Steven Soderbergh’s long-gestating adaptation of the 1960s hit series The Man From UNCLE seems to have come to the end of the road, according to reports emerging today. According to Deadline, Soderbergh has “dropped out of the project because he and Warner Bros couldn’t agree on budget,” although George Clooney’s decision not to take on the role of Napoleon Solo […]
Over thirty years after the release of the original double album, Jeff Wayne is completely revising his version of HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds for the new live […]
While the final season of Chuck rolls out in the States, star Yvonne Strahovski has found her first major post-Sarah Walker role, playing a “beautiful and gifted scientist” in the […]
Bryan Fuller’s reboot of the classic 1960s TV series The Munsters has received a pilot order from NBC less than two weeks after he delivered the script. According to the report at Deadline, NBC is looking at making The Munsters either a summer or an “event” series. The Pushing Daisies creator is also working on the script for his adaptation […]
Current Doctor Who head writer Steven Moffat has issued a tweet, apparently in response to the recent news that Harry Potter director David Yates is working on a film version of Doctor Who which will be completely separate from the TV series. “Announcing my personal moonshot, starting from scratch. No money, no plan, no help from NASA. But I know where […]
One of the most visually stunning fantasy epics of the 1980s is coming to Blu-ray this December, with the release of the original theatrical edition of Terry Gilliam’s movie Brazil […]
Harry Potter movie director David Yates is set to direct a big screen Doctor Who movie for the BBC. Yates told Daily Variety he was preparing to start work on […]
A few weeks ago, fantasy fans were surprised by the news that the Harry Potter team of director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves were going to tackle Stephen King’s The Stand as their next project. They were more surprised a little later when it was announced that Ben Affleck was taking both roles on the Warner Bros. film. Promoting […]
After achieving an international hit with The Walking Dead, AMC are looking for a new genre series, and have purchased Thunderstruck, a new hour-long UFO drama from The Exorcism of […]
Although it has been rumoured for some time that he would not be continuing on the hit BBC Three show, Russell Tovey has finally officially announced that he will be leaving Being Human. “I’ve actually left Being Human but no one [outside the production] knows yet,” he told The Guardian, explaining that Aidan Turner’s exit at the end of the third series […]
The X-Files’ erstwhile agent Krycek, Nicholas Lea, is caught up in more time travel antics in his latest role, as Untouchables leader Elliot Ness on Supernatural, according to TV Line. […]
As preparations for the fifth season of HBO’s vampire hit series continue, TV Line has revealed that My Name is Earl star Dale Dickey has been signed up for a recurring role as Annie, the werewolf mother of Marcus, the former werewolf packmaster. “Powerful and respected within the pack due to her late son’s position, Annie is determined to perform […]
Syfy has announced that they are developing three new scripted dramas with Star Trek‘s Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Supernatural‘s Brett Matthews and Person of Interest‘s David Slack as their executive producers. […]
Captain America‘s Hayley Atwell has joined David Morrissey and Hugh Bonneville in the cast of The Return of Captain Nemo, the 3D steampunk sequel that starts shooting in January. Atwell […]
The Showtime adaptation of Stephen King’s mammoth novel Under the Dome has finally got a writer, with comicbook scribe and Lost alumnus Brian K. Vaughan set to turn the thousand page novel into a workable miniseries screenplay. According to Deadline’s report, the Dreamworks series will be Showtime’s first foray into the genre field since the end of the supernatural series […]
Andrew Niccol’s sci-fi movie In Time will carry a credit acknowledging its debt to Harlan Ellison’s short story ‘Repent, Harlequin! Said The Tick-Tock Man’, first published in 1965. The move […]
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