On this episode of Collider Movie Talk, John Campea, Mark Ellis, and Kristian Harloff discuss the following:
- Mission: Impossible 6
- Ben Affleck talks about Batman
- Shaft reboot
- Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge
- Battling Boy movie
- Opening This Week (Brought to us by AMC Theatres): Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
- Chris Pine as Green Lantern
- Possibility of Ted 3
...and a few things more!
While Tom Cruise is getting ready to release his new film Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation this week, he’s also still basking in the surprise success of Edge of Tomorrow. In a recent interview Cruise confirmed that they’re looking at a sequel to the film when he said the following: “I pitched it to (Christopher) McQuarrie and Doug (Liman). We were there one night and I was like, ‘I’ve got an idea for it.’ It could be so much fun. Gotta get Emily. I was like Emily, please. She was like, ’give me another year, please.” In the same interview Cruise suggested that they already have their plans for Mission Impossible 6 and it could start shooting as early as next summer.
Empire Magazine features Batman v Superman in their latest issue and a lot of details have emerged from it, mostly focusing on details of Batman himself. FIrst off, Ben Affleck talks about the new incarnation of The Dark Knight saying the following: “Initially I thought, ‘I’m older, it doesn’t seem like the right sort of fit for me. Then Zack pitched me his concept for this older, more broken, kind of f**ked up Batman. It was something we haven’t seen. We have seen that Batman is willing to cross the line to protect people. That vigilantism has been a part of his character all along, and we are tapping into that mentality when faced by something as potentially as deadly as Superman.” Then, director of Batman V Superman Zack Snyder added the following: “We are playing him 45 or 46. He has been Batman for 20 years. All the history is there. Was there a Robin at one time? Possibly. We want to assume that Batman has reached this point in his life and career as a superhero, and Superman represents a sort of philosophical change. He is a paradigm shift for Batman: ‘I’ve been fighting criminals all my life, trying to find justice, and now I am confronted with a concept that is transcendent to me.’ In the face of Superman, a man robbing a bank doesn’t matter. He’s having a crisis of conscience. ‘Am I really just a vigilante who stalks the alleys of Gotham?’ It is rich stuff that he deals with. Ben does an amazing job.” A few other tidbits are added in the article including the notion that Aquaman will have a very small role in the film, and that in Suicide Squad, Batman is the one who put all the members behind bars in the first place.
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It looks like the classic character Shaft is getting a reboot… yet again. The original 1971 blaxploitation film was first remade in 2000 with Samuel L Jackson as the star, and now according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter it’s coming to the big screen again… this time as a comedy. TV’s Black-ish creator Kenya Barris is co-writing the new film which is being predicted as being in the vein of the new 21 Jump Street movies.
True Detective star Vince Vaughn will join Andrew Garfield and Sam Worthington in the new film Hacksaw Ridge, the next directorial effort for Academy Award winner Mel Gibson. The film marks Gibson’s first directorial effort since his 2006 Oscar nominated film Apocalyto. The movie tells the true WWII story of Corporal Desmond Doss (Garfield), the first conscientious objector to receive the US congressional Medal of Honor after acts of bravery and sacrifice saving 75 men during the Battle of Okinawa. Vaughn pays Sgt. Howell, a non-commissioned officer who prepares his soldiers for battle by pushing them to their limits both physically and mentally in order to keep them alive. When Doss refuses to shoot and kill the enemy, it contradicts everything the sergeant knows about war.
Remember the Academy Award winning short film Feast that played in front of Big Hero 6 last year? Well, the director of the film, Patrick Osborne has signed on to direct Paramount Pictures’ Battling Boy movie. The story is based on the 2013 graphic novel and is described like this: Monsters roam through Arcopolis, swallowing children into the horrors of their shadowy underworld. Only one man is a match for them – the genius vigilante Haggard West. Unfortunately, Haggard West is dead. Arcopolis is desperate, but when its salvation comes in the form of a twelve-year-old demigod, nobody is more surprised than Battling Boy himself. It’s time to meet an electrifying new hero.
OPENING THIS WEEK (Brought to us by AMC THEATRES)
The second major film hitting AMC theatres this week is the Tom Cruise movie Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. With the IMF now disbanded and Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) out in the cold, a new threat -- called the Syndicate -- soon emerges. The Syndicate is a network of highly skilled operatives who are dedicated to establishing a new world order via an escalating series of terrorist attacks. Faced with what may be the most impossible mission yet, Ethan gathers his team and joins forces with Ilsa Faust, a disavowed British agent who may or may not be a member of this deadly rogue nation.
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Adam Perez writes: It seems reports about Chris Pine signing to be Steven Trevor in the upcoming DC film Wonder Woman are circulating once again. Weren't there rumors of him possibly being Green Lantern instead? What the heck is going on? Is there a chance that both could be true? I know after the original Green Lantern movie, it has left a very bad taste of a Hal Jordan version in our mouths. Could the DC Cinematic Universe pull a swerve an still cast Chris Pine, as Steven Trevor, as a new Green Lantern for their universe? Thanks and keep up the amazing work guys?
Joe Stookey writes: I loved Ted 2 and I wouldn't mind seeing a third film, but I'm not sure if Universal will go through with it after the box office results on Ted 2 and A Million Ways to Die in the West. Just wanted to hear your thoughts on a Ted 3 and if you think it will happen.
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