The Indiana Jones 5 script has been passed around to more writers than people who wrote Dumb and Dumber To. Not really, but the list is getting up there. The list so far includes Jonathan Kasdan, Dan Fogelman, and now David Koepp. Koep...
James Bond's 25th outing has been hit with a ton of creative snags over the years. From Danny Boyle exiting the production to writers Pervis and Wade being hired, fired, and then rehired, it doesn't seem like a day goes by without something...
While James Gunn may not be returning to the director's chair for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, his personal stamp may still be left on the eventual sequel. Sean Gunn, brother of James, and the Gilmore Girls actor...
With Crazy Rich Asians making film studios even more crazy rich, you're darn right that other companies will want a piece of the success. According to THR, Rick and Morty writer Jessica Gao, who recently won an Emmy for the "Pickle Rick" ep...
The Uncharted movie project has gone through many iterations, each seeming as unlikely as the last. But the current director attached to the film, family movie director and Stranger Things executive producer Shawn L...
Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's novel Ready Player One came out this past week. Despite Matt's review, the movie is doing quite well at the box office, so it's no surprise that studios are going to be clamoring over all of E...
It's been two years since The Hateful Eight, a film so distinctly Quentin Tarantino, yet differring greatly in scale when compared to his more recent work. The film was reminicent of his first film Reservoir Dogs in premise and executi...
Logan might have spelled the end of the road for one of its stars, but it looks like it is indeed only the beginning for another. Director James Mangold has confirmed that a script centering on Dafne Keen's Laura, also known as X-23, i...
I hope I'm not the only person left holding a candlelight vigil every night until Zoolander 2 becomes a thing. News of the struggling production for the sequel a few of us want has been floating around for years. All we've been getting is t...
As a film blogger, I spend a lot of time on IMDB. It's a magical resource for times like this, when news for a theoretically upcoming blockbuster is important enough to cover but still has a relative unknown attached to the project. So, acc...
There are a LOT of Star Wars: Episode VII rumors floating around. From script problems, to crazy actor castings, to story points and so on. We here at Flixist don't want to clog you guys with all of that mumbo jumbo, and will only report th...
Now that Fast & Furious 7 has officially halted its production for the time being to properly get its bearings after losing Paul Walker, Universal is still in the midst of a very confusing situation. One of the many options they're cons...
In an interview with the dudes over at Collider, Bret McKenzie, of Flight of the Conchords and The Muppets fame, revealed that he is in the process of writing a script for a "fairy tale comedy musical" with "singing dragons and monsters and...
In an interview with The Playlist (while promoting Dead Man Down), Noomi Rapace (known around these parts for her female badassitude) has confirmed that she has met with Ridley Scott and that a script for a Prometheus sequel (is it is...
Warner Bros. is really having a tough time getting their act together. With Marvel continually doing as well as they are with their line-up of films, WB is definitely feeling the pressure of producing a good enough set of films too. First, ...
Focus Features has released online an illustrated version of Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola's Academy Award nominated script for their 2012 film, Moonrise Kingdom. You can click through the script on their website and download a .pdf file t...
Okay, so there's good news and bad news. Bad news is that Legendary Pictures has ousted two of their producers for the upcoming Godzilla reboot (which is now set to start filming this March, with a May 2014 release date), Dan Lin and Roy Le...
Ridley Scott's Prometheus was a gorgeous-looking movie filled with some the most abysmally idiotic characters I've seen in a long while. (e.g., How do you get lost when you have a digital map? Why can't you run diagonally or perpendicularly...
Chronicle was a huge surprise in how genuinely amazing it was. But I thought its ending (which I won't spoil here in case you haven't seen it. See it damn you!) was pretty much as far as the premise could go. It felt complete. But when Max ...
Ah, Prometheus, how I detest that you keep finding your way back into my life, especially with news like this. Jon Spaihts, the screenwriter who worked on several drafts of the script before it was handed off to Damen Lindelof for rewriting...
According to the hilariously named Ninja Turtles reboot hatin' blog, TMNT, NOT TANT, the script for the delayed Ninja Turtles remake/reboot is well...terrible. The alleged script follows Casey Jones (who is now a teenager who curs...
Drew McWeeny over at HitFlix apparently got his hands on an early draft of the Robocop script. And...it sucks. Judging from Drew's tweets about the matter, it looks like the draft is filled with nothing but winks and nudges to the first fil...
The 2014 Guardians Of The Galaxy adaptation is one of the more mysterious on Marvel's slate because no-one's exactly sure how they'll do it. It's crazier than any of the comic movies we've seen to date, concerning a team of intergalactic he...
Fans of the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, the series of movies by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, have reason to rejoice today! Many fans knew that the duo had started writing the final entry in the trilogy earlier this year, but now w...
...and he loves it, apparently. He reportedly said that he and Alex Winter (Bill) are "trying to put it together" and that it's "a good script." It's kind of a contradiction in terms, because if the script is supposedly finished, but they'r...
In mid-January we mentioned that Cormac McCarthy sold his first spec script, The Counselor. Turns out he didn't have to wait long before a filmmaker became interested. Ridley Scott is in talks to direct The Counselor as his follow-up to Pro...
Cormac McCarthy is one of America's best living writers, taking up the torch of Melville and Faulkner with works like Blood Meridian, The Border Trilogy, and Suttree. Well, the author of The Road and No Country for Old Men has just sold his...
Kevin Smith is screenwriting a hockey film called Hit Somebody. Apparently he had once planned to film the movie in two parts, presumably because the story is just that epic. Now Smith has been tweetering, twitterpated, on his Twitter (or w...
Oh, Bill Murray... What are we going to do with you? Yes, Bill Murray has finally read the Ghostbusters 3 script... and hated it. The former ghostbuster hated the script so much, in fact, that he actually sent it back to Dan Aykroyd and Har...
Terrence Malick has officially announced his next two film projects! Fans of the director may be surprised by his move of taking on not one, but two movies in 2012, because the man is famously reclusive, and sometimes spreads out his projec...
For those of you who have never heard this before, it's an issue that's been in constant debate for the past few years: just how much was Darren Aronofsky inspired by Perfect Blue when making the very similar film, Black Swan? Let's start w...
There are very few movies I have not finished by choice. Some get forgotten about, I'll lose the DVD, or some other nonsense will come up, but some are so bad, I just say "Eff this." The Girlfriend Experience is one of those rare films I co...
The Wolverine is getting a script rewrite from Mark Bomback, the scribe of Live Free or Die Hard. The original screenwriter was Christopher McQuarrie, who also penned The Usual Suspects and Valkyrie. Since I'm not a huge fan of his overall ...
It's hard to believe it's been almost a full year since the 33 Chilean miners were tragically trapped underground. Mike Medavoy (Black Swan, Shutter Island) has successfully reached an agreement with the representatives of the 33 Chilean mi...
Screenwriters David Elliot and Paul Lovett have been hired by Disney to write a script for a live-action movie about vigilante gargoyles who fight crime and stuff. Probably. Elliot and Lovett also collaborated on the recent live-action G.I ...
You know that remake of The Crow that's been floating around for awhile? The one with Bradley Cooper set to star as the titular character? News has come out that Watchmen scribe Alex Tse is on board to write a new script for the upcoming re...
For some time now there has been buzz about Kevin Smith's post Red State project, Hit Somebody. Based on a Warren Zevon song about a hockey goon who wants to score a goal, Hit Somebody seems to be a natural fit for a director who loves the ...
A few nights ago we were filled with a wide range of emotions upon hearing that Osama Bin Laden was dead. Even in the safety of our own homes the adrenaline was easily noticed, so it's hard to imagine what it must have felt like to be a par...
Do you remember Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern novels? Of course you do, nerds. Who could forget the majesty of discovering a new planet filled with telepathic dragons that wanted to be your friends? Producer Steve Hoban couldn't, an...
We know that Adam Horowitz and Eddie Kitsis -- the writers of Tron: Legacy -- are working on Tron: Uprising, a 10 part animated television series that explores the events leading up to the sequel, but what about another Tron movie in the ne...
