MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS---new trailer released for the movie starring Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Daisey Ridley, Penelope Cruz, Michelle Pfieffer, Judi Dench and Willem Dafoe.
HAN SOLO---Ron Howard posted a photo, captioned "Spicey?", which shows a corridor and elevator shaft which led to speculation it is the entrance to the spice mine on Kessel. Han Solo piloted the Millennium Falcon through the Kessel Run, the hyperspace route used by smugglers, in under 12 parsecs.
DEEPER---Gal Gadot is in talks to co-star with Bradley Cooper in this sci fi movie about an ex-astronaut who explores a newly-discovered ocean trench, which is the deepest point on Earth, and encounters mysterious forces. Max Landis wrote the script. Also, Gadot was confirmed to return as Wonder Woman in FLASHPOINT, the solo Flash movie.
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP---photo released shows Evangeline Lilly wearing the complete Wasp costume.
GAME OF THRONES---a fifth prequel series was announced and is being written by Bryan Cogman.
JUSTICE LEAGUE---Zack Snyder left the movie to deal with a family tragedy and Joss Whedon replaced him. Snyder said he won't return, “I’m at a place where I feel excited about it and I’m happy for my guys and I love these people that are working on it, and they’re my family and I think they’re doing an amazing job, but I’ve kind of just let them do their thing.”
JJ ABRAMS---Paramount Pictures head Jim Gianopoulos is "not happy" with Abrams because he has a $10 million deal with Paramount but is the director for two STAR WARS movies with rival Walt Disney Pictures. Disney has paid Paramount a small compensation fee, but Paramount hopes Abrams will return for future Paramount projects.
THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING---Patrick Stewart and Rebecca Ferguson are in negotiations to star in this fantasy movie about a group of kids who battle Medieval villain Morgana, the half-sister of King Arthur. Louis Serkis, son of Andy Serkis, also stars. Joe Cornish (ATTACK THE BLOCK) is the director.
INSTANT FAMILY---Mark Wahlberg stars in this comedy movie about a couple who adopt three wild kids who don't accept being parented.
THE HUNT---new tv series from Jordan Peele (GET OUT) about a group of Nazi hunters who hunt and kill Nazis who escaped justice with the help of the US government.
F.B.I.---CBS/Dick Wolf (LAW & ORDER) series underway about the New York FBI office. Also, Sam Waterston will return as Jack McCoy in a future LAW & ORDER: SVU episode.
WATCHMEN--HBO/Damon Lindelof pilot underway based on the comic book.
THE CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA---CW RIVERDALE drama spinoff series about the early days of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Melissa Joan Hart starred in the original series that ran on ABC and The WB.
DEFENDERS---the Netflix/Marvel series is the least-watched Netflix/Marvel series in its premiere season to date according to market-analytics firm Jumpshot.
F.B.I.---CBS/Dick Wolf (LAW & ORDER) series underway about the New York FBI office. Also, Sam Waterston will return as Jack McCoy in a future LAW & ORDER: SVU episode.
Defenders ---the Netflix/Marvel series is the least-watched Netflix/Marvel series in its premiere season to date according to market-analytics firm Jumpshot.
Can't wait to have the Spice Mines and Kessel Run explained!! I wonder how old I will be before EVERY mystery, or indeed, even a dropped line I heard in a film I saw growing up, will have been exploited and dissected, thus ruining the whole point of it in the first place. Think up some new shit people!!!
Can't wait to have the Spice Mines and Kessel Run explained!! I wonder how old I will be before EVERY mystery, or indeed, even a dropped line I heard in a film I saw growing up, will have been exploited and dissected, thus ruining the whole point of it in the first place. Think up some new shit people!!!
Yeah, it's a throw away line. We hardly need a subplot around it. They're just hanging onto nostalgia for the die hard fans who eat it all up.
Can't wait to have the Spice Mines and Kessel Run explained!! I wonder how old I will be before EVERY mystery, or indeed, even a dropped line I heard in a film I saw growing up, will have been exploited and dissected, thus ruining the whole point of it in the first place. Think up some new shit people!!!
Yeah, it's a throw away line. We hardly need a subplot around it. They're just hanging onto nostalgia for the die hard fans who eat it all up.
I go through this same conundrum with my fellow PLANET OF THE APES fans, what I call "The Trekkie Continuity Syndrome," the anal-compulsive need to have everything fit together and explained. One thing that always makes me laugh is the number of Trekkies that actually believe the so-called "Science of Star Trek" is actually possible (and we've had heated debates about it here), but more importantly the entire plausibility of it in the first place.
I was thinking about this watching the new show last night. It's set like what, just two to three hundred years in the future? We're not going to have all that miraculous technology in just that amount of time. Sure, it seems like we've come along way with technology in the last hundred years, but look what happens after just a hurricane -- and the power lines go down and you're right back in the 19th century. So much for technology.
Star Trek should be set two thousand years in the future, and even then, I doubt we'd have all that technology -- or speak English any longer.
And the original PLANET OF THE APES was set two thousand years in the future, but how could anything in that movie have happened in such a short period of time, from the apes evolving to near human beings, to the landscape of New Jersey/New York turning into Arizonia.
But then we have to have the sequels in the early seventies try to explain it all, and all they really did was spoil and make ridiculous the wonderful ambiguities of the original film. There was no explaining because that's not the point. It's isn't that kind of Science Fiction, it's fiction disguising itself as SF. Scientifically, PLANET OF THE APES is complete nonsense -- even the new trilogy.
And so is Star Trek. ST is essentially allegory about our current selves and our cultures. Pretend that it can really happen, and you are as a child. Try to explain it scientifically, and you're a Trekkie!
F.B.I.---CBS/Dick Wolf (LAW & ORDER) series underway about the New York FBI office. Also, Sam Waterston will return as Jack McCoy in a future LAW & ORDER: SVU episode.
