From the moment the credits rolled at the end of the first Incredibles, fans have been clamoring for a sequel. It looks like that 13-year wait is about to pay off with a teaser trailer for Incredible 2 set to debut in front of the new Pixar film Coco.
While there has been no official announcement, the Ontario Film Authority rated a new trailer for Incredibles 2 on November 10th. So we know the trailer is close to arriving.
Incredibles 2 picks up immediately after the events of the first Incredibles, with the Parr family set to battle the evil Underminer, but a large chunk of the story will see Helen, a.k.a. Elastigir off on her own adventure while Bob remains at home to care for their son Jack-Jack.
Writer/Director Brad Bird introduced some footage from Incredibles 2 at Disney’s D23 Convention earlier this year. “It’s so great to be here to tell you about the film,” Bird said. “It’s fundamentally a story about family…with this new film, we’re excited to jump back into that world. We have controls able to do so much more than before.”
The clip was a scene where the baby of the family, Jack-Jack, battled a raccoon. Director Brad Bird told fans that Jack-Jack’s powers will be a major part of the new movie. “You the audience know that he has super powers but the family is unaware,” Bird said. “We’re having fun with that in the film.”
The Thor: Ragnarok actress says she’s “obsessed” with Saga; playing Alana would be “dreamy.”
It all started when a fan who had just seen Thor: Ragnaroktweeted that Tessa Thompson “would be a perfect Alana in a Saga movie adaptation.” This is quite possibly one of the truest things that has ever been said. And it got even better when Thompson herself replied, saying, “OH MY. i’m very *obsessed* with SAGA. That would be so dreamy.”
Thompson followed that tweet almost immediately with another, the cover illustration from Saga #8 — a Fiona Staples drawing of Alana in full battle gear — reading a romance novel and chewing bubblegum.
The only real problem with Thompson playing the part is that there is absolutely zero plans at the moment to make a Saga movie.
In fact, series creator Brian K. Vaughn has stated that he created Saga with the explicit intent to explore ideas and scenes that would be impossible (or very expensive) to do in television or film: bizarre aliens, realistic sex, nudity graphic gore and violence.
Vaughn and Staples launched Saga in 2012. The story is an epic “space opera” focusing on Marko and Alana, a husband and wife from opposite sides of a bloody war, who conceive a child together. The very existence of the child is a threat to the status quo and the couples is hunted across the galaxy by operatives from both sides of the conflict.
Marko is a pacifist, but Alana is a hard-drinking former soldier who has never forgotten her impressive combat skills — that’s a pretty close match to the version of Valkyrie Thompson played in Thor: Ragnarok.
Even though Vaughn made Saga to be “unfilmable,” has never ruled out the idea of a live-action adaptation, stating that he would explore the idea if “the right offer” was made.
Hey Brian, Tessa Thompson just offered to play Alana. That is absolutely “the right offer.”
Wonder Woman wowed with its portrayal of Amazons in authentic, battle-ready armor. So why are they fighting in bikinis in Justice League?
By Golden Lasso
Wonder Woman was a huge success for Warner Bros. With a gross income of over $800 million worldwide and a final score of 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, it breathed new life into the struggling DC Cinematic Universe. The empowering depiction of the film’s female characters, including the fighting technique and stylized culture of the Amazons, were one of the things fans loved most about the movie.
Which is why Zack Snyder caused an Amazonian uproar on social media when he started sharing pictures of Amazons from Justice League in leather bikinis.
This abrupt change of direction is a shock and these outfits look like generic barbarian women from a game of Dungeons and Dragons. They completely lack the unique flavor of the Greco-Roman-inspired armor ensembles that Lindy Hemming put so much thought and historical research into creating for Wonder Woman. The Wonder Woman designs received acclaim from fans and costume fanatics alike. They were clearly inspired by the Amazon’s origins in the Mediterranean and were feminine but very functional. Why mess with perfection?
Oh, right. The all-male team of directors and executive directors wanted women to fight in bikinis.
Wonder Woman began filming in 2015, the year before Justice League started filming in 2016. The Amazons’ design was finalized and most of the costumes completed while Justice League was still in pre-production. That means that there were discussions about what the Amazons should wear into battle in Justice League and the epic designs from Wonder Woman were rejected in favor of leather bikinis. Let that sink in. They rejected already finished costumes to redesign and remake the armor so that more skin would be showing.
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The producer is under fire as multiple women have come forward with claims of sexual misconduct.
Just two weeks after Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot publicly backed out of an awards dinner where she was scheduled to give producer Brett Ratner an award, Page 6, is reporting that Gadot is refusing to return for Wonder Woman 2 unless Ratner is no longer involved with the production.
Gadot is not under contract to appear in the sequel to Wonder Woman, so she has a tremendous amount of clout. Apparently, she is using that power in an attempt to get rid of serial sexual predator Ratner.
RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Ratner’s production company, co-financed Wonder Woman as part of a deal they had with Warner Bros. Wonder Woman was a gigantic hit and has earned more than $400 million so far, and Ratner has made an enormous amount of money as a result.
“Brett made a lot of money from the success of Wonder Woman, thanks to his company having helped finance the first movie. Now Gadot is saying she won’t sign for the sequel unless Warner Bros. buys Brett out [of his financing deal] and gets rid of him,” said Page 6’s anonymous source.
Ratner — who will likely never be allowed to live within 600 yards of an elementary school again — was recently accused of sexual misconduct by six women in an article in the LA Times. The accusers include actress Olivia Munn (X-Men: Apocalypse) and Natasha Henstridge (Species)
“He walked out … with his belly sticking out, no pants on, shrimp cocktail in one hand and he was furiously masturbating in the other,” Munn said. “And before I literally could even figure out where to escape or where to look, he ejaculated.”
Munn had previously described her encounter with Ratner in her 2010 book, Suck It, Wonder Woman! The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek, but she left out the name and other identifying details. But Ratner — a pile of human excrement that somehow wished to be a real boy — boasted that he was the director Munn was talking about in an appearance on Attack of the Show, a program she used to host.
“I used to date Olivia Munn, I will be honest with everybody here. When she was ‘Lisa.’ That was the problem. She wasn’t Asian back then. … I banged her a few times … but I forgot her.” Ratner later admitted that Munn never had sex with him — likely because he’s a horrible human being who looks like the perp in roughly half the episodes of Law & Order: SVU.
Henstridge’s encounter with Ratner happened decades ago, when he was an up-and-coming music video director in his early 20s and she was a 19-year-old aspiring model. Henstridge had fallen asleep on Ratner’s couch while watching a movie with friends. When she woke up, everyone else had left and Ratner blocked her from leaving and forced her to perform oral sex.
Proceeds from hits Clerks,Chasing Amy and others will be used to fund ‘Women In Film.’
In a dramatic response to the Harvey Weinstein sex-abuse scandal, writer/director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma) will donate all future residuals from films he made with the disgraced producer to Women In Film, an advocacy group with the stated mission to “achieve gender parity in the film, television, and digital industries.”
Smith made the announcement during the October 13th edition of his podcast, Hollywood Babble-On, chokin up with emotion as he spoke.
My entire career is tied up with this man. It’s been a weird fucking week. I just wanted to make some fucking movies, that’s it. That’s why I came, that’s why I made Clerks. No fucking movie is worth all this. Like, my entire career, fuck it, take it. It’s wrapped up in something really fucking horrible. I’m not looking for sympathy. I know it’s not my fault, but I didn’t fucking help.
I sat out there talking about this man like he was a hero, like he was my friend, like he was my father and shit like that.I was singing praises of somebody that I didn’t f‑‑‑ing know. I didn’t know the man that they keep talking about in the press. Clearly he exists. But that man never showed himself to me.
Weinstein and Smith had a decades-long working relationship — starting with Smith’s feature debut, Clerks, which was picked up for distribution by the Weinstein-led Miramax, and which also included Mall Rats, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
Smith mentioned that Weinstein had recently approached him about making a sequel to the cult film Dogma, which deconstructed Christianity — particularly Roman Catholicism. Smith said he declined because he did not want to face the uproar that making a film about such a controversial topic would entail.
This follows up on Smith’s initial twitter statement, “He financed the first 14 years of my career — and now I know while I was profiting, others were in terrible pain. It makes me feel ashamed.”
He financed the first 14 years of my career – and now I know while I was profiting, others were in terrible pain. It makes me feel ashamed. https://t.co/T0hInW7EqJ
A spokeswoman for Women In Film confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that donating the residuals was Smith’s idea, and that they were currently working out the logistics.
“It’s historically much harder, of course, for a woman to get a film made than a man,” Smith noted. Concerned that the scandal will damage the profitability of the fims he made with Weinstein, he also pledged to give $2,000 a month to the organization “from now until the fucking day I die.”
“And hopefully that just goes to people that get to make shit without having to deal with some fucking animal saying, ‘Here’s the price,’ ” he said.
The first trailer for Fox’s X-Men spin-off The New Mutants dropped at midnight last night, and it looks like we are getting our first true horror-themed superhero film.
Starring rising stars Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones), Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch), Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things), Henry Zaga (13 Reasons Why) and Blu Hunt (The Originals) — The New Mutants appears to be taking its cues from the incredibly influential and deeply disturbing “Demon Bear” storyline from the original series.
The New Mutants comic was Marvel’s first try (of many) at capitalizing on the popularity of the X-Men franchise with a new title. After the original X-Men went missing, Professor X assembled a new team of young mutants and began training them. And the team stuck together even after the original X-Men returned.
While the book started as traditional superhero fare, and ended by being transformed into the testosterone-soaked, guns-and-swords, very ’90s X-Force, in between there was a period when artist Bill Sienkiewicz joined writer Chris Claremont and they pushed the envelope of superhero comics into unexplored areas — particularly horror.
Their first story together — The Demon Bear Saga — explores what happens when a supernatural entity from her past stalks Native American team member Danielle Moonstar (Mirage) eventually pulling the entire team into a mystical realm known as “The Badlands” where they must fight the demonic creature for their very souls.
Calls the actress/screenwriter “one of my heroes.”
Yahoo Movies recently sat down with Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson to talk about how the new trailer, why Porgs are so damn cute and how he decided what bits of plot and action to reveal and what to hide in the marketing campaign leading up to the movie.
But Johnson took a more serious tone when discussing what it meant to him to work with industry icon Carrie Fisher, who played Leia in the original trilogy.
“She was so conscious of the place that Leia had, not just broadly in the culture, but very specifically in terms of girls who grew up watching Star Wars when Leia was the only female hero on the screen,” Johnson says. “She really wanted to do right by that, drawing the character forward. That was something that she would always be pulling us back to. And for me it was fantastic, because besides all the other benefits of having a fantastic writer like Carrie there by my side while we’re making this movie, just having a voice that was like a compass needle that would always pull it back in the right direction of, This is what this character means and this is what we always have to make sure that she’s serving, with her strength and also with her weaknesses — showing a fully realized character who is going to be inspiring to the folks who grew up with Leia.”
Star Wars: The Last Jedi arrives in theaters on Dec. 15.
Trailer will debut during halftime of Monday Night Football
Tickets are also on sale now. You should go buy some.
Tonight, despite great personal aversion, I will be watching as little of Monday Night Football as possible while waiting for the debut of the first Last Jedi trailer.
We’re guessing that halftime will be about about 7 pm PST / 10 pm EST.
Considers him a “poor soul” who doesn’t “understand the character.”
Director James Cameron made headlines earlier this summer when he targeted the movie Wonder Woman for criticism, calling the film “a step backwards” for women in Hollywood, and compared the character unfavorably to Terminator‘s Sarah Connor.
“Sarah Connor was not a beauty icon. She was strong, she was troubled, she was a terrible mother, and she earned the respect of the audience through pure grit,” Cameron said. In contrast, he insinuated that Wonder Woman was “an objectified icon.”
Wonder Woman director Patti Jenkins hit back at Cameron’s slighting of everyone’s favorite Amazon. “If women have to always be hard, tough and troubled to be strong, and we aren’t free to be multidimensional or celebrate an icon of women everywhere because she is attractive and loving, then we haven’t come very far have we?”
Thursday, Lynda Carter, the original Wonder Woman, had her say.
To James Cameron -STOP dissing WW: You poor soul. Perhaps you do not understand the character. I most certainly do. Like all women–we are more than the sum of our parts. Your thuggish jabs at a brilliant director, Patty Jenkins, are ill advised. This movie was spot on. Gal Gadot was great. I know, Mr. Cameron–because I have embodied this character for more than 40 years. So–STOP IT.
Even though she hung up her tights 40 years ago, Lynda Carter is still showing us what it means to be a hero every day.
British actor Ed Skrein (Deadpool, Ajax) made waves on social media this past Tuesday, by announcing he was dropping out of Neil Marshall’s Hellboy reboot after learning the character he was slated to play, Major Ben Daimio, was of Asian descent in the original comics.
Skrein’s move has put Hellboy‘s producers in a tight spot. While he didn’t mention the word “whitewashing,” it’s hard to imagine they will be able to cast anyone but an Asia actor as Daimio now — a fact alluded to by the producers who released a statement later the same day.
Ed came to us and felt very strongly about this. We fully support his unselfish decision. It was not our intent to be insensitive to issues of authenticity and ethnicity, and we will look to recast the part with an actor more consistent with the character in the source material.
That’s great, but it is worth noting that they only made this decision after casting the lily-white Skrein, and then after Skrein publicly shamed them for doing so.
Comic-book movies have gotten it wrong more than they have gotten it right over the past decade, consistently casting white actors to play Asian characters. And some big name actors have gone along with the trend, including Tilda Swinton, playing the Tibetan Ancient One in Dr. Strange, Ben Kingsley playing the Chinese Mandarin in Iron Man 3 and Scarlett Johansson playing the Japanese Major Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell.
There was a public backlash in each of those cases, but the filmmakers and actors involved had rationales and excuses every time, and with the possible exception of Ghost in the Shell, the controversy didn’t appear to affect the bottom line.
But with a single post, Skrein changed the calculus on whitewashing characters in the future. Instead of asking them to defend or explain their casting, the question every actor handed such a role in will be asked is now: “Why didn’t you just quit?”
Skrein is hardly a household name. Passing up the opportunity to pad his resume with a surefire hit must have been difficult for him. His next job is not guaranteed and there was a possibility that he would be branded as “difficult,” making work harder to come by in the future.
What excuse does someone like Johannson, one of the highest-paid actors in the world, have?
Full Text of the Statements from Ed Skrein and the Producers of Hellboy
Ed Skrein
Last week it was announced that I would be playing Major Ben Daimio in the upcoming HELLBOY reboot. I accepted the role unaware that the character in the original comics was of mixed Asian heritage. There has been intense conversation and understandable upset since that announcement, and I must do what I feel is right.
It is clear that representing this character in a culturally accurate way holds significance for people, and that to neglect this responsibility would continue a worrying tendency to obscure ethnic minority stories and voices in the Arts. I feel it is important to honour and respect that. Therefore I have decided to step down so the role can be cast appropriately.
Representation of ethnic diversity is important, especially to me as I have a mixed heritage family. It is our responsibility to make moral decisions in difficult times and to give voice to inclusivity. It is my hope that one day these discussions will become less necessary and that we can help make equal representation in the Arts a reality.
I am sad to leave Hellboy but if this decision brings us closer to that day, it is worth it. I hope it makes a difference.
With love and hope,
Ed Skrein
Larry Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Lionsgate & Millennium
Ed came to us and felt very strongly about this. We fully support his unselfish decision. It was not our intent to be insensitive to issues of authenticity and ethnicity, and we will look to recast the part with an actor more consistent with the character in the source material.
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