On this episode of Collider Movie Talk (Tuesday, June 12th, 2018) Mark Ellis, Jeff Sneider, John Rocha discuss the following:
-Matt Reeves’ The Batman Reportedly A Reboot with New Actor; Geoff Johns Exits DC to Produce and Write Green Lantern Corps
-Gal Gadot Teaming with Dwayne Johnson for Actioner ‘Red Notice’
-Amblin Spins ‘Arachnophobia’ Redo With James Wan Producing
-First ‘The Little Stranger’ Trailer: Domhnall Gleeson Leads a Ghost Story from ‘Room’ Director
-First ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Image Shows off Taika Waititi’s Imaginary, Sassy Hitler
-Live Twitter Questions
Thanks to THR, we now have word that DC Entertainment president and chief creative officer Geoff Johns will be leaving his post to enter into an exclusive deal with WB to write and produce new films; the first being Green Lantern Corps. But buried in a Deadline article of the same news comes word that Matt Reeves was rebooting Batman for a new standalone franchise, likely with a new actor to play the Caped Crusader after Ben Affleck’s stints in Batman V Superman and Justice League.
Deadline now reports that Gal Gadot has closed a deal to star alongside Dwayne Johnson in Red Notice. The movie is described as an action comedy, which Rawson Marshall Thurber (Skyscraper) is directing from his original script. Universal Pictures won the movie after a heated multi-studio bidding war back in February, becoming one of the biggest package deals so far this year. Red Notice is said to begin shooting in April of 2019 with Universal releasing the film worldwide on June 12, 2020.
Deadline reports that Amblin and James Wan’s Atomic Monster are in the early stages of a remake of Arachnophobia, the 1990 Frank Marshall-directed horror-comedy about a South American killer spider that crosses the U.S. border in a coffin. After the spider breeds with a regular house spider, it spawns a huge army of killers spiders that take out people in town. No writer or director have been attached, and a release date has not been set at this time.
Focus Features has released the first trailer for The Little Stranger, the highly anticipated new film from Oscar-nominated Frank and Room filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson. The film takes place during the summer of 1948 and revolves around a country doctor named Dr. Faraday (Domhnall Gleeson). He is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his housemaid mother used to work, but when he encounters the home’s curious family, ominous occurrences soon follow.
Taika Waititi‘s World War II satire Jojo Rabbit has recently begun filming and to celebrate, the first official images from the production has been released online showing Taika as the Imaginary Friend (Hitler) to an awkward young German boy (Roman Griffin) raised by a single mother (Scarlett Johansson) all around the dinner table. A release date has not yet been set.
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