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SSN AWARDS ORIGINALS
BEST DIRECTOR
In the final installment of our three-part interview, the thrice-nominated Linklater talks about the directing side of a project that took over a dozen years to complete, as well as the assembling of all that footage, working with his daughter and seeing a small boy become a fully-fledged collaborator over the course of it all.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
It’s not often that a relative novice of the literary world has as smashing a success as E.L. James found with her trilogy,
Fifty Shades of Grey. Even rarer is when a studio grants a sweeping level of control to said neophyte, allowing her to have final approval over the director, writer, cast, locations, screenplay, marketing materials, trailers, and just about every facet of production.
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Also on the docket, a pair of company launches, a couple of moves on the film front and all kinds of action in the TV world, as well as plenty in the management and PR divisions, to boot. Click on the link to get the whole skinny.
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Winter Dragon, based upon the massively popular fantasy book series
Wheel of Time quietly arrived in the wee hours of the morning on Feb. 9 instead of a later date, and while many
WOT fans were taken by surprise, a just-launched lawsuit against Harriet McDougal, widow of
WOT author Robert Jordan, contends she knew the deal despite her comments posted online indicating otherwise. At issue: it’s a rights reversion situation, with a February 11th deadline.
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Ana de Armas has landed a starring role opposite Miles Teller and Jonah Hill in the Warner Bros.
movie, to be directed by Todd Phillips and which kicks off production this month. The story revolves around two buddies who join forces as young adults to become successful international arms dealers until the find themselves well beyond their depth. It’s based on a 2011
Rolling Stone article by Guy Lawson.
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Joel Kinnaman is in early talks to take over the role of Rick Flagg, previously to be played by Hardy. Jake Gyllenhaal, Joel Egerton and Jon Bernthal were previously rumored as possible replacements for the part in the comic book movie ensemble flick. The latter are apparently still possibilities, but for right now, Kinnaman is the frontrunner. David Ayers is directing the film, which stars Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto.
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Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has confirmed in a company earnings call that the long-planned cinematic adaptation of the popular
gaming series will indeed hit cinema screens on December 21st, 2016. Moreover, it has officially started production. The parkour-fuelled historical killing spree is directed by Justin Kurzel, and will star Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
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Gina Carano will play Angel Dust, a character from the underground group called the Morlocks, while the character of Colossus will also show up. While no actor has been named to play the Russian immigrant who turns his body into unbreakable metal, it might be Daniel Cudmore, who played the part in several
X-Men movies. Tim Miller is directing the film, which will hit theaters this time next year.
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From former NBC executive Dick Ebersol recruiting a then-30-year-old Lorne Michaels back in the mid-1970s to Michael Cera agreeing to host the episode that viewers will never see some three-plus decades later, here are 19 stories that helped shape
SNL.
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The first look at director Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming horror film, starring Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Hunnam. Film is a ghostly fairy tale about a young newlywed who discovers that her new husband has some rather ghastly secrets and hits theaters October 16th.
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