WESTWORLD Creator To Direct FALLOUT Series; CAPTAIN MARVEL Writer Is Showrunner

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The long-gestating series adaptation of the bestselling game franchise Fallout is finally coming together. The series is being co-developed by Amazon Studios and Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films, with Captain Marvel and Tomb Raider‘s Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Silicon Valley’s Graham Wagner now on board as showrunners.

It’s also been confirmed that Nolan is due to direct the series premiere, which will begin production later this year. Though best known for his producing work, Nolan has also proven himself in the director’s chair, having directed the pilot episode of HBO’s Westworld (which he also co-created and executive produces with Joy) as well as its Season 1 finale and Season 3 premiere.

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The show was first announced in July 2021. “Fallout is one of the greatest game series of all time,” Joy and Nolan said in a joint statement at the time. “Each chapter of this insanely imaginative story has cost us countless hours we could have spent with family and friends. So we’re incredibly excited to partner with Todd Howard and the rest of the brilliant lunatics at Bethesda to bring this massive, subversive, and darkly funny universe to life with Amazon Studios.”

It’s still unclear whether the Amazon series will directly adapt the plot of one of the post-apocalyptic games, or if it will tell its own original story set within the Fallout universe, but stay tuned for more details.

 

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Film & Peacock Series Will Share A Universe

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While promoting his star-studded actioner The 355, director Simon Kinberg also provided some updates on his upcoming Battlestar Galactica film. It’s been almost 13 years since the SYFY reboot wrapped up its fourth and final season, and some 43 years since the short-lived but much-loved original series concluded, but fans now have a new series and a film to look forward to; and as it turns out, those two projects are more interlinked than originally thought.

Speaking with Collider, Kinberg revealed that his movie for Universal will share a universe with Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail’s planned Peacock series: “In terms of the situation with Sam and the show, I can’t say too much about it other than there is synergy between the two enterprises and constant communication between us. We’ve become close and been having a really good time together and there will be, for lack of a better phrase and it’s an overused phrase, a shared universe.” Kinberg adds that “there are connections [to the 2004 series] but it is certainly not simply a continuation or a remake of Ron Moore’s masterpiece.”

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As for how much longer fans will have to wait for the film, “we are in the process of going out to directors and the hope is to attach a director and start prepping the movie this year,” says Kinberg. “It’s a megillah, humongous film and the prep will be a very long prep period so I would imagine even if we attached a director today it would take six, nine months to prep this movie properly. So at the earliest, we’d be shooting at the end of this year. We’d probably be shooting at the beginning of next year.”

Neither the Battlestar Galactica film nor the television series have yet received release dates, but stay tuned for more information as we get it.

Stephen Moyer & Alicia Silverstone Face The Apocalypse In LAST SURVIVORS

Alicia Silverstone in Last Survivors

Vertical Entertainment has just released the official trailer for Last Survivors, an apocalyptic thriller directed by Drew Mylrea from a script by Josh Janowicz.

“After the wars, it was very obvious who was prepared and who wasn’t,” narrates Drew Van Acker (Titans, Pretty Little Liars) in the trailer’s opening frames. “There’s those who are prepared for opportunities and setbacks, and those who are not. I feel real lucky to have the dad I do.”

Last Survivors takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where Troy (True Blood’s Stephen Moyer) raises his now grown son, Jake (Van Acker), in a perfect wooded utopia thousands of miles away from the decayed cities. When Troy is severely wounded, Jake is forced to travel to the outside world to find life-saving medicine. Ordered to kill anyone he encounters, Jake defies his father by engaging in a forbidden relationship with a mysterious woman, Henrietta (Alicia Silverstone). As Jake continues this dangerous affair, Troy will stop at nothing to get rid of Henrietta and protect the perfect utopia he created.

Last Survivors releases February 4th. Check out the trailer below, and our FrightFest review of the film here.

Andrea Riseborough Is A Grief-Stricken Mother In HERE BEFORE

Here Before from writer-director Stacey Gregg stars Andrea Riseborough as Laura

The ever-talented Andrea Riseborough – who has appeared in some of the best cult genre films of the last few years, such as Mandy and Possessor – stars as a grieving mother in Saban Films’ newest release, the Belfast-set Here Before. 

The psychological thriller follows Laura (Riseborough), a grieving mother who comes to believe her neighbours’ daughter Megan (newcomer Niamh Dornan), is the reincarnation of the child she lost. As her convictions grow stronger and her obsession becomes all-consuming, the lines between what’s real and what’s imagined begin to blur… and Laura’s behaviour becomes all the more dangerous.

After premiering at SXSW Film Festival last year, writer-director Stacey Gregg‘s debut feature film is finally releasing commercially this February. Ahead of this, Saban Films has released the film’s first official trailer, which also stars Jonjo O’Neill, Jesse Frazer-Filer, Martin McCann, and Eileen O’Higgins.

Here Before releases in cinemas February 11th, before landing on VOD platforms February 15th. Watch the trailer below:

ARCHIVE 81 Supernatural Thriller Series Teases Something Sinister

Archive 81 Netflix series trailer

Netflix has just released the first trailer for its upcoming series Archive 81, from showrunner, writer and executive producer Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys, The Vampire Diaries). Horror titan James Wan also exec produces the supernatural thriller.

The series, inspired by the popular 2018 podcast of the same name, follows archivist Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie, the upcoming Jurassic World: Dominion, Underwater) who takes on a mysterious job restoring a collection of damaged videotapes from 1994. He finds himself reconstructing the work of documentary filmmaker Melody Pendras (Dina Shihabi, Altered Carbon, Daredevil), who was investigating a dangerous demonic cult; as Dan delves deeper into the archives, he becomes convinced that he can save Melody from a terrifying fate.

Archive 81 also features Martin Donovan, Matt McGorry, Julia Chan, Evan Jongikeit and Ariana Neal.

The series premieres on January 14th. Watch the full trailer below.

 

Keanu Reeves In Talks To Star In THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

Keanu Reeves to star in series adaptation of The Devil in the White City. Still from The Matrix Resurrections

It seems The Matrix and John Wick‘s Keanu Reeves is headed to the 1893 World’s Fair in The Devil In The White City. Deadline reports that Reeves is in negotiations to star in the television adaptation of Erik Larson’s 2003 nonfiction book, which interweaves two plotlines: the story of Daniel H. Burnham, a brilliant architect trying to make his mark on the world, and of Dr H. H. Holmes, a charismatic criminal figure – often credited as the first modern serial killer – who lured victims to their deaths in his elaborately constructed “Murder Castle”, a palace he built to seduce, torture and mutilate young women. There’s no word yet on which of the two roles Reeves might play, though we’d love to see him tackle the latter.

The project has been stuck in development hell since 2010, when Leonardo DiCaprio won the rights to the book and brought Martin Scorsese on to direct a big-screen adaptation – the long-time collaborators are still attached as executive producers, despite the project moving from Warner Bros. to Paramount, for a release on Hulu. Todd Field (Little Children) is on board to direct the first two episodes of the series, with Castle Rock creator Sam Shaw as lead writer.

 

Marvel’s MORBIUS Delays Release Date

Jared Leto in Morbius

Less than a month ahead of its intended January 28th release and amidst the current Omicron surge, Marvel and Sony have announced that Morbius has again had its theatrical release date pushed back, this time to April 1st – this despite the incredible success which the studios are currently enjoying with Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Jared Leto stars as Dr. Michael Morbius, a scientist who unintentionally turned himself into a living vampire while attempting to cure a rare blood disease – the comics anti-hero’s newfound abilities include increased strength and speed, as well as some form of ‘bat radar’. However, Morbius soon discovers that the cure comes at a great cost: an urge to hunt and consume blood that he struggles to control.

Daniel Espinosa directs the pic, which also stars Matt Smith as Loxias Crown, Jared Harris as Emil Nikols, Tyrese Gibson as Simon Stroud and Adria Arjona as Martine Bancroft. Michael Keaton is also expected to feature and reprise his Spider-Man: Homecoming role as Adrian Toomes, aka The Vulture.

This is far from the first time that the horror thriller has had its release date moved, though it’s hopefully the last. In the meantime, you can check out the full trailer for the upcoming Sony-Marvel film here.

 

 

See Tom Holland In The Second UNCHARTED Trailer

Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg as Nathan Drake and Sully in Uncharted movie trailer 2

Sony Pictures has released a brand new trailer for Uncharted, its big screen adaptation of the iconic PlayStation video game series following the exploits of Nathan Drake, the street-smart thief and eventual treasure hunter.

Tom Holland plays Drake in this action adventure, opposite Mark Wahlberg as the seasoned treasure hunter and Drake’s close friend Victor “Sully” Sullivan. Sully recruits Drake to recover a great fortune lost by Ferdinand Magellan some five centuries ago, estimated to be worth $5 billion. However, things grow more complicated when the two realise they are racing to gather clues against Antonio Banderas’ Moncada, a ruthless man who believes he is the rightful heir to the lost wealth and will stop at nothing to retrieve it.

Watch the action-packed new trailer (featuring helicopters carrying 500-year-old shipwrecks through a mountainous obstacle course) below:

 

If all things stay their course, Uncharted is due to release in cinemas on February 18th, 2022.

JOHN WICK: Chapter 4 Is Delayed… Again

John Wick: Chapter 4 delayed to 2023

Originally intended for release on May 21st, 2021, John Wick: Chapter 4 was initially pushed back a year to May 27th, 2022. Well friends, Lionsgate has now announced that the Keanu Reeves-starring chapter has been rescheduled once again, this time to March 24th, 2023.

The studio shared the news in a short promotional video posted to its social channels with the caption “Be seeing you”, in which The Administration changes the Chapter 4 release date at the instruction of The High Table. This latest update sets a cruel four year gap between Chapter 4 and John Wick: Parabellum, considering the cliff-hanger on which the latter ended. We do know that there’s plenty to look forward to in this fourth instalment, as Reeves will be joined by returning actors Lance Reddick, Laurence Fishburne, and Ian McShane, as well as action icons Donnie Yen and Hiroyuki Sanada.

Though the reason for this latest delay has not been confirmed, it does appear to be one of the first cinema casualties of the newest COVID-19 surge linked to the Omicron variant. So far, film release dates have not been impacted by the latest spike, but this development does not look good for next year’s slate of blockbusters.

If you need your Keanu Reeves fix pronto however, a reminder that The Matrix Resurrections is out in cinemas and on HBO Max now.

 

 

Michael Keaton’s Batman To Star In BATGIRL

Michael Keaton returns as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batgirl

Michael Keaton’s Caped Crusader is answering the Batsignal once again, this time opposite DC’s Barbara Gordon, aka Batgirl. As per Deadline, Keaton will reprise his original role from Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman, which he played again in Batman Returns.

Before coming back to support his Bat family however, Keaton will appear as Gotham’s Dark Knight for the first time since 1992 in The Flash – the Ezra Miller-fronted solo outing due for cinema release in November next year. The Flash also promises to delve deeper into DC’s Multiverse, with Ben Affleck appearing as the DCEU’s main Batman.

For Batgirl, Keaton joins In The Heights’ Leslie Grace as the titular character, the Gotham hero and daughter of Commissioner Jim Gordon (J.K. Simmons, returning from Justice League) and Brendan Fraser as the villain Firefly, a sociopath with a penchant for pyrotechnics. Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys for Life) are directing the film from a script by Christina Hodson.

No release date has yet been set for Batgirl, but the movie has begun shooting so a 2022 release seems likely.