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Ben Affleck competes for the title of Hollywood’s most in demand director with two big gigs in the works, one featuring his old Good Will Hunting buddy, and another which marks quite a departure from his previous work. Collider are reporting that the duo may reteam (it hasn’t been officially announced as yet) in a [...]
Ron Howard may be having trouble trying to get his long-in-gestation adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower off the ground, but it’s not enough to deter two equally high-profile filmmakers who are now making plans to bring a couple of titles from the author (one new, one old) to the big screen. Firstly, director [...]
After directing the first two films based on Dan Brown’s novels, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, Ron Howard has decided that he’ll only be producing the third film, The Lost Symbol, and won’t be returning to direct, Deadline reports. Howard directed the first two films to very impressive successes at the box [...]
We reported at some length back in September of last year on the audacious plans being hatched by Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsmith and Brian Grazer to turn Stephen King’s 7-novel Dark Tower series into a trilogy of feature films, interspersed with two seasons of a television series. Universal were considering funding the project, mindful of [...]
The Stephen King Dark Tower franchise machine is starting to build up some exciting momentum with the recent news that Javier Bardem is very close to signing on for the project as the iconic lead character of the series, Roland Deschain. This mixed but widely approved casting news has now been followed up with the [...]
Academy Award-winning actor Javier Bardem (Biutiful) is close to securing a deal to co-star in Universal Pictures’ feature film adaptation of Stephen King’s mammoth 7-novel series The Dark Tower. Bardem is in line to topline the film as Roland Deschain. Gunslinger Roland Deschain roams an Old West-like landscape in search of a dark tower, in the hopes [...]
This is a no-brainer (excuse the pun) if ever there was one. Master of horror Stephen King has confirmed that’s he’s in talks to write an episode of the TV adaptation of famed zombie graphic novel series, The Walking Dead. In a welcome display of industry back-scratching, King’s possible involvement stems from his relationship with [...]
The Dark Tower is finally being developed for the screen with Universal leading the multi-platform release of Stephen King’s incredible Seven novel fantasy adventure series. Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman are already onboard to create the first film and the following first season, with Howard Directing and Akiva Goldsman writing, this will be part of [...]
Last week we reported on a well-known property from the 80s that was undergoing a 21st century polishing, ready for the remake-saturated market. This is nothing new, and news of remakes, reboots and revisitings (revisitations?) are more and more commonplace as studio rummage through back catalogues for an idea or a name which will guarantee [...]
Remember Firestarter? The film based on a Stephen King novel about a pyrokinetic child, with the said child played by a post-ET Drew Barrymore? Thought so, well you’re not the only ones and Universal have set wheels in motion to restart the fire as a franchise. Joining with the Dino De Laurentiis Company Universal clearly [...]
The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films as ranked by the users of the biggest Internet movie site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of the Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie [...]
Deadline are repoting this morning on what appears to an unprecedented deal between Universal Pictures, NBC/Universal Television, director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer and author Stephen King for a feature and television adaptation of King’s acclaimed series of novels, The Dark Tower. Deadline reports that it has taken several months of negotiations, with both Universal [...]
In a somewhat inevitable move (given his productivity in television and his love for meticulously storyboarding his own films) it looks like the great man himself, Mr Steven Spielberg is jumping aboard the comic book live-action adaptation bandwagon. News has come in via Vulture that Hollywood’s hot scriptwriting duo Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and [...]
Thanks to Bloody-Disgusting, we have some news regarding the remakes of two of Stephen King’s best loved stories, It and Pet Sematary. Unfortunately, along with Misery, these two are also probably the best King horror adaptations to have hit screens (but only because Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption dont count). They are certainly [...]
It is a marketing department’s dream, and it marks the first collaboration between Steven and Stephen in twenty years, as Variety are reporting that the duo are working to bring a mini series adaptation of King’s recently published novel Under the Dome. Dome has garnered some serious praise, and it is hoped that it will [...]
I hate clowns, yet I love Tim Curry. This presents a problem for me as I sit down to watch the mini series of Stephen King’s IT, as Pennywise the clown is one of the most terrifying screen villains ever seen. Think Krusty the Clown bitten by a werewolf and you’re nearly there. Give him [...]
