Attack The Block and The Kid Who Would Be King director Joe Cornish is heading to HBO Max. The director has set up a TV adaptation of Neal Stephenson‘s 1992 sci-fi novel, Snow Crash. Cornish will work alongside alongside Michael Bacall, who co-wrote the 2012 21 Jump Street reboot, and HBO has already put the adaptation into early development.[…]
Amazon’s big-budget Lord Of The Rings series has hit a snag. Will Poulter has dropped out of the project. While his role was unknown, the Midsommer and Detroit actor was the biggest name attached to the show, so presumably he was in line for a hefty piece of the screentime pie. The reason for Poulter’s departure is unknown.[…]
The Star Wars films have thus far only been directed by white men. But Deborah Chow quietly became the first female person of colour to direct a live-action Star Wars property with the most recent episode of the Disney+ series, The Mandalorian. Now, she has another Star Wars project in the works. Chow will direct the Obi-Wan Kenobi spinoff[…]
Harrison Ford is old enough to remember when TV was considered a major step down for any film actor. That’s no longer the case, and the veteran is jumping on the bandwagon. Per Variety, Ford will star in an adaptation of The Staircase, the documentary series which detailed the trial of Michael Peterson, a man accused of killing his[…]
Yorgos Lanthimos, director of such strange oddities as Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, and recent Oscar-winner The Favourite, is taking a stab at TV. He will direct and produce a miniseries revolving around the true story of Clark Rockefeller. That name sounds suspicious, right? That’s probably because it’s the fake name used by an[…]