Stan Lee created one last character with his daughter before he passed. J.C. Lee revealed in an interview with TMZ that their new superhero, Dirt Man, is in the works. “The last little angel we’ve got tucked away is Dirt Man. And I said ‘Daddy, no clatter, no steel, no any of that. Let’s get down and dirty. Let’s do what’s going on and about love. Let’s do Dirt Man,’” J.C. said. “It’s very interesting and it’s not over yet. We still have a little trickery.” TMZ asked J.C. if a movie is currently in development. She explained …
Variety reports that Lily James and Armie Hammer will star in a new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. The film is being produced by Netflix and Working Title and will be directed by Ben Wheatley. Rebecca was originally adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940. He also brought to life du Maurier’s other famous works such as Jamaica Inn and The Birds. Image via Amazon The Gothic classic follows a newly married young woman who battles the shadow of her husband’s deceased first wife. In spite of her absence, the mysterious Rebecca still haunts the …
The Jack Reacher franchise is getting rebooted with a new lead actor after creator Lee Child admitted that Tom Cruise is too short for the role. Readers complained about Cruise’s inability to capture the former major’s physicality that was described in the books. The character was written to be 6’5” with hands the size of dinner plates. Cruise is 5’7”. “I really enjoyed working with Cruise. He’s a really, really nice guy. We had a lot of fun,” Child told BBC. “But ultimately the readers are right. The size of Reacher is really, really important and it’s a …
Bloomsbury Continuum will publish Anne Frank: The Collected Works in May 2019. The release will mark what would have been the year of Frank’s 90th birthday. The Bookseller reports that the collection will include the diarist’s complete writings, along with significant photographs and documents that tell the wider story of her life. Frank’s world-famous diary will be published in two formats, the version edited for publication by her father and the more revealing original. It will even include two recently uncovered pages that have yet to be published. Image via Bloomsbury “For the first time readers …
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has acquired the rights to Chiwetel Ejiofor’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. The Oscar nominee’s directorial debut is an adaptation of a memoir written by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer. It takes place in a village in Malawi, Africa. The story follows a thirteen-year-old William, whose family lost all of the season’s crops during a drought and was left with nothing to eat or sell. William explored the science collection of his village library and found a solution. He learned how to build a windmill out of scrap metal and old …
