Weekend Wrap Up 6/10/16 - 6/12/16
Story #1 Kevin Smith Wants to Direct 'Daredevil' and 'The Defenders'
In an interview with IGN, Kevin Smith expressed interest in directing episodes of 'Daredevil' and 'The Defenders' on Netflix. Per Smith:
“I feel very at home in that Flash world, so much so that I’d love to do the others. I even told Joe Quesada — we worked on Daredevil together back in the day, I wrote it, he drew it — I said, ‘Dude, I want to direct Daredevil, man. That’d be wild to be able to do it in real-life — let’s co-direct it, that’d be cool, just like we did the book. We could co-direct an episode and then, like, take the passion from the page to the screen. I’m going to try and make that Daredevil thing happen. Every time I talk to Quesada or [Executive Vice President of Marvel Television] Jeph Loeb, I’m like, ‘Hey! When are you going back down to the cameras?'”
“You know, they’re gearing up now for The Defenders. If I can get a piece of that Defenders mini-series holy shit, could you imagine, dude? Because then you’re working with multiple suits at once, that’d be phenomenal. Just doing a miniAvengers — even one episode of that run of Defenders is like, ‘Oh, I get to exercise any interest I had in Avengers but doing it on a scale where nobody’s betting $200 million on the guy that made fuckin’ Yoga Hosers.”
Story #2 Barricade Picture Released from 'Transformers: The Last Knight'
Actor Josh Duhamel tweeted out a picture of Barricade, who will be returning for 'Transformers: The Last Knight', although he was destroyed during 'Dark of the Moon'.
Story #3 'The Walking Dead' Producer Talks Season 7
Executive producer Greg Nicotero talked about the upcoming season 7 of 'The Walking Dead' in an interview with IGN, saying:
"The main thing about Season 7 is establishing that the world isn't what everybody thinks it is, the world out there,"
"At the end of Season 6, Rick was so confident. 'We're just going to knock out that outpost, we're going to fuck these guys up before they fuck us up,' and it ends with him going, 'Heh, oh well, I had no idea. What I perceived as the world is not even close to what the reality of the world is,' and Negan's there to show him that."
"Season 7 of 'The Walking Dead,' there's all new worlds that we're going to meet," Nicotero added, "so it wouldn't have made sense to end a chapter and then start it halfway through the next chapter. You want to end in one place and pick it up."
Story #4 Brian Michael Bendis Talks New Marvel TV Series
'Jessica Jones' co-creator Brian Michael Bendis talked about a new Marvel TV series in the form of 'Scarlet', reports Deadline.Bendis recently spoke at the ATX Television Festival, saying:
“I do a book called Scarlet which is soon to be announced also in our universe of television. Not announced yet, but HBO.”
The project is “at the earliest stage but “the team around it…will be announced as soon as all are on the same page.”
Deadline is reporting that the show is in prodution with HBO subsidiary, Cinemax.
Speaking about 'Scarlet', Bendis described it as:
“Scarlet is a list of things you can’t get made. Here’s a female lead who’s killing cops because her world is broken. [But] when it was sold, it was sold to people who were actively looking for that, so that put us in a good place. So stay tuned.”
Story #5 John Williams to Score 'Episode 8' and 'Indiana Jones 5
Iconic film composer is set to score the upcoming 'Star Wars Episode 8' and 'Indiana Jones 5', according to Variety. Per Williams:
“If I can do it, I certainly will."
“I told Kathy Kennedy I’m happy to do it, but the real reason is, I didn’t want anybody else writing music for Daisy Ridley.”
Steven Spielberg also confirmed Williams' involvement with 'Indiana Jones 5' to Scott Mantz, which Mantz posted on his Twitter account.
Story #6 'Predator' News
The upcoming 'Predator' film by Shane Black has revealed its hero...and it's NOT Arnold Schwarzenegger's character, Dutch, from the first film. Speaking with producer Joel Silver at a Q&A with Empire (via The Playlist), Black revealed the film's hero, saying:
"The hero of the new one, the name I’ve given the guy in Predator right now is Quinn Mackenna. And that may change."
Black further commented on the new film and his goals for it, saying:
"We live in a culture where everyone’s like, “[I want to] know everything about it before it comes out, and I want to be able to see every moment, and i’m gonna go back and forth on the goddamn YouTube channel and get every goddamn moment and every Easter egg.” [But] I’ll tell you a little bit about it. It’s an attempt to event-ize the Predator and make it more mysterious. The Predator has been so overdone in a way — very low budget with a guaranteed return, every couple of years there’s a knock off churned out. It’s gotta get to the point where people buy their tickets in advance instead of saying, “Oh honey look, another Predator movie. Nah, no, Adam Sandler’s got this thing on TV let’s do that instead.” I want people to say, “The Predator is coming, I know it’s coming, we want to see it, it’s mysterious, interesting, it’s got the same sense of wonderment and newness that Close Encounters had when that came out.” That’s what we want. That’s very impossible to achieve, but we’re going to try."
Also revealed was that the film will begin filming in September, according to the Directors Guild of Canada.
Screen Rant claims filming will begin on September 26th, in Vancouver, and end on December 20th.
Story #7 Weekend Box Office
The Top Five was filled with mostly new films this weekend, with James Wan's 'The Conjuring 2' (check out my review here) taking the #1 spot, bringing in an estimated $40.3 million. 'Warcraft' brought in a disappointing $24.3 million domestically in its opening weekend, but has made $261 million in foreign markets, with Chinese box office numbers pushing $100 million alone.
#3: 'Now You See Me 2' - $23 million (opening weekend)
#4: 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows' - $14.8 million (second weekend)
#5: 'X-Men: Apocalypse' - $10 million (third weekend)
