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More so than any genre except for horror, science fiction is defined by its special effects. In Japanese, the relationship is explicit, as science fiction is one of a loose collection of fantastic genres referred to as tokusatsu—literally, “special filming” or special effects. For many people, it’s just not a science…
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CoreyLove this show!
When your film credits include the Crank movies, Gamer, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, and Mom and Dad, it’s hard to imagine getting any crazier than director Brian Taylor already has. But the first season of Taylor’s Syfy series Happy! featured kidnapped children, a three-headed dog, a killer Santa Claus, and the alcoholic corrupt cop as the good guy.
Based on the comic by Grant Morrison, Happy! is back for a second season and Taylor promises it’s 10 times crazier. Nick Sax (Christopher Meloni) has retired from the force and is trying to get sober. He’s getting to know his daughter Hailey (Bryce Lorenzo), and her former imaginary friend Happy (Patton Oswalt) is now Nick’s. There’s also exploding nuns and desecration of chocolate Easter bunnies.
Taylor spoke with /Film by phone about the new season of Happy!, his upcoming Brave New World series for USA, and why he won’t do a safe, studio friendly Crank 3.
Is the guy in the chocolate bunny officially the most fucked up thing you’ve ever done?
Oh, wow. No, I don’t think it’s close.
Really? It’s the most fucked up thing I’ve ever seen.
I don’t think it makes top three for this season. There are some bad things that happen this year.
Between the state he’s in and being exposed to kids did it for me.
It’s up there.
And I’m a guy who’s seen a lot, including all of your movies.
That was an interesting scene to shoot. After season one of Happy!, it’s a very ambitious show. There’s a lot of things that we try to do. Just on a production level, it’s a really ambitious show. It’s kind of like shooting a feature film with action and a CG animated character, wild set pieces every two, three weeks and then doing another and then doing another and then doing another. The level of the production is pretty crazy so when we got done with season one and started the writers room for season two, one of the first things I said was, “Guys, we’ve really got to contain it this time. We really bit off more than we could chew last time. We’ll have our moments but it just can’t be as crazy as last season.” Cut to two weeks later, it’s 10 times crazier than last season. Everything is more, everything is more difficult, everything is more ambitious. It just got out of control really quickly.
Did you get one bottle episode?
We didn’t. We didn’t end up doing a bottle episode. There ended up being so much story that it’s just really difficult to let an episode go without advancing all of the stories. Just from blowing up Sunshine’s scheme of world domination and blowing up the situation happening with Blue who seems to be possessed by some kind of demigod, struggling to get control of his body. There’s just so much stuff going on, I couldn’t do it. We wanted to do an animated bottle episode just with Happy, but he’s got a lot of story too. So a lot of stuff we thought was going to happen with that, he has a little love story in that…you were saying the most fucked up things that we’ve done on the show. Anyway, that ended up being spread out over two or three episodes, too. What started as a bottle episode shattered and now the shards of the broken bottle are scattered throughout all the other episodes for people to step on.
So Happy’s love story is fucked up too?
It’s not something I’m proud of. I’m kidding, it’s something I’m really proud of. It’s something you can never unsee.
I haven’t seen his episode yet, but is [Torque and Bodied director] Joseph Kahn a good fit for your style?
Oh, he’s great. I wanted him to work on season one and we couldn’t do it because of schedule. He’s a busy dude and pretty much works year round, but I’ve been hitting him for a long time and when he finally watched the show he was like, “Oh my God, this is like my show. This is so up my alley, I loved it.” I was like, “I told you.” So we finally got him in this season. His episode is rad.
I love that you have a yarn chart in one episode. My thing with those is whenever a movie shows someone making a chart connected by pieces of yarn, I have no idea what it means. Do you have a system or is it just string strung together to look as cluttered as possible?
We figured if we were going to [give] Meredith McCarthy a crazy person wall, we just had to go all out and make it the most ridiculous crazy person wall ever. I don’t even think she knows what it all means. We certainly don’t know what it all means.
Even in movies that play it straight, what does it mean? Why are pins tied together with yarn?
I guess, not to speak for every vigilante psycho ever in movies, but I guess the idea is you’re putting the pieces together. There’s a connection to this guy, to this guy, to this guy, to this guy. If you follow all of the strings then you finally get to the one person that connects it all and then you find the leader of the bad guys or the central force in the plot. I guess that’s the idea, but we just wanted it to feel like this is the inside of her brain made three dimensional.
I guess it speaks to the way I think, but if I was making a chart of connections, I would use columns and put people in the same column if they’re connected.
Yeah, maybe just do it all on a big Excel spreadsheet. This definitely doesn’t seem like the best way to do it, which I think is why we like it so much. The plot, the Grant Morrison comic book, takes place over about three days, or two days even, and it’s really pretty simple and contained. But immediately when we started working on it as a series, it just started to get out of control. We just found that we kept adding story and adding layers and adding complication. The next thing you know, it was almost impenetrable even to us, which we figured was a sign we were doing something right. Maybe that red yarn wall kind of represents our writers room in a way. We try to sort through our own craziness and come up with fun things.
In season one, Meloni in the trench coat had a very iconic look. What did changing it up to the Hawaiian shirt give you for season two in the spring?
It’s a different season so we wanted to give him a different look. I know Chris Meloni definitely thinks of the trench coat and the scarf as being Nick Sax’s superhero outfit. That’s his Superman suit. So there’s a very good chance that the trench coat and scarf make a comeback appearance.
Have the Happy visual effects gotten any easier, and can you use him in more scenes?
I’m not the one to say if they’ve gotten easier or not. You’d have to talk to Axis about that. Those are the guys that actually create those shots. They’ve gotten better. I think the level of animation last year was kind of unprecedented on television and this year it’s better. So I think they have a better grasp on the character now in terms of performance. They’ve had a year to develop. They’ve upgraded their engine. They’ve upgraded all the texturing so he just looks better. He’s better integrated to the environment and just performance-wise, it’s like an actor playing a character for a second season. You understand better the way that he moves, his range of expression, the way he reacts to things so you’re able to get a lot more nuance and expression into every one of those moments.
I know you expanded the comics for season one, but was there anything from the comic you couldn’t fit in that you can now do in season two?
I don’t think so. I think we pretty much exhausted the comic book in about an episode and a half, season one. It’s just wide open now. The main thing is the idea of let’s make it a holiday for every season. So which holiday are we going to go for? There’s a couple of pretty big holidays that would’ve been sort of layups for this show, visually and conceptually. Let’s challenge ourselves to do a holiday that nobody cares about, that’s kind of aesthetically pretty lame and see if we can elevate it to something spectacular. Hence Sunshine’s plan to make Easter great again.
In success, by season seven would you do Arbor Day?
Yeah, at a certain point it’s going to get interesting. I guess you can do President’s Day. I don’t know.
Did you ask Syfy to slot you in the spring for the appropriate holiday?
It gets a little complicated. Obviously, we think it’s the strongest, and so do they, to put it out during the season or during the holiday that it’s about. It just seems to be the most zeitgeist-y way to do it. That said, schedules are difficult. When you try to do that, sometimes you end up shoehorning it or you have to really rush to make certain dates. It does complicate things and one of the ideas that we talked about that, if we were to do a season three of Happy!, maybe we just do season three and four to shoot them both. So that way we can just easily pop them in during their appropriate holiday without having to run into schedule conflicts. I don’t know if that’s going to happen.
Was Rebecca Black’s Friday a perfect song for Happy!?
Man, I think so. We went through a lot of songs trying to figure out what to use and now that that one’s in there, it’s pretty hard to imagine anything else. I don’t think any other show, there’s a lot of ways to do that moment ironically, like use a cheesy ‘80s song or use some pop culture song that everybody knows and is embarrassed to say they love it or they have some kind of nostalgia with it. That sort of seemed kind of tired and easy, but the Rebecca Black song is a level of stupid that most people are afraid to venture into. It’s almost risky to go that stupid. From Happy’s point of view, Happy thinks it’s the coolest song.
If you exhausted the comic book, what are the brainstorm sessions that lead to things like the musical number, the oil slick fight, exploding nuns, etc.?
Exploding nuns was actually pretty early on. Once we figured out we were going to do Easter, the early days of the writers room was really just like a free for all, just like people just throwing stuff out there. A lot of times we’ll come up with an idea or an image and then end up reverse engineering story in order to get there. That was something that I came up with pretty early on and just threw it out to the room. “I just feel like the season should start with a bunch of nuns with bomb vests running around New York blowing themselves up.” Then there’s a long moment of silence and everybody goes, “Well, okay, I guess we’ll have to figure out what that means.” By the way, that’s the way I do things a lot of the times, reverse engineering story. Even in the movie Crank, the idea that the hero was going to fall out of a helicopter at the end, make a phone call while he went down and then land into camera, that’s the end of the movie. I don’t know what the first hour and 22 minutes of the movie is but that’s the last scene. So how do we get there?
I never knew that about the original Crank. That’s amazing.
Yeah, that was like a bunch of ideas for movies.
Does season two focus more on Happy’s relationship with Nick since he disappeared from Hailey?
Yeah, now he’s Nick’s imaginary friend. His whole outlook is different. He still cares about Hailey. He still keeps tabs on her and Happy thinks he’s the best expert on Hailey ever because it’s like, “I was her imaginary friend her whole childhood so I know everything about her.” But kids change so now Happy finds himself in a situation kind of like Nick, of being on the outside looking in, trying to understand this kid.
Is there a backstory to the kid whose imaginary friend was the poop emoji?
No, no backstory. Maybe we’ll explore that in season three. It is kind of funny when you see all these imaginary friends on these kids’ shoulders. They’re so bizarre, you start thinking, “What is wrong with this kid? Who has that friend?”
You got a musical number in Gamer. Are you always trying to work one into your shows or movies, and you did in episode three?
Yeah, musical numbers are fun. As soon as we got Ann-Margret on board, it was just a done deal that we were gonna do a musical number. For me, that number that she does in Viva Las Vegas with Elvis is one of the greatest song and dance numbers ever on film. It’s just one of those iconic things. So I knew I wanted to have her wearing orange and I knew I wanted her to do a dance with Happy and emulate some of that Ann-Margret/Elvis Viva Las Vegas moves. So once we were going to do that, maybe this weird musical theater virus that infects Sunshine’s compound, maybe that somehow infects Nick too and draws him into it. They’re all unwittingly drawn into this musical number.
Had Meloni ever done song and dance before?
I’m not sure if he has. He’s really good at it which makes me believe he’s probably done it. I don’t know anything in his body of work where he’s done it, but he’s good at it. He loved it. He wanted to do more. We actually, on a TV schedule, we were limited. We had to do that whole sequence in a day and a half, including all the fighting, Ann-Margret and everything. We were just limited by schedule but he wanted that sequence to be twice as long. He was like, “Let’s basically do the whole episode like that,” so he’s a big fan.
And now you’re doing Brave New World with Grant?
Yeah, that show is off and running. Grant and I helped develop it and it’s been ordered to series.
What was your involvement?
Grant and I were involved early in the process. We basically came up with the take, pitched it, sold it, got everything going and then we signed off on a showrunner, David Wiener, to help run the show because I knew I was going to be so buried in Happy! and Grant is obviously buried in 1000 things. We just weren’t going to be there day to day, so we built a team to see that one through and it’s going great.
Did it stay with the take you came up with?
It’s changed a bit. You want people to make it their own, but there’s new elements, there’s old elements.
It’s been a while since I heard anything about a Crank 3. Is that something you still hope to do one day?
You never know. So far there hasn’t really been – the planets haven’t aligned for that, but never say never.
Did you have a trilogy idea for Crank?
We’ve had a couple of ideas. I guess one problem with Crank 3 is that my feeling is there’s a reason why people like those movies. They may not be as much of a household name as like The Fast and the Furious franchise, but they’re not trying to be that. So there’s a reason people like them and if there were ever to be a Crank 3, I feel like it has to be as batshit relative to Crank 2 as Crank 2 was to Crank 1. It owes it to the spirit of the franchise and to people who love those movies to be just completely bonkers. A movie like that is not necessarily perceived as being as commercial as the studios might like. There have been proposals for what I would considered to be watered down or a little more tame versions of a Crank 3, but to me it’s like, why would you do that? What’s the point? I don’t get that.
Instead of pricing yourself out of business, you sort of out “crazied” yourself out of business.
Yeah, I guess you could look at it that way. The way I look at is if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right. If it’s not going to be done right, it’s not like we’re all going to get rich off of Crank 3. It’s not that series. It’s not Avengers. It’s not some kind of super franchise that we owe it to ourselves to get the band back together. That’s just not the case. It would have to be a labor of love. It would have to be something for completely insane people who like those movies. If it seems like a process that’s going to be really creatively compromised, then I just don’t know why we would spend the time or effort to do it. It’s just not worth it. I don’t think anybody would be happy with it.
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Happy! returns to Syfy at 10pm on Wednesday, March 27, 2019.
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Generally speaking, creating unlicensed adaptations of film properties is frowned upon in local theater scenes. But sometimes, you get away with it by creating something super rad, which is what happened in the case of Alien: The Play, a full-length adaptation of Ridley Scott’s
Alien helmed by Perfecto Cuervo, an…
CoreyWait, what?
Nicolas Cage refuses to make a boring movie. His eternal quest to have audiences say “What the hell is this?” continues with Jiu Jitsu, a sci-fi action film in which Cage will team-up with a martial artist to fight an alien – an alien that comes to earth every six years, looking for a fight.
Does this sound like the best movie ever made? Yes. Yes it does.
THR reports that the Jiu Jitsu movie will hail from writer-director Dimitri Logothetis, a filmmaker responsible for work on several Kickboxer sequels, which seems appropriate here. Alain Moussi, an actor and stuntman, will play “a Jiu Jitsu fighter who every six years must face off against an alien invader, Brax.” Nicolas Cage will play a character who “teams up with him in a battle to defeat Brax.” I’m a little disappointed Cage isn’t playing the Jiu Jitsu fighter himself, but hey, beggars can’t be choosers.
“After we successfully reintroduced the Kickboxer franchise to a new generation of martial arts fans with the sixth and seventh entries in the series, we set out to up the ante with a sci-fi martial arts franchise that could bring the same kind of intensity and longevity to a new arena,” Logothetis said. Jiu Jitsu is based on a comic of the same name, written by Logothetis and Jim McGrath. Here’s an excerpt from the comic’s synopsis, which offers more insight into this story:
Jake McCall is a combat vet who now works as an assistant wrestling coach for a small college whose major claim is its wrestling team. He is married to a beautiful, caring wife and has a precocious five-year-old boy, and his life with them in a peaceful college town is idyllic (perfect outcome for a combat vet with PTSD). Or so he believes.
Long ago, floating particles from outer space took forms in human brains and have controlled human bodies by altering MEMORIES. A violent world-takeover now looms, an apocalyptic day that has been set for over a century. The players in this multi-generational plan are known only to each other, and only at certain times.
Jake McCall is at the center of the resistance to this plan, the lynchpin of the whole operation. And he has no idea.
The aliens have taken him, cloaked his brain with an array of false memories and perceptions, and robbed his life of the one thing he needs to save the world.
Jiu Jitsu.
Yes, this does sound amazing. Cage has been on a roll lately. His performance in Mandy is dynamite, and the film itself received a heap of praise – more so than any recent Cage film, in fact. He also appeared in the absolutely bonkers Between Worlds, in which he plays a truck driver who starts an affair with a teen girl who claims to be possessed by the ghost of his dead wife. Coming up, Cage has the Sion Sono film Prisoners of the Ghostland, which Cage himself describes as “the wildest movie I’ve ever made.” In that movie, Cage plays a character who “is sent to rescue an abducted girl who has disappeared into a dark supernatural universe, they must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland.”
And that’s not all. The actor also has the H.P. Lovecraft adaptation The Colour Out of Space in the works, with director Richard Stanley at the helm. In short, it’s a good time to be a Nic Cage fan.
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CoreyYeeeeees!!
Alright, I guess it’s time to admit the Deadwood movie is really, finally happening. There’s even a new trailer! And a premiere date! I never thought this day would come. HBO’s new film will reunite almost the entire original cast of the Shakespearian Western for one last hurrah, thirteen years after the series was cancelled. The movie premieres this May. Watch the Deadwood movie trailer below.
"It’d be a pity not to recognize what’s at stake."
#Deadwood: The Movie premieres May 31. pic.twitter.com/IQpwOmDOwL— HBO (@HBO) March 21, 2019
I was already excited to return to Deadwood, but this brief trailer cranked that excitement through the roof. As a huge fan of the original series, I’ve been waiting so long for this day to come, while also just accepting that it would probably never happen. But after much rumor and delay, Deadwood: The Movie is a reality. In the film, “the indelible characters of the show are reunited after a decade to celebrate South Dakota’s statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds reopened as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.”
Returning cast members include Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Molly Parker, Paula Malcomson, John Hawkes, Anna Gunn, Dayton Callie, Brad Dourif, Robin Weigert, William Sanderson, Kim Dickens, Gerald McRaney, Sean Bridgers, W. Earl Brown and Keone Young, among others. The film will also feature new cast member Jade Pettyjohn.
Deadwood ran for three seasons between 2004 and 2006, and was among the first crop of great HBO original shows that kicked-off with The Sopranos. While The Sopranos has had a much bigger cultural impact, I liked Deadwood just a tiny bit more (no disrespect to Tony and the guys). The brilliant performances coupled with the heightened, vulgar dialogue courtesy of creator David Milch made for some of the most engrossing, enthralling and entertaining television I had ever seen. I was heartbroken when the series was cancelled, but took solace in Milch’s assurance that he and HBO had discussed making possible movies to wrap things up.
Except, that never happened. Years ticked on, and while talk of at least one movie would pop-up from time to time, it seemed highly unlikely – until last year, when HBO Programming president Casey Bloys confirmed the long-awaited Deadwood movie was definitely happening. “All of these people worked hard to get this together,” Bloys said. “It’s been a logistics nightmare getting all the cast members’ schedules together but we are there. It is greenlit.”
The Deadwood movie arrives on HBO May 31, 2019.
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When last we caught up with Stranger Things’ heroes of Hawkins, they’d successfully managed to fend off yet another inter-dimensional threat seeking to breach the divide and enter our world. For about a few seconds it seemed as if Eleven and her friends were going to be able to enjoy their childhoods in peace. This…
In my opinion, Japanese horror comedy One Cut of the Dead belongs in the pantheon of great zombie movies. It reinvents the genre much like Shaun of the Dead did, adding humor and smarts to the horror, with a whole dose of spoilery surprises. And yet, as of now, there are no plans for a (legal) release stateside. That…
With Amazon Prime Video‘s adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson‘s comic book series The Boys set to premiere Summer 2019, cast members Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Karen Fukuhara, and Elisabeth Shue as well as executive producer/showrunner Eric Kripke are set to invade the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T for the series’ world premiere.
On Monday, April 29, at 8:45 p.m., the SVA Theatre will serve as the home for the series’ world premiere. Following the screening, Kripke and the cast will discuss the series and take questions from the audience.
In a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame, THE BOYS centers on a group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys,” who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than their blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty. THE BOYS is a fun and irreverent take on what happens when superheroes – who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods – abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It’s the powerless against the super powerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about “The Seven,” and Vought – the multi-billion dollar conglomerate that manages these superheroes.
On the side of The Boys, Karl Urban’s Billy Butcher is mysterious and brutal, hiding a personal agenda as he approaches potential new recruit Hughie (Jack Quaid), claiming to be a shadowy government operative. Butcher capitalizes on Hughie’s rage over his girlfriend Robin’s accidental death at the hands of Superhero A-Train and enlists Hughie as part of his plan to bring down the super-hero franchise.
Rounding out Butcher’s team are Laz Alonso (The Mysteries of Laura) as second-in-command Mother’s Milk; Karen Fukuhara (Suicide Squad) as The Female, a young Asian assassin with blistering fighting skills who happens to have superpowers; and Tomer Capon as unpredictable wild card Frenchie, a brutal warrior when who lives a life of no attachments or responsibilities.
On the flip side, The Seven are Antony Starr (American Gothic) as Homelander, leader of the main superhero team, The Seven; Dominique McElligott (The Last Tycoon) as Queen Maeve, a member of The Seven; Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl) as The Seven member The Deep, an aquatic hero; Jesse T. Usher (Survivor’s Remorse) as speedster with a major PR problem, A-Train; and Nathan Mitchell (iZombie) as Black Noir, a masked superhero with fighting and Set martial arts skills.
Erin Moriarty (Jessica Jones) joins the cast as Starlight/Annie, a young woman who can make lightning bolts flash from her eyes and dreams of being a “real superhero” like the famous Seven; Elisabeth Shue‘s (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Karate Kid) super-hero handler Madelyn Stillwell is the Vice President of Hero Management for Vought and the person responsible for cleaning up after the “heroes.” Jennifer Esposito (NCIS, Blindspot) has also been cast in the recurring role of CIA Agent Susan Raynor, with Billy Zane (Titanic) also set to make a guest appearance this season.
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Just when you thought we were done with Fyre Fest for the year-
There will apparently be an auction [at some point] in the near future consisting of the sole holdings of CEO/founder Billy MacFarland, which include (according to a court filing) “two large boxes containing Fyre-branded T-shirts, sweatshirts, shorts and other clothing items that were intended for sale at the Fyre Festival.”
According to Vulture, a spokesman for the United States Marshals Service’s Manhattan office told them in an email the auction will consist of:
“An assortment of the ‘real thing’ Fyre Festival-branded tee-shirts, sweatpants, sweatshirts, hats, wristbands and medallions .We know that there is tremendous interest in these items in the NY metro area in particular.”
The auction is planned to raise money to pay for the over $26 million MacFarland still owes investors.
The spokesman continued, saying:
“The USMS will dispose (or sell) the Fyre merchandise in the most efficient, cost-effective way in the best interests of the U.S. Government. We utilize our contracted partners to handle the marketing and sale and it will be an online auction.”
No images of the merchandise have been released yet, no doubt to prevent fraudulent sales of knock-off of the items.
There also was not a date announced for the auction yet, but we’ll let you know what we hear.
Both documentaries about the failed Fyre Festival are available for streaming now on both Hulu and Netflix.
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We’ve got one more week until Jordan Peele blows us all away again with his sophomore directing effort Us. The film has received rave reviews after its world premiere at South by Southwest, and audiences are eager to see what the comedian-turned-horror-mastermind has up his sleeve. But until then, we’ve got a good way to pass the time.
The official soundtrack for Us is available today, and while you might want to hold off on listening to the score until you actually see the movie (that’s a personal rule of mine), there’s one track you can listen to absolutely guilt-free. In fact, it’s a song you’ve heard several times before: “I Got 5 On It” by Luniz. But the hip-hop track was made to be truly chilling with a creepy remix in the first trailer for Us. And that’s the version that has been released online today. Listen to the song from the Us soundtrack below.
I absolutely love this version of “I Got 5 On It.” The song works so well in the trailer as the horror slowly reveals itself and the suspense builds right up to the end. From the plucking of the strings to the heavier electric guitar, and especially the echo on the lyrics, it’s just the perfect remixing of a familiar tack.
If you’re curious about the rest of the soundtrack, it’s mostly comprised of the score from Michael Abels. Entertainment Weekly actually has two tracks from the score you can listen to right now. But it does include the original version of “I Got 5 On It” by Luniz (featuring Michael Marshall), as well as the Janelle Monáe song “I Like That,” and the classic 1970s song “Les Fleur” by Minnie Riperton. You can find the full tracklist below (via Pitchfork), but beware that the track titles might include spoilers for the movie.
You can pick up the soundtrack from online and in-store retailers today, but we’re hoping for a vinyl release.
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CoreyWooooo
James Gunn has been reinstated as director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 by Disney, according to a report from Deadline. The director was fired after tweets he made years ago about pedophilia and rape resurfaced online when by alt-right journalists went viral. This has been seemingly confirmed by both Marvel Studios and Gunn’s people. Gunn showed remorse and was very apologetic in the aftermath, but lost the job regardless.
Even after the firing, the studio had confirmed that they were still going to use his already-penned script for the film to begin with. Apparently Marvel Studios never met with another director to direct Guardians 3 after Gunn’s firing, despite reports that they were meeting with Taika Waititi and others to possible take the job. Further complicating matters is that Warner Bros. quickly snatched up James Gunn to direct Suicide Squad 2, and the same Deadline report claims that Marvel Studios will hold off on putting Guardians 3 in front of cameras until he is done with SS2.
At the end of the day, does this mean Guardians 3 moves to the back of the line and becomes a Phase 5 movie? Does Dave Bautista calm down now and stay with the franchise, after so publicly stating he would quit the MCU if James Gunn was not rehired? A thousand questions still to be answered. For now though, Gunn is back, thrilling many I am sure.
More to come…
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CoreyLoved the first one.
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CoreyRemember when Elias said this was a movie and no one believed him??
Director Jaume Collet-Serra is best known for delivering action thrillers with Liam Neeson that are more than a little unbelievable. Unknown, Non-Stop, Run All Night and The Commuter all hail from the Spanish filmmaker, but it seems like he’s switching gears in his career a little bit. Coming up, we’ll see what Collet-Serra can do with Disney and Dwayne Johnson in the theme park ride adaptation Jungle Cruise, and soon he’ll be tackling a hybrid sports drama and prison escape remake called Victory at Warner Bros. Pictures.
Back in 1981, John Huston directed the original Victory. The World War II-set film follows Karl von Steiner (Max Von Sydow), the head of a German POW camp and soccer enthusiast as he organizes a game between Nazi players and their captives from the Allied forces in Paris. It’s all in an effort to make the Third Reich look superior to the rest of the world by defeating an impressive team that includes John Colby (Michael Caine), a veteran British player and Luis Fernandez (the famous soccer player Pelé) of Trinidad.
Though the game is the focus of the movie, there’s a bit of an Argo situation happening here, because team trainer Robert Hatch (Sylvester Stallone) tries to plan a mass escape for the entire team at the end of the game. But the players might have to choose between humiliating the Nazis on the soccer field in front of the whole world or escaping with their lives. Or maybe there’s a way they can do both.
Even though an uplifting sports drama doesn’t sound like it’s up Jaume Collet-Serra’s alley, the nature of a group of POWs escaping custody through a soccer game with Nazis sounds unbelievable enough to fit with the rest of his filmography. There’s even room for Liam Neeson to take the Michael Caine or Sylvester Stallone role if he so desired.
This sounds like it has the potential to be a lot of fun, combining aspects of both sports dramas and heist movies. There’s also the opportunity to put together a great ensemble cast here. The original movie also featured a lot of real profession soccer players, but it remains to be seen if that’s what will happen with the remake. Either way, having the Allied forces make fools of some Nazis sounds like exactly what this country needs right now.
The Wrap says Anthony Tambakis is working on a rewrite of the script that he worked on with Gavin O’Connor back in 2017. Gianni Nunnari and Bernie Goldmann are producing the Victory remake, but there’s no indication as to when it might get in front of cameras at Warner Bros.
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This isn’t quite a review, because what we saw at last night’s SXSW screening of Stuber wasn’t quite a finished film. But the work-in-progress print of Michael Dowse’s action buddy comedy felt finished enough to establish that stars Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani have the best possible comedic chemistry. Listen up, Oscars 2020.
Nanjiani plays Stu, a fastidious Uber driver lovesick over his best friend (Betty Gilpin). Bautista is Vic, a detective who’s been zeroing in on a heroin dealer for years, slowly sacrificing everything else in his life, including his relationship with his daughter (Natalie Morales), to get his man. After a Lasik appointment leaves Vic out of commission right as he gets a lead on the dealer, he hails an Uber, promptly ruining Stu’s day and threatening his five-star rating.
Depending on how you feel about action comedies of the ‘80s and ‘90s (I’m for ‘em), Stuber might hit just the right nostalgia chord for you, though the jokes feel freshened up for 2019. The laughs are huge, the action is major (did I mention The Raid’s Iko Uwais is in this movie? And not for nothing, so is Mira Sorvino!), and it’s got a giant, goofy heart in the middle of it. Sure, you’ve seen this story before (although all the Uber references are certainly new), and intentionally so, because Stuber gives a big, joyful nod to the films that came before it, from 48 Hours to Rush Hour.
But the really inspired part comes in Bautista and Nanjiani’s casting, a pairing that might feel unlikely on paper but registers as instantly legendary onscreen. Comedies can’t fake this kind of chemistry, and boy, have they tried. The two actors are just so funny together, with Nanjiani’s mild straight-man routine bumping up perfectly against Bautista’s grouchy bombast. And they’re sweet together, too, a sort of winsome, weird, reluctant friendship, like when you see a video of a Labrador and an elephant cuddling on the internet.
With any work-in-progress screening (and SXSW has hosted quite a few over the years), we can assume that there will still be some editing needs, some pacing adjustments, some coloring and sound fixes that remain. That makes for an illuminating viewing, because we’re left with just a raw story, one that isn’t polished up yet for mass consumption. None of the stuff that remains to be done affected the comedy of Stuber in the slightest, because there’s a natural charisma to the movie that doesn’t need to be found in the edit. And it certainly didn’t affect the action, which is tight, the ideal combo of thrilling, shocking and hilarious. So it’ll be interesting to see what makes it to Stuber’s final version – but I suspect after the way the movie played with this crowd, Dowse won’t feel the need to make too many changes.
Okay, so seriously, about the Oscars…
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Pioneering punk film director Penelope Spheeris ran out of fucks to give a long time ago—around the time she started getting script notes from Harvey Weinstein, as she recalls. There’s visible disgust on her face recalling the disrespect the Weinsteins showed her on the set of her 1998 movie Senseless, which would end…
Joe Hill‘s NOS4A2 is a dense, twisty, unlikely tale, so it feels exactly right that the pilot episode of AMC’s adaptation should be so stubbornly unwilling to explain itself to viewers unfamiliar with the source material. Nothing is spelled out here; nothing is synopsized or tidily introduced. Unlike so many pilots – that act as a string of bite-sized quotes built in service of future “Previously on…” segments – NOS4A2 is interested only in telling this story at its own pace, with an admirable confidence that the audience will eventually catch up to where it’s going.
But even for those new to the world of Christmasland, to Charlie Manx and his Rolls-Royce Wraith, this first episode is deeply compelling, hooking viewers on an emotional, visceral level well before the plot fully reveals itself.
Ashleigh Cummings plays sky-eyed teenager Vic McQueen (genre fans may recognize Cummings as another Vicki in the excellent Hounds of Love), forced to play peacekeeper to her perpetually combative parents. Vic wants to go to art school; her mother (Virginia Kull) scoffs that college costs money the family can’t afford, while her father (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) supports Vic’s dreams. But there’s a gradually revealed complication to this conventional good cop/bad cop dynamic, made even more complicated by Vic’s apparent ability to locate lost items by riding her dirt bike over a covered bridge that, by all accounts, was torn down decades ago. Meanwhile, a ghoulish old man named Charlie Manx (Zachary Quinto) abducts a lonesome young boy and grows shockingly less decrepit as his unwilling ward begins to wither. Oh, and there’s also a librarian named Maggie (Jahkara Smith), who seems to intuit the future thanks to a bottomless bag of portentous Scrabble tiles.
So yeah, NOS4A2 isn’t too arsed with making sure you can follow the dangling threads of these weird, separate yarns just yet. Nonetheless, the first episode is almost urgently engaging, with pilot director Kari Skogland (The Handmaid’s Tale) offering an impressionistic, deeply felt hint at a story very much already in motion. It’s strange and scary, mysterious and human. In the post-screening Q&A, Hill defined horror as being “about extreme empathy,” and it’s a turn of phrase that’s rattled around in my brain ever since. The best horror isn’t inhuman. It isn’t senseless. We’re truly terrified by the stories that we relate to, that resonate deep within our most unthinking and instinctual places.
NOS4A2 – showrun by Flesh and Bone and Fear the Walking Dead’s Jami O’Brien – understands this. Before preoccupying itself with plot intricacies or horror money shots, the series weaves a suggestion of intrinsic dread, giving us a character that we immediately care about – Cummings’ hopeful, resentful, powerfully plausible Vic – and convincing us, without a word, that she’ll soon be in danger, and that we’ll really hate it when she is. There’s plenty of other interesting stuff going on: Kull and Moss-Bachrach are fascinating and heartbreaking as Vic’s parents, and there’s a knotty townie classicism thing going on with Vic’s wealthy friend Willa (Paulina Singer), whose house is cleaned by Vic’s mom. And all of that’s before we even get into Quinto as Manx, a villain who starts out in uncanny valley territory before aging down into a far more familiar bad guy, one who’s uncanny in a whole other, more sinister, way. But the crux of this pilot, of this story, is Vic herself – how much we care about her, how much we want her to be happy, and how certain we are that NOS4A2 is going to put her through the wringer long before she’ll ever make it to that art school.
In short, Hill and King Constant Readers, here’s what you want to know: beautifully sketched title cards and narrative maps place NOS4A2 firmly in the universe of It, Horns, Locke & Key and other familial fictions. We see no glimpse of Vic as an adult just yet, but we were told that Season One will cover about a third of Hill’s novel, so there’s plenty more to come. And yes, this feels like a fair and generous adaptation that “gets” the marvelous book it’s adapting.
As for those of you who have never read the book, and who just want to know if it’s a good show: based on the strength of this first episode, yeah, it’s that, too. It’s inscrutable and unnerving and almost scarily propulsive. And it’s too bad we all have to wait until April to see any more of it.
/Film Rating: 9 out of 10
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The last nugget we got on the long-proposed TV series based on Terry Gilliam’s dark time-travel fantasy Time Bandits came last summer—until today, with a huge update: Taika Waititi has come aboard the in-development Apple series to co-write and direct the pilot.
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The specter of David Tennant’s Jessica Jones villain—Kilgrave, the mind-dominating Purple Man—has lingered across both seasons of the show so far. The character has become almost as inextricable from the series as Jess herself. But according to Tennant, that won’t be the case in its now-final season.
The Clone Club lives on even after BBC America’s Orphan Black wrapped. But now it looks like fans could get a brand new jolt of DNA.
Raising a child is a terrifying, thrilling experience for all first-time parents because there’s no one way to make sure that you’re doing everything the “right” way and what said way would even necessarily look like. For the Breyers, the family at the center of David Yarovesky’s sci-fi/horror film Brightburn, the…
It’s been over 40 years since Bruce Lee’s passing, but the television series he originally envisioned in Warrior will finally see the light of day for Cinemax. The network released the show’s first trailer from creator Jonathan Tropper (Banshee) for Tropper Ink Productions. Joining him to executive produce is Justin Lin (The Fast and the Furious) of Perfect Storm Entertainment, according to Deadline Hollywood.
Adapted from Lee’s writings, Warrior is set in the Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown during the second half of the 19th century. Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) emigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances becoming a hatchet man for one of China’s most tongs (Chinese organized crime family).
The trailer mixes elements of action, martial arts, and drama as there is multiple conflicts among the tongs and local Whites with racial tensions looking to play a role.
In a 1971 interview on The Pierre Berton Show, Lee said he pitched the concept of a Chinese martial artist dealing with problems in the Old West in The Warrior, but he couldn’t sell the idea to Warner Bros. and Paramount. With the lack of leading roles due to Hollywood’s racism, the legendary founder of Jeet Kun Do decided to take his talents to Hong Kong to star in films for Raymond Chow’s Golden Harvest Studios.
Warner Bros. took Lee’s idea and developed Kung Fu in 1972, which ran for three seasons, two spinoffs and a movie, which starred David Carradine, who confirmed studios passed over Lee for the role.
Ironically, Warner Bros. saw Lee’s box office success overseas and pitched Enter the Dragon to him while he made Game of Death. He accepted and completed the film, but died tragically before the film’s release in 1973.
Warrior stars Koji, Kieran Bew, Olivia Cheng, Dianne Doan, Dean Jagger, Langley Kirkwood, Hoon Lee, Christian McKay, Joe Taslim, Jason Tobin, Joanna Vanderham, Tom Weston-Jones, and Perry Yung.
How much of Lee’s ideas will be retained for Tropper’s series remains to be seen… viewers will get a chance to find out for themselves when Warrior debuts April 5, 2019.
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