Legendary Pictures Producing New Godzilla Film
Godzilla never stays dead for long. Granted, the 1998 Columbia TriStar version directed by Roland Emmerich seemed to kill off any ambition to make further Godzilla movies in the States, simply by...
View ArticleLegendary Pictures Purchases Rights to Video Game Series ‘Mass Effect’
I’m surprised it has taken this long after the release of Mass Effect 2 for a deal like this to go down: Legendary Pictures has picked up the rights to the BioWare game series Mass Effect. I Am Legend...
View ArticleLegendary Pictures Launches Legendary Comics with Bob Schreck as Editor in Chief
The line between some movies and comic books is getting more blurry. Disney is using Marvel comics to promote Tron, and Marvel plans comics set the the Marvel Movie Universe. DC Entertainment seems...
View ArticleLegendary Wants To Make A ‘Hot Wheels’ Movie
In the realm of toys and games that are being adapted into movies – Stretch Armstrong, Clue, Monopoly, Battleship, etc. – Hot Wheels seems like a no-brainer. (There’s even something that is basically...
View ArticleLegendary Bringing ‘Pacific Rim,’‘Seventh Son,’‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Mass...
For the first time ever, Legendary Entertainment is coming to San Diego Comic Con and they’re bringing some heavy hitters. They’re bring along: Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day and Rinko...
View ArticleComic-Con Panel and Concept Art: Legendary Pictures’ ‘The Seventh Son’ and...
For their appearance at Comic-Con this year, Legendary Pictures hosted a panel showcasing four of their upcoming films. Two of those were the fantasy projects The Seventh Son, Sergey Bodrov‘s YA...
View ArticleJack Nicholson Offered Jackie Robinson Biopic ’42′
The dramatic, inspirational story of Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball’s first black player, seems so ripe for a Hollywood adaptation that it’s a little surprising we haven’t seen the story hit...
View ArticleLegendary’s Latest Acquisition, ‘Spectral,’ Is Like A Gritty ‘Ghostbusters’
As the script for Ghostbusters 3 gathers dust on Bill Murray’s desk, another writer is taking the idea and running in a whole other direction. Legendary Pictures, the company who is producing The Dark...
View ArticleNew Legendary Website Reveals ‘Seventh Son’ Concept Art
Jeff Bridges trains an apprentice in the ways of dark magic to fight an evil witch played by Julianne Moore…and I’m sold. That’s the plot to Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ Seventh Son, directed...
View Article‘Lost’ Director Jack Bender to Direct Legendary’s ‘Devolution’, From ‘World...
Max Brooks‘ World War Z may be experiencing some turbulence on its way to the big screen, but that’s not getting in the way of his blossoming Hollywood career. Among his upcoming projects are a...
View ArticleFirst ‘Pacific Rim’ Footage Shown at Comic-Con, Guillermo Del Toro Spills...
Although the Pacific Rim section of Legendary’s Hall H panel was attended by stars Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, Rinko Kikuchi, and Ron Perlman, as is usually the case at Comic-Con, director Guillermo...
View Article‘World of Warcraft’ Adaptation Moving Forward With ‘Blood Diamond’...
Legendary’s World of Warcraft adaptation is down a director, now that Sam Raimi‘s no longer attached, but don’t write it off just yet. The studio’s apparently determined to soldier on, and to that end...
View ArticleThe ‘Mass Effect’ Movie Moves Forward With New Screenwriter
Here’s some great news for the legions and legions of Mass Effect fans out there. Screenwriter Morgan Davis Foehl has been hired to take a new pass at a script for the popular video game turned big...
View ArticleDuncan Jones to Direct ‘Warcraft’
The director of Moon is going to war. Duncan Jones, the director of Moon and Source Code, has just signed on to direct Warcraft, a movie based on the extremely popular Blizzard video game world...
View ArticleMichael Mann to Direct Chris Hemsworth in Cyber-Thriller For Legendary Pictures
Since releasing the relatively underwhelming period gangster film Public Enemies, director Michael Mann has been tested with the HBO series Luck, and has dithered over a few different potential...
View ArticleSequel Bits: ‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For’, ‘Riddick’, ‘Pacific Rim 2′,...
One thing’s for sure about Benedict Cumberbatch‘s “John Harrison”: He definitely has the evil villain voice down. No wonder Paramount is using his “you think your world is safe…” line for everything...
View ArticleLegendary Buys Marcus Sakey’s ‘X-Men’-Esque Novel ‘Brilliance’; ‘Oz The Great...
Only one studio gets the rights to make actual X-Men movies, but fortunately for everyone but 20th Century Fox, no one has a strangehold on stories about groups of superpowered people. Man of Steel...
View ArticleFirst Video and Images Released From the ‘Godzilla’ Set
There’s still a whole lot we don’t know about Gareth Edwards‘ upcoming reboot of Godzilla, but now that production’s actually underway the filmmaker seems to be a little more forthcoming. For...
View ArticleEarly Buzz: Latest ‘Pacific Rim’ Test Screening Draws Big Praise [Updated...
As a Guillermo del Toro-directed film about giant robots battling giant monsters, Pacific Rim was automatically burdened with sky-high expectations. But the more we hear about it, the more it sounds...
View ArticleGareth Edwards’‘Godzilla’ Reboot Will Feature a Cameo From the 1954 Original
Gareth Edwards‘ new Godzilla is just the latest of many sequels, spinoffs, and reboots that have been spawned since the monster first trampled Tokyo in 1954. We don’t know too much yet about how his...
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