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Pavel wrote: Mon May 17, 2021 10:38 pm Attack the Block 2

Nice, though I'm far less interested in Boyega returning and will see this based on the other kids, most notably scene-stealing Alex Esmail's involvement. They should have really just had him become star in his own sequel.

Pavel wrote: Sun May 23, 2021 8:39 pm Franco Nero's new film The Man Who Drew God will feature Kevin Spacey's first performance in ~4 years

for some reason to me this is pretty wild news. All of it.

therewillbeblus wrote: Thu Feb 04, 2021 3:55 am Lanthimos' next feature will be Poor Things, featuring Emma Stone as “a volatile, oversexed, emancipated woman and a female Frankenstein”

Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, and Willem Dafoe cast, with Dafoe appropriately playing the Dr. Frankenstein-esque character

Todd Haynes to direct Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in a drama titled May December, to begin filming in 2022.

Oh, that sounds interesting

Deadline is reporting that Charles Burnett is set to direct the escape-from-slavery drama Steal Away

I believe this is different from another recently announced project regarding the Middle Passage, although Caldecott Chubb (who co-produced Glass Shield and To Sleep With Anger) was attached to that one as well.

Burnett has turned down a lot of projects over the years. I don't think he cares for Hollywood's development process and he only aligns himself with material he can have absolutely control over. Very little-known fact: he turned down the chance to direct the Eddie Murphy vehicle The Distinguished Gentleman (1992), which would have netted him a salary that was almost as large as the budget of To Sleep With Anger.

Pavel wrote: Mon Jun 21, 2021 8:06 pm Walter Hill working on a new western titled Dead for a Dollar; will star Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe

Late style incoming.

Hill did three of the best Westerns from the last 41 years. Maybe that's not saying much... but still, they're good.

The synopsis here smells a bit of contrived wokeness, but if that was what it took to get the project off the ground, so be it...

Over course his films from the last twenty years, at least, haven’t been so hot.

I’m super excited for Argento’s next horror film. He made ten of the best horror films of the last 50 years!

DarkImbecile wrote: Wed Feb 24, 2021 6:00 pm David Fincher to direct The Killer with Michael Fassbender, from a script by Se7en's Andrew Kevin Walker

Will start shooting in November

Michelle Williams will star as Katherine Parr, the last of Henry VIII’s six wives, in Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand.

Andrey Zvyagintsev will make his English-language debut with What Happens.

Bill Condon to direct a new film of Guys and Dolls.

For some reason the author of this article seems to think Guys and Dolls is set during the Depression.

Here's an unexpected development: Universal drops $400m on a new Exorcist trilogy starring Leslie Odom, Jr., and Ellen Burstyn

Cremildo wrote: Wed Jul 07, 2021 4:10 pm Michelle Williams will star as Katherine Parr, the last of Henry VIII’s six wives, in Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand.

*counts on fingers* Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded,.... phew!

DarkImbecile wrote: Mon Jul 26, 2021 6:20 pm Here's an unexpected development: Universal drops $400m on a new Exorcist trilogy starring Leslie Odom, Jr., and Ellen Burstyn

I wonder if Universal is wanting to go down the Insidious/Conjuring route and have an older lady roaming the world exorcising people. Maybe Burstyn is going to become the new Lin Shaye figure, troubled by events from her past but it being something pushing her forward to keep performing her daily exercises!

I am cautious about this news however as only Exorcist III really captured my interest from the original run of films.

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:02 am Ridley Scott's Gucci project with Lady Gaga may potentially have Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Adam Driver and Jared Leto in it's cast

David Yates will make a sharp turn following latest Harry Potter-world film to direct opioid dram(edy?)

I haven't seen Yates' smaller-scale dramatic debut, so he may know what he's doing, but when a sensationalist, whimsical director is helming a script being compared to Wolf of Wall Street and as a drama tackling the Opioid Epidemic, there are more than a few red flags that arise and make me expect this to be offensive on some level.

I haven’t seen any of it really, but his tv work for the BBC seems quite hard hitting, tackling sex trafficking and political conspiracies, among other things. Yates may be on solider ground than his Potter work would suggest.

That's good to hear- I know he's tried to emulate Spielberg in a lot of ways (I believe through self-admission) since his earlier career, so I'm still not convinced he'll return to that mode even if he can. We'll see

Mr Sausage wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 3:37 am I haven’t seen any of it really, but his tv work for the BBC seems quite hard hitting, tackling sex trafficking and political conspiracies, among other things. Yates may be on solider ground than his Potter work would suggest.

The BBC mini-series, State of Play, was superb - remade as the much less decent Affleck/Crowe film of course.