Browsing: Idris Elba

James Gunn kicks off the official DC FanDome panel for “The Suicide Squad,” and we’re pretty excited to see what…

Everyone has their favorite actor in the role of the MI6 agent James Bond, and their list of ideal names to take over the mantle when current 5-time 007 Daniel Craig leaves the franchise after Bond 25. We’ve heard the ongoing rumors of the producers going back and forth on the idea of a non-white Bond, of […]

Sounds like fans of Mouse Guard are going to have to wait awhile longer for the possible film project to happen, as Fox’s new parent company Disney has halted the start of production indefinitely. We say indefinitely because according to The Hollywood Reporter, the word is in fact “scrapped”. THR says that just two weeks before Mouse […]

In the fast-paced world of film and entertainment reporting, sometimes the stories are like the points in Whose Line Is It Anyway– they just don’t matter (or often make sense, until someone explains them). We’re lookin at YOU, The Suicide Squad. Let us put it this way- no one can decide if the James Gunn written and directed The […]

Boom! Studios comic “Mouse Guard” is getting a feature film adaptation, and it sounds like Idris Elba may be finalizing talks to star in the feature. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Elba may play Celanawe, an aged former champion of legend in the warrior order of mice sworn to protect their realm from the evils around. […]

Mad Max universe creator and director George Miller is hard at work on his next feature film, Three Thousand Years of Longing. The title doesn’t really give us any ideas as to what the film may be about, but some reports are saying it’ll have something to do with genies. The big news out of this weekend’s […]

Okay Focus Features, you REALLY have our attention now with your feature film adaptation of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Cats”, with the addition of Dame Judi Dench.   Earlier this week, it was revealed that Idris Elba would be joining the film as Macavaty, the bad guy who is the terror of his fellow Jellicle cats. […]

Perhaps you’ve seen the numerous reports back and forth this week that long-time James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli has possibly said it’s time for a non-white 007. Perhaps you’ve also seen the reports that the quote from director Antoine Fuqua both confirming this Broccoli statement… and then refuting it. All of this comes about as current […]

Apparently long-time James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli thinks it’s time for a non-white actor to take over the mantel of James Bond. According to The Independent, who got their news from The Daily Star, director Antoine Fuqua recently revealed that Broccoli feels “it is time” for an ethnic minority actor to star as 007 and she […]

Fans of Stephen King have always been highly polarized on film adaptations of his novels, and The Dark Tower looks to follow in that proud tradition.  Referred to by King as his “opus”, the 8 book series was originally published in 1982, and has even been done in comic form. The film got a rough start, […]