Breaking Down Three Key Scenes With Ad Astra’s Editors
On Tuesday we published the first part of our conversation with Ad Astra editors John Axelrad and Lee Haugen. Director James Gray’s film (which he co-wrote with Ethan Gross) is the rare intimate epic. It involves some of the most breathtaking sequences in any film this year, as well as a very personal father/son story in which our hero, Brad Pitt’s astronaut Roy McBride, travels all the way to Neptune to face dear old dad Cliff (Tommy Lee Jones).
The Walking Dead Season 10 Video Teases the Nightmare to Come
Ten years ago, The Walking Dead began as an ambitious but singularly focused series about a cop, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his attempt to navigate a zombie-infested world after waking from a coma. He wanted to find his family and make some sense of the world he’d awoken to. His travels introduced him to new friends, many of whom he’d stick with over the seasons, as well as adversaries, from the zombies themselves to his former partner and best friend,
First Trailer for John Turturro’s The Big Lebowski Spinoff Jesus Rolls is Here—in Italian
The Coen Brothers The Big Lebowski is a film that has had an extraordinary afterlife since it was first released in 1998. Not initially successful in the theaters, the Coens’ scruffy, slyly brilliant bowling noir (the one and only!) placing the blissed-out stoner and all-around lovable schlub Jeff Lebowski, better known as the Dude (a completely in-the-zone Jeff Bridges) at the center of a Byzantine plot involving a missing young woman (Tara Reid),
The Official Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman Reveals Star-Studded Mob Epic
Martin Scorsese waited a long time to return to the world of crime he had all but made his own, but when he did, he did so with a meaty epic that’ll make its world premiere at the New York Film Festival this week. We’re talking about The Irishman, of course, Scorsese’s decades-spanning saga about World War II veteran Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), better known as “The Irishman,” who (allegedly) is the man who took out the legendary leader of the Teamsters,
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige to Produce a new Star Wars Film
Chalk this one up as interesting but not quite surprising. Marvel Studios president and Marvel Cinematic Universe super-producer Kevin Feige will be producing a new Star Wars movie. The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop that Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy tapped Feige to help her expand the Star Wars universe.
“[Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy] is pursuing a new era in Star Wars storytelling,
A Quiet Place 2 Wraps Filming
This past July 15 we wrote a quick post about how writer/director John Krasinski had started filming A Quiet Place 2, the sequel to his extremely satisfying 2018 thriller. Now two months later, Krasinski and his cast and crew have wrapped production. Krasinski took to Twitter to reveal the news:
Well… that’s a wrap on #PartII See you on March 20th! pic.twitter.com/9u4xcFjm5n
— John Krasinski (@johnkrasinski) September 25,
Cruella Casts Killing Eve Star Kirby Howell-Baptiste
Kirby Howell-Baptiste’s signed onto Disney’s live-action take on Cruella, which will give 101 Dalmatians villain Cruella de Vil an origin story, with the queen of mean to be played by Emma Stone. We’re not sure who Howell-Baptiste will be playing yet, but the Killing Eve star is in according to Variety. Let’s hope the talented Howell-Baptiste gets to spar with Stone’s Cruella,
Original Trio of Laura Dern, Sam Neill & Jeff Goldblum Will Return for Jurassic World 3
Last Monday we were delighting over this surprise Jurassic World short by director Colin Trevorrow. It posited a world in which human beings and dinosaurs live side-by-side, not in a theme park visitor/theme park resident way, but in an actual, out-in-the-open way. It was wild. It also turned out to reveal the world a year after the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Now we learn that Trevorrow had another surprise up his sleeve;
Jesse Pinkman’s on a Rough Road in First El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Trailer
We’ve got the official El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie trailer. We’ve got the official streaming date (October 11, 2019). And now we’ve got a better sense of what life after Walter White (Bryan Cranston) looks like for Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). Spoiler alert: the dude has scars. Lots of scars, both mentally and physically. And he’s still got a lot of trouble on the horizon.
Adam Sandler’s a New York Jeweler in Big Trouble in First Uncut Gems Trailer
We’ve been waiting for this trailer. A24 has released the first full look at the Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems, which stars Adam Sandler as New York jeweler Howard Ratner who is comfortable—perhaps too comfortable—with risk. Howard makes a series of major bets that he thinks will lead to him making a major windfall. This being a Safdie Brothers’ film, however, means that Howard’s in for a very rude awakening.
Check out the new trailer here:
The Safdie Brothers’
Ad Astra’s Editors Talk Space Pirates, Murderous Monkeys & More
James Gray’s Ad Astra travels as far as the icy colossus Neptune, an achingly gorgeous planet, as blue as our own, but, alas, utterly lifeless. Only that’s not entirely true in Gray’s space epic, which finds Brad Pitt’s astronaut Roy McBride traveling to the distant giant planet to find his father, Clifford (Tommy Lee Jones). It seems Cliff’s been out there, hovering just above Neptune, for years. The reason he’s become something of an interstellar Colonel Kurtz and what he’s been up to in deep space are of grave importance to both Roy,
Is Jonah Hill Playing The Riddler in The Batman?
Things are heating up with Matt Reeves‘ upcoming The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader. First, word is that the great Jeffrey Wright is in talks to play Commissioner Gordon (per THR). Now Collider has the scoop that Jonah Hill, who has long been thought to be playing the Penguin in Reeves film, may actually be circling the Riddler.
Jeffrey Wright Circling Role of Commissioner Gordon in The Batman
Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker may never meet Robert Pattinson’s Batman, but there will be plenty of great actors flocking to Matt Reeves upcoming reboot about the Caped Crusader. The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop that the great Jeffrey Wright, currently starring in HBO’s Westworld, is in negotiations to play Commissioner Gordon in The Batman.
Commissioner Gordon—or, depending upon where he is in his career,
A New Joker Poster & Tickets now Available
Todd Phillips’ Joker has made the festival rounds—garnering critical acclaim and the coveted Golden Lion award, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. We’ve seen the new images and watched and re-watched that final trailer. Now Warner Bros. has released a new poster for the film, which will finally be making its big-screen debut for audiences on Thursday, October 3. The new poster gives us the Clown Prince of Chaos in full clown makeup.
New Frozen II Trailer Reveals a Quest to the Source of Elsa’s Powers
Without Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell), there really can’t be an Elsa (Idina Menzel). Not the Elsa we grew to know and love in the first, game-changing Frozen (2013). Now a new Frozen II trailer released by Disney highlights just how important their sibling bond is, both for the sisters themselves and the larger world they’re a part of it. Elsa is as powerful as ever, but without Anna,
How Ad Astra’s Sound Team “Weirded Things Up”
When the aural landscape of a film or television series aims to heighten the story the effort is usually dialed in subliminally. The audience doesn’t even realize what’s happening they’re just captivated by what’s in front of them. In Ad Astra, a 20th Century Fox film directed by James Gray (The Lost City of Z), sound looked to do this very thing with an added hook.
New El Camino Teaser Tracks Jesse Pinkman After Breaking Bad
So what happened to Jess Pinkman (Aaron Paul) after the brutal, bloody final events in Breaking Bad? For lovers of AMC’s groundbreaking series, you know that Breaking Bad ended with a shootout to end all shootouts. Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in his final act of depraved decency, free his onetime partner/longtime victim Jesse Pinkman from his enslavement at the hands of a bunch of Neo-Nazis. It took a remote-controlled machine gun and Walter’s own life to do it,
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Big Night & the Rest of Your 2019 Emmy Winners
The 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards delivered some surprises, so catharsis, and bestowed much-deserved awards on some of the industry’s brightest new stars, and the night did not go entirely as expected. The night was supposed to be dominated by Game of Thrones, which garnered a record-setting 32 Emmy-nominations. It did take home the coveted Best Drama Series but won in only one other major category; Best Supporting Actor to Peter Dinklage (it won 12 Emmys in total for the night).
Olivia Colman is the Queen in The Crown Trailer
Finally, our first good look at the great Olivia Colman in the role of Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s The Crown. Colman steps in for Claire Foy, who portrayed the younger Queen for the first two seasons. Colman is coming off winning an Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of another Queen—the occasionally bilious Queen Anne in last year’s fantastic The Favourite. In The Crown,
How the VFX Team Behind Ad Astra Achieved Deep Space
How do you conceptualize a future that feels familiar yet doesn’t exist? For, visual effects supervisor Allen Maris and the entire crew detailing director James Gray’s vision behind Ad Astra, that question became a guiding theme.
The 20th Century Fox sci-fi thriller puts Brad Pitt in a spacesuit and asks him to save mankind. Not from a zombie inducing lethal virus but from a threat deep in our solar system.
