Live-action

Live-Action Mulan on the way from Disney

Posted 10 years ago

Disney just seems to love adapting their animated movies into live–action features. Maybe it has something to do with them destroying the box-office pretty much every time they're released. Or maybe they're out of ideas. I don't know, I'm not...

Takashi Miike to direct film based on popular manga Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure

Posted 10 years ago

I love Takashi Miike films. They are just so out there and f*cked up, especially his most popular films (at least in the US) AUDITION and ICHI THE KILLER. But what's great about the prolific director is that he does a...

Cool Videos: Futurama gets the live-action remake treatment with Fan-O-Rama

Posted 10 years ago

Kevin Any Futurama fans out there? While we sit around waiting for the second resurrection of the animated series, a group of enterprising fans took it upon themselves to create their own Futurama fan-film by the name of Fan-O-Rama. Taking...

Peter Serafinowicz to star as The Tick in Amazon’s live-action revival

Posted 10 years ago

Back in 2014, we brought you word that Amazon was planning on doing a live-action The Tick revival series, and although at the time it was being reported that Patrick Warburton was expected to reprise his titular role from the...

Ron Howard reportedly attached to direct Robert Downey Jr.’s Pinocchio

Posted 10 years ago

Robert Downey Jr.'s long-gestating PINOCCHIO flick may have finally found a director. Paul Thomas Anderson was the most recent filmmaker linked to the planned film, however he left the project back in November, and now The Tracking Board is reporting...

Sofia Coppola reveals why she dropped out of Universal’s The Little Mermaid

Posted 10 years ago

Last year Sofia Coppola signed on to direct Universal's live-action adaptation of THE LITTLE MERMAID, however, the following summer she departed the project due to "creative differences." I'd love if we could come up with a new term for that. The...

P.T. Anderson won’t be directing Robert Downey Jr.’s live-action Pinocchio

Posted 10 years ago

I've got some disappointing news for those of you who were excited about the idea of a Paul Thomas Anderson-directed live-action PINOCCHIO movie starring Robert Downey Jr. Back in July, Warner Bros. and Downey enlisted Anderson to write a new...

Nat Wolff cast as lead in Adam Wingard’s live-action Death Note adaptation

Posted 11 years ago

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS and PAPER TOWNS actor Nat Wolff wasn't able to land the gig as the new Spider-Man, but according to Variety, he is in final talks to star as the lead in Warner Bros.' live-action film...

Disney is still trying to make that Enchanted sequel

Posted 11 years ago

Eight years ago, Disney had a hit on their hands with ENCHANTED, which took many of their fairy tale/princess tropes and put a clever spin on them on the way to box office success. The Mouse had plans on moving...

Christopher Nolan rumored to be working on live-action Akira trilogy for WB

Posted 11 years ago

It seemed like a live-action film version of AKIRA was once again dead in the water earlier this year before Warner Bros. hired Daredevil Season 2 showrunner Marco J. Ramirez to write a new script, and now a source tells...

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