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No Time to Die International trailer features new footage

The international trailer for Cary Joji Fukunaga’s long-delayed Bond film No Time to Die has been released, featuring new footage which gives us an idea about the connection between Rami Malek’s character and Lea Seydoux’s Madeleine Swann as well as the villain’s plans. Featuring Daniel Craig in his last outing as the iconic Agent 007, the film is still currently on track for a November 20 release. Check out the video in the player below!

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Confirmed cast members returning for the film include Daniel Craig reprising his iconic role as James Bond for the last time, Ralph Fiennes as M, Lea Seydoux (Spectre), Naomie Harris as Moneypenny, Ben Whishaw as A, with Rory Kinnear as Tanner and Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter. New cast members confirmed for the film include Dali Benssalah, Billy Magnussen, Ana De Armas, David Dencik, Lashana Lynch, and Rami Malek.

Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective) will direct No Time to Die which features a script written by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade, Scott Z. Burns with Cary Joji Fukunaga and Emmy winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve).

EON Productions and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios have partnered with Universal Pictures on the worldwide release of the 25th James Bond film. The superspy’s previous outing, Spectre, opened in U.S. theaters on November 16, 2015. The film earned $200 million domestically and $680.6 million internationally, for a worldwide total of $880.7 million.

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You can pick up Daniel Craig’s entire James Bond filmography here.

No Time to Die was due to hit theaters in the UK on April 3, and on April 10, in the US, but will now hit theaters in the former on November 12 and the latter on November 20.

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The Comeback Trail Trailer Starring Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman & Tommy Lee Jones

Cloudburst Entertainment has released the official trailer for the upcoming action-comedy The Comeback Trail, starring Academy Award winners Robert De Niro (The Irishman, Raging Bull, Silver Linings Playbook), Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby, Invictus, The Shawshank Redemption), and Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive, Lincoln, No Country for Old Men). You can check out the trailer now in the player below!

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In The Comeback Trail, two movie producers who owe money to the mob set up their aging movie star for an insurance scam to try and save themselves. But they wind up getting more than they ever imagined.

The movie also stars Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild, The Girl Next Door, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood), Golden Globe nominee Zach Braff (Scrubs, Garden State, Wish I Was Here), Eddie Griffin (A Star Is Born, Malcolm & Eddie, The New Guy), and Kate Katzman (Walt Before Mickey, Adverse, This Is the Year).

The Comeback Trail was directed by George Gallo (Bad Boys, Midnight Run, Middle Men), who co-wrote the script along with Josh Posner (This Miserable Thing Called Life).

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The movie was produced by Patrick Hibler, Phil Kim, David E. Ornston, and Richard Salvatore. It will be released in theaters on Friday, November 13, 2020.

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Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King special now available on Disney+

As a way to continue to honor the late Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, the ABC News special titled Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King – A Special Edition of 20/20 has now been made available for streaming on Disney+, nearly a week after it aired on ABC last Sunday.

The special can be found on Disney+ under the “Extras” section for Marvel Studios’ Black Panther.

Executive produced by Steven Baker, Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King special celebrates Boseman’s storied life, legacy, and career and the cultural imprint he made on- and off-screen. Hosted by Robin Roberts, the program features tributes that have poured in from celebrities, political figures, and fans across the world, special words from those who starred alongside him and knew Boseman best and shine a light on the medical condition he privately battled.

RELATED: Michael B. Jordan Shares His Tribute To Black Panther Star Chadwick Boseman

Before gaining worldwide recognition for his role as T’Challa/ Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he first received accolades for his first starring role in 2013’s Jackie Robinson baseball biopic 42, and followed that historic portrayal with two more: As singer James Brown in 2014’s Get on Up, and then as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in 2017’s Marshall.

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Explore the Far Corners of the DC Multiverse in the New DC FanDome Trailer

DC has released the official trailer for DC FanDome: Explore the Multiverse, the second part of DC’s virtual event that will stream for 24 hours beginning Saturday, September 12. You can watch the trailer now in the player below!

RELATED: DC FanDome Generated 22 Million Global Views During 24-Hour Event

The upcoming DC FanDome: Explore the Multiverse event, another 24-hour on-demand experienced accessed via DCFanDome.com, will be unleashed on Saturday, September 12 at 10:00 a.m. PDT, with nearly 100 hours of content available for fans to watch on demand and on their own schedule.

This is the time for fans to suit up and determine their own adventure, selecting from exclusive panel sessions, screenings, and never-before-seen content from the DC Multiverse of films, television, comics, and games. Fans, your timeline awaits—at your own pace and on your own schedule. Choose your path wisely with the help of the official DC FanDome: Explore the Multiverse program scheduler found at DCFanDome.com. It doesn’t have the 12th-level intellect of Brainiac, but it will certainly be a great guide to help you explore the Multiverse on September 12!

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

DC Kids FanDome will also launch on Saturday, September 12 at 10:00 a.m. PDT with its own kid-friendly companion site DCKidsFanDome.com accessible on demand for 24 hours.

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Watched at Home: Top 20 Streaming Films for the Week of August 28

Hey there, fellow couch potatoes! You did it. You made it through another week. Now, it’s time to look back on the films/TV shows that guided you through those long meetings, agonizing commutes and awkward conversations with overzealous co-workers via The Digital Entertainment Group’s Watched at Home Top 20. Let’s do this thing!

RELATED: September 1 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases

First off, kudos for finally knocking Trolls World Tour out of the top two spots for the first time since its debut in June. It was time. And now, cooler heads have prevailed and bumped Taylor Sheridan and John Linston’s Yellowstone to the top of the charts! A round of applause for everybody who contributed to this amazing achievement. The first three seasons have linger in the Top 5 for quite a while now, which means word of mouth is only gaining traction for the hit TV series that stars Kevin Costner as a farmer who adopts an alien son and raises him to be Superman battles the world entire for land.

David Ayer’s The Tax Collector dropped to No. 4 this week followed by The King of Staten Island. The real surprises came in the form of past films like Black Panther which made its debut at No. 9 following the shocking death of star (and all around good guy) Chadwick Boseman. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey also leapt onto the list thanks to the release of Bill & Ted Face the Music.

A little farther down saw the return of Harry Potter (?) and a random appearance from Game of Thrones: Season 1-8. Please let us know if the finale was better after the second go-round or if it was still layered with bitter disappointment.

1 Yellowstone: S1 (Paramount)
2 Yellowstone: S3 (Paramount)
3 Yellowstone: S2 (Paramount)
4 The Tax Collector (RLJ Entertainment)
5 The King of Staten Island (Universal)
6 Trolls World Tour (DreamWorks/Universal)
7 The Silencing (Lionsgate, 2020)
8 The Vanished (Paramount, 2020)
9 Black Panther (Disney)
10 Made in Italy (IFC Films, 2020)
11 The Outpost (Screen Media)
12 Sonic the Hedgehog (Paramount)
13 Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (MGM)
14 Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (MGM)
15 Harry Potter: Complete 8-film Collection (Warner)
16 The Rental (IFC Films, 2020)
17 Game of Thrones: S1-8 (Warner)
18 Tesla (IFC Films)
19 Deep Blue Sea 3 (Warner)
20 1917 (Universal)

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CS Interview: Jayma Mays & Erinn Hayes on Bill & Ted Face the Music

ComingSoon.net had the opportunity to speak with Jayma Mays (Red Eye, Drunk History) and Emmy nominee Erinn Hayes (Childrens Hospital, They Came Together) about starring in Orion Pictures’ Bill & Ted Face the Music. You can check out the interview below and click here to purchase Bill & Ted Face the Music!

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Bill & Ted Face the Music centers on Bill S. Preston (Winter) and Ted “Theodore” Logan (Reeves), who are now fathers and have yet to fulfill their rock ‘n’ roll destinies. Their lives change when they are visited by a messenger from the future who warns them that only their song can save life as we know it.

Click here to own Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure!

Click here to own Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey!

Joining Winter and Reeves are Samara Weaving (Ready or Not) and Brigette Lundy-Paine (Atypical) as Bill and Ted’s daughters, respectively. The film will also feature Anthony Carrigan (Barry), Jillian Bell (Workaholics), Kristen Schall (Toy Story 4), Holland Taylor (Gloria Bell), Kid Cudi, Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mays, and Beck Bennet. William Sadler is also set to reprise his role as Death alongside franchise returners Amy Stoch and Hal London Jr. Newcomer.

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ComingSoon.net: The Bill & Ted franchise is obviously an iconic one and one that seems to be so fun to be a part of. But what was it about Face the Music that really interested you both in wanting to join? 

Erinn Hayes: Well, I mean, listen, I loved these movies when they came out. I just absolutely did. I watched them multiple times. My brother and I were obsessed with them. And then, I honestly thought there was no chance. Like this audition came around and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s cute. They’ll see me for this, but they’re definitely going to get somebody who’s like, legitimately famous for this.’ And then, I got the part and I was like, wait, what? Like I really get to be in Bill & Ted? This is one of the coolest things to ever happen to me. So just to be a part of whatever it turns out to be, this next iteration of these iconic movies was very exciting for myself.

Jayma Mays: Well, yeah, and the same for me. I actually remember the audition coming in. And before they even had — they were like, there’s this audition for Bill & Ted, I was like, yes, yes. Going in, whatever it is, going in, I will play the phone booth if that part is available. Whatever you’ve got.

Hayes: I would love to see your audition for the phone booth.

Mays: You know what? That part was already cast. And they were like, ah, damn it… And I had a great fit for it. But no, I was super excited. And then it was a similar thing. I told my husband, I was like, there is this audition for Bill & Ted. He’s like, ‘Yes, yes, you’re going in, you’re going in. I will pay them to let you be a part of this movie.’

CS: That’s awesome. So then, one of the nice things, too, about this one is that Joanna and Elizabeth, they both get more expanded and developed roles in comparison to the past. What was that like for you seeing this further evolution of these two characters in comparison to their predecessors?

Hayes: Yeah, you don’t know much about them in the previous movies. And we actually got a chance. Like we get on set and we went into this like, three or four hour like, script session, where we talked about these therapy scenes and about the relationship and what long-term relationships are, what they’ve been doing for all these years and how they view each other as sisters and their spouses and where they were at. So it was really fun to like, jump in like that. I thought we’d just show up and get on the set and maybe rehearse it a couple of times and do it, but we got to really work on it and develop it, which was a wonderful time.

Mays: Yeah, I think they were very inclusive. Like way more so than most jobs I’ve ever had.

Hayes: Yeah.

Mays: And I felt very lucky to be a part of that kind of discussion of kind of who we want these people to be. And actually, I had a really good time working with Erinn, you, Erinn, as–

Hayes: Me Erinn?

Mays: You, Erinn. Because I always feel like we always wanted to make sure like, you know, they’re sisters and there were these ideas of maybe finishing each other’s sentences and just kind of being one with each other, in a way, because there’s all these couplets on set of Bill and Ted and then the daughters. And then we felt like a couple as well, in a way. So it was a lot of fun to work on together.

Hayes: Yeah, and we’re in everything together, you know?

Mays: Yeah, right.

Hayes: So we had to be, especially with the guys, with their characters having been on this journey for a long time and them being such a duo, it was like, oh, well it does make sense that we [become] this duo. You know, we’ve gone through all these different times. We were back in the 16th century and now we’re doing this new thing together. So these two people that have been learning together for all these years.

Mays: That’s right. And princesses. I do like to just keep mentioning that. We are princesses. At the fore of the movie, we are princesses, yeah.

Hayes: And we do mean in the royal we.

CS: So then in developing these further expansions of their personas, what would each of you say were your biggest creative challenges in bringing your characters to life?

Mays: Well, probably just that, what we were just talking about. I think the fact that that’s kind of all we knew about them in the first two, right, is that they had been found by Bill and Ted back in like, medieval times and then they fell in love and brought them to the future. So we didn’t know much about them. So I think that was probably the trickiest part to make it feel like we were families, right, and that we had these daughters that are in their late teens, early 20’s. And how do we make sure that that feels real, right, and that we’ve experienced this life together as two families, very closely-knit families, and what’s that like, and how does that kind of show on screen? And then the scenes that were given, how do we give them that bit of depth?

Hayes: Yeah, just to create the past with the in-between times in these last two movies because truly, that is what we know. We know they came, they traveled through time, they fell in love, they got married. They were in the band briefly. And then, what did they do, you know, and how do we make that seem real? I do wish — while you’re describing that, Jayma, I really have this wish that there was a moment like we could’ve seen all six, you know, six of them at home in kind of one big like, unit, how they would’ve all worked together. But it was that kind of connectedness to where it’s almost like one marriage, one family with both of our families together and how do we — that was a challenge. Like how do we convey that? But we would probably be just almost as close to each other’s husbands as we are to each other and to our own husbands and to the other child —

Mays: The children, yeah.

Hayes: It was tricky. And it’s such a fast-paced movie, too. You don’t have a lot of time to push that, to build that in.

Mays: That’s right. And it’s a complicated time travel subject.

CS: Well, since you mentioned that you two time travel a lot throughout the film, I noticed that there were moments where you were traveling and we didn’t get to see your travels. Do you think we’ll ever be able to see those in the future, be it a special feature or a spin-off film, even?

Mays: We clearly need like a “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern”.

Hayes: Well, yeah, Liz and Jo, they —

Mays: My mom will start a petition and that’ll go really well online, I’m sure.

Hayes: It was really complex though, to figure out when we would be popping back in. We were talking to Dean [Parisot], the director, we’re like, what have we seen. And they’re like, multitudes. You’ve seen multitudes of things… So we had to like, kind of converse between the two of us like, all right, what did we just see, you know?

Mays: Yeah, how bad was it?

Hayes: What was that last thing we just saw, to try to convey some sense of that and bring it into when we pop in, because we don’t see it. That’s right.

CS: Got you. Okay, well, fingers crossed for that petition to work. What was it like, then, building the rapport with each other as well as the rest of the cast to make that family and friendly bond feel real on screen?

Hayes: Well, that was probably the easiest thing.

Mays: Yeah, I feel the same.

Hayes: We had like, a giggly good time together.

Mays: Yeah, it felt super easy. Like, and I was going to say, just meeting Erinn on that part…I met her and we had a little chance to chat. We had time to like, just hang out for probably 30 minutes or something on our own. And I remember just being like, oh, I like this girl, like this is going to be fun and easy and like, I think we’re both on the same page like maybe use a sense of humor. And what we’re saying the film or the writing could be like sisters. So that part, you’re right. It’s all super easy.

And actually, the same with the daughters. They’re such cool, interesting, talented women. I was like, wow, where did they find these amazing women? And I remember at the table read, they started doing their thing. Because it’s like, who are these girls going to be and how are they going to portray these characters? And they started doing the read through and it was like, oh, they’re incredible. Like I couldn’t take my eyes off of them. And then, like Alex, for instance, when I landed in New Orleans, I had, I think it was an email, I can’t remember, a voicemail. Alex was like, do you just want to meet up for a coffee and meet? We’re doing this thing together. And so, everyone was just so kind and again, inclusive and wanted to get along and just wanted to make a good film and have fun. That all had just kind of — yeah, was incredibly smooth.

CS: That’s awesome.

Hayes: I would agree.

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CS Interview: Blu Hunt & Henry Zaga Talk The New Mutants

ComingSoon.net had the opportunity to chat with The New Mutants stars Blu Hunt (The Originals, Another Life) and Henry Zaga (The Stand, Looking for Alaska) about 20th Century Studios’ newly released horror thriller, which is now playing in theaters!

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Directed by Josh Boone, The New Mutants finally releasing in theaters after being delayed and continuously pushed back is a “relief” to Hunt, who was more than ready for people to see the film and “for the waiting to be done” for the star’s “own piece of mind.” The project became a labor of love for the group, one that came with its own pressures for the largely younger cast.

“It was overwhelming, it felt like a lot,” said Hunt. “To be 21 years old and to have never really acted in film in my entire life was definitely a lot of pressure. It also felt like an incredible honor and I couldn’t believe I was there most of the time. Every day I woke up there it didn’t feel real, and I don’t know if it feels real yet. I just need the movie to come out for it to really happen.”

Being able to spend so much time together on and off set seemingly helped the young cast to not only bond but deal with the pressures of filming the Marvel movie. “We got really close really fast,” Zaga recalled. “Before Alice [Braga] arrived it was just the five of us for three weeks rehearsing with Josh. We were kind of in the middle of nowhere. Sorry, Norwood, Massachusetts, you’re lovely but there’s nothing really to do unless you’re really willing to. We’re just hanging out in a hotel hallway with one room next to each other, running lines together. We even watched Game of Thrones together, which was really strange.”

Hunt agrees that the main cast starting two weeks early “really helped” them, especially since they lived in the same hotel and were able to do many rehearsals: “We were bonding from the moment we showed up. Josh kept such a relaxed set. It was so chill, and when I was feeling the pressure and wanted to implode he kept being so easygoing that it was really easy for us to get along and take care of each other.”

Pick up a copy of the New Mutants Vol. 1 here!

Diving into their characters, Hunt, who plays Danielle Moonstar in the feature, feels that “Dani is pretty much straight from the comics,” noting that the differences between the character’s source material and the big-screen adaptation are “really minor.”

“Obviously in the comic Dani has a symbolic suicide, and that doesn’t happen in the movie,” said Hunt. “The first draft of the comic she did do it still, it was almost frame-for-frame the comic book, when she faces the bear in the snow. We changed it, and the way it is now is just as good, just different from the comic. She’s the same tough leader. It’s her really finding her voice.”

Zaga loved how adamant Boone was about casting the “roles really well,”  including having proper representation on and off screen: “I am biracial Brazilian Latino guy. In LA sometimes you go, ‘Wait, there isn’t a Latino role, so…’ It was always a thing to me that I wanted to represent my country in a meaningful way, and these kids who are so in love with the X-Men universe… I see the outpouring of love on social media. I’m right there with you, and sometimes when I watch a Brazilian role not being played by a Brazilian guy I’m like, ‘That’s not really Portuguese.’

“Josh really wanted a Native American girl to play Dani, and these minority roles are really important to build this movie. This movie is about outcasts from different places in the world going through a self-discovery journey. It was an honor, to say the least.”

Zaga, who plays Roberto da Costa aka Sunspot in the movie, enjoyed bringing the character to life, including showcasing Roberto’s mutant abilities.

“My character absorbs and emanates solar energy in the form of strength, so he becomes incredibly strong,” said Zaga. “Later on he might learn new tricks too. I’ve never seen anything like Sunspot in the way we’ve done in our movie, or any of the Marvel movies. He has his own center of gravity and things floating around him, and lights up from inside out. It’s not just igniting. It’s total solar lava wonder!”

RELATED: CS Visits the Set of The New Mutants

20th Century Studios in association with Marvel Entertainment presents The New Mutants, an original horror thriller set in an isolated hospital where a group of young mutants is being held for psychiatric monitoring. When strange occurrences begin to take place, both their new mutant abilities and their friendships will be tested as they battle to try and make it out alive.

The film stars Anya Taylor-Joy (Split, The Witch) as Magik and Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones, gen:LOCK) as Wolfsbane, with Henry Zaga (13 Reasons Why) as Sunspot, Blu Hunt as Dani Moonstar, and Stranger Things’ Charlie Heaton as Cannonball.

The New Mutants adapts the monthly comic book series of the same name that launched in 1982. Created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, The New Mutants follows on a group of teenage mutants as heroes in training in the Marvel Universe. The feature is expected to be a departure from the sci-fi-action spectacle of other X-Men films and is instead being described as a “Stephen King meets John Hughes”-style horror movie.

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Five Eyes: Jason Statham & Guy Ritchie Reunite for International Spy Action Thriller

Following their collaborations with the hit film The Gentlemen and the upcoming Wrath of Man (formerly known as Cash Truck), Miramax is re-teaming with acclaimed director Guy Ritchie for the globetrotting spy thriller Five Eyes, starring Jason Statham (Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, The Meg, Spy). Ritchie will direct and produce from a screenplay written by Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies (The Gentlemen, Wrath of Man), with revisions by Ritchie.

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In the film, MI6 guns-and-steel agent Orson Fortune (Statham) is recruited by global intelligence alliance ‘Five Eyes’ to track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order. Reluctantly paired with CIA high-tech expert Sarah Fidel, Fortune sets off on a globe-trotting mission where he will have to use all of his charm, ingenuity, and stealth to track down and infiltrate billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds.

Principal photography is set to commence in Europe in October 2020.

Five Eyes will be produced by Bill Block for Miramax, which is also fully financing the film. Ivan Atkinson also serves as producer.

“Guy Ritchie’s Five Eyes is his next collaboration with Jason, commencing with Snatch, following the upcoming film, Wrath of Man and the global success of The Gentlemen, in partnership with STXfilms,” says Miramax CEO Bill Block. “We’re excited to be reunited with the STX team, as well as Ritchie and Statham whose undeniable chemistry, philosophy, and talent will surely attract a massive appeal from audiences worldwide.”

“Jason is a global box office heavyweight, and when teamed with Guy Ritchie, that’s an irresistible combination,” said Adam Fogelson, chairman of the STXfilms Motion Picture Group. “It’s a thrill to be back in business with Guy, Bill and the team at Miramax after our shared success on The Gentlemen and we believe Five Eyes is the kind of film our partners overseas will love as much as we do.”

RELATED: Miramax’s Fletch Reboot Taps Jon Hamm to Lead & Produce!

STXfilms has secured worldwide distribution rights to the film. STX will distribute directly in the US, UK, and Ireland, and STXinternational will launch sales to foreign buyers at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. STXfilms had great success earlier this year with Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, which grossed $115 million at the worldwide box office.

(Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images & Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for The Old Vic Theatre)

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Robert Pattinson sas COVID-19, The Batman production shut down

Earlier today it was reported that Matt Reeves’ The Batman temporarily halted production in the UK after a member of production reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. Now Vanity Fair is reporting that the individual in question is in fact the film’s star, Robert Pattinson, after confirming with highly placed sources. Warner Bros. Pictures and Pattinson’s representation have yet to officially confirm that the new Bruce Wayne/Batman performer is sick, but it would explain why the production was forced to shut down entirely.

Filming on the highly-anticipated movie had just resumed three days ago after pausing for over five months. This along with yesterday’s revelation that Dwayne Johnson had contracted the virus is yet another reminder that the coronavirus is an insidious disease ambivalent to race, wealth or stature. We recommend our readers heed warning signs like this and not open themselves up to unnecessary risk until a proper vaccine can be dispersed.

“A member of The Batman production has tested positive for Covid-19,” said Warner Bros. in a statement, “and is isolating in accordance with established protocols. Filming is temporarily paused.” 

RELATED: Jeffrey Wright Talks The Batman and the Batmobile

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.

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

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.

ComingSoon.net recommends all readers comply with CDC guidelines and remain as isolated as possible during this urgent time.

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Mike Flanagan’s dream project is to adapt Stephen King’s The Dark Tower

After having the opportunity of successfully adapting two of Stephen King’s acclaimed novels Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep, it seems like horror filmmaker Mike Flanagan would like to work again on another film adaptation from King’s wide and rich bibliography. During the recent Fantasia International Film Festival (via Syfy Wire), when asked about his dream project, the 42-year-old director revealed that he would love to have the chance to take on King’s The Dark Tower novel series which has proven to be a difficult piece to adapt to the screen.

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“I’ve got the answer that most Stephen King fans are going to have,” Flanagan said. “The Dark Tower is forever going to be the story I wish I could tell. That would be the Holy Grail. I mean, talk about an adaptation challenge… So many very talented people have poured so much time and heart and soul and blood, sweat, and tears trying to crack that.” 

Described as a sci-fi western horror story, The Dark Tower novel series is consisting of eight books titled The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and Glass, The Little Sisters of Eluria, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower which were published from 1982-2004. It also spawned a short story titled The Wind Through the Keyhole which released in 2012.

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After two failed attempts from J.J. Abrams and Ron Howard, Sony Pictures was finally able to greenlight a film adaptation which hailed from Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel. However, despite boasting Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba as its leads, the 2017 film had still earned negative reviews and was a box office disappointment. In 2018, Amazon Studios acquired the rights to the novels and was planning to develop it into a TV series. However, earlier this year, they ultimately decided to cancel the project.

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Mike Flanagan previously dipped his toe into the world of King with the 2017 adaptation of his 1992 novel Gerald’s Game for Netflix, which received rave reviews from critics and audiences alike, and continued with the big-screen adaptation of the 2013 sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep, which despite receiving strong reviews was considered a box office disappointment, grossing only $72.3 million on a $45 million budget, squashing follow-up plans.

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