Comic Con news from Disney today, but I'm afraid not all are good ones. There have been rumours in recent months that Disney and director Guy Ritchie (whose King Arthur has flopped infamously this summer in cinemas) were having big trouble founding young stars for the live action ALADDIN musical movie and when you see who they've just cast you will realize the rumours were probably true... I mean, if these two are their best picks..... Mena Massoud has been announced as ALADDIN with Naomi Scott as Princess Jasmin, and the internet hasn't reacted well to this choice and especially not to Will Smith
Naomi Scott is Princess Jasmin
being cast as Genie. While Massoud is an absolute unknown, and doesn't look much like a leading hero, at least to me, while young Naomi Scott starred in Power Rangers earlier this year and that movie also flopped big time on the box office. The role of villain Jafar is yet to be announced but the movie won't be out any time soon, set only for Spring 2019 release. Meanwhile, Disney's live action movie version of Mulan has been delayed to 2019! That one will have an all Chinese cast and will be a martial arts extravaganza.
'MARY POPPINS RETURNS'
ENCHANTS WITH EMILY BLUNT Disney has also thrilled the audience with the first clip from the
live action movie THE LION KING (in which Hugh Jackman will lend his
voice to Scar), and they announced that Helen Mirren will be playing
Mary Poppins returns Christmas 2018!
Mother Ginger in Lasse Hallstrom's live action NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR
REALMS movie with Morgan Freeman also cast. However, the audience gave biggest ovations to the announcement of Emily Blunt as MARY POPPINS
RETURNS. Check it below.
'A WRINKLE IN TIME' TRAILER
NEW EPIC ADVENTURE
Disney has also released the first trailer for their movie adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's A WRINKLE IN TIME and I have to say it looks
Time will Wrinkle next March
very trashy and almost ridiculous to me, especially the casting. The epic adventure is set for next March.
Meg Murry (Storm Reid) is the daughter of two world renowned
physicists, she is intelligent and uniquely gifted, as is Meg's younger
brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), but she has yet to realize it for herself. Making matters even worse is the baffling disappearance of Mr. Murry (Chris Pine), which torments Meg and has left her mother (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) heartbroken. Charles Wallace introduces Meg and her fellow classmate Calvin (Levi Miller) to three celestial guides, Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey), Mrs. Whatsit
Oprah Winfrey plays one of the celestial guides
(Reese Witherspoon)
and Mrs. Who, who have journeyed to Earth to help search for their
father, and together they set off on their formidable quest. Travelling
via a wrinkling of time and space known as tessering, they are soon
transported to worlds beyond their
The visuals in the first trailer seem rather unfinished and chaotic
imagination where they must confront a
powerful evil. To make it back home to Earth, Meg must look deep within
herself and embrace her flaws to harness the strength necessary to
defeat the darkness closing in on them.
Disney's big screen adaptation of Madeleine L'engle's A WRINKLE IN TIME has added Reese Witherspoon! She will play Mrs Whatsit in the story of a girl who, with her brother and a friend, goes on an unexpected journey into alternate dimensions on a mission to bring home their father. Chris Pine plays the father, Gugu Mbatha Raw is her mother with Oprah Winfrey also in the cast.
'I, REBEL' SF SERIES In TV news, David Goyer is to produce new sf series I, REBEL, about
an astronaut, lost in space for eight years, who crash lands on Earth to
find the world colonized and enslaved by a humanoid alien race. His
rise from slave to rebel leader will spark a revolution.
MOVING 'GIFTED' TRAILER
CHRIS EVANS & OCTAVIA SPENCER
A new trailer has been revealed for touching drama movie GIFTED with our dearly beloved Chris Evans! Out next April, exactly on your spy's birthday, it follows Frank Adler (Chris Evans), a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven year old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary! Octavia Spencer also stars!
As 'Deadline' reports today, the latest one to join the big screen adaptation of A WRINKLE IN TIME is Chris Pine! He will apparently be Mr. Murray, father to the main character Meg, played by Storm Reid, and husband to Dr. Kate Murray played by Gugu Mbatha Raw!
A WRINKLE IN TIME follows a young girl whose government scientist
father has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called a
tesseract, which involves being transported to a fifth dimension with
mysterious inhabited planets. She takes part in a search for her father
and sees some incredible creatures along the way.
'NERUDA' TRAILER
WITH GAEL GARCIA BERNAL
From Chile comes the trailer for the movie which will represent them at this year's Oscar nominations race for best foreign film. NERUDA, in which Gael Garcia Bernal plays an inspector charged to hunt down Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco), who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.The movie will have its North American release from December 16th!
A number of movies set in magical worlds to announce today starting with Deborah Harkness multi million selling historical fantasy novel A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES from the ALL SOULS TRILOGY! It is going to be turned into TV series by Bad Wolf production house. It follows the story of Diana Bishop, a young scholar at Oxford who is a descendant of the Salem witches. When she accidentally unlocks an enchanted manuscript, she is compelled to embrace the magic in her blood and enters a forbidden romance with charming 1,500 year old vampire Matthew Clairmont. Warner Bros. previously held the rights on adaptation, and it was offered to BBC too but will be done now independently.
'A WRINKLE IN TIME'
TO GET DISNEY ADAPTATION Meanwhile, over at Disney, SELMA's Ava DuVernay will helm the movie
adaptation of Madeleine L'engle classic fantasy novelA WRINKLE IN TIME
with FROZEN's Jennifer Lee penning the script. As 'Deadline' reports,
the book involves a young girl whose government scientist father has
gone missing after working on a mysterious project called a tesseract,
which involves being transported to a fifth dimension with mysterious
inhabited planets. She takes part in a search for her father and sees
some incredible creatures along the way.
'DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS'
TO BE A MIX OF LORD OF THE RINGS & GUARDIANS OF GALAXY
At the same time, 'Collider' reveals that Warner Bros. new big screen adaptation of one of world's most popular video games everDUNGEONS AND DRAGONS is going to be a mix of LORD OF THE RINGS and GUARDIANS OF GALAXY! Beside Vin Diesel being rumoured for one of the roles in what is to be an ensemble cast, there are also rumours that the studio views the movie as a multi universe one with possible spin-offs and with the story taking place only in the magical realm! Some fifteen years ago New Line made an unsuccessful movie out of it
which spawned tons of DVD sequels. That one was set in the empire of
Izmer populated by mages, magic users, empresses, dragons, dwarves and
elves. The new one is set for 2019!
