During a recent interview with Total Film in promotion of his upcoming film Song for Marion, famed British actor Terence Stamp told the interviewer that Superman: The Movie and Superman II were among his favorite of his own work, ranking them among company like legendary Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini and...
Todd McFarlane said earlier today that he’s lined up an Academy Award-winning actor to play the lead character in a prospective Spawn sequel/reboot, but that he couldn’t elaborate past that. Here’s the thing: Al Simmons, who will almost certainly be Spawn in any film adaptation since he’s the original and...
Numerous sources are reporting that Jason Momoa, who played Conan the Barbarian in the character’s most recent film outing and has also appeared on Game of Thrones, has tested for the role of Drax the Destroyer in Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy. A report earlier today came from Latino...
“I continue to sort of write a page here and there,” McFarlane told MTV Geek at last weekend’s Toy Fair. “I’ve said before–we’ve got a guy waiting on the sidelines who’s an Academy Award-winning actor who just phones every three weeks going ‘ Todd, where’s the script? Where’s the script?...
The image screen-grabbed from a video tweeted out earlier today by The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb suggests a different look for Spider-Man’s mask, certainly–but exactly how different? Is the black field behind the redesigned eyepieces just the result of Sony’s and Webb’s desire not to show off the full...
If there were history books written about the Galactic Empire’s struggle with Rebel forces in the Star Wars trilogy, one of they key moments in time would be a battle at Hoth, when Darth Vader personally oversaw a small-scale battle which saw nearly every key Rebel player escape just a...
Game of Thrones and The Station Agent star Peter Dinklage will play Bolivar Trask, the creator the mutant-hunting Sentinel robots, in the forthcoming Bryan Singer sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past, MTV Geek reports. Trask, who first appeared in the comics in 1965, previously appeared onscreen in Brett Ratner’s X-Men:...
Upon the news that 300 and Watchmen filmmaker Zack Snyder was directing Man of Steel, some of the early criticism was that he might allow his own indulgences to overtake the film, creating something that didn’t “look like Superman” and felt instead more like Sucker Punch. Those criticisms have waned,...
With Justice League reportedly falling apart and Green Lantern a critical and box office disappointment, most fans had probably come to peace with the fact that it would be a while before Warner Bros. took any DC Comics characters into outer space again. In case there was anyone still holding...
While rumors have been circulating for awhile that Harrison Ford will return as Han Solo for Star Wars Episode 7, there haven’t been any news sites that have gone on record reporting it as a done deal. Director Kevin Smith did claim the original cast including Harrison Ford would return...
Filmmaker and noted Star Wars fan Kevin Smith has chimed in (again) on the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm, this time discussing what it means for the media saturation of Star Wars going forward. And his basic premise, to the contrary to what a lot of fans are unhappy about, Star...
It’s been a rough week for the Star Wars franchise. Earlier this week Star Trek icon William Shatner called J.J. Abrams a pig for taking on directing Star Wars Episode 7 when he already had the Star Trek movies. Now, Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee has suggested that burning the...
Michael Mann, the first director to tackle Hannibal Lecter onscreen, has reportedly inked a deal to direct an as-yet-untitled thriller with Thor and The Avengers star Chris Hemsworth. Mann, whose most recent project was the pilot for HBO’s short-lived Dustin Hoffman drama Luck, hasn’t directed a feature film since the...
As part of his publicity jaunt for Jack the Giant Slayer this week, director Bryan Singer has been fielding questions left and right about his forthcoming X-sequel, X-Men: Days of Future Past. He’s been making a lot of generalizations and trying to avoid telling anyone anything too specific, which has...
Last year, director Marc Webb teased that there would be a couple changes made to Spider-Man for Amazing Spider-Man 2. Webb said those changes would involve costume tweaks such as “gnarly web shooters” and “bigger eyes.” For the last couple weeks, Marc Webb has been tweeting from the production of...
