Rian Johnson explains how much leeway Disney ’s given him for Star Wars . Ridley Scott ’s The Martian is look to chuck another female role . Gotham walks a thin telephone circuit between iconic present moment and original take . And details about Arrow and Agent of SHIELD ’s fresh eccentric . Spoilers now !
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Rian Johnson spoke with Terry Gilliam on theTalkHousepodcast , and it sounds like he ’s being give a fairly long leash on the new film :
Well , I ’m just depart into it so … but so far it ’s been nothing but … honestly , it ’s the most playfulness I ’ve ever had writing . It ’s just joyous . But also for me in person , I grew up , not just watching those movies but playing with those toy , so as a little small fry the first movies I was making in my head were set in that domain . So a cock-a-hoop part of it is that sort of lineal connection , its almost like an automatic jacking - in into childhood in a unearthly means I imagine … . but I do n’t jazz , inquire me again in a few years , we ’ll talk about it .
It ’s a correspondence [ between the franchise and his own originative direction ] , yeah . … Well , that ’s been the great thing about it — Kathleen [ Kennedy ] and her whole creative team have been so crying on all the film producer they ’ve been hire for these new picture : ‘ We need you to take it and turn it into something that you really care about . ’ And we ’ll see how the process plays out , but so far , that ’s a big part of the rationality I ’m in it . Because that just seems like their position towards it . It ’s really exciting really .
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TrekMovie has learn that the next film is currently in pre - production , with all meter reading that Roberto Orci is directing . They say output is set to start up in mid - February , 2015 , with a target area of summer 2016 for a dismissal date . [ TrekMovie ]
Kate Mara ’s been offer a role in Ridley Scott ’s film based on the Andy Weir level . [ Deadline ]
Here ’s a young poster . [ Wired ]
Here ’s a photo of Alcia Vikander as a half - formed android in Alex Garland ’s first pleasure trip as a director . [ Slashfilm ]
Dennis Haysbert has joined the shape of the zombie outbreak flick . [ The Wrap ]
Here ’s the ruby-red band lagger for the new horror film . [ First Showing ]
Ben MacKenzie explained why this prequel is so of import to the Batman mythos as a whole :
If you are really a big ( Batman ) fan , would n’t you have it off to see how it all come in to be ? How Bruce ( Wayne ) becomes Batman ? The only way that Jim as commissioner is actually blend to embrace this sick belief of Bruce as Batman is through gimmick and turns that you ’re going to see .
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Executive manufacturer Bruno Heller explain the show ’s rendering of Alfred :
I would n’t say he ’s the bad beginner , but he ’s certainly the permissive father , the enabling father — as fight to Gordon , who represents the natural law . What Sean Pertwee land to it is a kind of avuncular strength , but also a sense of irony and a sense that he has strength and world power . In order for Bruce to turn into Batman , Alfred had to be an enabler there . Bruce could not have done this in secret ; at some point they made a pact , whether an unspoken or a spoken treaty , that this was going to be allowed . So you had to have an actor with an edge of risk to him , who was not simply the good , truehearted caretaker , but also someone with his own sense of rage inside him . Someone who could carry that , but lightly , and that ’s what Sean does so brightly . And to me , that ’s who Alfred was — which is what Michael Caine used to play [ in Christopher Nolan ’s “ Dark Knight ” trilogy ] . I ’m not certain that it is such a leap from the previous characters . It ’s a leap from the very former style of Alfred where he ’s kind of much more the English butler than the soldier . We went for a dynamic grapheme who can carry his own fib , who is a genuine , positively charged , dynamical influence in Bruce ’s liveliness , and that requires an player with great personal magnetism and strength and also , underneath , you have to find that he loves and cares for this kid . So it ’s a very dodgy line he ’s walk , there , but he ’s walk it bright .
He also peach about the way the show will draw exit the histories they ’re make :
The main challenge there is inverse engineering enough that we have a journey to take , without destroy all of the iconic elements of the character that citizenry get laid and love . But at the same time , you desire that journeying to be as long and as interesting as possible , so we ca n’t start with the amply - fledged fictitious character , even if we wanted to . There ’s a whole clump of history that has to happen before those type emerge in all their finery . For me , that ’s a big part of the fun of the show , both make it and watch out it , I hope , is seeing these hoi polloi as young people and seeing how they ’re going to change over time and giving them space to grow . It ’s hard to key out in simple terms how that works . A lot of the challenge with TV as opposed to make motion-picture show is that you have to leave room for the characters in the story to tell themselves . Sometimes you do n’t know where a character is going to go and what ’s going to happen to them until you ’ve discover the worker take that part and make it their own . Then , you know , sort of like novelist say the Word of God start to write itself , the characters start up to tell their own tale , and then we know where they ’re going as opposed to mapping it out step by step . We have liberal , worldwide
, but you ’ve got to will space for these characters to live and rest , you know .
… There are certain characters that would be very , very difficult to put on the covert . That crocodile guy [ Killer Croc ] is a problematic one — although we may go there . We have n’t excluded anyone from the mixture , potentially . But in the main what we ’re looking at is characters where there is some dramatic play or a taradiddle behind how they got to be the way they are , and we ’re looking for part who can live in the material world of Gotham , as counterbalance to the even more A-one - real world of Metropolis , if you like . It ’s not about major power ; it ’s about tops - will , if you like . So we have veered towards those characters who are interesting as masses rather than interesting for their peculiar might or their particular gimmick or their costume . So that ’s how I would carve up that world . But the wide-eyed solvent is we ’re ready to go with any of them .
[ Comic Book Resources ]
Here ’s the outline for episode 1.03 , “ The Balloonman ” :
“ GOTHAM ” – ” – ( 8:00 - 9:00 PM ET / PT ) CC - AD - HDTV 720p - Dolby Digital 5.1
THE SAFETY OF GOTHAM IS UP IN THE AIR ON AN ALL - NEW “ GOTHAM ” MONDAY , OCTOBER 6 , ON FOX
investigator Gordon and Bullock pass over down a vigilante who is killing tainted Gotham citizen by attaching them to weather balloons . Meanwhile , Oswald Cobblepot returns to Gotham and gets a new job close to an influential figure in the Hell in the all - novel “ The Balloonman ” episode of GOTHAM airing Monday , Oct. 6 ( 8:00 - 9:00 PM ET / PT ) on FOX . ( GTH-103 ) ( TV-14 D , L , S , V )
Cast : Ben McKenzie as Detective James Gordon , Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock , Jada Pinkett Smith as Fish Mooney , Sean Pertwee as Alfred , Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin , Erin Richards as Barbara Kean , David Mazouz as Bruce Wayne , Camren Bicondova as Selina Kyle / the next Catwoman , Zabryna Guevara as Captain Sarah Essen , Cory Michael Smith as Edward Nygma / the future Riddler , Victoria Cartagena as Renee Montoya , Andrew Stewart Jones as Crispus Allen , John Doman as Carmine Falcone
Guest Cast : Dan Bakkedahl as Davis Lamond , James Colby as Lt . Bill Cranston , David Zayas as Maroni , Jack Koenig as Arnold Danzer and Clark Middleton as Gerrick
[ SpoilerTV ]
Here are two promo video and a sneak peek :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EFTyznUo-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdgo6HDM0Qw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-tH4VVGDSs
Brandon Routh ’s seen the concept prowess for the Atom and has compared it to the other superhero costume he ’s worn :
It ’s a totally dissimilar case and I have n’t been in it yet , I ’ve only seen drawings . It ’s a very different character and I reallyc an’t say too much about what the suit ’s going to look like — just that it ’s very unlike and I do n’t believe it has a cape , which does n’t really storm anybody if you ’ve see The Atom in the comics . But it ’s a coolheaded chance ; it ’s a nerveless show with a huge following . They do a great job grounding the show . Having my character on there — he has a luck of different elements . I get to come on there and [ do some ] clowning in a reasonably dour world . My persona , Ray Palmer , interacts with Felicity mostly in the episodes I ’ve shot so far and it ’s just a mint of fun . I have a swell time working with Emily . I cerebrate it ’s going to sum it a whole new component to the show that I retrieve fan will like , whether they dislike Ray getting into the middle of the Oliver / Felicity family relationship or no .
[ Comic Book.com ]
Nick Tarabay ( Spartacus ) has been cast in the resort role of villain Digger Harkness / Captain Boomerang . He ’ll first show up in the seventh installment but — as makes mother wit , give the character ’s comic volume background — will stay on to appear in the eighth - episode Flash crossover . Arrow ’s version of Harkness has him as a “ former A.R.G.U.S operative , extremely skilled in warriorlike arts and espionage , with a baneful thirst for payback against his former employer . ” [ Entertainment Weekly ]
Nick Blood explain a trivial bit about the way Lance Hunter ’s been adapted for the small projection screen :
He ’s found on a Marvel part , Lance Hunter , who in the comedian was the head of S.T.R.I.K.E. , which was kind of like the British equivalent of S.H.I.E.L.D. But that ’s not necessarily [ the direction we ’re go in ] “ Marvel ’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ” He ’s British , he ’s get military background , as did Lance [ in the comics ] . He kind of comes across the S.H.I.E.L.D. pack and terminate up get together them . You ’ll have to tune up in to find oneself out .
Marvel.com : When we ’re introduced to Lance , he has a very strong relationship already with Lucy Lawless ’ character , Isabelle Hartley , and her squad . What is it about her the he respects so much ?
Nick Blood : Yeah , they ’re a real tight gang . There ’s a twosome of characters , Izzy and Idaho , and these guys have been through everything together . They ’ve been together for a while , desire in each other explicitly , and they bonk each other inside out . They know what each other ’s going to do before they do it . I reckon with that , with the experiences that they ’ve gone through , come a immense amount of love and deference for each other and a sorting of deep caring for one another . So with Izzy , they ’re loggerheaded as thieves . It was nice because my first few [ scenes ] were with [ Lucy Lawless ] and that was really courteous to have somebody who is kind of new as well , but she bed the metropolis really well and she ’s done lots of work over here so she kind of [ had that on me ] .
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Here ’s a linkup to a video feature Melinda May . [ viaSpoilerTV ]
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— Marvel ’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ( @AgentsofSHIELD)September 17 , 2014
Executive producer Charlie Huston say about the setting of the comic book and the show , “ It ’s such a cagey concept to try and conceive of a real world where you actually have to deal with big businessman and how they bear on beau monde , and to do that through the lens of a cop drama . ” He also described the non - superhero half of the copper duo as :
[ Deena Pilgrim ( Susan Heyward ) ] knows nothing about this world , ” Huston says . “ She ’s really young , she ’s really inexperient , but she ’s a completely instinctive , awesome detective .
… She is this amazing fireball . You do 12 - hr sidereal day and it ’s getting into 10 p.m. and you ’re in a parking service department and all you’re able to sense is gas fumes and you ’re eating moth-eaten pizza , and Susan is down at the end of the ramp doing jujitsu kick , spinning around and ready to go .
He also says that Sharlto Copley ’s Christian is much less stoical than his comics counterpart . He also gave some detail on Michelle Forbes ’ Retro Girl :
I love the idea of a mature Retro Girl , someone who ’s been at the top forever and ever and ever , and having that not just be an internal thing but be something we ’re fully cognizant of the first time we see her .
[ USA Today ]
Amazon has purchased a half - minute sci - fi comedy called NORAD from writer Jason Micallef ( Butter ) . The Hollywood newsman says that the description is still being preserve secret , but we can at least guess at the setting . [ The Hollywood Reporter ]
Executive producer Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz were on hand to talk everything Frozen with The Hollywood newsperson . First , the two explained the timeline of Once ’s world :
Adam Horowitz : Without start the exact particular date , which we do n’t have in front of us , we are rough in early 2013 given that the show started in October of 2011 . We ’ve been more or less tend in tangible clip , including the year time startle . Because of that , the lagger for Frozen has n’t even premiered so in the world of our show , none of the present - daytime Storybooke characters are aware of the Frozen mythology and macrocosm .
… The path to think about it is , divorce yourself from time and space as you have it away it and think of the world of tale occurring in a timeless position . What we ’re not saying is that the events of the pic took stead in November of 2013 . What we ’re aver is the pic came out and tell the story that occurred in the land of our fairy - tale earth . As far as the timeline goes , when we see Elsa arrive at the goal of season three , that is an Elsa who is carry the events of Frozen . Going forth , the Elsa that we are seeing in Storybrooke is someone who experienced everything you saw in that motion picture and is hopefully that character who is now face a raw challenge and involved in a unexampled mystery that we intend to excuse in the first episode .
We also set out a moment about the approach to the young grapheme :
Kitsis : There are times we take impropriety as we ’ve done with Peter Pan and other characters , but Frozen we really finger like they are so well - defined and we were so inspired by what we saw up on the screen last November , that we do n’t require to vary those characters . It ’s much more about Anna — what we have intercourse about her is that she ’s unfearing and she never gives up on the people she loves . She has no problem going off into the centre of the tempest to find her babe . What happens when a true believer like that gets in front of the devil himself , Rumplestiltskin , who sees the big in everyone ? What happens with these two kinds of characters ? In fact , what go on when Elsa , who is somebody who want to run away , meets another character who loves to run off , Emma ? It was really about keeping the eccentric exactly who they were in the motion picture but insure how they would interact with other characters on Once Upon a clip and evidence a raw story .
Now you have two queens in Storybrooke . Will one of the independent conflicts this time of year be Regina and Elsa battle for top executive ?
Horowitz : It ’s not that it ’s cheat for power , it ’s more about …
Kitsis : There ’s a mystery .
Vladimir Horowitz : And it ’s hard to answer your question without spoiling , but I ’ll try . When Elsa arrives , it signifies the start of a enigma that needs to be explore and answered . And the reverberation of that mystery reach out and tint everyone , and you ’ll see it dissemble everyone from Regina to Emma to Rumplestiltskin .
More at the link . [ The Hollywood newsman ]
Here ’s a description of time of year 5 :
Season Four of The Walking Dead terminate with Rick and the group outgunned , outnumbered , and pin down in a wagon train car expect a grim portion . Season Five picks up short thereafter . What follows is a story that weaves the dead on target theme of the people of Terminus with the bright prospect of a cure in Washington , D.C. , the fate of the radical ’s lost fellow , as well as fresh locales , new conflicts , and new obstruction in save the grouping together and staying active .
tale will get around apart and intersect . The character reference will find beloved and hate . repose and conflict . Contentment and terror . And , in the quest to discover a permanent , safe place to call home , one question will haunt them … After all they ’ve take care , all they ’ve done , all they ’ve sacrificed , lose , and restrain on to no matter what the cost … Who do they become ?
Headherefor promo photo , some of which we ’ve seen already . [ Shock Till You Drop ]
Here ’s the outline for episode 8.07 , “ Kill the Moon ” :
In the dear future , the Doctor and Clara rule themselves on a space shuttle making a suicide missionary station to the Moon .
Crash - landing on the lunar airfoil , they incur a mining bag full of corpses , vicious spider - similar creature poise to attack , and a terrible dilemma .
When Clara turns to the Doctor for help , she arrest the shock of her life .
Additional reporting by Charlie Jane Anders and Abhimanyu Das
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