Browsing: Donald Glover

While yes, Jon Favreau is hard at work right now making a live-action Star Wars series for Disney’s new streaming service, he’s ALSO working on his adaptation of The Lion King for the House of Mouse. Following the success of Favreau’s live-action Jungle Book, next up on the remake docket just happens to be Disney’s take on Hamlet […]

Because this influx of remaking titles is showing no sign of stopping anytime soon, Warner Bros. Pictures is reportedly moving forward with their reboot of Willy Wonka, and they’ve already got a shortlist of stars in mind. The classic story of candymaker Willy Wonka by Roald Dahl has known life as two films already — one a […]

Perhaps you’ll recall that recent hyperspace bombshell (but not really if you’ve been paying attention) that Star Wars character Lando Calrissian really is the swinger we all think he is. Namely Solo: A Star Wars Story screenwriter Jonathan Kasdan saying that there was a “fluidity to Donald and Billy Dee’s [portrayal of] Lando’s sexuality,” and that he would […]

Another day, another release of a new Solo: A Star Wars Story video.  I’m the first to admit surprise here, but the more I’m seeing of the Solo solo film, the more I’m thinking it’s not going to be the letdown we think it is. The newest vid is a featurette, talking primarily about Alden Ehrenreich becoming […]

Two images appeared on the internet this morning featuring the cast of the upcoming Han Solo solo Star Wars spinoff film, being called “official, leaked Han Solo art”. Immediately the debate of “real or not real” raged, with the majority of fans leaning towards “not.” One of the images features Russian letters and words, so it’s […]

Jon Favreau’s The Lion King is getting closer to having a full cast!  The director/writer/actor’s newest Disney animated classic turned live action adaptation just got two big names announced today, and they both have Star Wars tie ins. I just can’t wait to be king. #Simba pic.twitter.com/wUYKixMBJI — Jon Favreau (@Jon_Favreau) February 18, 2017 Favreau posted on twitter […]

It seems as if the galaxy far far away can do no wrong with it’s casting choices thus far, the Star Wars  franchise moving ever forward into a new era.  We’ve seen the new generation of characters in The Force Awakens, and we know who’s playing everyone’s favorite scruffy looking Nerf herder, but the question remained; who was […]

Hailing from shows such as Community, Donald Glover has long been rumored to play a Spider Character.  Especially after his campaign to do so, resulting in the introduction of Miles Morales, the half Hispanic half African American Spider-Man counterpart of Peter Parker in 2011. USA Today reports several details of what we can expect to see […]