Adam Wingard Says The Ugly Robots In Michael Bay’s ‘Transformers’ Inspired A Simpler Mechagodzilla

Though he started his career as the comedy director, doing broad, R-rated comedies such as “Step-Brothers,” “Anchorman,” and “Talledega Nights,” Adam McKay has transformed into something of a dramedy auteur, with films such as “The Big Short” and “Vice.” But with his star-studded Netflix film, “Don’t Look Up,” it appears the filmmaker is skewing more towards his earlier work, while still delivering some serious themes.

Imagine a world wherein Jonah Hill played a notable role in Michael Bay’s 2009 critically-panned ‘Transformers’ sequel, “Revenge of the Fallen.” Not quite on my bingo card either. However, that reality wasn’t too far off – if it wasn’t for the astute, almost clairvoyant advice of Seth Rogen.

Disney is turning one of Broadway’s biggest musicals into a movie!

Disney is spelling "m-u-s-i-c-a-l," closing a deal to pick up the rights to hit Broadway showThe 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, with the intent of mounting a live-action adaptation. Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich, who produced the billion-dollar-grossing live-action Aladdin remake for the studio, are producing Spelling Bee via their Rideback banner.

Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich are producing a Disney film adaptation of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, through their Rideback banner, Deadline can confirm.

Shortly after “Parasite” was released in 2019 and went on to earn near-universal acclaim, with some calling Bong Joon Ho’s drama a masterpiece, it was announced that Adam McKay was teaming up with the filmmaker to adapt the feature as a new HBO series. Immediately, as is common when remakes of international films are announced, fans were concerned.

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Also Read: Adam Sandler, Renée Zellweger Booked as Presenters for Virtual Spirit AwardsChanning Tatum, Reid Carolin, Peter Kiernan and Michael Parets are producing “Spaceman” for their film Free Association. Executive producers on the film are Ben Ormand, Renck and Barry Bernardi.Parets will oversee for Free Association.

If you watched “Godzilla vs. Kong” over the weekend and noticed that Lance Reddick was listed in the opening credits but didn’t really appear in the film, you’re not the only one.

Watching films like “You’re Next” and “The Guest,” it’s clear that Adam Wingard is a talented filmmaker that is more than capable of directing blockbusters. And Legendary clearly thought so too, giving him the reins of “Godzilla vs.

There is a lot to talk about when it comes to “Godzilla vs. Kong.” You can call it a popcorn blockbuster.

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Warner Bros. has been sitting on the film rights to cult cartoon series “ThunderCats” for over a decade and it looks like there is finally movement on their long-in-development feature film.

Also Read: 'Snarf! Snarf!': How 'ThunderCats' Producers Rebooted the World's Most Irritating Cartoon CharacterOriginally produced by Rankin-Bass Productions and distributed in syndication, “ThunderCats” focused on a group of humanoid cat beings who, escaping from the doomed planet Thundera, establish a new home on “Third Earth” (essentially Earth thousands of years in the future, following an unknown cataclysm).

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterThundercats are on the move, again.“Godzilla vs.

EXCLUSIVE: As his new film Godzilla Vs. Kong opens Wednesday in U.S. theaters and on HBO Max after turning up a Hollywood film pandemic record $123 million gross in 38 overseas markets last weekend, director Adam Wingard is set to direct Thundercats. That is a big scale feature based on an animated TV series that ran from 1985-89 by Rankin Bass, and several other iterations, comic books and merchandse.

EXCLUSIVE: When Adam Wingard  appears on a Zoom call to talk about his leap into event filmmaking with Godzilla Vs Kong that opens here Wednesday after a huge weekend in China, the director is donning a beard long enough that he could be a model on a cough drop box. “I haven’t found a good reason yet to cut it off but I hope to relatively soon, as things go back to normal,” he says.