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And he's too black.



Hercules is a Greek god.
Greek, as in Greece.
Greece is a country in Europe, not Africa.

And he's an ancient god, from 2000+ years ago.
And 99.99% of the citizens of Greece was white.
And they didn't worship black people, they enslaved black people.

Apparently a Mediterranean actor with tan skin and dark curly hair is not diverse enough.

But if we're going to get outraged, I'm still offended that Disney painted over the entire Zeus vs Hera beef that's a centerpiece of greek myth (and very specifically the labors of Hercules) to blame everything on Hades.

Hera is the villain. Hades is innocent!

Yet nobody cares about Hades being scapegoated by the mouse?

Frankly the success or failure of a live action Disney Hercules will depend on the casting for Meg.

 

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It Follows Sequel THEY FOLLOW to Reunite Star Maika Monroe and Director David Robert Mitchell

 

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The fetish that these Hollywood idiots have for marginalizing title characters in their own movies/shows is amazing.

 

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Marvel went to shit after endgame

 

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Teaser Trailer for Wes Ball's KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic, franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

 

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Official Trailer for David Leitchs' THE FALL GUY Starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt

From real life stunt man and director David Leitch, the blockbuster director of Bullet Train, Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, comes his most personal film yet. A new hilarious, hard-driving, all-star apex-action thriller and love letter to action movies and the hard-working and under-appreciated crew of people who make them: The Fall Guy. In theaters March 1.

 

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Official Trailer for FAMILY SWITCH Starring Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms

A family descends into chaos days before Christmas when a rare cosmic event causes the parents to swap bodies with their teenage kids. On Netflix November 30.

 

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Official Trailer for MANODROME Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Adrien Brody

Ralphie (Academy Award® nominee Jesse Eisenberg) is a man wrestling with outside forces and the demons within when he meets a mysterious family of men who welcome him as one of their own. As Ralphie struggles to define himself, pressure mounts and a powder keg is lit that will blow a hole in the lives of everyone he touches. Joining Eisenberg in an all-star cast are Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and the unforgettable Odessa Young. Experience a thrilling film about one man’s discovery that there is nowhere to hide from yourself. In Theaters on November 10 and On Digital and On Demand on November 17.

 

[GSP_37]

What happened to the live action Gundam movie?

 

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Amazon grabbed the US streaming rights for Angel Studios' thriller "Sound of Freedom," a surprise box office hit that grossed around $250 million worldwide on the strength of an innovative "pay it forward" model; the film hits Prime Video in the US on December 26

 

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If you didn't enjoy the Xmas season enough, here comes sound of freedom posting on boxing day

 

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LEGEND OF ZELDA Live-Action Movie in the Works from from Nintendo and Sony Pictures with Wes Ball Directing

The Legend of Zelda is heading to the big screen. After Universal’s $1 billion hit adaptation Super Mario Bros. Movie, Nintendo is developing the new Zelda project with Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Wes Ball, the director behind the Maze Runner trilogy, will helm the live-action feature, with Sony distributing. Nintendo and Avi Arad’s Arad Productions, Inc. are behind the film that will be co-financed by the gaming giant and Sony.

Nintendo representative director and fellow Shigeru Miyamoto, who is set to produce the movie, posted Tuesday to X (formerly Twitter) that he and Arad have been working on a live-action version “for many years now.”

Miyamoto continued, “We have now officially started the development of the film with Nintendo itself heavily involved in the production. It will take time until its completion, but I hope you look forward to seeing it.”

Ball made his feature directorial debut with 2014’s The Maze Runner, shepherding the adaptation of the dystopian novels by James Dashner across three movies, each one gaining an ever larger scope. His next movie will he his biggest canvas yet: a new Planet of the Apes move. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes opens May 24, 2024.

Zelda is a crown jewel of the Nintendo empire that dates back to the first game in 1986. Spanning thousands of years, the fantasy-inspired games usually tell the tale of a boy named Link who must save the Kingdom of Hyrule as well as its princess, the titular Zelda, who sometimes is a hero in her on right. Link must defeat the evil Ganon, who seeks to collect all three pieces of the Triforce in order to obtain ultimate power.

The games are known for pushing the boundaries of both story and technology, with 2017’s The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild and its 2022 sequel Tears of the Kingdom considered to be among the greatest video games of all time. There have been 20 games in the main series to date.

Nintendo is extremely protective of its properties and before this year, had not released a film adaptation since 1993’s Super Mario Bros., the critically panned film that starred Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo as the famous plumbers. But that film, distributed by Universal and voice starring Chris Pratt, became an outsized hit, grossing $1.3 billion. Netflix previously tried to get a Legend of Zelda animated series off the ground, putting it into development in 2015, but it never materialized. It previously was adapted as a 1989 American animated series.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/legend-of-zelda-movie-nintendo-1234964911/

 

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Old and New Cast Team Up in GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE Teaser Trailer

In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.

 

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Teaser Trailer for Pixar's INSIDE OUT 2 Introduces Anxiety Emotion

The little voices inside Riley’s head know her inside and out—but next summer, everything changes when Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” introduces a new Emotion: Anxiety.

 

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Legendary

When Brian Cox joined the new reality competition series 007: Road to a Million, he admitted that he thought he signed up for something a little different.

During Tuesday’s episode of The Tonight Show, the Succession star told host Jimmy Fallon, “I thought it was the new James Bond film.”

“So I said, ‘Oh, finally they’re getting me in a James Bond movie,” he continued. “I thought, ‘Yes, of course!’

But to Cox’s disappointment, he quickly learned that “there was no script and there was no James Bond movie.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t...o-a-million-next-james-bond-movie-1235640137/

 

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Millie Bobby Brown Fights to Survive a Fire-Breathing Dragon in DAMSEL Teaser

A dutiful damsel agrees to marry a handsome prince, only to find the royal family has recruited her as a sacrifice to repay an ancient debt. Thrown into a cave with a fire-breathing dragon, she must rely on her wits and will to survive.

 

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Official Trailer for Zack Snyder's REBEL MOON - PART ONE: A CHILD OF FIRE

 

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Official Trailer for THE GARFIELD MOVIE Starring Chris Pratt

 

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Official Trailer for MADAME WEB Introduces Sony's Spider-Man Spinoff Characters

"Meanwhile, in another universe…” In a switch from the typical genre, Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing's most enigmatic heroines. The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who may have clairvoyant abilities. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures...if they can all survive a deadly present.

 

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Nicholas Hoult in Talks to Play Lex Luthor in James Gunn's SUPERMAN: LEGACY

In one of the most significant new castings post-SAG-AFTRA strike, Superman: Legacy has found its Lex Luthor, with Nicholas Hoult in talks to star as the classic villain. No deal is done, but talks have been in the works since before the strike. Warner Bros. had no comment.

James Gunn is writing and directing Superman: Legacy, the first feature from his and Peter Safran’s new DC Studios universe. David Corenswet will star as Clark Kent/Superman, while Rachel Brosnahan is playing Lois Lane, with the duo landing the roles in June after a lengthy casting search.

Hoult was long in contention for the role of Luthor but also put his hat in the ring to play Superman and was one of the finalists for that role.

Luthor debuted in 1940’s Action Comics No. 23, created by Superman duo Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Gene Hackman played Luthor opposite Christopher Reeves in Superman (1978), while Kevin Spacey squared off against Brandon Routh’s iteration of the character in Superman Returns (2006). More recently, Jesse Eisenberg played a version of the character reinvented in the vein of a sneakers-wearing tech CEO in Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).

Hoult previously played the Marvel/X-Men character Beast in the series of films released from 2011 to 2019. The busy actor’s relationship with Warners dates back to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), and his recent credits include last year’s The Menu and the Universal monster pic Renfield, released earlier this year. He was also among the stars of Hulu’s period drama The Great, for which he earned an Emmy nomination in 2022.

Nicholas Hoult in Talks to Play Lex Luthor in ‘Superman: Legacy’

The actor was previously in contention to play the Man of Steel in the James Gunn feature.

www.hollywoodreporter.com