Simon Kinberg has been involved with the X-Men franchise for a long time. He’s written most of the movies since The Last Stand, and been a producer on all the flms since First Class. Now he’s been confirmed to be be stepping behind the camera, as he will direct the upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix.
They’re also busy filling out the cast, with THR reporting that Jesica Chastain is in talk to play the villain.
X-Men: Apocalypse introduced us to a new version of Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), who we saw having an extreme power that she must keep contained. In the comic she became ‘imbued by a cosmic energy called the Phoenix Force. It eventually overtook her personality and made her bad, necessitating the X-Men to stop her.’ It’s not clear whether the film will bother with the ‘Phoenix Force’, as in a version of the storyline in The Last Stand, the almost uncontrollable ‘Phoenix’ was part of Jean’s mutant powers that she had to keep under control. Apocalypse suggested the new Jean Grey may be the same.
However it’s handled, Chastain ‘would play Lilandra, the empress of an alien empire called the Shi’ar, who leads the quest to imprison and execute Dark Phoenix, leading her into conflict with the X-Men.’
Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult are all expected to return.
There’s been interest in remaking Joel Schumacher’s cult film, Flatliners, you a long time, but its taken quite a few years for a new take to arrive. The likes of Keifer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon and Julia Roberts have been replaced with Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton, and Kiersey Clemons.
We first met Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa / Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War. He’ll be back with his own standalone adventure early next year. Marvel has now released the first teaser trailer for the movie, which suggests he’s going to fit in well with their filmic universe as it introduces us to the mysterious world of Wakanda.
Paul Newman died back in 2008, but he recorded enough unused dialogue for Cars that his voice won’t just feature in Cars 3, he’s also around for this rather eerie trailer. It’s a promo that suggests this film will go back to the rather nostalgic feel of the first movie, rather than the rather bizarrer spy antics of its sequel.
Pixar has taken us to some unexpected places over the years. Now that includes a trip to the Land of the Dead, in Coco. While The Book Of Life played with similar themes, this appears to be a uniquely Pixar take on things.
At some point in their career, every movie star has to make a Christmas movie. Now Melissa McCarthy is adding a new one to her resume, as
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