The Death Cure, the final adaptation of James Dashner’s dystopian Maze Runner novels, starts with a combination train robbery/prison break sequence that recalls not one, but two set-pieces from the first act of Fast & Furious 5 – or Fast Five as it’s known outside the UK. The success of that formula-shifting entry in the
Month: January 2018
Back in February 2017, SciFiNow spoke to living legend Tom Baker about his incredible career, his work with Big Finish Productions and being a children’s hero. SciFiNow: You came back to play the Doctor for Big Finish in 2011. What was it that finally convinced you to reprise the role? Tom Baker: We were at [Doctor
Screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are defecting from Marvel to DC: the duo, who co-wrote the script for Spider-Man: Homecoming, have reportedly been tapped to join the Flash solo movie, Flashpoint. However, for Flashpoint they will be directing. Though the pair are best known for their scripts (which also include Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Pixar has a rich history of tugging at the heartstrings with a powerful profundity, from the opening ten minutes of Up to the way Inside Out explored how important it is to save room for the sad feelings as well as the good, the animation studio has regularly displayed its keen emotional intelligence. With its
In today’s best case of “a bit random but could be good”, Rogue One director Gareth Edwards’ 2010 sci-fi film Monsters is currently being developed into a television series by Vertigo Films for Channel 4. According to Deadline, Ronan Bennett is set to act as showrunner for the series, while the writing team is made up of Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan
You can read the official synopsis for the film here: Black Panther follows T’Challa who, after the events of Captain America: Civil War, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to take his place as King. However, when an old enemy reappears on the radar, T’Challa’s mettle as King and Black Panther
To the surprise of absolutely no one, The Walking Dead has officially been renewed for Season 9. To shake things up a bit, however, Seasons 4-8 showrunner Scott M Gimple has been promoted to chief content officer of the franchise, which will involve him overseeing the TV universe (including Fear The Walking Dead) as well as the
The best decision the first Insidious movie made, back in 2010, was casting Lin Shaye as maverick demon-hunter Elise Rainier. The worst decision? Killing her off at the end of the film. Because as the franchise has gone on, it’s only become clearer than Shaye – already a horror icon thanks to appearances in countless
It’s been about eight years since Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow was introduced in Iron Man 2 and the rumblings about a possible solo movie began. Those rumblings then became questions, as the years and movies passed without any sign of Natasha Romanoff getting her own story. However, things might finally be about to change. The
It’s all change with the X-Men movie universe release dates, as The New Mutants, Deadpool 2 and Gambit have all been moved around per a report from THR. The biggest shift comes for Josh Boone’s horror-flavoured The New Mutants, which has been hoofed from 13 April this year all the way into February 2019. Meanwhile,
To celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray release of Starship Troopers: Traitor Of Mars, we’re giving away an exclusive sheet poster signed by the cast. For your chance to win, simply retweet the tweet below: #Competition time ✨ Starship Troopers: Traitor Of Mars is out now on DVD and Blu-ray, and to celebrate we have a sheet
A new teaser for HBO’s upcoming film Fahrenheit 451 has just been release, and it looks intense. You can read the synopsis for the film here: HBO Films presents Fahrenheit 451. In a terrifying care-free future, a young man, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting
While the London-based FrightFest events in August and over Halloween seem to change venues every year or so, the Glasgow chapter is a more fixed affair. For it is always timed for the end of that city’s annual Film Festival, and always takes place on a single screen (Glasgow Film Theatre 1), ensuring that those
After an incredible opening weekend at the US box-office, Insidious: The Last Key hits UK cinemas today, bringing Lin Shaye’s ghost hunter Elise Rainier back home for the most personal round of horrors yet. Elise has moved from scene-stealer to lead character over the course of the four movies, giving them an emotional core that
The solo Venom movie will be clawing into cinemas later this year, and we’ve finally got our first proper still from the film. No, it’s not Tom Hardy in full Venom mode, but it is Tom Hardy. IGN debuted the first image from the movie, featuring Tom Hardy’s Eddie Brock in reporter mode. He’s also
It’s been a good long while since we heard anything about the potential TV series based on Anne Rice’s beloved Vampire Chronicles novels, but a wonderfully exciting piece of news has emerged concerning one of our favourites. In an interview with THR (via io9), Paramount TV head Amy Powell said that Bryan Fuller, of American Gods
The new trailer for Netflix’s upcoming SF show Altered Carbon has arrived and it has everything: body-hopping ex-cons, immortal snobs, gun-fights, strobe-lights and some kind of medical goo. Seriously, it looks like a lot of fun, and the production values look incredible. There’s also some creepy key art: The series is based on Richard
Cultivate a thick skin Politics is ubiquitous, and what seems personal to us may be political to other people. It’s almost impossible to write fiction without it embodying your own outlook on life: and when we use fiction to make political points — to advocate for some aspect of our outlook — it’s bound to
Given the pedigree of the source material, the creative team and the cast, it’s not too much of a surprise to learn that TNT has officially greenlit their TV series based on train-bound postapocalypse Snowpiercer. Deadline reports that TNT “had been high on Snowpiercer from the get-go and commissioned backup scripts along with the pilot order,” although the
Blumhouse looks set to continue its efforts to dominate the horror genre, as it’s been announced that the production company has set up a deal with Hulu. Variety reports that the two companies will be working on a 12-episode monthly horror anthology series, with a new chapter arriving each month starting in October. Halloween, you
Perpare yourselves: after years in development, Syfy’s upcoming series Krypton finally has a full trailer, thank god. The series was starting to look like an elaborate scheme that was really never going to happen, fabricated for tax purposes or something. But, as this trailer appears to confirm, it’s actually a real thing. For those who don’t know, Krypton is Syfy’s upcoming
If you haven’t watched The Tick Season 1 Part A, there’s still time to catch up on what you’ve missed before The Tick Season 1 Part B hits Amazon Video. And you’ll want to catch up; it’s great. Check out the trailer for Part B below: And here’s a new poster with particularly strong pun game: You
If you’ve ever caught yourself wondering what happened to Showtime’s live-action Halo TV series that was announced way back in 2013, we have some news for you: it’s still happening, we just don’t know when. Showtime president and CEO David Nevins recently confirmed that active development is still very much ongoing. Speaking at this year’s Television Critics Association
This story has major, major spoilers for the most recent episode of Star Trek: Discovery, so if you are not up to date with the show, please look away right now. There were plenty of shocks and surprises in mid-season return ‘Despite Yourself’ but none more powerful than the death of Dr Hugh Culber, played
To celebrate the upcoming home release of Darren Aronofsky’s mother!, we spoke to the director himself about the film’s beginnings and beyond. SciFiNow: How did mother! come about? Darren Aronofsky: Well there’s, there’s a lot of ideas at the beginning of this project that started it all. I’ve always been jealous of songwriters who in
To celebrate the upcoming DVD & Blu-ray release of sci-fi action adventure Beyond Skyline we’re giving away 5 copies of the film on DVD. You can read the synopsis here: Get ready for intense sci-fi action adventure with Beyond Skyline, the stand-alone sequel to 2010 hit Skyline. Beginning with a new view of the alien invasion from the original
Everyone’s favourite Seattle-based undead comedy series iZombie finally has an air date, and it’s pretty soon: the show will return to US network The CW on 26 February, meaning it will likely air on Netflix UK soon after. The Season 4 premiere is set to pick up three months after the end of Season 3, with the
Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó made a bold breakthrough on the arthouse circuit with 2014’s White God, which concerned a mistreated dog leading a canine uprising. With Jupiter’s Moon, he’s back with another high-concept story and back in social allegory mode. A young migrant fleeing his home in Syria, Aryan (Zsombor Jéger) is separated from his
Marvel’s Captain Marvel has just added its fifth cast member as She’s Gotta Have It star DeWanda Wise has become involved. According to Deadline, Wise has taken a co-star role opposite Brie Larson’s superhero Carol Danvers, an Air Force pilot who finds herself with superpowers after a freak accident that causes her DNA to fuse with that of an
Frankly, we’re surprised it’s taken this long for George RR Martin projects that aren’t Game Of Thrones to get going, but Syfy has sensibly given the greenlight to its series based on the author’s SF novella Nightflyers. Variety reports that the network has given the go-ahead to Jeff Buhler (Midnight Meat Train, the upcoming Pet