Mahershala Ali May Play Gordon in Matt Reeves’ Batman
ComicBook.com reports via Collider’s Jeff Snieder that True Detective star Mahershala Ali was Matt Reeves’ first pick for the role of Commissioner Gordon in The Batman. However, in the wake of his casting as Blade, Snieder is unsure whether the Oscar-winning actor would play multiple comic book movie roles. I’ve been banging the drum for Idris […]
Priyanka Chopra Joins We Can Be Heroes for Rodriguez and Netflix
Deadline reports that former Quantico star Priyanka Chopra has signed on to star in We Can Be Heroes, a new superhero film that harkens back to director Robert Rodriguez’s time on the Spy Kids franchise. This new IP, which focuses on kids having to take over for superheroes who are kidnapped by alien invaders, is […]
Alita: Fox’s Last Stand
I had been looking forward to Alita: Battle Angel for several years. I remember an article from 13 years ago where James Cameron discussed his two epic sci-fi trilogies that he was planning as his comeback to narrative filmmaking, having spent the better part of a decade developing moviemaking technology (which had first been used […]
REVIEW: Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
A movie that was around 18 years in the making since Guillermo del Toro introduced James Cameron to the manga/anime, Alita: Battle Angel finally opened for the general public on February 14th. The original comic book – Gunnm by Yukito Kishiro, initially published in Shueisha’s Business Jump anthology from 1990 to 1995 – became popular for its gorgeous, edgy, […]