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Meryl Streepâs casting as Aslan has angered the Christian right. Donât they have more pressing issues? (opens the original)
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The Oscar-winner is voicing Narniaâs wise lion in Greta Gerwigâs adaptation of The Magicianâs Nephew, leading to roars of fury from US evangelical commentators It is a confusing time to be alive, given how often these days Hollywood indulges in revisionism. Who knew that the Wicked Witch of the West was the heroine after all, that Cruella de Vil simply had a difficult childhood, or that Mufasa was adopted? Now it turns out that Aslan, CS Lewisâs messiah with a mane, is a lioness â or a
Zack Snyder is angling to make another Batman movie. Stranger things have happened (opens the original)
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Two Batman projects are already in the making at DC Studios, but Snyder has set his sights on the classic Frank Miller graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns There cannot be too many film-makers who have spent quite so long being told that their version of a superhero universe is over, as Zack Snyder has. His Batman is gone, his Superman has been dismantled and the studio that once handed him the keys to DC is now run by James Gunn and Peter Safran, two men whose first order of business was to bu
In an age of superhero fatigue, Marvelâs best shot is to think small â and outside the box (opens the original)
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Sebastian Stan says he pitched Marvel a mid-budget thriller starring his Winter Soldier character. Perhaps the studio should give it â and other modestly scaled vehicles â the green light Blink a little and you might think we are back in 2019. The latest Spider-Man film, Brand New Day, has just passed $2.4bn at the global box office, to become the third-highest grossing film of all time behind Avatar and Avengers: Endgame. Meanwhile Avengers: Doomsday is reported to have already earned more
Gal Gadotâs Wonder Woman was one of DCâs few successes. Itâs a mystery why she got the chop (opens the original)
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James Gunn and Peter Safranâs regime had good reasons to ditch Ben Affleckâs Batman and Henry Cavillâs Superman. Other choices have been much harder to fathom There was never going to be a completely painless way to break up the old DC gang. Warner Brosâ DC Extended Universe probably needed to be ruthlessly ripped apart in order to create space for James Gunn and Peter Safranâs brand-new DCU. We almost certainly did need a clean break from the likes of Ben Affleck (Batman) and Henry Ca
Memo to Ridley Scott: no one needs more Alien: Covenant movies â get the franchise back to stalkânâslash (opens the original)
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News that Scott is working on a follow-up to his maligned 2017 film leaves me worried the franchise has run out of shocks If any science-fiction saga looked beyond recovery, it was the Alien franchise. For the 38 years that followed James Cameronâs Aliens, film-makers contrived to find every imaginable way of not making a good Alien film. They tried killing everyone the audience cared about before the opening credits, marooning Sigourney Weaver on a planet populated entirely by bald British ch
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