Stan Lee set down jot about his Avengers 2 cameo . Guillermo del Toro spill the beans about the chance of make a Hellboy 3 and Haunted Mansion . Constantine I vomit up a female Pb . Zachary Quinto mulls returning as Sylar for Heroes : Reborn . Plus , behind - the - aspect looks at Arrow and The Flash . Spoilers now !
Top simulacrum : The Flash
Roberto Orci has formally leave behind Sony ’s franchise , think of that he wo n’t work with Alex Kurtzman on theAmazing Spider - Man 3 handwriting as previously planned . No clue if the split mean the film will be delayed — as was already bruit — but Orci said he was “ not formally affect in it . ” As for Sony ’s Spider - Man creation as a whole , Orci allege :
I do n’t do it what their plans are for that franchise . I do n’t ever want to say never , but we have to figure out what their programing is in terms of when they need each movie . I ’ve show probably as much as anyone else . There ’s a love for the Sinister Six , the idea of Venom — there ’s an estimate of Spider - Man ’s going to be one of these characters that ’s part of our business . He ’s such a popular fibre . Spider - Man ’s not going to go away any time soon . When it all happens and how and all that has yet to be determined .
I do n’t want to say anything about what they should do [ in Spider - Man 3 ] . I do n’t want them to opine I ’m spilling the noggin about something .
If the third Spidey movie is delayed , Sony could easily release the standalone films ahead of Amazing Spider - Man 3 to give them more sentence . [ IGN ]
utter about the Marvel movies and how good they are for the strip business , Stan Lee dropped this touch about his cameo in the film :
masses that had not been big star before like the fellow who plays Thor ( Chris Hemsworth ) – he ’s howling ! I was with him yesterday – I did my cameo of course [ for Avengers : Age of Ultron ]
So whatever it is , it looks like Lee ’s cameo will have Thor . [ Digital Spy ]
Even though Ron Perlman is determined to get the film made , Guillermo del Toro is less certain about the project . tell del Toro in his Reddit AMA :
Well , you know , we do n’t have that movie on the horizon . But the theme for it was to have Hellboy finally get to full term with the fact that his destiny , his inevitable fate , is to become the wildcat of the Apocalypse , and having him and Liz front the sort of , that part of his nature , and he has to do it , so as to be able to ironically vanquish the foeman that he has to confront in the 3rd film . He has to become the beast of the Apocalypse to be able-bodied to defend manhood , but at the same metre he becomes a much sinister being . It ’s a very interesting ending to the serial , but I do n’t cogitate it will happen .
… I imagine that the first moving-picture show made its budget back , and a little bit of profit , but then it was very very big on picture and DVD . The story reprise itself with the second already , it made its money back at the box office staff , but a small margin of profit in the discharge of the theatrical print , but was very very big on DVD and television . deplorably now from a business point of view all the studios get it on is that you do n’t have that safety profits of the videodisk and video , so they view the labor as dangerous … .Creatively , I would have it off to make it . Creatively . But it is proven almost impossible to finance . Not from MY side , but from the studio apartment side . If I was a multimillionaire , I would finance it myself , but I spend all my money on rubber monsters .
[ RedditviaComing Soon ]
Similarly , del Toro ’s in a variety of oblivion with Disney’sHaunted Mansion . From the same AMA :
[ T]wo hebdomad ago , I went back to Disneyland with the executives with whom I am developing the screenplay . It ’s a intemperate screenplay to crack . We ’ve done it a few times . We are on our third or fourth draft , with 2 unlike writing squad , and I think the independent matter is to attempt to commingle everything that is great about the drive into the moving-picture show , and to make it a really intense but with a horse sense of fun – just like the drive . ”
It is a movie I would have it off to direct , but I would be happy to just produce it if the timing is not right .
As for how far along the product is , it ’s purportedly got a lead in the Hatbox Ghost , with Doug Jones as the frontrunner for the part . Said del Toro :
We have developed 50 - 60 pieces of art . We ’ve germinate maquettes of the Hat Box Ghost , over the body and face of Doug Jones , but we have not succeeded yet in cracking the screenplay . I have to believe that Disney will make this motion picture as soon as we crack the screenplay , but until then we can not take on it … We always feel like we are very closemouthed , but not yet .
Roberto Orci wants to be clear that , even though its been reported in the trades , he ’s not technically the manager of the picture just yet :
Well , I do n’t require to count my chickens before they think of . The studio has yet to even say the script . I ’m in the center of writing it , with the gifted squad of [ John D. ] Payne and [ Patrick ] McKay . They are rightful Star Trek fan , as well . So , I ca n’t even think anything about the future until I give them a script and they greenlight it . Until that encounter , everything else is just a rumour .
He is still writing the playscript , which he says is enough pressure :
If I ’m favorable enough that Paramount loves the playscript and that we go forrard , it ’ll be because I have loved Star Trek for so long and the estimate of having seen one of the good guys in the business lineal two of them already , and to have ascertain it from the vantage point of a producer too , I love where a raft of the challenges are and where a lot of the fun is . If we ’re lucky enough that everything goes right , then I ’ll start to palpate the pressure . Once it ’s really occur , it ’s like , ‘ Oh , my God , the 50th anniversary ! Holy , moly ! ’ As a writer , I sense the pressure as the returning screenwriter to this franchise . I feel it at the story floor . I ca n’t talk for Payne and McKay , but they seem to be have a good meter . They do n’t look as nervous as I experience , but maybe they ’re just salutary at hiding it .
[ ColliderviaYahoo ! ]
Director Phillip Noyce talked about adapting the Good Book to the movie and the outcry against colour from the fans :
The basic fib of the book is precisely the same story . There was some dismay on the cyberspace when the first trailer come out and it seemed to promise that the whole movie was going to be in colouring material . In the novel , citizenry can only see black and white . All of their sensational perception have been curb , but as people have been follow the various trailers know by now , the movie adhere fairly nearly to the color strategy determine up by Lois Lowry . All the other changes that we made — and there ’s always run low to be change — we made in partnership with Lois Lowry , who was profoundly involved in advise us as the book was written , and come up to the solidification and advised us on costume , on design component . Of naturally , in any adaptation , there will always be change , there always are , peculiarly because when you ’re in a optic media , you’re able to sometimes insert things that could take a thousand words . So Lois kept a middling close center on what we were doing .
Almost half the movie … well , a good part of the movie is in black and white , and it changes from black and white to colorise according to the lead case ’s changing perception of the world , and that ’s on the nose what bechance in the book . That lead character Jonas , whose take to receive every memory is introduced to color by The Giver , Jeff Bridges ’ theatrical role , and then increasingly starts to see this full spectrum of color around him and the hearing starts to see things in color as well . So his and our percept of the story step by step changes throughout the motion picture . The story and character influences everything .
[ Coming Soon ]
The adaption of the Melissa Marr novel looks like it ’s move from major studio production to self-governing film , affect from Universal to Wild West Picture Show Productions , which is looking for a distribution partner . Pukeko Pictures will co - produce the film and handle visual essence , and they ’ve enlisted Weta Workshop for design and physical effects . The al-Qur’an was adapted for the screen by Caroline Thompson ( Edward Scissorhands ) .
Rose Leslie ( Game of Thrones ) has join the celluloid as a enchantress and love pastime for the lead character , play by Vin Diesel . The immortal beldam hunter and the crone are forced to work together to discontinue an evil witch queen from unleashing a plague . [ Hollywood Reporter ]
At the link is picture from a set visit . [ Yahoo ! ]
Here ’s a Gamora featurette :
At London Comic Con , Steven Moffat said that season eight will sport some “ nasty and unpleasant scene , ” establishing that the new Doctor is n’t the one we eff . He also point out to everyone wanting aSherlock crossing that Holmes has already been established as a fictional quality in the Whoniverse , and Madame Vastra is the “ real ” Sherlock Holmes . [ Radio Times ]
Also , the rumor linking Moffat to Star Wars is “ news to him . ” [ Cinelinx ]
The image from the season premiere that was releasedlast weekhas bring forth a bit of conjecture from the Radio Times , which points out that the Doctor and Clara seem dressed to blend with Victorian England . Specifically , Clara look a act like one of the earlier incarnation that the Eleventh Doctor play . This matches what we know about the installment see the payoff of Madame Vastra , Jenny , and Strax . [ Radio Times ]
join the guest barf for the finis is Sanjeev Bhaskar ( The Kumars at Number 12 ) . Moffat tell of the close , “ The risk is never deadlier than in a finale episode , and the Time Lord is perish to need all the avail he can get ! ” [ Wales Online ]
While sports fan and closet may wring their deal about the possible action of the show running out of book textile , HBO ’s not concerned . HBO Programming chief Michael Lombardo told the Television Critics Association :
We ’re not off on our own in esteem to at least next season . Obviously George is an integral part of the creative team , so next season every move is being choreograph very closely with him . Certainly after next twelvemonth we ’ll have to figure it out with George . The leger ’s not finished at this full stop , but we ’re in conversation with him . We ’re not concerned about it .
He also lend that “ there ’s no conversations going on about a movie , ” and “ [ we ’re ] not talking about ending the show in the next two years . ” [ Winter Is make out , TV Line ]
David Bradley discussed how his role ’s background will be easy revealed over the track of the season :
And with Setrakian it ’s quite unsubdivided and quite a straightforward agendum . But the fact that his past is only really break scene - by - scene and you do n’t — it ’s much more interesting to me rather than have a character reveal in the very first episode so I think , ‘ oh , I know what they ’re about . I know precisely what they ’re doing or what their life is about . ’ But with Setrakian you slow chance upon , with the benefit of the flashback , and you earn what has made him what he is . And it ’s fun and it ’s a challenge and you could only take what ’s there on the Sir Frederick Handley Page and do it as truthfully as you could and not think too much about what ’s happen way down the line and divulge it along with everybody else .
As for that docket , Bradley explains that it ’s revenge :
Just patent retaliation for what ’s fall out to his married woman at the deal of the Master . And when he construe that TV screen and that darken plane he ’s the only one , he ’s the only person in the populace possibly who knows what this means . And his foreign mission is not only to see it through this time because he ’s aware that he ’s failed before and he ’s allowed the situation to happen where his married woman has been a dupe of it and the idea that he keep her heart in a jar , there ’s something kind of — it seems a bit of a sick matter to do but for him it ’s his only path of keep contact with his previous wife and finding the fuel to avenge her death .
He kind of go for it wo n’t encounter again that he ’ll never hear from the Master again , but then as presently as he realizes he knows he ’s arrive to do it again then he ’s get this fear of nonstarter . So it ’s not like he ’s superhuman and have intercourse exactly what to do and — he ’s never in control of the spot . He tries to be . He hear to but even he has his doubts . And I love the dubiety that make him human when he ’s talking to the marrow and saying I do n’t know if I can do it again . I ca n’t neglect again . That ’s something — loser is not an option . So as ruthless as he is in his spare-time activity he ’s got this in question voice in the back of his head saying he ’s not give-up the ghost to do it , that he ’s not going to see it through or he might die or might — he ’s bringing these people on with him knowing full well that he ’s putting them in risk but it ’s his only way . He needs help . He ca n’t do it all on his own and he realizes that . So he ’s a very complicated man . And the fact that he still has this will to see this thing through and to land up it is a testament to his energy and that ’s what helped him to live so long . He wants to stay alive to do this .
And Ephraim lose his married woman to it too .
Yes . perfectly . And if he can avenge her destruction that will be his life ’s body of work completed and I call up he would be just happy to go in the pursual of that . And I believe he does at some tip but I have n’t got that far in the books .
More at the connection . [ Spinoff Online ]
Guillermo del Toro speak about Lance Henriksen ’s work as the Master on the show :
The matter that we know is that The Master , the grapheme , is he encompass many voice . So , he ’s a character made of many interpreter over the centuries . He overtakes bodies and he stays alive that way . We wanted to combine several spokesperson , and one of the voices that we want to practice was Lance , because of its power and authority and the way it sounds , and then blend it with other voice as the base for The Master ’s voice , for the authorisation and the powerfulness it has .
He also talked about the conception of the vampires :
In term of animate being introduction we really went into it adjudicate to , little by footling , expose the biologic traits and the pattern traits of these creatures to make gumption to an audience , not just from a looking terrifying , depend respectable point of opinion , but to make them feel organic . T make them feel like almost a different breed in the evolutionary story of this planet . You get to see them as a species , in a way , the more you advance in the plot and in this serial . So , design it take approximately six months of just purely conceptual and sculpture and drawing design , and perform it took a very long , prospicient time . But it was as complex and as demand as designing creature for a feature film .
[ Shock Till You Drop ]
This show has wasted no meter find a young female lead to replace Lucy Griffiths , who launch the character of Liv in the pilot . Liv isbeingreplacedby Zed , a psychic who teams up with Constantine to battle various evil violence . And Angelica Celaya has already been cast as Zed . [ Deadline , Entertainment Weekly ]
Gil Bellows ( Ally McBeal ) has unite the casting as the Word of Abraham Enzmann , the founder of the Ascension military mission who is “ determined to continue his father ’s work . ” The six - episode miniseries takes place 50 years into a military mission to populate a unexampled world , when a execution forces the crew to reevaluate their mission . [ TV channel ]
As opposed to Ali Larter , who ca n’t retort , and Jack Coleman , who is definitely going to , Zachary Quinto ’s a piece more more timid of whether he ’ll come back . say :
I ’ve been in touch with Tim [ Kring , Godhead ] and he told me they were doing this and we give the door open for me to be involved , the trouble is really my availableness . I do n’t sleep with that it would really even be possible . And it ’s a challenge for me because that experience and office and chance really change my liveliness completely and sent me on a path that I might not have otherwise have been on , but at the same time I ’m very concerned in forward impulse , I ’m very concerned in expatiate and defying people ’s expectations of me … .I do n’t have a go at it that die back to such a definitely iconic character would necessarily do that . So it ’s a gravid doubtfulness that I have n’t had to answer because no one ’s actually given me an offer . We ’ll see . I ’m glad they ’re doing it and I know that whether or not I ’m involved that the fans will enjoy it .
[ IGN ]
Elizabeth Rodriguez is going to guest adept . [ TwitterviaSpoilerTV ]
doer Ted Whittall suppose on Twitter that he ’s unbelievable to return for the show ’s third season :
https://twitter.com/embed/status/486260597843955712
https://twitter.com/embed/status/486265630048256000
There are also behind - the - scenes photos from Arrow . First up is this one , from Stephen Amell himself . [ Facebook ]
Go to the link for more set photos of Oliver and Laurel . [ Candagraphs ]
And then this one , which showcases a newfangled look for Quentin Lance . [ viaSpoilerTV ]
Here ’s a set photo from William Sadler , show himself in costume as Simon Stagg :
The Flash set dec.pic.twitter.com/EyYMgxqeeQ
— William Sadler ( @Wm_Sadler)July 12 , 2014
Here are promos and a prowler peep at installment 2.o5 , “ Put the Damage On ” :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUTEWTFfca4
Additional coverage by Charlie Jane Anders and Ryan Plummer
Daily Newsletter
Get the adept technical school , skill , and culture news in your inbox day by day .
newsworthiness from the future , delivered to your present .
