’re going."
Back in 2007-2008, Mad Max director George Miller nearly had a Justice League movie up and running before the Writers' Strike, but delays in acquiring tax rebates caused the project to ultimately fall apart. That film is supposedly going to be the subject of a documentary, if Warner Bros. allows it to move forward.
Drew McWeeny at HitFix recently reported that he had heard rumblings from his sources inside WB that some people there had finally seen Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. I'm paraphrasing his report, but he basically indicated that the people he'd spoken to who have seen the movie weren't as thrilled with it as they hoped they'd be, and they were actually a little worried about it — so much so that McWeeny speculated that Snyder may not end up directing Justice League, and that the film may get pushed back in order for Ben Affleck's new solo Batman movie to slide up on the release calendar (Affleck's Batman, along with Jesse Eisenberg's Lex Luthor, are reportedly two of the aspects of Dawn of Justice that work very well).
I trust McWeeny's reporting, and just because this announcement proves that Snyder is still directing and Justice League is still on track, this shouldn't be taken as a confirmation that Dawn of Justice is a home run. After more than a two year wait following Man of Steel, we'll see how DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. handle the pressure of jumping into a larger cinematic universe when Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice officially arrives in theaters on March 25th.
Check out these absolutely awesome crochet figures made by Gromidez! I first stumbled upon her work on Reddit, and then managed to find her Etsy page in the comments. Hopefully if we give it enough love, she'll rush on getting these horror icons to her store (which she does plan to do)! Which one is your favorite? I'm a fan of Scream myself.
View post on imgur.com
The writers of The Office have written a new holiday comedy film for DreamWorks called Office Christmas Party, and while familiar faces like Michael Scott and Jim and Pam Halpert won't be attending (this isn't set in that universe), the project has scored its own solid foursome of actors.
THR reports that Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, T.J. Miller, and Kate McKinnon will star for directors Will Speck and Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory), who have been wanting to make this movie for the last six years. The Office scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (along with Laura Solon) are the latest writers to take a crack at the script, which, as you might be able to tell from the title, centers on an office Christmas party gone bad.
Filming begins this spring and will apparently be in theaters by December 9th of this year. That seems like a very quick turnaround, but with a title like that, they pretty much have to make that date in order to stay relevant or else risk having to push it until next year. As for the actors, Bateman next provides the voice for a lead character in Zootopia, Aniston is part of the ensemble in Mother's Day, Miller is currently in Deadpool and will be seen on the next season of HBO's Silicon Valley, and McKinnon is currently killing it on SNL and plays one of the four leads in this year's Ghostbusters.
I love the incentive we have to revisit old classics that not only have a fresh coat of paint but also have the work put in to improve the actual gameplay mechanics. In this list, all of these games are still playable. Even without remaster, the games I own will still make it back onto my TV... View Full Post on GameTyrant
I'm always a fan of parodies that have a purpose. This new satire points out that a considerable chunk of The Hunger Games franchise is a love triangle dilemma, which warrants more attention than it gets when people try to glaze over it. Who's concerned with love in a major turning point in American history? Probably a lot of people...but not the person leading the charge! Find out who Katniss will choose in "The Dating Games."
Great work Pistol Shrimps!
The final episode of The X-Files revival airs tonight, and it's going to be sad to see series go away again. Hopefully it's not forever, though! For those of us who will be left with a hankering for more X-Files stories, Imprint/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group has announced that they will be releasing two new young adult novels that will feature teenage versions of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
The two X-Files Origins novels will be called Agent of Chaos and Devil’s Advocate, and they take place in the spring of 1979, when Mulder was 17 years old and Scully was only 15. It was during that summer that both characters experienced life-changing events that set them on the path to becoming FBI agents and ultimately working on the X-Files.
Erin Stein, Publisher of Imprint, had this to say in a statement to EW:
“When I watched the pilot episode back in 1993, I became immediately obsessed with The X-Files. As a die-hard fan of the show, the opportunity to work with incredible authors on original stories about these characters is a dream come true for me. Why did Mulder become a believer? Why did Scully become a skeptic? We get to tell those stories.”
Agent of Chaos will focus on Mulder's story and will be written by Kami Garcia (Beautiful Creatures). Devil’s Advocate, is Scully’s story, and will be written by Jonathan Maberry (Marvel Universe vs. The Avengers). These books have the potential to be very enlightening for fans, and I hope they turn out well. It will be interesting to see them dig into the pasts of these characters and expand on what we already know about them.
Both The X-Files Origins novels will be released in January 2017.
Over the weekend, Captain America star Chris Evans had a chance to see Deadpool, and when he tweeted his reaction to the movie, it triggered a chain reaction among him, Ryan Reynolds, and Robert Downey Jr.
It began with Evans' reaction:
Wow.....Deadpool was AWESOME! Well done @VancityReynolds #killedit #maximumeffort
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) February 20, 2016
Then Reynolds' response, aligning himself with #TeamCap for the upcoming Captain America: Civil War:
#TeamCap https://t.co/3Gtc9yqSF6
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) February 20, 2016
Then Downey jumped in, mixing their real-life personalities with their movie characters:
.@VancityReynolds Et tu, D-pool? Gimme a shout when Rogers boots you out for "cussing"!
— Robert Downey Jr (@RobertDowneyJr) February 20, 2016
To which Evans responded:
@RobertDowneyJr @VancityReynolds Bullsh*t!! The cussing was my favorite part! (just don't tell my alter ego....or Kevin Feige....or my mom)
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) February 21, 2016
And then Reynolds capped it all off by appropriately saying that he can't be trusted, revealing a surprising new ally:
We both know I can't be trusted. #TeamHelloKitty https://t.co/Kqzpf5ih6O
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) February 21, 2016
As Joey pointed out to me, this may be the only time we see these Marvel characters interact, however jokingly, because of all of the restrictions on character usage between the various studios. For the sake of argument, if the character of Deadpool were allowed to participate in Marvel Studios movies, which side do you think he'd be on in Civil War?
We're only a few months away from Marvel Studios' next film, and as you know, it's going to be a big one. Captain America: Civil War sets the stage for Avengers: Infinity War, and directors Anthony and Joe Russo spoke with Empire Magazine about the tonal shift we can expect in the new movie. Here's Joe:
"The consequences of Civil War will have an even more significant impact [than The Winter Soldier]. In Civil War, we're going to change the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Psychology, and it's an extreme shift. Winter Soldier was a political thriller; this is a psychological thriller."
And Anthony promised that the film will have a "very dramatic ending that will be controversial for a lot of people." Potential SPOILERS ahead: Many people are taking this as a confirmation that a major character death will occur. In the Civil War comic, Steve Rogers dies at the hands of Crossbones, and if the movie adapts that aspect of the story, it stands to reason that this could be the controversial ending they have in store for us. A lot of people are already assuming that Rogers will end up resurrected in Infinity War Part 2 (thanks to one of the Infinity Stones) so he can help the team take down Thanos once and for all.
As for that familiar face I mentioned in the headline? That'd be Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts, who was involved in recent reshoots of the movie. No word on whether those reshoots are legitimate or just an elaborate way of spreading disinformation, but we'll find out soon enough.
Captain America: Civil War opens on May 6th.
Via: CBM
Whitewashing, race-bending, call it whatever you want: Hollywood has been casting white people in minority roles for a long, long time. With the #OscarsSoWhite controversy brewing before this year's ceremony this coming weekend, comedian and talk show host John Oliver decided it'd be a good time to tackle the subject on a segment of his fantastic HBO series Last Week Tonight.
Oliver's not pointing out anything new here, and those of you who have studied the history of film can probably point out a few examples that aren't mentioned in his video. But it's a good reminder that studios are running out of flimsy excuses when it comes to their pathetic attempts to justify these decisions, and hopefully it'll convince a few casting directors to put a little more effort into finding a minority actor to play a minority role instead of slapping yet another white person in there and calling it a day.
Oliver also took on the polarizing topic of abortion last night, so I'll go ahead and embed that in case you missed the episode or don't watch the show:
Superheroes are all the rage right now, and while their success on the big screen continues, they've also been carving out a significant chunk of the television landscape over the past few years. NBC is moving forward with Powerless, a workplace comedy set in the DC Comics universe, and Variety reports that they've cast their leading lady: Vanessa Hudgens (Spring Breakers, Sucker Punch).
The show is set at one of the worst insurance companies in America as its regular employees deal with the fallout of damage wreaked by superheroes and supervillains.
Hudgens will play Emily Locke, an insurance claims adjuster who loves her job because she gets to help people. The character likes to fly under the radar and just get her work done, and she finds herself increasingly exasperated by the disruptive antics of the various Super Heroes that proliferate in her city.
This will be Hudgens' first TV series. No word yet on whether or not this show will cross over with any of the planned films that take place in the DC Cinematic Universe (Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Justice League, etc.), but we'll keep you posted when we hear more about it. In the meantime, what do you think about the idea so far?
The world of PC cases is crowded and, quite often, it's hard to find quality mixed with a fair price. There are exceptions that rule and In Win has proven that with their 805 Mid Tower ATX Chassis we are taking a gander at today. We received the red I/O front model and to say that it is... View Full Post on GameTyrant
Like most of you, I really enjoyed Star Wars: The Force Awakens...for the most part. But as much as I love John Williams, the film's score was one of the weaker elements of the experience for me. It just didn't stand out in the same way that it did in the original trilogy, or even the prequels ("Duel of the Fates" is one of the coolest pieces of music in a bad movie, ever). It had a handful of decent moments, but I was disappointed that we didn't get iconic and memorable themes for the new characters. Maybe it's just me, though — Williams received his 50th nomination for an Academy Award for his work, and we'll find out this Sunday if he walks away with a win.
In a new video, Williams talks about his mentality of creating the music for the film and takes us behind the scenes of the recording process, which included appearances by director J.J. Abrams and stars John Boyega and Daisy Ridley.
UFC fighter Ronda Rousey has transitioned from the ring (or the cage, or the Octagon, or whatever they call it) to the big screen with small roles in movies like The Expendables 3, Furious 7, and Entourage. She has a few more movie projects lined up, including a comedy with Tina Fey, a remake of Road House, an action movie with Mark Wahlberg, and a biopic about her own life, but there's another role she has her eye on: Samus Aran in a film adaptation of the classic video game Metroid.
Never mind that no such movie is actually in development right now. In an interview with GameSpot, that's who Rousey mentioned as the character she'd want to play in a video game movie:
I've always wanted to be Samus. That would be badass. I love how people found out later that it was a hot chick on the inside. And then most of the day you're in a suit, so you can just hang out and eat donuts and be the star of Metroid. I hope they make a movie out of that.
She also mentioned that she wanted to star in the Warcraft movie, but even though she was too late, she got into the game anyway:
It's funny because they were making a Warcraft movie, I was like "I want to do that!" That's what made me start playing World of Warcraft. And so I got into it backwards like that. It started out as role research for something I knew I would never get--I didn't have time or they were already filming it. It's kinda cool when two worlds connect like when they make a movie based on a book, and you go buy the book because you know if the book is being made into a movie it must be pretty good.
I hate to say this because it's going to come off as harsh, but here's the thing about Ronda Rousey: she's not a very good actress. I don't know if you watched the episode of SNL that she hosted a little while back, but it was rough. She's basically just played "the woman who can fight" in the movies she's appeared in thus far, and she has absolutely none of the natural charisma of someone like Dwayne Johnson, who also transitioned from a more physical career to become a movie star. I don't want to see Rousey as Samus, because I don't think she can bring anything to the role beyond physicality.
What do you think? Would Rousey make a good Samus?
Via: Uproxx
Warner Bros.' WaterTower Music has released a preview of a new song from the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice soundtrack called "Is She With You?", which you can listen to in the player below. This song title is a reference to the line we hear in the trailer at the point when Wonder Woman shows up in costume, presumably for the first time:
Also, for those of you who are obsessing over this movie and want to know every single sliver of information about it before you see it, AMC Theaters' website is now saying that the film is two hours and thirty-one minutes long. This isn't quite an official confirmation of that runtime, but it's the closest thing we have to go on so far. Two and a half hours is actually the minimum length I was expecting for this film, considering how much work it has to do pleasing fans with a solid confrontation between The Dark Knight and The Man of Steel, not to mention the ground it has to cover in setting up future films. We'll find out how Zack Snyder did when Batman v Superman arrives in theaters on March 25th.
Via: ComingSoon
Last year it was announced that we would be getting a live-action adaptation of the anime/manga series Death Note. The story follows a student who discovers a supernatural notebook that allows him to kill anyone simply by writing the victim’s name. This discovery leads him down the road where he wants to cleanse the world of evil with this newfound power.
The movie is being directed by Adam Wingard (The Guest, You’re Next) and will star Nat Wolf (Paper Towns). We’ve now learned from producer Roy Lee that the movie will most certainly be rated R, and he also offered up some information regarding the tone they are going for. While talking to Collider, Lee was asked about the target audience for the film, and this was his reply:
“It’s definitely for adults. It is zero chance it will be below an R-rating.”
As far as the tone of the film goes, he said that it “will be one of the first manga adaptations that feels very grounded but still has fantastical elements.” That sounds like something I think fans of the property will be able to get behind. This is a great project for Wingard to develop. I’ve enjoyed the films he’s directed, and I think he’s go the talent to give fans what they are looking for in a feature film adaptation.
For those of you note familiar with Death Note, here’s an official description to fill you in:
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal...or his life? Light tests the boundaries of the Death Note powers as L and the police begin to close in. Luckily Light's father is the head of the Japanese National Police Agency and leaves vital information about the case lying around the house. With access to his father's files, Light can keep one step ahead of the authorities. But who is the strange man following him, and how can Light guard against enemies whose names he doesn't know?
Hopefully this talented team can actually pull it off!
Director Zack Snyder released a photo of himself hanging out with Jason Momoa. The photo was taken at a prop house where lots of costumes and art are being stored for Justice League in preparation for shooting.
Snyder and Momoa are the least interesting subjects of the photo. I was immediately drawn to to everything else in the image! There are costumes that include Batman’s cowl, the suit Aquaman will be wearing, and way in the background there is our first look at The Flash’s new costume in the film! I wish I could get a better look at that!
We can glimpse a few other costumes in the photo, but I’m not sure what characters they belong to. There’s a solid black suit of armor that might be for Batman and a few other costumes that I can’t really make out. I love it when we get teased like this, but I also hate it because I just want to see more!
Also, by the Flash costume you can see a piece of concept art for what I believe is Mera, Aquaman’s wife. Check out the photo and let me know if you can point out who the other costumes below to.
The film is scheduled to start shooting next month, and Justice League - Part 1 will be released on November 17th, 2017.
Netflix has released a few new posters for season two of Daredevil featuring Jon Bernthal as The Punisher holding Daredevil's mask, Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson listening to Daredevil's screams in the distance, and Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page doing a little research.
Marvel's Daredevil is a live action series that follows the journey of attorney Matt Murdock, who in a tragic accident was blinded as a boy but imbued with extraordinary senses. Murdock sets up practice in his old neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, New York where he now fights against injustice as a respected lawyer by day and masked vigilante at night.
The second season of Marvel's Daredevil will premiere on Netflix March 18th. To catch up on all of the Daredevil season two news that we've posted, click here.
Street justice has taken a dark turn. #Daredevilhttps://t.co/c7xTJ3JQXq
— Daredevil (@Daredevil) February 23, 2016
Friendship will be tested. #Daredevilhttps://t.co/EJBt7E11wm
— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) February 19, 2016
Lines will be blurred.https://t.co/26ZOSjzRin
— Daredevil (@Daredevil) February 19, 2016
