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Billy Summers: Edward Zwick to direct Stephen King limited series for Bad Robot

Posted 4 years ago

JJ Abrams’ production company Bad Robot has assembled a limited series package that is sure to kick off a bidding war between cable networks and streamers: an adaptation of the Stephen King novel Billy Summers, which was just published last...

HBO Max developing shows based on The Shining and Justice League Dark

Posted 6 years ago

So this is exciting! HBO Max has just announced three new high-profile programs: THE OVERLOOK (based on THE SHINING), a big-budget live-action JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK series, and a crime show written by J.J. Abrams called DUSTER. Here's the official press release:...

HBO Max orders Duster, Overlook, and Justice League Dark from J.J. Abrams

Posted 6 years ago

Word emerged earlier this year that one of the first projects to be developed under the multi-million dollar deal between J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions and WarnerMedia would be something involving the characters who make up Justice League Dark, a...

Warner Bros. snatches up supernatural western The Pinkerton for Bad Robot

Posted 6 years ago

J.J. Abrams (STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER) closed a mega-deal to write, direct, and produce content for WarnerMedia in September 2019, and the first original film since that deal has now taken a step forward. THR has reported that...

Bad Robot may develop film & TV projects based on Justice League Dark

Posted 6 years ago

Warner Bros. has spent a number of years developing a feature-film based upon Justice League Dark, the superhero team consisting of DC's more occult characters, such as John Constantine, Deadman, Zatanna, Madame Xanadu, Shade, and the Changing Man, but haven't...

Abbey Lee replaces Elizabeth Debicki in Jordan Peele’s Lovecraft Country

Posted 7 years ago

Abbey Lee has joined the cast of Bad Robot & Jordan Peele's upcoming HBO horror series LOVECRAFT COUNTRY as a series regular. She replaces Elizabeth Debicki, who was originally cast in the role of Christina Braithwhite, "the only daughter of...

Guillermo del Toro to write and direct Zanbato for Bad Robot

Posted 7 years ago

Over the years, we've become quite accustomed to Guillermo del Toro taking on projects which, more often than not, never actually get made, but I still can't help but to feel a certain giddiness every time del Toro announces something...

Overlord (Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: One night before D-Day, a squadron of American paratroopers is dropped into enemy territory, where they unwittingly stumble on a sadistic Nazi experimentation regime. REVIEW: War is hell. Hell is horrifying. Ipso facto, the hellish horrors of war have...

Bad Robot snags mysterious high school thriller pitch

Posted 7 years ago

Producer J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot production company have been keeping the genre output flowing as of late. Abrams' Bad Robot has the R-rated zombie-Nazi flick OVERLORD hitting this month, Hulu's Stephen King series CASTLE ROCK hit earlier this year, and Bad...

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