Author: Brett Stevens

  • Julie Andrews Says No to Mary Poppins Returns; Yes to Aquaman

    It looks like Julie Andrews won’t be lending a spoonful of sugar to Mary Poppins Returns when it’s released in a few weeks. EW has reported that Miss Andrews will not have a cameo in the film, as many fans have wished; the director has said she wants to allow Emily Blunt to embrace the role as…

  • The Great Gatsby Origin Story Coming to Youtube

    It looks like we’re about to see how Gatsby got the party started. Deadline reports that Stampede Ventures has put in development a project called Gatz, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The concept of this show is based on an academic theory that Fitzgerald had been writing about a mixed-race man, something…

  • Why I’m Excited: CW’s Elseworlds Crossover

    Why I’m Excited: CW’s Elseworlds Crossover

    Superman: Red Son, Kingdom Come, Gotham by Gaslight; over the years, DC comics has become well known for the very popular “Elseworlds” titles: one-off stories that envision the company’s most popular heroes in bold new ways. So when the CW announced that their crossover for this year would be titled “Elseworlds” and that Superman would return – along…

  • Disney Releases First Lion King Trailer

    Disney Releases First Lion King Trailer

    The Pride Lands are about to get the live-action treatment as the first teaser for Jon Favreau’s remake of The Lion King has been released. Like most people of my generation, I loved The Lion King growing up. It was the first movie I saw four times in the theater (a record that has since…

  • Ed Burns to Produce The Progeny for CW

    Ed Burns to Produce The Progeny for CW

    Indie titan Ed Burns is getting back into the television business. Deadline reports that Burns and his company Marlboro Road Gang Productions are teaming with Radar pictures to produce an adaption of the Tosca Lee novel The Progeny. The thriller centers on an amnesiac girl who discovers she is the descendant of a murderess and gets…

  • Daredevil Season 4 Pitched to Netflix

    Daredevil Season 4 Pitched to Netflix

    It looks like Daredevil might not be done protecting Hell’s Kitchen. Erik Oleson announced on Twitter that he has pitched Daredevil season 4 to Netflix. While the Luke Cage debacle should ensure we proceed with cautious optimism, there are a couple of reasons to be excited about this. The first is that they are taking…