Scott Z. Burns is currently watching the movie he wrote – 2011’s Contagion – come to life. There’s a great Slate interview with him here where he talks about the research into pandemic response he did in 2009/10 and how we would be wise to follow what that film taught us right now. Anyway, Burns has a new project[…]
Tina Fey has had terrific success with live-action comedies such as 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Having conquered that mountain, she’s now after animation supremacy. Per Variety, Fey and her 30 Rock team – writer/producers Robert Carlock and Sam Means – are developing an animated series for Netflix titled Mulligan. In the show, aliens attack and[…]
Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney for the past 15 years, has recently stepped down from his post. Bob Chapek is taking over. But Iger is not leaving Disney entirely, he’s moving toward restructuring their streaming services Disney+ and Hulu. And one of the many of the projects being moved and/or lost in the shuffle is one that wasn’t[…]
Ava DuVernay (Selma, A Wrinkle In Time) already had multiple projects in the works, and now she can add another to the docket. She’s teaming up with Warner Bros. to develop a “high-end serialised animated family television series” based on Tui T. Sutherland‘s best-selling book series, Wings Of Fire. Wings Of Fire is an epic adventure set in[…]
As gamers worldwide wait with bated breath for the highly-anticipated sequel to acclaimed game The Last Of Us, which arrives in May, there’s finally some concrete news on a screen adaptation of the series. THR reports that a Last Of Us series is in the works at HBO with Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) and Neil Druckmann, who worked on[…]