STAR WARS---Adam Driver said he and Steven Soderbergh offered a movie idea to Lucasfilm titled THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO, but Disney head Bob Iger and co-chairman Alan Bergman turned the idea down. Fans responded by hiring a plane towing a banner saying, "SAVE #THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO" over Disney Studios. Lianna Al Allaf, the fan who commissioned the banner, said, “I hope this banner shows just how much the character of Ben Solo means to so many of us, and that the fans really do want this movie.”
Also, David Fincher reportedly offered an idea for a sequel to STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER to Lucasfilm, but the offer was rejected because Fincher wanted approval on the final cut.
MIAMI VICE---Michael B. Jordan is in negotiations to play Ricardo Tubbs in the Universal Pictures movie remake of the cop tv series that starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas. The remake will be directed by Joseph Kosinski, and Glen Powell is rumored to be in negotiations to play James Crockett.
SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY---a scene from the film set shows Sadie Sink's character on a stretcher being put in a van of the Department of Damage Control. Consequently, fans speculated that Sink's character has superpowers so she is not playing Gwen Stacy or Mary Jane Watson, but she may be playing Jean Grey or Firestar.
SPIRNGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE---the Bruce Spingsteen biomovie has a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 62% based on 114 reviews.
SALVATION RUN---DC Studios recently filed a trademark copyright for "Salvation Run" which suggests a movie is underway and could be a crossover movie with PEACEMAKER which would be DC Studio's first crossover movie.
MCU---Gwyneth Paltrow commented on if she will return to the MCU, “The truth is, I don’t totally know. I think I might, but I’m not sure. Nothing is confirmed. That is the truth. That’s the inside scoop.” Rumors claim Paltrow might return in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY.
CRAZY RICH ASIANS---director Jon M. Chu said a HBO Max tv series based on the xxx movie is underway with stars Constance Wu and Henry Golding expected to return, “It’s a real thing. We have scripts, and we’re waiting to be officially ready to go...Our cast will be there."
JENNIFER'S BODY---director Karyn Kusama said writer Diablo Cody is working on a sequel to the 2009 movie that starred Megan Fox as a deadly demon-possessed high school student, “I know she’s working on it right now, and I’m very excited to hear what comes of it. I know some of the bones of it, so I’m not going to give anything away, but it sounds fun and crazy like the first film. And I have no doubt that Diablo will do something absolutely incredible with it.”
THE RAINMAKER---USA Network renewed the series for Season 2.
TRIVIA---countdown to Halloween.
William Hudson is best known for co-starring in the 1958 cult classic ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN where he played the unfaithful husband who was killed after his revenge-seeking wife was turned into a 50 foot giantess by an alien in a UFO. He may also be known to sci fi fans as Capt. John Phillips, the original commander of the submarine Seaview in the tv pilot for VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, who was killed off early in the pilot. Hudson returned to co-star in the episode "The X Factor" as Capt. Shire, who was also killed off by using the same footage from the tv pilot, but in color. Consequently, Hudson has the distinction of being the only actor killed off twice in VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
William Hudson co-starred in ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN as the unfaithful husband who was killed after his revenge-seeking wife was turned into a 50 foot giantess by an alien in a UFO.
Hudson also played Capt. John Phillips, the original commander of the submarine Seaview, who was killed off in the tv pilot for VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
Hudson returned in the episode "The X Factor" as Capt. Shire, who was killed off using the same footage, but in color, from the tv pilot which gives Hudson the distinction of being the only actor killed off twice in VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
