A new novel, Argylle, claims to be the inspiration behind Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming film of the same name. But is it quite what is claimed? We’ve had a closer look.
Published today is a new novel called Argylle. The marketing tells us that it’s ‘The Explosive Spy Thriller That Inspired the new Matthew Vaughn film starring Henry Cavill and Bryce Dallas Howard’ but I don’t believe a word of that.
Contrarily, I think the film came first. That the film is the reason the book exists at all – and not in the Alan Dean Foster or Target Books sense of being a novelisation.
The lead character of Argylle, as played by Bryce Dallas Howard, is novelist Elly Conway. This is also the very same author the new real-world book has been credited to. The key to what’s really going on here seems to be the Author’s Note,...
Published today is a new novel called Argylle. The marketing tells us that it’s ‘The Explosive Spy Thriller That Inspired the new Matthew Vaughn film starring Henry Cavill and Bryce Dallas Howard’ but I don’t believe a word of that.
Contrarily, I think the film came first. That the film is the reason the book exists at all – and not in the Alan Dean Foster or Target Books sense of being a novelisation.
The lead character of Argylle, as played by Bryce Dallas Howard, is novelist Elly Conway. This is also the very same author the new real-world book has been credited to. The key to what’s really going on here seems to be the Author’s Note,...
- 1/4/2024
- by Brendon Connelly
- Film Stories
Rumours have been circling for months, and now the BBC has confirmed the news: two of the Doctor’s current companions, Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, are leaving the show. New Year’s Day Special Revolution of the Daleks will mark Graham and Ryan’s final appearances, leaving Mandip Gill’s Yaz as the sole continuing member of Thirteen’s Sheffield crew.
Speaking at an online BBC press Q&a for the festive episode held earlier this month, Jodie Whittaker confirmed the news:
“As the Doctor I will say that the fam as a four is no more. This will be the last time we see Bradley and Tosin. Absolutely devastated. Knowing it was my last scene with those actors, both of them had to carry me to my trailer. I’ve not cried like that in… Brad couldn’t cope with it at all.”
Statements from Walsh and Cole...
Speaking at an online BBC press Q&a for the festive episode held earlier this month, Jodie Whittaker confirmed the news:
“As the Doctor I will say that the fam as a four is no more. This will be the last time we see Bradley and Tosin. Absolutely devastated. Knowing it was my last scene with those actors, both of them had to carry me to my trailer. I’ve not cried like that in… Brad couldn’t cope with it at all.”
Statements from Walsh and Cole...
- 11/30/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Looney Tunes has had a rather interesting 40 years. When their glory days faded, they started releasing box office films that acted as glorified clip shows. They made crossover/cameo appearances in a Disney movie. They spent a few years acting as torch-passing professors to a crop of teenage knockoffs. Then they did a movie with Michael Jordan that wasn’t very good, but is so weird that it’s considered a beloved cornerstone of the ‘90s. There were a couple of spinoff shows for Taz and Tweety, as well as a whole lot of embarrassing shirts featuring characters wearing baggy pants and backwards caps.
Things got worse when their Brendan Frasier movie failed to scrounge up interest. They became extreme space superheroes, Daffy became a different kind of space superhero, and then they tried some more modern takes on the Looney Tunes concept with mixed results. Though it did teach...
Things got worse when their Brendan Frasier movie failed to scrounge up interest. They became extreme space superheroes, Daffy became a different kind of space superhero, and then they tried some more modern takes on the Looney Tunes concept with mixed results. Though it did teach...
- 4/22/2020
- by Gavin Jasper
- Den of Geek
Red Dwarf has been a lot of different shows, probably more than any science fiction show that’s kept the same principal cast in place for its entire run. Over the last 32 years it has been a zero-budget flatmate comedy with plots that could be filmed exclusively between a corridor and a bunk bed, a big old high concept episodic sci-fi show that used philosophy to make gags, it’s had a long-running ‘Hunt for Red Dwarf’ arc that lasted two seasons, then reintroduced all the crew it killed off in its first episode, then killed them all again and returned to odd-couple sitcom shenanigans.
Sometimes it is, by sitcom standards, actually pretty hard sci-fi, set in a universe with no alien life, the drama and comedy driven by the isolation of being the last human alive. Other times you can’t seem to move five feet without bumping into...
Sometimes it is, by sitcom standards, actually pretty hard sci-fi, set in a universe with no alien life, the drama and comedy driven by the isolation of being the last human alive. Other times you can’t seem to move five feet without bumping into...
- 4/9/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
James Bond fans won’t have to experience any serious absence of their favorite secret agent even though 007’s new thriller, No Time to Die, has had its release delayed by the coronavirus pandemic from this month to November.
Fortunately, in addition to Pluto TV’s 24/7 Bond channel (which offers up 18 films with limited commercials), Amazon Prime in the Us is now making 21 Bond movies — basically everything up until the current Daniel Craig era — available starting April 1, all in 4K Ultra-High Definition. There’s currently no word on whether or not Amazon UK will follow suit.
The movies are (in alphabetical order):
A View to a Kill (1985)Diamonds Are Forever (1971)Die Another Day (2002)Dr. No (1962)For Your Eyes Only (1981)From Russia with Love (1964)Goldeneye (1995)Goldfinger (1964)Licence to Kill (1989)Live and Let Die (1973)Moonraker (1979)Never Say Never Again (1983)Octopussy (1983)On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)The Living Daylights (1987)The Man with the Golden Gun...
Fortunately, in addition to Pluto TV’s 24/7 Bond channel (which offers up 18 films with limited commercials), Amazon Prime in the Us is now making 21 Bond movies — basically everything up until the current Daniel Craig era — available starting April 1, all in 4K Ultra-High Definition. There’s currently no word on whether or not Amazon UK will follow suit.
The movies are (in alphabetical order):
A View to a Kill (1985)Diamonds Are Forever (1971)Die Another Day (2002)Dr. No (1962)For Your Eyes Only (1981)From Russia with Love (1964)Goldeneye (1995)Goldfinger (1964)Licence to Kill (1989)Live and Let Die (1973)Moonraker (1979)Never Say Never Again (1983)Octopussy (1983)On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)The Living Daylights (1987)The Man with the Golden Gun...
- 4/1/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
This the nest review contains spoilers.
The book world already has a term for Scotland-set detective novels – Tartan Noir. There’s an increasing need for similar to describe the emerging genre of glossy BBC domestic thrillers set north of the border. Trust Me, The Replacement, The Victim, The Cry and now The Nest… all miniseries, all stories about women, all set against the dramatic backdrop of the highlands and the steel-glass shine of regenerated city centres and architect-designed residences.
Visit Scotland Noir, maybe? Minted-Lassie Thrillers?
The Nest’s minted lassie is Emily (Sophie Rundle), a Glasgow music teacher married to local-boy-done-good Dan (Martin Compston). They live in a dream loch-side house and appear to have it all. Love, money, a devoted marriage and quite definitely, a place in the world. What they don’t – and can’t – have, is a child.
We meet Emily and Dan having exhausted their IVF...
The book world already has a term for Scotland-set detective novels – Tartan Noir. There’s an increasing need for similar to describe the emerging genre of glossy BBC domestic thrillers set north of the border. Trust Me, The Replacement, The Victim, The Cry and now The Nest… all miniseries, all stories about women, all set against the dramatic backdrop of the highlands and the steel-glass shine of regenerated city centres and architect-designed residences.
Visit Scotland Noir, maybe? Minted-Lassie Thrillers?
The Nest’s minted lassie is Emily (Sophie Rundle), a Glasgow music teacher married to local-boy-done-good Dan (Martin Compston). They live in a dream loch-side house and appear to have it all. Love, money, a devoted marriage and quite definitely, a place in the world. What they don’t – and can’t – have, is a child.
We meet Emily and Dan having exhausted their IVF...
- 3/22/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Mark Harrison Sep 4, 2019
With Muppets Now headed to Disney+ next year, we celebrate Kermit and company’s small-screen history...
Between all the news about Ms. Marvel and Obi-Wan Kenobi, it feels like Muppets Now was one of the less-discussed Disney+ announcements from last month’s D23 convention. Described as an unscripted short-form series featuring Jim Henson’s loveable creations alongside celebrity guests, the new show is intended to premiere on the House of Mouse’s new streaming service in 2020.
The series will be the latest in a long line of small-screen reboots for the Kermit-led puppet troupe, who have bounced between TV, movies, and the web since they first enchanted viewers in the 1970s.
But it’s not easy being evergreen and there seems to be a persistent impulse to put the Muppets in modernised vehicles, which doesn’t always pay off. The 2011 big-screen reboot concluded that the Muppets don...
With Muppets Now headed to Disney+ next year, we celebrate Kermit and company’s small-screen history...
Between all the news about Ms. Marvel and Obi-Wan Kenobi, it feels like Muppets Now was one of the less-discussed Disney+ announcements from last month’s D23 convention. Described as an unscripted short-form series featuring Jim Henson’s loveable creations alongside celebrity guests, the new show is intended to premiere on the House of Mouse’s new streaming service in 2020.
The series will be the latest in a long line of small-screen reboots for the Kermit-led puppet troupe, who have bounced between TV, movies, and the web since they first enchanted viewers in the 1970s.
But it’s not easy being evergreen and there seems to be a persistent impulse to put the Muppets in modernised vehicles, which doesn’t always pay off. The 2011 big-screen reboot concluded that the Muppets don...
- 9/4/2019
- Den of Geek
Mark Harrison Aug 13, 2019
Inglourious Basterds was Quentin Tarantino's first slice of alternate history in which cinema takes revenge on the Nazis.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
This feature contains major spoilers for Inglourious Basterds from the very start.
As a filmmaker, Quentin Tarantino is given to making splashy and subversive films. Right through his new film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he tends to show us the kind of genre movie he grew up watching before turning it upside down and seeing what comes out. Ten years after it was originally released, his Oscar-winning World War II movie Inglourious Basterds may still represent the greatest product of his filmmaking whims.
The marriage of his sensibilities and the historical arena of WW2 Europe rankled (and continues to rankle with) his critics, but his painstakingly developed men-on-a-mission movie blooms into a truly audacious series of vignettes, which...
Inglourious Basterds was Quentin Tarantino's first slice of alternate history in which cinema takes revenge on the Nazis.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
This feature contains major spoilers for Inglourious Basterds from the very start.
As a filmmaker, Quentin Tarantino is given to making splashy and subversive films. Right through his new film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he tends to show us the kind of genre movie he grew up watching before turning it upside down and seeing what comes out. Ten years after it was originally released, his Oscar-winning World War II movie Inglourious Basterds may still represent the greatest product of his filmmaking whims.
The marriage of his sensibilities and the historical arena of WW2 Europe rankled (and continues to rankle with) his critics, but his painstakingly developed men-on-a-mission movie blooms into a truly audacious series of vignettes, which...
- 8/13/2019
- Den of Geek
Mark Harrison Aug 1, 2019
If you’ve already seen all of 2019’s summer blockbusters, check out our annual round-up of the less massive films out in August.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
If you see only one movie at the theater this August, then you’re probably looking at Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw. An epic prospect like Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham teaming up to stop a madman from wiping out half the world’s population seems like a suitable end to the summer blockbuster season that began with Avengers: Endgame.
But honestly, by this point in a fairly average moviegoing summer, some of us are looking to cool off a bit. From indie films to low-budget genre fare, there are usually a few solid alternatives to the bigger movies also arriving in cinemas at this time of year.
Don’t get us wrong: you know we’re...
If you’ve already seen all of 2019’s summer blockbusters, check out our annual round-up of the less massive films out in August.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
If you see only one movie at the theater this August, then you’re probably looking at Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw. An epic prospect like Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham teaming up to stop a madman from wiping out half the world’s population seems like a suitable end to the summer blockbuster season that began with Avengers: Endgame.
But honestly, by this point in a fairly average moviegoing summer, some of us are looking to cool off a bit. From indie films to low-budget genre fare, there are usually a few solid alternatives to the bigger movies also arriving in cinemas at this time of year.
Don’t get us wrong: you know we’re...
- 8/1/2019
- Den of Geek
Mark Harrison Jul 8, 2019
What happens when test audiences don’t like the ending of a movie? Here are some finales that were changed after preview screenings…
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Warning: This feature contains spoilers for the end of movies, ranging from 1980s hits to recent ones like Escape Room. If you haven't seen one of the films discussed, you may want to skip over that entry or otherwise proceed with caution.
The test screening process is a nebulous part of studio filmmaking. Some directors and producers swear by it, but in other cases, it's the bane of a filmmaker's existence. With so much money on the line, most studios reserve the right to choose the final cut of a film, which can be hugely influenced by preview audiences' reactions.
Endings seem to be particularly fluid when it comes to test-screening feedback and there are countless...
What happens when test audiences don’t like the ending of a movie? Here are some finales that were changed after preview screenings…
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Warning: This feature contains spoilers for the end of movies, ranging from 1980s hits to recent ones like Escape Room. If you haven't seen one of the films discussed, you may want to skip over that entry or otherwise proceed with caution.
The test screening process is a nebulous part of studio filmmaking. Some directors and producers swear by it, but in other cases, it's the bane of a filmmaker's existence. With so much money on the line, most studios reserve the right to choose the final cut of a film, which can be hugely influenced by preview audiences' reactions.
Endings seem to be particularly fluid when it comes to test-screening feedback and there are countless...
- 7/8/2019
- Den of Geek
Mark Harrison May 23, 2019
2002's Treasure Planet was a passion project for Aladdin directors John Musker and Ron Clements.
Writer-directors John Musker and Ron Clements have a hell of a track record at Disney. As key figures in the studio’s animation renaissance in the 1990s, they brought The Little Mermaid, Aladdin (the original one), and Hercules to the screen before the House of Mouse finally gave them a crack at their pet project – Treasure Planet, an outer-space adaptation of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island.
Featuring the voice talents of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Hyde Pierce, and Emma Thompson, the 2002 film reimagines Jim Hawkins as the tearaway teenage son of a single mother who obtains a digital treasure map from dying pirate Billy Bones. Fascinated by stories of the fabled Treasure Planet since childhood, Jim jumps at the chance to leave his backwater homeworld and join an outer-space voyage...
2002's Treasure Planet was a passion project for Aladdin directors John Musker and Ron Clements.
Writer-directors John Musker and Ron Clements have a hell of a track record at Disney. As key figures in the studio’s animation renaissance in the 1990s, they brought The Little Mermaid, Aladdin (the original one), and Hercules to the screen before the House of Mouse finally gave them a crack at their pet project – Treasure Planet, an outer-space adaptation of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island.
Featuring the voice talents of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David Hyde Pierce, and Emma Thompson, the 2002 film reimagines Jim Hawkins as the tearaway teenage son of a single mother who obtains a digital treasure map from dying pirate Billy Bones. Fascinated by stories of the fabled Treasure Planet since childhood, Jim jumps at the chance to leave his backwater homeworld and join an outer-space voyage...
- 5/23/2019
- Den of Geek
Mark Harrison May 21, 2019
As the BBC announces a brand-new Vr game for Jodie Whittaker's Doctor, we revisit Doctor Who's recent dalliances with video games.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
2019 is shaping up to be another of Doctor Who's occasional years off, with no new TV episodes between New Year's Day's "Resolution" and the rumored Christmas special this December. But if you're hungry for more Time Lord action, there are loads of Doctor Who games you could jump into right now.
With a twelfth series not set to arrive until 2020, Jodie Whittaker's 13th Doctor is filling the gap with appearances in Vr form: she's starring in The Runaway, which is billed as an interactive episode, and popping up in a newly announced Vr game, The Edge of Time, which comes to PlayStation Vr and other apps this September.
The Runaway plays like a hands-on, fourth-wall-busting...
As the BBC announces a brand-new Vr game for Jodie Whittaker's Doctor, we revisit Doctor Who's recent dalliances with video games.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
2019 is shaping up to be another of Doctor Who's occasional years off, with no new TV episodes between New Year's Day's "Resolution" and the rumored Christmas special this December. But if you're hungry for more Time Lord action, there are loads of Doctor Who games you could jump into right now.
With a twelfth series not set to arrive until 2020, Jodie Whittaker's 13th Doctor is filling the gap with appearances in Vr form: she's starring in The Runaway, which is billed as an interactive episode, and popping up in a newly announced Vr game, The Edge of Time, which comes to PlayStation Vr and other apps this September.
The Runaway plays like a hands-on, fourth-wall-busting...
- 5/21/2019
- Den of Geek
Mark Harrison Jul 2, 2019
Hancock, the Will Smith superhero movie, didn't have an easy production.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
This feature contains spoilers for Hancock.
Back in the 1990s, Will Smith ascended from being the Fresh Prince to being the king of the Fourth of July weekend. Summer blockbusters like Independence Day and Men in Black cemented his position as a box office draw well into the following decade. Naturally, Smith has pursued other avenues as his career has gone on, but arguably 2008's Hancock was the last full-on star vehicle he opened on that coveted weekend.
Developed from a widely hyped spec script titled Tonight, He Comes, the film cast Smith as a stumblebum superhero known as John Hancock, who is widely disliked by the citizens of Los Angeles. Booze-addled and depressed, Hancock finally resolves to turn his life around with the help of PR consultant...
Hancock, the Will Smith superhero movie, didn't have an easy production.
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
This feature contains spoilers for Hancock.
Back in the 1990s, Will Smith ascended from being the Fresh Prince to being the king of the Fourth of July weekend. Summer blockbusters like Independence Day and Men in Black cemented his position as a box office draw well into the following decade. Naturally, Smith has pursued other avenues as his career has gone on, but arguably 2008's Hancock was the last full-on star vehicle he opened on that coveted weekend.
Developed from a widely hyped spec script titled Tonight, He Comes, the film cast Smith as a stumblebum superhero known as John Hancock, who is widely disliked by the citizens of Los Angeles. Booze-addled and depressed, Hancock finally resolves to turn his life around with the help of PR consultant...
- 7/6/2018
- Den of Geek
Mark Harrison Jul 2, 2019
Could anything have saved M. Night Shyamalan's much-vilified adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender?
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
“The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.” So began Roger Ebert's review of The Last Airbender. It sounds harsh, but Ebert's half-star verdict was fairly representative of the tidal wave of criticism that engulfed director M. Night Shyamalan's most expensive and, ultimately, most derided film yet. But unlike other misfires from Shyamalan, this wasn't based on his own original idea. It was the first of a planned trilogy based on the beloved Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was hugely acclaimed for its visual sense, engrossing storytelling and lively, vibrant characters. What went wrong? It's almost harder to try and figure out what, if anything, went right.
The series,...
Could anything have saved M. Night Shyamalan's much-vilified adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender?
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
“The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.” So began Roger Ebert's review of The Last Airbender. It sounds harsh, but Ebert's half-star verdict was fairly representative of the tidal wave of criticism that engulfed director M. Night Shyamalan's most expensive and, ultimately, most derided film yet. But unlike other misfires from Shyamalan, this wasn't based on his own original idea. It was the first of a planned trilogy based on the beloved Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was hugely acclaimed for its visual sense, engrossing storytelling and lively, vibrant characters. What went wrong? It's almost harder to try and figure out what, if anything, went right.
The series,...
- 6/8/2015
- Den of Geek
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