August 2020 – Page 6 – Movie Retakes

Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reboot Replaces Directing Duo, Scraps Early Footage

Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot replaces directing duo, scraps early footage

Legendary’s forthcoming Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot has hit its first speed bump as directing duo Andy and Ryan Tohill have left the project over creative differences after one week of shooting and have been replaced by David Blue Garcia (Tejano), according to Deadline.

The duo reportedly left the production after Legendary saw early footage from production and didn’t take a liking to it, choosing to now toss it away and start the film from scratch. Sources report that the new film will be a direct sequel to the 1974 classic, much like the recent Halloween and Terminator: Dark Fate, and will be set in the present day.

The reboot will be produced by Fede Alvarez, who is known for directing Don’t Breathe and 2013’s Evil Dead, along with Rodolfo Sayagues through Bad Hombre banner.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre franchise centers around Leatherface and his backwoods family, who terrorize innocent visitors trespassing their lands in the isolated Texas countryside. The original film was directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist) and released in 1974. The franchise currently has a total of eight films with the most recent entry being the 2017 prequel simply titled Leatherface. Featuring cast members that included Matthew McConaughey, Renee Zellweger, Viggo Mortensen, and Dennis Hopper, the film series has grossed more than $235 million worldwide.

Legendary has had experience producing and reinventing films based on horror classics before such as Godzilla and King Kong who are now part of the same Monster-verse. They’ve also worked in horror with some original films like Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat and Krampus, plus the big budget Dracula Untold, and Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak.

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New Nutty Professor Film in Development from Project X Entertainment

Project X Entertainment has acquired the rights to the classic Jerry Lewis comedy The Nutty Professor with a new reboot in development from Project X’s James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, and Paul Neinstein, according to Deadline.

No studio, writer, or cast are attached to the project yet. Vanderbilt, who is producing and co-wrote the upcoming Scream 5 movie, is currently on board as a producer.

The original 1963 Nutty Professor movie, directed and co-written by star Jerry Lewis, follows a nerdy professor who in order to improve is love life, drinks a potion that temporarily turns him into the handsome, but obnoxious, Buddy Love. The Nutty Professor was rebooted by Universal Pictures in 1996 starring Eddie Murphy, which was followed-up by the 2000 sequel, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.

The Nutty Professor reboot will serve as Project X Entertainment’s second major IP relaunch following their Scream 5 project that will be distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Ready Or Not) and written by Guy Busick along with Vanderbilt. Scream 5 will feature the original franchise cast including Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette.

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CS Interview: Director Derrick Borte on Thriller Unhinged

CS Interview: Director Derrick Borte on thriller Unhinged

As the film is finally racing to theaters as the first major theatrical release of the summer, ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with director Derrick Borte (American Dreamer) to discuss his latest thriller Unhinged led by Russell Crowe and Caren Pistorius.

When it came to looking at wanting to step into the director’s chair for the project, Borte explained that his interested “started with the script,” calling Carl Ellsworth’s work one in which “you just keep turning the pages because you have to see what happens next,” as well as getting to partner with Solstice and the rest of the production team. Though it was a conversation he never thought he’d be able to have, landing Russell Crowe for the brutal antagonist came from making a wishlist of potential stars and putting hope out there.

“It was just one of those things where it seemed like it was worth saying out loud. ‘Probably never happen, but I gotta say it,’” Borte stated. “Then Russell read the script and we met and we kind of went along through the process together and he watched my last film, American Dreamer, and called me immediately and told me, ‘I love the film’ and said, ‘I want to make this film with you.’ It just sort of seemed like it was the perfect role for him.”

While his star may have been hesitant to initially step into the role upon receiving the script, Borte found that once Crowe had signed on and the two began discussing the film he developed a great “back and forth” rapport with the Oscar winner in further developing the character to bring to life on screen.

“I think some of the best stuff comes from that, some of the best things that end up on camera come from that back and forth,” Borte opined. “I think with Russell, it was always just about how to ground it and how to base it in some kind of reality and keep it authentic and that was an ongoing conversation for the entire run of the shoot. Breaking down every one of The Man’s actions to try to make sure they were motivated, make sure they came from this real place that we kind of created with the backstory for this guy.”

Given the film is mostly set within the car of Caren Pistorius’ Rachel as she races around the unidentified metropolis to escape Crowe’s antagonist and protect her family, Borte noted that “cars are always tricky,” especially with figuring out the “logistics of trying to shoot in and around a moving vehicle” and that it proved to be one of the biggest challenges during production.

“You combine that with driving erratically in that crazy weather we were dealing with in New Orleans, it was a challenge every day trying to figure out how to adapt to whatever we were being dealt as it related to the car and trying to find a way to capture it,” Borte described. “Any given day was something, we had these things called pod cars where a stunt driver that’s on the roof of the car is actually the one driving so that the actor wouldn’t have to drive and act at the same time, especially during the more erratic sequences, and those things are prone to breaking down. So whether it would be the pod car breaking down or lightning strikes shutting us down for hours or ridiculous temperatures up in the hundred and teens, there were obstacles every day in trying to shoot this in vehicles, but thankfully with the great team that we had we were able to find a way to make it work every day.”

One of the most important things for Borte in keeping the film on the road was bringing a claustrophobic feeling to the majority of the scenes, which he credited to changing the location from the originally planned New Orleans suburb of Kenner, which was “all pretty flat” and lacked “interesting architecture,” to the warehouse district of the Louisiana city.

“I saw the gas station first, but with the overpasses in the distance behind it, I just had to stop the van and we just got out and walked the path of where I wanted this chase to happen so that it was taking place in these underpasses just to feel like more claustrophobic and more like she was a rat in a cage, just sort of trapped,” Borte expressed. “From that first day, that’s where all of that was shot, we used the parking lot for the World War II museum down there, which is along just these beautiful underpasses and I really wanted the whole thing to feel like a cage to amp up that tension.”

With a number of major vehicular set pieces throughout the film, which allowed Borte to tap into “the seven-year-old in me playing with Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars” and getting to blow things up and crash cars, he actually found one of his favorite sequences to be the diner confrontation between Crowe’s antagonist and Jimmi Simpson’s Andy.

“It’s one of those scenes where for me as a director I get to sit back and watch two actors on that level work together and bring it the after take and give me options that I know I’m going to love in the edit room,” Borte brightly explained. “That was one of those experiences, those couple of days there with that scene, that really stands out to me.”

That being said, the action on the road did allow Borte to see his stars get behind the wheel and show their stunt driving skills, namely Crowe, who has done much of his own stunt driving in the past and “never used a pod car once” during the entirety of Unhinged‘s production.

“When you’ve got a very controlled environment, it’s always great to have the actors drive because it’s business, it’s something for them to do so that they’re not in their head as much,” Borte noted. “Caren proved to be a good driver, so we tried to let her drive whenever it was safe to do so, just because I feel it helps the performance a little bit. Russell’s done so much stunt driving himself, in fact a couple of my stunt guys who had worked with him in the past immediately were just like, ‘Oh yeah, Russell’s great, he can do this and that, we’re not worried about him.’ He showed us how his stunt driving was and it was pretty spectacular, but Caren held her own as well.”

The film, which was originally slated to hit theaters in July, will now be hitting theaters on August 21, with the official statement confirming that though not all theaters will be open in time for the release, forecasts show that more will open up the film’s second weekend of release and that “80 percent” of moviegoers were surveyed and said they would “definitely attend” the film in theaters.

Unhinged is a psychological thriller starring Academy Award-winner Crowe (Gladiator) from Ellsworth, the writer of Red Eye and Disturbia, and Lisa Ellzey, the producer of Warrior and Kingdom of Heaven. The film explores the fragile balance of a society pushed to the edge, taking something we’ve all experienced- road rage – to an unpredictable and terrifying conclusion. Rachel (Pistorius) is running late to work when she has an altercation at a traffic light with a stranger (Crowe) whose life has left him feeling powerless and invisible. Soon, Rachel finds herself and everyone she loves the target of a man who decides to make one last mark upon the world by teaching her a series of deadly lessons. What follows is a dangerous game of cat and mouse that proves you never know just how close you are to someone who is about to become unhinged.

The film is directed by Derrick Borte (American Dreamer) and also stars Caren Pistorius (Mortal Engines), Gabriel Bateman (Lights Out, Child’s Play), Jimmi Simpson (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Westworld) and Austin P. McKenzie (When We Rise).

Unhinged is in theaters now!

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Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula Review

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Rating:

7.5/10

Cast:

Gang Dong-won as Jung-seok

Lee Jung-hyun as Min-jung

Lee Re as Jooni

Kwon Hae-hyo as Old Man Kim

Lee Ye-won as Yu-jin

Kim Do-yoon as Chul-min

Kim Min-jae as Sergeant Hwang

Koo Kyo-hwan as Captain Seo

Written and Directed by Yeon Sang-ho

Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula Review:

After delivering one of the best and most-compelling zombie films ever with 2016’s blockbuster hit Train to Busan, South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho is making his comeback this year with a brand-new horror film set within the first film’s universe. Peninsula has maintained the original’s exhilarating sequences which sets up another potential international success for Yeon. However, this time, the film had struggled to find the right balance between the action and the narrative. Despite bringing the action to a higher scale, this highly-anticipated sequel doesn’t quite stick the landing and has lost the special spark that the original film had.

In the film, four years has passed since the prosperous and advance country of South Korea had faced its untimely demise due to a zombie outbreak that swept throughout its peninsula, leaving it as an unsalvageable wasteland. The sequel centers around a former soldier named Jung-seok, who is one of the fortunate people that were able to escape the apocalypse and is now a refugee in Hong Kong. However, despite surviving the horror, he remains to live in grief and guilt for not being able to save his entire family. Jung-seok along with other three Korean refugees including his estranged brother-in-law Chul-min have been tasked by a group of Hong Kong gangsters to go back to their country to retrieve bags of cash containing millions of U.S. dollars. When the four of them have successfully arrived to their destination, they’ll soon realize that the zombies are not their only problem. With the unexpected arrival of survivors, who have already fully-adapted with the challenges of their new world, Jung-seok and his team will get to see first-hand the best and worst of human nature.

Unlike the first one, Peninsula doesn’t take place in one day which I think is intentional in order to accommodate its large scale and expanding story. Even though the sequel isn’t exactly a follow-up to the first one, it still offers more insight on the events that happened during and after the outbreak which will give the audience an idea on what happened to the two surviving characters of the first film, who we’ve last seen safely arriving in Busan. Through this sequel, we get to learn that unfortunately there is really no safe place in Korea and that the disease was contained within the country.

Director Yeon found a way to set his film apart from other zombie films by not taking the outbreak to a global scope. Because of this, it allowed the film to portray problems that are parallel to real-life experiences concerning refugees and people who weren’t lucky enough to escape worst environments. In this film, we can see that the rest of the world are still enjoying a normal life while survivors left in Korea are already living an unimaginable post-apocalyptic world. This aspect of the story is actually one of the interesting things about it.

Like the original, this film has effectively combined a popular horror genre with a very humane story that explored different sides of human nature in the face of adversity. Despite that, Yeon’s sequel sadly wasn’t able to surpass expectations regarding its storytelling and character developments. I know Train to Busan is a hard feat to follow but it’s still underwhelming to see that the sequel has failed to replicate the same compelling story as the first film.

Peninsula was led by award-winning actors’ Gang Dong-won and Lee Jung-hyun with Gang taking over the male lead role from Train to Busan’s Gong Yoo. Interestingly, the 40-year-old actor was born in Busan and has starred in a number of popular Korean films like Too Beautiful to Lie and Secret Reunion. However, Gang Dong-won’s portrayal of Jung-seok is admittedly not his best performance. His character lacks the power and charisma that the first film’s lead had showcased. Despite both playing flawed characters, Gang’s Jung-seok wasn’t able to fully-represent a person that is worthy of redemption which would make viewers sympathize or root more for Gong Yoo’s portrayal of a workaholic father.

Even though the sequel’s cast didn’t provide a dynamic ensemble performance just like Train to Busan’s cast, who had made us engrossed in each of their characters’ survival, the sequel has still managed to produce standout performances coming from Lee Jung-hyun’s Min-jung and the child actresses who portrayed her character’s daughters, Lee Re and Lee Ye-won. In the film, their characters were three of the survivors who weren’t able to escape and were left to fend for themselves. I personally think that director Yeon should have focus the story on their characters from the start because these trio would absolutely be everyone’s favorites as they all delivered memorable performances.

I’ve first seen Lee Jung-hyun’s absorbing acting talent in the 2017 film Battleship Island where she gave an incredible portrayal of a comfort woman during the Japanese colonization. Surely enough, she didn’t disappoint and have delivered yet another moving performance as a determined and reliable mother in Peninsula. Despite being supporting characters, Lee Re and Lee Ye-won have easily captivated the audience with their charming and playful performances as Jooni and Yu-jin, who have found a way to enjoy life in a bleak and somewhat hopeless world.

As for its cinematography and set design, director Yeon and the film’s cinematographer Lee Mo-gae have done a good job of fulfilling the promise of taking the action to a whole new level. The thrilling car chase sequences are definitely one of the sequel’s highlights. The best description that I could described it, is like if Fast & Furious is set within The Walking Dead universe. What makes it even cooler is that the sequences are reminiscent of George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road which was actually one of the inspirations for director Yeon’s sequel.

However, regardless of the standout performances and suspense-filled action, the sequel’s story-telling and pacing had still felt rush which resulted to faulty character developments. I also think that because of the sequel’s desire to level up the action, it shifted its focused to delivering more action scenes which in the end became a disservice to its story-telling. It had unfortunately loss the intensity and heart that Train to Busan had originally boasted.

Overall, despite my few criticisms about Peninsula, I can’t deny the fact that the sequel is undoubtedly a highly-entertaining movie that everyone would still enjoy. It’s always been a difficult task and a great deal of pressure for directors to make a follow-up film that would surpass its predecessor, especially if it’s a well-received film like Train to Busan. Director Yeon had clearly a tough job and because of that, I still commend him for developing a new horror universe which has unbounded potential for more humane stories. The sequel may not possess the long-lasting impact that Train to Busan had on the audience, but it is still a good addition to the zombie genre.

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Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula Review: A Derivative & Disappointing Slog

Rating:

4/10

Cast:

Gang Dong-won as Jung-seok

Lee Jung-hyun as Min-jung

Lee Re as Joon

Kwon Hae-hyo as Elder Kim

Kim Min-jae as Sergeant first class Hwang

Koo Kyo-hwan as Captain Seo

Kim Do-yoon as Chul-min

Lee Ye-won as Yu-jin

Co-Written & Directed by Yeon Sang-ho; Co-Written by Park Joo-Suk

Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula Review:

2016’s Train to Busan was one of the most surprising and original efforts in the zombie genre in a long time and with an ending leaving just enough open for a possibly interesting follow-up, the announcement of Peninsula was one of the brightest bits of news to come from the film world but sadly, the film can’t live up to the high bar set by its predecessor and is instead an overblown, unoriginal slog.

When the zombie outbreak swept the entire nation, Jung-seok (Gang Dong-won) barely escaped South Korea alive. While living a life of despair in Hong Kong, he receives an enticing offer to return to the quarantined peninsula. His mission is to retrieve an abandoned truck in the middle of Seoul within a time limit and escape the peninsula silently. But his operation goes haywire when a mysterious militia known as Unit 631 ambushes Jung-seok’s small team, as well as even more vicious hordes of zombies. In his most desperate moment, Min-jung’s (Lee Jung-hyun) family saves him and he plans one last chance to escape the peninsula once and for all.

One of the best things about the first film was its simple setup of “zombies on a train” that was supported by fully realized characters and socio-political commentary littered throughout and while a sequel certainly can’t just repeat the same formula as its predecessor, it shouldn’t shoot for Neptune when its original destination was Mars. The story and world of the film is so hurriedly introduced to audiences who are supposed to accept the new social system of the titular post-apocalyptic land that it makes it hard for viewers to care or find their footing before their quickly thrown into the next plot point while also losing the claustrophobic nature of the original that made it a pulse-pounding ride from start to finish.

Not only is the world expanded far too quickly, but it’s also a rather uninteresting and unoriginal build that borrows far too heavily from other post-apocalyptic societies such as War for the Planet of the Apes or Escape From New York rather than seek out its own take on what a zombie-infested quarantined island would be like. There always has to be a mildly-successful pack of people with a crazed military man in the mix and disturbing hobbies to keep survivors in line, and while this film’s zombie tag game is certainly horrifying to look at, it’s also wildly underwhelming as the few times we see it, it plays out the same way each time.

Though from an entirely different genre, the film would’ve done better to take a page or two from the book of the Die Hard franchise when it came to building up its world, gradually increasing the size and scope of its setting rather than rushing into as grandiose an environment as possible. This formula and structuring would also have helped better establish the possibility of a third and final installment in the franchise in the biggest area yet rather than leaving audiences wondering where could the filmmakers possibly go next in a follow-up.

Another major problem with the film comes in its action sequences, which utilize far more and far worse CGI effects than the similarly CGI-heavy zombie blockbuster World War Z as well as shifting from zombie on human survival sequences to a lot of car chases and shootouts between survivors that again feel very out of place for an immediate follow-up to Busan. There’s no denying the practical action is very well-executed, especially some of the gun fu on display in the final act, but where the original saw dozens of real people acting as zombies with occasional CGI used to beef up the crowd here and there, this film brings cartoonish hordes of the walking dead akin to the Brad Pitt-starring pic that just feel weightless and unscary when they’re seen.

Not to mention the fact these computer-generated walkers are primarily seen in the extensive and awful-looking car sequences littered throughout the film, which only makes these scenes far worse than they would have been if there were no zombies in them. Understandably, it’d be hard to make believable car chases in a post-apocalyptic city without I Am Legend-level budgeting, but with a lack of solid visual effects, every car scene looks worse than half of all video games released on two-generation-ago consoles and induce groans from audiences rather than excitement.

While it has the occasional thrilling action sequence and a phenomenal opening that sets it up for greatness, Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula proves to be a lackluster, unoriginal and awful-CGI-heavy drag that not only fails to reach the high bar its predecessor set, but crawls along the ground underneath it.

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Matt Reeves Talks The Batman & Gotham PD TV Series During DC FanDome

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Matt Reeves Talks The Batman & Gotham PD TV Series During DC FanDome

Matt Reeves stopped by DC FanDome and dropped a lot of info about The Batman which is sure to delight fans of the character. The director also hinted at the plotline surrounding HBO Max’s own Gotham City series, which will take place during Batman’s first year on the job and will be told from the point of view of a dirty cop and center on the “battle for his soul” as the story dives into the “corrupt police department and the corrupt inner workings of the city.”

Reeves moved at a rapid pace — he is clearly passionate about this project — so, here were some of his major talking points regarding The Batman:

Reeves: “Paul Dano plays a version of the Riddler that no one has ever seen before. I think it’s gonna blow people’s minds.”
Pattinson reached out to Christian Bale for advice and The Dark Knight star told him to make sure the suit allowed him to, ahem, stay comfortable.
Reeves didn’t want people recognizing Gotham City, so he shot the film in Liverpool and enhanced it with CGI to give it a different look.
Reeves: “Selina isn’t Catwoman yet, that’s part of the journey. Oz isn’t the kingpin that he’ll become. Riddler is just emerging for the first time. Andy [Serkis] is playing a version of Alfred we’ve never seen before. And [Jeffrey] Wright is playing a version of Gordon we’ve never seen.”
Reeves: “The thing about Robert Pattinson is he’s an incredible actor. He’s also this tremendous fan of Batman just as I am. It’s been great to share this excitement with him. He looks like Batman but has the soul of someone who could play Batman.”
Reeves explained that this Batman is not yet the beacon of hope for the city. “He’s still early in the trajectory, and they’re afraid of him. The public is afraid. That’s one of the things he will confront in the story.”
The biggest difference from other Batmans is that Pattinson’s caped crusader makes mistakes and is still growing. “For me what was exciting was not doing that (the origin) but instead to meet him in the criminological evolution of Batman. To see him making mistakes, that he’s flawed. To make the audience feel how he feels.”
Reeves: “I’d say we spent easily a year to do the Batsuit and then to get into the Batmobile and that, of course, that part’s a dream.”
Reeves wanted to make a story that felt like it would happen in real life and drew comparisons to Chinatown and Taxi Driver.
Reeves: “I personally love Affleck as Batman. I thought he was amazing. I’m really excited for the new cut Zack has of Justice League. I can’t wait to see that.”
The production has only shot 25-30% of the movie so far.
Reeves said that HBO Max’s Gotham City PD series will take the story back to Year One and is set before the film: “The idea is we go back to Year One. Year One is the beginning, it’s the first appearance of this masked vigilante that unsettles the city.” The series is meant to dive deeper into the corrupt police department: “You start to see the story through the point of view of these corrupt cops and one in particular. The story is actually a battle for his soul. He’s a cop over generations and the history of corruption in Gotham is enormous and goes back many years.”

Starring alongside Robert Pattinson’s Batman/Bruce Wayne is Zoë Kravitz (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Mad Max: Fury Road) as Selina Kyle; Paul Dano (Love & Mercy, 12 Years a Slave) as Edward Nashton; Jeffrey Wright (the Hunger Games films) as the GCPD’s James Gordon; John Turturro (the Transformers films) as Carmine Falcone; Peter Sarsgaard (The Magnificent Seven, Black Mass) as Gotham D.A. Gil Colson; Jayme Lawson (Farewell Amor) as mayoral candidate Bella Reál; with Andy Serkis (the Planet of the Apes films, Black Panther) as Alfred; and Colin Farrell (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Dumbo) as Oswald Cobblepot. Twins Max and Charlie Carver have also joined the movie in “sizable roles.”

During DC FanDome, Reeves confirmed the movie will focus on Bruce Wayne’s second year as Batman, and, per Walter Hamada, that the film is set in a different universe separate from the Justice League DCEU characters. Reeves also revealed that the movie is a detective story that follows a series of murders that open up the history of corruption in Gotham and how Bruce’s family is linked.

Reeves and Dylan Clark (the Planet of the Apes films) are producing the film, with Simon Emanuel, Michael E. Uslan, Walter Hamada, and Chantal Nong Vo serving as executive producers.

The Batman opens in theaters on October 1, 2021.

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DC FanDome: Watch the First Teaser for Matt Reeves’ The Batman!

DC FanDome: Watch the First Teaser for Matt Reeves' The Batman!

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DC FanDome: Watch the First Teaser for Matt Reeves’ The Batman!

During DC FanDome, Matt Reeves shared the epic first teaser for the highly-anticipated movie The Batman, set to Nirvana’s “Something in the Way,” and starring Robert Pattinson in a new take on the caped crusader, which you can check out now in the player below!

During DC FanDome, Reeves confirmed the movie will focus on Bruce Wayne’s second year as Batman, and, per Walter Hamada, that the film is set in a different universe separate from the Justice League DCEU characters. Reeves also shared that the movie is a detective story that follows a series of murders that open up the history of corruption in Gotham and how Bruce’s family is linked.

Reeves and Dylan Clark (the Planet of the Apes films) are producing the film, with Simon Emanuel, Michael E. Uslan, Walter Hamada, and Chantal Nong Vo serving as executive producers.

The Batman opens in theaters on October 1, 2021.

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New Photos From The Batman Show Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne

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New Photos From The Batman Show Robert Pattinson’s Bruce Wayne

As part of DC FanDome, Warner Bros. released a new batch of photos from Matt Reeves’ The Batman showing Robert Pattinson’s brooding Bruce Wayne. Check out the images in the gallery below!

If you’re excited about these, wait till you see what we have for you in #TheBatman panel at #DCFanDome starting at 5:30 PST. pic.twitter.com/hzSm4zV7i0

— Warner Bros. Pictures (@wbpictures) August 22, 2020

Plot details are still being kept under wraps but The Batman is reportedly set to explore the Dark Knight’s younger years with Reeves further hinting at the film’s connection to the iconic comic book story arc “Year One” by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli which was published in 1987.

Reeves and Dylan Clark (the Planet of the Apes films) are producing the film, with Simon Emanuel, Michael E. Uslan, Walter Hamada, and Chantal Nong Vo serving as executive producers.

The Batman opens in theaters on October 1, 2021.

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DC FanDome: Shazam! Fury of the Gods Revealed as the Sequel’s Title!

DC FanDome: Shazam! Fury of the Gods Revealed as the Sequel's Title!

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DC FanDome: Shazam! Fury of the Gods Revealed as the Sequel’s Title!

During the Shazam! DC FanDome panel, Zachary Levi and the cast joked about how they were unable to share anything about the upcoming sequel before director David F. Sandberg confirmed the Shazam! 2 title as Shazam! Fury of the Gods.

We have a title! #Shazam! Fury of the Gods
What gods? Why are they upset? Yes! pic.twitter.com/QPGJwjghUx

— David F. Sandberg (@ponysmasher) August 22, 2020

It was previously reported that screenwriter Henry Gayden had signed on to return to craft a sequel for the comedic superhero effort with director David F. Sandberg (Annabelle: Creation) returning alongside producer Peter Safran and cast members Zachary Levi, Jack Dylan Grazer, Marta Milans, Asher Angel, Meagan Good, Faithe Herman, and Adam Brody.

In the first film, we all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s (Angel) case, by shouting out one word—SHAZAM!—this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart—inside a ripped, godlike body—Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? Shazam sets out to test the limits of his abilities with the joyful recklessness of a child. But he’ll need to master these powers quickly in order to fight the deadly forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Strong).

The Shazam! cast includes Asher Angel (Andi Mack) as Billy Batson, Djimon Hounsou (Guardians of the Galaxy) as The Wizard, and Mark Strong (Kingsman) in the role of Super-Villain Dr. Thaddeus Sivana. The film also stars Jack Dylan Grazer (IT) as Billy’s best friend and ultimate superhero enthusiast, Freddy, part of the foster family that includes Mary, played by Grace Fulton (Annabelle: Creation); Darla, played by Faithe Herman (This is Us); Eugene, played by Ian Chen (Fresh Off the Boat); and Pedro, played by Jovan Armand (Hawaii Five-0). Cooper Andrews (The Walking Dead) and Marta Milans (Killer Women) play foster parents Victor and Rosa Vasquez.

Shazam! Fury of the Gods is currently slated for a November 4, 2022 release!

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James Wan Says Aquaman 2 Will Be More Serious and Grounded in Our Modern World

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James Wan Says Aquaman 2 Will Be More Serious and Grounded in Our Modern World

During DC FanDome’s Aquaman panel, James Wan and Patrick Wilson reflected on the first movie but still managed to slip in a few details about the anticipated sequel. The most important thing Wan revealed was that the sequel would be more serious and grounded in our world.

“I would say the sequel will be a little more serious and a little more relevant to the world we’re living in today,” Wan said.

When he asked Wilson what he was looking forward to, the actor replied he wanted to see more worlds. Naturally, Wan assured him there will be plenty of new unique places to explore once the sequel finally rolls around.

Aquaman became the biggest success for the DC films, which have a history of faltering at the box office, with the exception of Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman. It grossed over $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office earning its spot as the highest-grossing DC film of all-time for Warner Bros, and revealed the origin story of half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry (Momoa) and took him on the journey of his lifetime — one that forced him to face who he really is, but to discover if he is worthy of who he was born to be… a king.

Aquaman also starred Amber Heard (Justice League, Magic Mike XXL) as Mera, a fierce warrior and Aquaman’s ally throughout his journey; Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe (Platoon, Spider-Man 2) as Vulko, counsel to the Atlantean throne; Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring films, Watchmen) as Orm/Ocean Master, the present King of Atlantis; Dolph Lundgren (The Expendables films) as Nereus, King of the Atlantean tribe Xebel; Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Baywatch, The Get Down) as the vengeful Black Manta; and Oscar winner Nicole Kidman (The Hours, Lion) as Arthur’s mom, Atlanna. Also starring is Ludi Lin (Power Rangers) as Captain Murk, Atlantean Commando, and Temeura Morrison (Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Green Lantern) as Arthur’s dad, Tom Curry.