Richard Bachman's 1982 novel "The Running Man" is set in the far-off future of 2025 when corporate America is ruling the country, people are having trouble finding work, and appearing on salacious government-run game shows seems like a viable way to make money.
Contestants in "The Running Man" are deemed to be enemies of the state and are sentenced to execution. They are then set loose and hunted by government assassins, each one outfitted with a colorful gimmick. The contestants earn $100 for every hour they stay alive, with a $100 bonus for each cop they kill. If they live for 30 days, they win a billion dollars. The public takes bets on how long the contestants will survive before their inevitable slaughter.
The 1987 feature film adaptation of "The Running Man," directed by Paul Michael Glaser and written by Steven E. de Souza, changed the premise slightly. Now set in 2017, the film sees Ben Richards...
Contestants in "The Running Man" are deemed to be enemies of the state and are sentenced to execution. They are then set loose and hunted by government assassins, each one outfitted with a colorful gimmick. The contestants earn $100 for every hour they stay alive, with a $100 bonus for each cop they kill. If they live for 30 days, they win a billion dollars. The public takes bets on how long the contestants will survive before their inevitable slaughter.
The 1987 feature film adaptation of "The Running Man," directed by Paul Michael Glaser and written by Steven E. de Souza, changed the premise slightly. Now set in 2017, the film sees Ben Richards...
- 10/25/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Exclusive: The BBC appears unmoved by the online clamor to cancel Jk Rowling over her views on transgender rights.
The British broadcaster is preparing to renew Strike for a sixth season after apologizing twice to the author last month because guests on news shows accused her of being transphobic. A deal is yet to be done, but Deadline understands that the BBC is enthusiastic about another season.
Strike is based on novels by Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith and chronicles cases investigated by Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke), a war veteran turned private detective, and his business partner Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger).
Season six will adapt The Ink Black Heart, which has echoes of Rowling’s own experience. It centers on the murder of a successful YouTube animator after she becomes the target of relentless online hate. At one point, Edie Ledwell is accused of being transphobic.
Rowling has been clear...
The British broadcaster is preparing to renew Strike for a sixth season after apologizing twice to the author last month because guests on news shows accused her of being transphobic. A deal is yet to be done, but Deadline understands that the BBC is enthusiastic about another season.
Strike is based on novels by Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith and chronicles cases investigated by Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke), a war veteran turned private detective, and his business partner Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger).
Season six will adapt The Ink Black Heart, which has echoes of Rowling’s own experience. It centers on the murder of a successful YouTube animator after she becomes the target of relentless online hate. At one point, Edie Ledwell is accused of being transphobic.
Rowling has been clear...
- 3/7/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Like the one before it, 2021 was a year in which many of us saw more of our TVs than of our friends and loved ones. It was lucky then, that there was so bloody much of the stuff, despite the pandemic’s best efforts to shut it all down. They might have been delayed, they might have been curtailed, but they weren’t stopped. Returning British TV shows returned like spring lambs, gambolling over the horizon right into your living room.
There was comedy and drama, as well as crime thrillers by the lorryload, and sci-fi and fantasy coming by the… much smaller lorryload.
A Discovery of Witches Season 2 (January)
Based on Deborah Harkness’ All Souls trilogy about the forbidden love between a powerful witch and a centuries-old vampire, A Discovery Of Witches debuted on Sky in autumn 2018 (read our reviews here) and was renewed for series two and three almost straight away.
There was comedy and drama, as well as crime thrillers by the lorryload, and sci-fi and fantasy coming by the… much smaller lorryload.
A Discovery of Witches Season 2 (January)
Based on Deborah Harkness’ All Souls trilogy about the forbidden love between a powerful witch and a centuries-old vampire, A Discovery Of Witches debuted on Sky in autumn 2018 (read our reviews here) and was renewed for series two and three almost straight away.
- 12/16/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
There might actually be people who would fight me on this, but while Arnold Schwarzenegger’s version was wildly different from the original story that was written by Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, it was still pretty cool. But giving it a reboot would be interesting, especially if it could keep the same look and the same type of gameshow quality while taking on an even darker cast. A lot of people probably recall how The Running Man followed Ben Richards, a former police helicopter pilot, who was framed for gunning down innocent civilians before being tossed in prison. The
Movies That Need a Reboot: The Running Man...
Movies That Need a Reboot: The Running Man...
- 11/14/2021
- by Tom Foster
- TVovermind.com
“Quantico” star Tracy Ifeachor, “Star Trek: Discovery’s” James Frain (left) and “Rocks” actor Sharon D. Clarke are set to star in BBC drama “Showtrial” from “Bodyguard” producer World Productions.
The five-part series, which will air on flagship channel BBC One, is now in production. Ben Richards (“The Tunnel”) writes, while Zara Hayes (“Poms”) directs.
Ifeachor, Frain and Clarke have been cast alongside Sinéad Keenan (“Little Boy Blue”), Celine Buckens (“Bridgerton”), Kerr Logan (“Strike”) and Lolita Chakrabarti (“Vigil”).
Filmed and set around Bristol, “Showtrial” explores how prejudice, politics and the media distort the legal process. The show centers on Talitha Campbell, the estranged daughter of a wealthy property developer, who is charged with conspiring to murder fellow university student Hannah Ellis.
The trial that follows places victim and accused — and their families — in the eye of a media storm. Into that storm enters Cleo Roberts, the duty solicitor on the night of Talitha’s arrest.
The five-part series, which will air on flagship channel BBC One, is now in production. Ben Richards (“The Tunnel”) writes, while Zara Hayes (“Poms”) directs.
Ifeachor, Frain and Clarke have been cast alongside Sinéad Keenan (“Little Boy Blue”), Celine Buckens (“Bridgerton”), Kerr Logan (“Strike”) and Lolita Chakrabarti (“Vigil”).
Filmed and set around Bristol, “Showtrial” explores how prejudice, politics and the media distort the legal process. The show centers on Talitha Campbell, the estranged daughter of a wealthy property developer, who is charged with conspiring to murder fellow university student Hannah Ellis.
The trial that follows places victim and accused — and their families — in the eye of a media storm. Into that storm enters Cleo Roberts, the duty solicitor on the night of Talitha’s arrest.
- 4/23/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Edgar Wright is in negotiations to direct a new adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Running Man” for Paramount Pictures, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap.
King first published the futuristic novel under his pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982. In 1987, the book was adapted into a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Paul Michael Glaser directed.
Wright and Michael Bacall will co-write the story, and Bacall will write the script.
King’s novel is set in a dystopian United States during the year 2025, in which the nation’s economy is in ruins and violence around the world is at an all-time high. The story follows Ben Richards as he participates in a game show called “The Running Man” in which contestants travel the world but are chased by “hunters” who are employed to kill them.
Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon will produce through Kinberg’s Genre Films banner, along with...
King first published the futuristic novel under his pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982. In 1987, the book was adapted into a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Paul Michael Glaser directed.
Wright and Michael Bacall will co-write the story, and Bacall will write the script.
King’s novel is set in a dystopian United States during the year 2025, in which the nation’s economy is in ruins and violence around the world is at an all-time high. The story follows Ben Richards as he participates in a game show called “The Running Man” in which contestants travel the world but are chased by “hunters” who are employed to kill them.
Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon will produce through Kinberg’s Genre Films banner, along with...
- 2/19/2021
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Does anyone remember Gus Rethwisch? If you don’t from this picture then you might need to brush up on your cinematic knowledge since despite his short part in The Running Man he was still a memorable character as Buzzsaw, one of the gladiators that went after Ben Richards and his companions. This is a guy that actually made Arnold Schwarzenegger look kind of on the smaller side, which wasn’t easy back in the day. Wilt Chamberlain and Andre the Giant could do the same thing, but on screen it was tough to make Arnold look like an average guy. Buzzsaw
Whatever Happened to Gus Rethwisch?...
Whatever Happened to Gus Rethwisch?...
- 3/24/2020
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Sky has handed renewals to a slew of scripted series including David Schwimmer’s Intelligence, Robert Carlyle political drama Cobra and Joseph Gilgun’s comedy drama Brassic.
Intelligence, which launches on Sky One, has been handed a second season ahead of its first season air on February 21. Friends star Schwimmer plays a power-hungry, maverick Nsa agent who joins an inept and tactless computer analyst, played by Nick Mohammed, within the UK’s Gchq. Created and written by Mohammed, Intelligence is produced by Tim Hincks and Peter Fincham’s Expectation. The second, six-part season was renewed by Jon Mountague, Sky Studios’ Director of Comedy and Zai Bennett, Sky’s Managing Director of Content.
Schwimmer said, “I am thrilled to continue to pretend to be important to National Security.” Mohammed added, “I couldn’t be more delighted about setting off alarm bells inside Gchq all over again.”
Robert Carlyle’s political drama...
Intelligence, which launches on Sky One, has been handed a second season ahead of its first season air on February 21. Friends star Schwimmer plays a power-hungry, maverick Nsa agent who joins an inept and tactless computer analyst, played by Nick Mohammed, within the UK’s Gchq. Created and written by Mohammed, Intelligence is produced by Tim Hincks and Peter Fincham’s Expectation. The second, six-part season was renewed by Jon Mountague, Sky Studios’ Director of Comedy and Zai Bennett, Sky’s Managing Director of Content.
Schwimmer said, “I am thrilled to continue to pretend to be important to National Security.” Mohammed added, “I couldn’t be more delighted about setting off alarm bells inside Gchq all over again.”
Robert Carlyle’s political drama...
- 2/12/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
BBC One has commissioned its latest drama from the makers of Bodyguard — a six-part series about a murder trial that explodes in the national consciousness.
World Productions will make Showtrial for the British broadcaster after working with Strike and The Tunnel writer Ben Richards to create the series, in which two worlds collide in a fictional legal battle.
Talitha Campbell, the arrogant daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur, is put on trial following the disappearance of fellow student, Hannah Ellis, the hard-working daughter of a single mother.
Showtrial follows both sides of the argument from the point of arrest to the verdict, with the nation gripped by the details of the case, which touches on wealth, politics and prejudice.
World Productions CEO Simon Heath said: “It’s great to be working again with Ben Richards, who uses the DNA of our true crime obsession to create a gripping fictional murder trial...
World Productions will make Showtrial for the British broadcaster after working with Strike and The Tunnel writer Ben Richards to create the series, in which two worlds collide in a fictional legal battle.
Talitha Campbell, the arrogant daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur, is put on trial following the disappearance of fellow student, Hannah Ellis, the hard-working daughter of a single mother.
Showtrial follows both sides of the argument from the point of arrest to the verdict, with the nation gripped by the details of the case, which touches on wealth, politics and prejudice.
World Productions CEO Simon Heath said: “It’s great to be working again with Ben Richards, who uses the DNA of our true crime obsession to create a gripping fictional murder trial...
- 12/4/2019
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The BBC is teaming with the producers of its hit shows Bodyguard and Line of Duty on a new drama.
Showtrial, from writer Ben Richards (Strike, The Tunnel) and the ITV-owned banner World Productions (Line of Duty, Bodyguard, Save Me), will examine how wealth, politics and prejudice conspire to distort the quest for justice, focusing on a trial that grips a nation and thrusts both victim and accused into the heart of a media storm.
The six-part series will follow Talitha Campbell, the arrogant daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur, who is arrested following the disappearance of fellow student Hannah Ellis, the hard-working daughter ...
Showtrial, from writer Ben Richards (Strike, The Tunnel) and the ITV-owned banner World Productions (Line of Duty, Bodyguard, Save Me), will examine how wealth, politics and prejudice conspire to distort the quest for justice, focusing on a trial that grips a nation and thrusts both victim and accused into the heart of a media storm.
The six-part series will follow Talitha Campbell, the arrogant daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur, who is arrested following the disappearance of fellow student Hannah Ellis, the hard-working daughter ...
- 12/3/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Mark Harrison Dec 3, 2019
Blade Runner, Akira, and The Running Man are all set in 2019 – now that it’s December, we reflect upon movie futures-now-past…
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
The future isn’t what it used to be. More than most decades, the 2010s have proven to be quite unlike the films that posited what they would be like. 2010 was supposed to be The Year We Make Contact. 2012 didn’t pan out like a Roland Emmerich movie after all. And as for 2015, countless words have already been written comparing reality to the vision of Back to the Future Part II. They had flying cars; we had that dress that was either white and gold or black and blue.
We’re over all that now, but as we approach the 2020s, how does 2019 measure up? For one reason or another, a lot of major genre movies of the...
Blade Runner, Akira, and The Running Man are all set in 2019 – now that it’s December, we reflect upon movie futures-now-past…
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
The future isn’t what it used to be. More than most decades, the 2010s have proven to be quite unlike the films that posited what they would be like. 2010 was supposed to be The Year We Make Contact. 2012 didn’t pan out like a Roland Emmerich movie after all. And as for 2015, countless words have already been written comparing reality to the vision of Back to the Future Part II. They had flying cars; we had that dress that was either white and gold or black and blue.
We’re over all that now, but as we approach the 2020s, how does 2019 measure up? For one reason or another, a lot of major genre movies of the...
- 12/3/2019
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Trainspotting and Once Upon A Time star Robert Carlyle and The Crown’s Victoria Hamilton are to star in a British political drama for Sky. Catherine The Great producer New Pictures is making six-part series Cobra about what happens in the corridors of power during a time of national emergency. Pretty good timing given what’s going on with Brexit.
Carlyle stars as British Prime Minister Robert Sutherland, while Hamilton plays his Chief of Staff Anna Marshall. Game of Thrones’ Richard Dormer plays as Fraser Walker, the Head of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Killing Eve’s David Haig stars as Home Secretary Archie Glover-Morgan, Better Things’ Marsha Thomason stars as Francine Bridge MP and Broadchurch’s Lucy Cohu plays the Prime Minister’s wife Rachel Sutherland.
The series, which has begun production ahead of a fall launch, deals with an unfolding national emergency that threatens to engulf the country as the Cobra committee,...
Carlyle stars as British Prime Minister Robert Sutherland, while Hamilton plays his Chief of Staff Anna Marshall. Game of Thrones’ Richard Dormer plays as Fraser Walker, the Head of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Killing Eve’s David Haig stars as Home Secretary Archie Glover-Morgan, Better Things’ Marsha Thomason stars as Francine Bridge MP and Broadchurch’s Lucy Cohu plays the Prime Minister’s wife Rachel Sutherland.
The series, which has begun production ahead of a fall launch, deals with an unfolding national emergency that threatens to engulf the country as the Cobra committee,...
- 3/14/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Alec Bojalad Jan 23, 2019
Hulu's collection of science fiction films is growing each month. Here we compile the best of the best.
Editor's Note: This post is updated monthly. Bookmark this page and come back every month to see what other excellent science fiction get added to Hulu.
Updated for February 2019.
You can see a complete list of new Hulu releases here.
Hulu gets science fiction. Science fiction is all about possibility. Will this event happen? Probably not. But could it? Maybe!
That sense of possibility and wonder imbues each and every film on this list of the best science fiction movies on Hulu. The list is relatively small as far as lists on our streaming guides go. But it's growing as the powers that be behind Hulu understand that having a healthy diet of content also means including some sci-fi roughage.
Enjoy a free month of Hulu on us,...
Hulu's collection of science fiction films is growing each month. Here we compile the best of the best.
Editor's Note: This post is updated monthly. Bookmark this page and come back every month to see what other excellent science fiction get added to Hulu.
Updated for February 2019.
You can see a complete list of new Hulu releases here.
Hulu gets science fiction. Science fiction is all about possibility. Will this event happen? Probably not. But could it? Maybe!
That sense of possibility and wonder imbues each and every film on this list of the best science fiction movies on Hulu. The list is relatively small as far as lists on our streaming guides go. But it's growing as the powers that be behind Hulu understand that having a healthy diet of content also means including some sci-fi roughage.
Enjoy a free month of Hulu on us,...
- 1/14/2018
- Den of Geek
Riyad Emeran Dec 11, 2017
Should filmmakers stick religiously to the source material? In the case of Stephen King adaptations, it can work very well both ways...
I watched The Shining recently, a film I haven’t seen for at least 15 years, maybe more. The first time I watched The Shining I was far too young for what was an X certificate movie at the time – VHS had opened the door to a whole host of viewing options for young teens – and I remember being disappointed at the lack of 'horror' on show. But when I revisited The Shining with more mature eyes, I realised that horror wasn’t just about violence and gore, and the truly disturbing nature of the film and its underlying story became clear.
Watching it again, now, I’m surprised at how powerful it still is. Yes, Shelly Duvall’s performance is still as comically insipid as it has always been,...
Should filmmakers stick religiously to the source material? In the case of Stephen King adaptations, it can work very well both ways...
I watched The Shining recently, a film I haven’t seen for at least 15 years, maybe more. The first time I watched The Shining I was far too young for what was an X certificate movie at the time – VHS had opened the door to a whole host of viewing options for young teens – and I remember being disappointed at the lack of 'horror' on show. But when I revisited The Shining with more mature eyes, I realised that horror wasn’t just about violence and gore, and the truly disturbing nature of the film and its underlying story became clear.
Watching it again, now, I’m surprised at how powerful it still is. Yes, Shelly Duvall’s performance is still as comically insipid as it has always been,...
- 12/10/2017
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Aug 27, 2017
Jk Rowling-created detective Cormoran Strike arrives on the BBC in a solid hour of traditional murder mystery…
This review contains spoilers.
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Sherlock Holmes. Hercule Poirot. Veronica Mars. Endeavour Morse. Unlikely names are clearly the birthright of any decent fictional Pi. Even the relatively conventional Sam Spade and John Shaft sound like characters christened by Vic and Bob when you think about it.
Cormoran Strike though, the creation of thriller novelist Robert Galbraith (himself the creation of Jk Rowling) takes the Pi biscuit. It’s a fabulously implausible name that belongs on the 1940s cover of a boys’ own adventure comic. Cormoran. Strike. Half mythical Cornish giant,...
Jk Rowling-created detective Cormoran Strike arrives on the BBC in a solid hour of traditional murder mystery…
This review contains spoilers.
See related Timothy V. Murphy interview: True Detective season 2 True Detective season 2 episode 8 review: Omega Station True Detective season 2 episode 7 review: Black Maps And Motel Rooms True Detective season 2 episode 6 review: Church In Ruins True Detective season 2 episode 5 review: Other Lives
Sherlock Holmes. Hercule Poirot. Veronica Mars. Endeavour Morse. Unlikely names are clearly the birthright of any decent fictional Pi. Even the relatively conventional Sam Spade and John Shaft sound like characters christened by Vic and Bob when you think about it.
Cormoran Strike though, the creation of thriller novelist Robert Galbraith (himself the creation of Jk Rowling) takes the Pi biscuit. It’s a fabulously implausible name that belongs on the 1940s cover of a boys’ own adventure comic. Cormoran. Strike. Half mythical Cornish giant,...
- 8/10/2017
- Den of Geek
Rebecca Lea Jun 26, 2017
Our lookback through the screen adaptations of Stephen King brings us to Arnold Schwarzenegger, and The Running Man...
The film: In the totalitarian dystopia of 2017, Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger) finds himself wrongly convicted and sent to prison. Recaptured after an escape attempt, he’s placed into a television gameshow called The Running Man, in which prison convicts attempt to stay alive in the Game Zone in order to achieve prizes such as a suspended sentence or even a pardon. However, Richards has links to the Resistance and they’re on hand to assist with his game-changing TV appearance.
To say that The Running Man is a loose adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name, published under his pseudonym Richard Bachman, is something of an understatement. Stephen E. de Souza takes a hacksaw to the original everyman Ben Richards, an unemployed family man desperate...
Our lookback through the screen adaptations of Stephen King brings us to Arnold Schwarzenegger, and The Running Man...
The film: In the totalitarian dystopia of 2017, Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger) finds himself wrongly convicted and sent to prison. Recaptured after an escape attempt, he’s placed into a television gameshow called The Running Man, in which prison convicts attempt to stay alive in the Game Zone in order to achieve prizes such as a suspended sentence or even a pardon. However, Richards has links to the Resistance and they’re on hand to assist with his game-changing TV appearance.
To say that The Running Man is a loose adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name, published under his pseudonym Richard Bachman, is something of an understatement. Stephen E. de Souza takes a hacksaw to the original everyman Ben Richards, an unemployed family man desperate...
- 6/25/2017
- Den of Geek
It's a good time to be J.K. Rowling. Not that the same couldn't be said for any given stretch over the past fifteen years or so, but right now seems to be an especially good time for the mega-successful Harry Potter author. Not only does she have a movie using her first screenplay, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, coming out next month (with four more movies in that series set to follow), but THR reports that HBO has picked up the rights to Cormoran Strike, a limited series based on Rowling's crime novels that she wrote under the pen name of Robert Galbraith.
From BBC One, Cormoran Strike centers on Strike (War and Peace star Tom Burke), a war veteran turned private detective operating out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Though he’s wounded both physically and psychologically, Strike’s unique insight and his...
From BBC One, Cormoran Strike centers on Strike (War and Peace star Tom Burke), a war veteran turned private detective operating out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Though he’s wounded both physically and psychologically, Strike’s unique insight and his...
- 10/27/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
Kayti Burt Oct 27, 2016
The BBC's adaptation of J.K. Rowling's Cormoran Strike novels will air on HBO over in the States...
We already knew that BBC One is making J.K. Rowling's series of detective novels featuring Cormoran Strike into a TV miniseries, but it was unclear where or if they would air in America. But fear not, Us-based Rowling fans! HBO has got your back.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO has picked up the Us and Canadian rights for Cormoran Strike, the limited series based on Rowling's three bestselling crime novels: The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, and Career of Evil (all written under pen name Robert Galbraith). The series will consist of seven 60-minute episodes altogether and will air in the UK as three separate "event dramas.
The BBC's adaptation of J.K. Rowling's Cormoran Strike novels will air on HBO over in the States...
We already knew that BBC One is making J.K. Rowling's series of detective novels featuring Cormoran Strike into a TV miniseries, but it was unclear where or if they would air in America. But fear not, Us-based Rowling fans! HBO has got your back.
See related Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows: set report Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows review
According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO has picked up the Us and Canadian rights for Cormoran Strike, the limited series based on Rowling's three bestselling crime novels: The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, and Career of Evil (all written under pen name Robert Galbraith). The series will consist of seven 60-minute episodes altogether and will air in the UK as three separate "event dramas.
- 10/26/2016
- Den of Geek
Beverley Knight and Ben Richards leadthe international hit musical The Bodyguard when it returns to the West End for a limited six month runthis year. Richards will play Frank Farmer, Rachel Marron's bodyguard, alongside Beverley Knight in the leading role of the Oscar-nominated superstar Marron. Performances begin at the Dominion Theatre tonight 15 July 2016 for this strictly limited season to 7 January 2017.
- 7/15/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
At a press event announcing new series (otherwise known as "seasons" in American English) of Sherlock and Luther, BBC One's Charlotte Moore also announced more details about the broadcaster's adaptations of Robert Galbraith's Cormoran Strike mysteries. Who cares? you might say, until you remember that Robert Galbraith is actually the pen name of Harry Potter fan-fiction author J.K. Rowling, who has written two Strike novels under the guise of the ex-soldier Galbraith, with a third on the way. The Beeb first announced it would adapt the books for TV in December, and Tuesday night Moore revealed the series would start production in the fall, with Julian Farino directing and Sarah Phelps and Ben Richards adapting the first and second Strike books, respectively. There's no word yet on who will play brilliant P.I. Cormoran Strike, nor his capable secretary Robin Ellacot; too bad Benedict Cumberbatch is probably busy,...
- 9/23/2015
- by Nate Jones
- Vulture
Jk Rowling's crime novels - written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, to avoid Harry Potter contamination - are set to become a new BBC TV series called The Cormoran Strike Mysteries.
The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and the as-yet unreleased Career of Evil will be on BBC One at some point this autumn, with no actors officially attached as yet.
The series' fantastically-named protagonist Cormoran Strike is an army veteran who lost a leg in the Afghan War.
He now works as a private eye in London, which means the books have absolutely nothing to do with Harry Potter, magic or hippogriffs.
Strike, with his secretary Robin Venetia Ellacott, works tirelessly on his cases - inspired to do so, perhaps, because of his debts and the fact that he doesn't have many clients.
Screenwriter Sarah Phelps - who brought Rowling's Casual Vacancy to BBC One earlier this year -...
The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm and the as-yet unreleased Career of Evil will be on BBC One at some point this autumn, with no actors officially attached as yet.
The series' fantastically-named protagonist Cormoran Strike is an army veteran who lost a leg in the Afghan War.
He now works as a private eye in London, which means the books have absolutely nothing to do with Harry Potter, magic or hippogriffs.
Strike, with his secretary Robin Venetia Ellacott, works tirelessly on his cases - inspired to do so, perhaps, because of his debts and the fact that he doesn't have many clients.
Screenwriter Sarah Phelps - who brought Rowling's Casual Vacancy to BBC One earlier this year -...
- 9/23/2015
- Digital Spy
Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips, Verónica Echegui
Fortitude, Season One, “Episode Eight”
Written by Ben Richards
Directed by Hettie Macdonald
Fortitude, Season One, “Episode Nine”
Written by Stephen Brady
Directed by Nick Hurran
Airs Thursdays at 10 pm (Et) on Pivot
With the mystery of Professor Stoddart’s death reaching some conclusion, the town of Fortitude seemed out of the shadows when Shirley proceeded to brutally attack her own mother. The last two episodes have examined the aftermath of both Shirley’s attack coming to light, and Frank’s attempts to come to terms with his son’s apparent criminal activity, among other things. This has resulted in the pressure cooker environment of Fortitude threatening to bubble over as the town finds itself forcefully isolated from the mainland, and has led the show down some intriguing paths.
The paranoia gripping the town in the wake of Shirley’s attack on her mother has been fascinating to watch.
Fortitude, Season One, “Episode Eight”
Written by Ben Richards
Directed by Hettie Macdonald
Fortitude, Season One, “Episode Nine”
Written by Stephen Brady
Directed by Nick Hurran
Airs Thursdays at 10 pm (Et) on Pivot
With the mystery of Professor Stoddart’s death reaching some conclusion, the town of Fortitude seemed out of the shadows when Shirley proceeded to brutally attack her own mother. The last two episodes have examined the aftermath of both Shirley’s attack coming to light, and Frank’s attempts to come to terms with his son’s apparent criminal activity, among other things. This has resulted in the pressure cooker environment of Fortitude threatening to bubble over as the town finds itself forcefully isolated from the mainland, and has led the show down some intriguing paths.
The paranoia gripping the town in the wake of Shirley’s attack on her mother has been fascinating to watch.
- 3/20/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
The Tunnel is set to return to Sky Atlantic for a second series.
Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy will reprise their roles in the show, which is an Anglo-French adaptation of Scandinavian drama The Bridge.
Stephen Dillane on The Tunnel, crime thrillers and Game of Thrones
The Tunnel 2: Debris will air early next year, reuniting detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann on a new case not inspired by The Bridge.
Sky Atlantic boss Zai Bennett revealed to The Guardian that the second series will focus on an airliner that crashes in the English Channel.
Ben Richards is returning to write the eight-part sequel, which is co-produced by Sky Atlantic and Canal+ with Kudos and Shine Films France.
Watch the trailer for The Tunnel's first series below:...
Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy will reprise their roles in the show, which is an Anglo-French adaptation of Scandinavian drama The Bridge.
Stephen Dillane on The Tunnel, crime thrillers and Game of Thrones
The Tunnel 2: Debris will air early next year, reuniting detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann on a new case not inspired by The Bridge.
Sky Atlantic boss Zai Bennett revealed to The Guardian that the second series will focus on an airliner that crashes in the English Channel.
Ben Richards is returning to write the eight-part sequel, which is co-produced by Sky Atlantic and Canal+ with Kudos and Shine Films France.
Watch the trailer for The Tunnel's first series below:...
- 2/16/2015
- Digital Spy
We interview Fortitude's exec producer, who says that the Sky Atlantic drama is "a self-contained story that comes to an end"...
Sky Atlantic’s Fortitude, showing now on Thursday nights at 9pm, is a thriller, a mystery and an exploration of what can happen when murder takes place where you least expect it. Its cast, including Michael Gambon, Stanley Tucci and Sofie Grabol, is no less impressive than its otherworldly Nordic backdrop.
We spoke to executive producer Patrick Spence about filming in Norway, the prospect of British writers’ rooms and why Fortitude is not a frozen western…
I think that what’s interesting about the show is the relationship between landscape and character. You’ve made an effort to film in Iceland, with the incredible scenery that, for the fictional town at least, masks a real sense of danger. The landscape is beautiful, but the environment can kill you.
Sky Atlantic’s Fortitude, showing now on Thursday nights at 9pm, is a thriller, a mystery and an exploration of what can happen when murder takes place where you least expect it. Its cast, including Michael Gambon, Stanley Tucci and Sofie Grabol, is no less impressive than its otherworldly Nordic backdrop.
We spoke to executive producer Patrick Spence about filming in Norway, the prospect of British writers’ rooms and why Fortitude is not a frozen western…
I think that what’s interesting about the show is the relationship between landscape and character. You’ve made an effort to film in Iceland, with the incredible scenery that, for the fictional town at least, masks a real sense of danger. The landscape is beautiful, but the environment can kill you.
- 2/11/2015
- by michaeln
- Den of Geek
“Uplink underground, uplink underground. If you say that one more time, I’ll uplink your ass, and you’ll be underground!”
The Running Man screens Wednesday night December 3rd at Schlafly Bottleworks at 8pm
You never know what’s brewing at Webster University’s Strange Brew cult film series. It’s always the first Wednesday evening of every month, and they always come up with some cult classic to show while enjoying some good food and great suds. The fun happens at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143).
In the 1987 sci-fi spandex and cheese-fest The Running Man, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Ben Richards Aka ‘The Butcher of Baker’s Field Massacre’, who becomes a contestant on the reality TV show (hosted by The Family Feud’s Richard Dawson!) “The Running Man” where various criminals play a game in which the prize is...
The Running Man screens Wednesday night December 3rd at Schlafly Bottleworks at 8pm
You never know what’s brewing at Webster University’s Strange Brew cult film series. It’s always the first Wednesday evening of every month, and they always come up with some cult classic to show while enjoying some good food and great suds. The fun happens at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143).
In the 1987 sci-fi spandex and cheese-fest The Running Man, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Ben Richards Aka ‘The Butcher of Baker’s Field Massacre’, who becomes a contestant on the reality TV show (hosted by The Family Feud’s Richard Dawson!) “The Running Man” where various criminals play a game in which the prize is...
- 11/25/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Since returning to his acting career after a few years in politics, Arnold Schwarzenegger has talked quite a bit about rejuvenating his former glory by doing sequels to films from his past. He has already completed work on the upcoming Terminator: Genisys, but in the past couple years he has also talked about the return of characters like Conan and Julius Benedict. Now it looks like we may soon be able to add Ben Richards to that list, as Schwarzenegger has been hinting at a new Running Man movie. The Austrian-born actor is currently in London, and it was while speaking during a Q&A that he revealed talks of a possible Running Man 2 in the works. According to Digital Spy, Schwarzenegger didn't exactly elaborate on what might be happening with the property or if he is actually attached to a project, but he did say that there have ...
- 11/17/2014
- cinemablend.com
Odd List Ryan Lambie 17 Mar 2014 - 06:02
With Escape Plan out today, we look back at the strange prominence of prisons in Sylvester Stallone movies...
In his blockbuster movies, Tom Cruise likes to ride motorcycles and run with his fingers outstretched. Jean-Claude Van Damme likes to wear tight lycra and do the splits a lot. Arnold Schwarzenegger likes to make that sort of guttural "graargh" noise when he gets into fights.
Sylvester Stallone, on the other hand, has his own set of interests and habits. He likes to fire machine guns one-handed, scream while flying helicopters, and making a "hurgh!" noise when he does something athletic. Also, he has a tendency to star in films that involve prisons.
Now, admittedly, Stallone's appeared in lots of films where there's no sign of jail cells, sadistic prison wardens or metal trays with hideous food piled up on them. But then again, he has appeared in these.
With Escape Plan out today, we look back at the strange prominence of prisons in Sylvester Stallone movies...
In his blockbuster movies, Tom Cruise likes to ride motorcycles and run with his fingers outstretched. Jean-Claude Van Damme likes to wear tight lycra and do the splits a lot. Arnold Schwarzenegger likes to make that sort of guttural "graargh" noise when he gets into fights.
Sylvester Stallone, on the other hand, has his own set of interests and habits. He likes to fire machine guns one-handed, scream while flying helicopters, and making a "hurgh!" noise when he does something athletic. Also, he has a tendency to star in films that involve prisons.
Now, admittedly, Stallone's appeared in lots of films where there's no sign of jail cells, sadistic prison wardens or metal trays with hideous food piled up on them. But then again, he has appeared in these.
- 3/14/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
In anticipation of the home entertainment release of The Tunnel, HeyUGuys had the privilege to speak with one of the show’s more shadowy characters, Stephen Beaumont, played by Joseph Mawle.
With an open and honest reflection on his career to date, Mawle looked back to how dressing up in his youth set him on a collision course with the big and small screen, and the unenviable task of playing a Stark under George R.R. Martin’s ruthless pen. During our conversation he offered an in-depth commentary on the show in which he spoke enthusiastically about the dark undertones of The Tunnel and its exploration of moral ambiguity, before looking ahead to two of his upcoming film projects.
Why a career in acting? Was there that one inspirational moment?
[Laughs] Probably watching too many movies as a youngster, and wanting to be a bit like Mr Benn; to be able to...
With an open and honest reflection on his career to date, Mawle looked back to how dressing up in his youth set him on a collision course with the big and small screen, and the unenviable task of playing a Stark under George R.R. Martin’s ruthless pen. During our conversation he offered an in-depth commentary on the show in which he spoke enthusiastically about the dark undertones of The Tunnel and its exploration of moral ambiguity, before looking ahead to two of his upcoming film projects.
Why a career in acting? Was there that one inspirational moment?
[Laughs] Probably watching too many movies as a youngster, and wanting to be a bit like Mr Benn; to be able to...
- 1/14/2014
- by Paul Risker
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
4. The Running Man
Directed by Paul Michael Glaser
Written by Steven E. de Souza
USA, 1987
Directed by former Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser, this post-apocalyptic science fiction yarn starring Arnold Schwarzenegger is without a doubt the most mainstream film to appear on this list. Much like The Hunger Games, The Running Man satirizes American entertainment, deriding everything from professional wrestling to reality TV and game shows. The film, which is loosely based on a novel by Richard Bachman (a pen name for Stephen King), is set in the totalitarian America of 2019, wherein convicted criminals are forced to take part as bait in a hideous TV manhunt called, yes, The Running Man. Schwarzenegger stars as Ben Richards, a cop framed for massacring rioting civilians during a protest and later picked as a contestant for the show, where he must survive a gang of skillful assassins like Subzero (Prof. Toru Tanaka...
Directed by Paul Michael Glaser
Written by Steven E. de Souza
USA, 1987
Directed by former Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser, this post-apocalyptic science fiction yarn starring Arnold Schwarzenegger is without a doubt the most mainstream film to appear on this list. Much like The Hunger Games, The Running Man satirizes American entertainment, deriding everything from professional wrestling to reality TV and game shows. The film, which is loosely based on a novel by Richard Bachman (a pen name for Stephen King), is set in the totalitarian America of 2019, wherein convicted criminals are forced to take part as bait in a hideous TV manhunt called, yes, The Running Man. Schwarzenegger stars as Ben Richards, a cop framed for massacring rioting civilians during a protest and later picked as a contestant for the show, where he must survive a gang of skillful assassins like Subzero (Prof. Toru Tanaka...
- 11/17/2013
- by Ricky da Conceição
- SoundOnSight
The French star on Scandi-crime adaptation The Tunnel, being bullied and the importance of a sense of humour
You're playing a French detective who works alongside British detective Karl Roebuck (Stephen Dillane) in new TV series The Tunnel, based on Scandinavian crime drama The Bridge. How does changing the nationalities alter the storyline?
Well, there's the language barrier between the French and English. We don't communicate well! But it's always interesting to explore borders and that point where you have to open up and discover something unknown, that's also so close to you. The writer of the show, Ben Richards, really wanted to explore aspects of society today that we often don't want to look at. Through the character of Karl, the English detective played by Stephen Dillane, Ben looks at his own parents' generation, their communist ideals and the battles they fought that their son didn't quite take on,...
You're playing a French detective who works alongside British detective Karl Roebuck (Stephen Dillane) in new TV series The Tunnel, based on Scandinavian crime drama The Bridge. How does changing the nationalities alter the storyline?
Well, there's the language barrier between the French and English. We don't communicate well! But it's always interesting to explore borders and that point where you have to open up and discover something unknown, that's also so close to you. The writer of the show, Ben Richards, really wanted to explore aspects of society today that we often don't want to look at. Through the character of Karl, the English detective played by Stephen Dillane, Ben looks at his own parents' generation, their communist ideals and the battles they fought that their son didn't quite take on,...
- 10/5/2013
- by Liz Hoggard
- The Guardian - Film News
Trailer Louisa Mellor 27 Sep 2013 - 10:22
The Tunnel, a UK/French new take on Danish/Swedish crime series The Bridge, comes to Sky Atlantic in October...
More than a simple remake, Ben Richards' The Tunnel takes the concept, characters, and select scenes from hit original Danish/Swedish series The Bridge and translates them into a cross-Channel setting that's peppered with insights into Anglo-French relations.
Stephen Dillane and Clemence Poesy star as the English and French lead detectives thrown together by a manipulative serial killer (is there any other kind?) in the series, which unfurls against the backdrop of Europe in financial crisis.
Yes, there's more than a hint of the chalk and cheese buddy cop convention in the central relationship, but when it's done with the humour and intrigue of The Tunnel, the odd couple stuff finds fresh relevancy. Contrary to national sterotypes, Dillane's Karl Roebuck isn't the uptight Brit,...
The Tunnel, a UK/French new take on Danish/Swedish crime series The Bridge, comes to Sky Atlantic in October...
More than a simple remake, Ben Richards' The Tunnel takes the concept, characters, and select scenes from hit original Danish/Swedish series The Bridge and translates them into a cross-Channel setting that's peppered with insights into Anglo-French relations.
Stephen Dillane and Clemence Poesy star as the English and French lead detectives thrown together by a manipulative serial killer (is there any other kind?) in the series, which unfurls against the backdrop of Europe in financial crisis.
Yes, there's more than a hint of the chalk and cheese buddy cop convention in the central relationship, but when it's done with the humour and intrigue of The Tunnel, the odd couple stuff finds fresh relevancy. Contrary to national sterotypes, Dillane's Karl Roebuck isn't the uptight Brit,...
- 9/27/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Sky and the producers of new drama series The Tunnel have defended the decision to adapt the critically acclaimed Scandinavian crime drama The Bridge.
Clémence Poésy and Stephen Dillane star in the Anglo-French twist on the Nordic Noir series, and the drama's chief exec Janet Featherstone insisted that fans of the original shouldn't be put off by the remake.
"I think the concept of Britain and France is particularly woven through and we've got key plot changes," said Featherstone, speaking at a Sky Drama launch.
"I won't tell you what the changes are because I don't want to spoil the drama, but there are plenty of changes and we've got many people who have seen both, who feel that they get satisfaction because the characters go on different journeys and the actors all bring a whole new level of interest in it.
"I honestly think if you watch it, you'll be surprised.
Clémence Poésy and Stephen Dillane star in the Anglo-French twist on the Nordic Noir series, and the drama's chief exec Janet Featherstone insisted that fans of the original shouldn't be put off by the remake.
"I think the concept of Britain and France is particularly woven through and we've got key plot changes," said Featherstone, speaking at a Sky Drama launch.
"I won't tell you what the changes are because I don't want to spoil the drama, but there are plenty of changes and we've got many people who have seen both, who feel that they get satisfaction because the characters go on different journeys and the actors all bring a whole new level of interest in it.
"I honestly think if you watch it, you'll be surprised.
- 9/17/2013
- Digital Spy
Merlin star Angel Coulby and Spooks actress Keeley Hawes have joined Sky Atlantic's remake of The Bridge.
Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones) and Clémence Poésy (Birdsong) will play the leads in the UK version of the Scandinavian crime drama, retitled The Tunnel.
© BBC
© Activision
[Left: Angel Coulby in 'Merlin' / Right: Keeley Hawes]
Coulby and Hawes will also appear alongside Joseph Mawle (Game of Thrones), Adam Roebuck (Mrs Biggs) and Liz Smith (The Royle Family), according to the Radio Times.
Spooks writer Ben Richards has adapted The Bridge for UK television - while the original series focused on a joint murder investigation led by Danish and Swedish police, The Tunnel will focus on relations between the UK and France.
The Tunnel will enter production later this month and will air on Sky Atlantic in late 2013.
Us cable network FX is also developing its own remake of The Bridge starring Diane Kruger, Demián Bichir and Matthew Lillard.
Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones) and Clémence Poésy (Birdsong) will play the leads in the UK version of the Scandinavian crime drama, retitled The Tunnel.
© BBC
© Activision
[Left: Angel Coulby in 'Merlin' / Right: Keeley Hawes]
Coulby and Hawes will also appear alongside Joseph Mawle (Game of Thrones), Adam Roebuck (Mrs Biggs) and Liz Smith (The Royle Family), according to the Radio Times.
Spooks writer Ben Richards has adapted The Bridge for UK television - while the original series focused on a joint murder investigation led by Danish and Swedish police, The Tunnel will focus on relations between the UK and France.
The Tunnel will enter production later this month and will air on Sky Atlantic in late 2013.
Us cable network FX is also developing its own remake of The Bridge starring Diane Kruger, Demián Bichir and Matthew Lillard.
- 2/1/2013
- Digital Spy
The Tunnel is the Franco-British adaptation of Scandinavian series The Bridge that’s gearing up for production next month. I’ve confirmed that Harry Potter actress Clémence Poésy and Game Of Thrones‘ Stephen Dillane have bagged the leads in what’s billed as the first-ever bilingual broadcast series for the UK and France. (UK site TVWise had the jump on the cast rumor.) The drama will be set primarily in Folkestone and Calais where detectives Karl Roebuck (Dillane) and Elise Wassermann (Poésy) are called to investigate the death of a French politician. When a shocking discovery is made at the crime scene, the pair is forced into an uneasy partnership as they seek out a politically-motivated serial killer who draws them into his own personal agenda. Ben Richards (Spooks, Outcasts, Party Animals) is heading up an Anglo-French writing team with broadcast planned for later this year. Sky Atlantic and Canal...
- 1/25/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Nothing is more exciting than a fight to the death and with the release of Death Race 3: Inferno, on Blu-ray and DVD from 4th February, this has never been truer. Winner of four death races, Carl Lucas (Luke Goss) finds himself just one victory away from earning freedom for himself and his pit crew, but organisers and prison wardens are changing the track and the rules.
To celebrate the release of Death Race 3: Inferno, we look at some other cinematic blood sports that have kept us on the edge of our seats until the very last moment.
6. Death Race 2000 (1975)
The Annual Transcontinental Road Race, is an American coast-to-coast, three-day race run on public roads, where points are scored not just for speed, but for the number of innocent pedestrians struck and killed. Frankenstein (David Carradine) is the most celebrated driver, but secretly plans to end the cruel...
To celebrate the release of Death Race 3: Inferno, we look at some other cinematic blood sports that have kept us on the edge of our seats until the very last moment.
6. Death Race 2000 (1975)
The Annual Transcontinental Road Race, is an American coast-to-coast, three-day race run on public roads, where points are scored not just for speed, but for the number of innocent pedestrians struck and killed. Frankenstein (David Carradine) is the most celebrated driver, but secretly plans to end the cruel...
- 1/22/2013
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
He's back as promised, but his latest role as a small-town sheriff has led some to question if Arnie can still cut it as Conan
There may never be another Hollywood film star like Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the 1980s and 90s the Austrian oak was such a totemic figure on the big screen that screenwriters stopped bothering to explain away his thick Styrian accent and preposterous bulk, aware that audiences accepted him instinctively. Perhaps the most obvious sign of the former California governor's slide down the stature scale comes in the denouement of his new action film The Last Stand, which is out today in UK cinemas. Faced with a sneering villain who has been behaving very badly indeed, Schwarzenegger's grizzled small-town sheriff tells his enemy: "You make us immigrants look bad." It raised a laugh at the screening I attended, but 80s writers wouldn't have needed to flag up Arnie's alienness.
There may never be another Hollywood film star like Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the 1980s and 90s the Austrian oak was such a totemic figure on the big screen that screenwriters stopped bothering to explain away his thick Styrian accent and preposterous bulk, aware that audiences accepted him instinctively. Perhaps the most obvious sign of the former California governor's slide down the stature scale comes in the denouement of his new action film The Last Stand, which is out today in UK cinemas. Faced with a sneering villain who has been behaving very badly indeed, Schwarzenegger's grizzled small-town sheriff tells his enemy: "You make us immigrants look bad." It raised a laugh at the screening I attended, but 80s writers wouldn't have needed to flag up Arnie's alienness.
- 1/18/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Odd List Ryan Lambie Jan 16, 2013
When it comes to action movie heroes, the time doesn't always fit the crime. We look at a few characters who faced wrongful imprisonment...
"Everyone in here is innocent, you know that," Morgan Freeman's character says in The Shawshank Redemption. If a prison were populated with heroes from action movies, that statement would be absolutely true. Looking back over the last quarter century of genre flicks, it soon becomes apparent that if an action protagonist goes to prison, it's usually for a crime he (or she) didn't commit.
This is probably because most action stars don't want to play convicted murderers (a trend bucked by Vin Diesel in Pitch Black), though as the list below proves, there's at least one macho actor who seems to like films which involve being sent to jail in dubious circumstances. What follows isn't an exhaustive list, but it at least illustrates that,...
When it comes to action movie heroes, the time doesn't always fit the crime. We look at a few characters who faced wrongful imprisonment...
"Everyone in here is innocent, you know that," Morgan Freeman's character says in The Shawshank Redemption. If a prison were populated with heroes from action movies, that statement would be absolutely true. Looking back over the last quarter century of genre flicks, it soon becomes apparent that if an action protagonist goes to prison, it's usually for a crime he (or she) didn't commit.
This is probably because most action stars don't want to play convicted murderers (a trend bucked by Vin Diesel in Pitch Black), though as the list below proves, there's at least one macho actor who seems to like films which involve being sent to jail in dubious circumstances. What follows isn't an exhaustive list, but it at least illustrates that,...
- 1/15/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Former "Spooks" scribe Ben Richards is heading back to television for "The Tunnel," a ten-episode bilingual remake of Scandinavian hit "The Bridge" for Sky and Canal Plus.
Set in the port towns of Folkestone, England and Calais, France, the story opens with the body of a politician found in the Channel Tunnel.
The action then follows British detective Karl Roebuck and his French counterpart Elise Wassermann who form an uneasy alliance as they work together to solve the crime. Sky Atlantic will screen the series in the UK later this year.
The original series opened with the discovery of a dead body on a bridge between Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmo in Sweden. A second season has been commissioned for airing later this year. Much like the original Danish series "The Killing," 'Bridge' was a major hit for UK broadcaster BBC4 which has lead to this remake.
In fact, this...
Set in the port towns of Folkestone, England and Calais, France, the story opens with the body of a politician found in the Channel Tunnel.
The action then follows British detective Karl Roebuck and his French counterpart Elise Wassermann who form an uneasy alliance as they work together to solve the crime. Sky Atlantic will screen the series in the UK later this year.
The original series opened with the discovery of a dead body on a bridge between Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmo in Sweden. A second season has been commissioned for airing later this year. Much like the original Danish series "The Killing," 'Bridge' was a major hit for UK broadcaster BBC4 which has lead to this remake.
In fact, this...
- 1/11/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Critically acclaimed Scandinavian crime drama The Bridge is being reworked by Sky Atlantic with an Anglo-French twist. The new 10-part series is a co-production from Kudos Film and TV and Shine France Films and is being written by Ben Richards (Spooks, Outcasts, Party Animals). Renamed The Tunnel, the drama will have the backdrop of Europe in crisis and will centre on the death of a French politician, whose body is found on the border between the UK and France. Detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann from their respective countries will form an uneasy partnership as they attempt to catch a serial killer, (more)...
- 1/10/2013
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Scandinavian format The Bridge is getting another adaptation, only this time it’s called The Tunnel. In what’s being billed as the first-ever bilingual broadcast series for the UK and France, Sky Atlantic HD and Canal Plus are co-producing the 10-part drama from Kudos Film and TV and Shine France Films in association with Filmlance. FX recently shot a pilot starring Demian Béchir and Diane Kruger for its own U.S. version of the Hans Rosenfeldt-created show which moved the action from the Danish-Swedish border to the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico. For The Tunnel, Ben Richards (Spooks, Outcasts, Party Animals) will lead an Anglo-French writing team to shift the story to the area where the UK meets France. Set primarily in Folkestone and Calais, the series seees detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann called to investigate the death of a French politician on behalf of their respective countries.
- 1/10/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
It is normal for movies, like everything, to feel overly familiar after a while. In fact, it is an issue that has existed even in the early origins of storytelling and literature. Sci-Fi as a genre borrows from a wide spectrum of source material and is one that can easily feel clichéd, and a lot of what we so often enjoy on the silver screen has been done in some way before. Some of the biggest Sci-Fi movies are, in many ways, a shameless rip off of a previous movie. This can be with movie’s use of location, it’s style or indeed the entire plot.
And you may not even have noticed it, but your brain did. It is similar to when you watch a classic film, like Dr. Strangelove for example, and notice that “oh, so that is what the Simpsons were making fun of.” The South Park...
And you may not even have noticed it, but your brain did. It is similar to when you watch a classic film, like Dr. Strangelove for example, and notice that “oh, so that is what the Simpsons were making fun of.” The South Park...
- 12/11/2012
- by Darragh O'Connor
- Obsessed with Film
Not to be confused with the inane adaptation starring Schwarzenegger, this dystopian tale has real pathos, and a point
The Running Man was, for me, one of those books you read after you've seen the movie. I knew that it was a Stephen King novel; it was the last of the compiled Bachman Books I owned (though not the last to be written by the Bachman persona; there were still three more to be published – four if you count Misery), the only one I hadn't read yet. I watched the movie, because the TV movie of It was (to my adolescent self) incredible, and I had seen The Shining and that was incredible, and this had Arnold Schwarzenegger in it and I loved Predator… It was a series of things that led to me watching the film first, and then reading the book. And that was a curious experience for me.
The Running Man was, for me, one of those books you read after you've seen the movie. I knew that it was a Stephen King novel; it was the last of the compiled Bachman Books I owned (though not the last to be written by the Bachman persona; there were still three more to be published – four if you count Misery), the only one I hadn't read yet. I watched the movie, because the TV movie of It was (to my adolescent self) incredible, and I had seen The Shining and that was incredible, and this had Arnold Schwarzenegger in it and I loved Predator… It was a series of things that led to me watching the film first, and then reading the book. And that was a curious experience for me.
- 11/22/2012
- by James Smythe
- The Guardian - Film News
Sorry, Jason Momoa — it's not the years, it's the mileage.
Universal is once again rebooting their "Conan" franchise ... and this time with the man who started it all, according to Deadline.
Arnold Schwarzenegger will be playing the mighty barbarian once again in "The Legend of Conan," which is set to be produced by Fredrik Malmberg and Chris Morgan. The producing duo believe that this is the movie fans really wanted to see but couldn't while Arnold was the governor of California.
The once and future Conan himself is certainly excited.
"I always loved the Conan character and I'm honored to be asked to step into the role once again," said Schwarzenegger. "I can't wait to work with Universal and the great team of Fredrik Malmberg and Chris Morgan to develop the next step of this truly epic story."
Schwarzenegger played the role in both "Conan the Barbarian" (1982) and "Conan the Destroyer...
Universal is once again rebooting their "Conan" franchise ... and this time with the man who started it all, according to Deadline.
Arnold Schwarzenegger will be playing the mighty barbarian once again in "The Legend of Conan," which is set to be produced by Fredrik Malmberg and Chris Morgan. The producing duo believe that this is the movie fans really wanted to see but couldn't while Arnold was the governor of California.
The once and future Conan himself is certainly excited.
"I always loved the Conan character and I'm honored to be asked to step into the role once again," said Schwarzenegger. "I can't wait to work with Universal and the great team of Fredrik Malmberg and Chris Morgan to develop the next step of this truly epic story."
Schwarzenegger played the role in both "Conan the Barbarian" (1982) and "Conan the Destroyer...
- 10/25/2012
- by Bryan Enk
- NextMovie
The Running Man
Directed by Paul Michael Glaser
Written by Steven E. de Souza
USA, 1987
Amid a maelstrom of bullets, a trio of prisoners orchestrate a break out. William Laughlin (Yaphet Kotto) and Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger) take sentry duty, shooting down advancing guards while Harold Weiss (Marvin J. McIntyre) tries to disable the security system that prevents them from escape.
Weiss keeps inputting the code, “653-9x” into the computer to no avail. As the guards close in, desperation mounts. He keeps repeating the code over and over. Desperation turns to panic until, miraculously, his dedication pays off. The system is disabled. They flee.
This repetitious formula might’ve worked for Weiss, but it doesn’t work nearly as well for Paul Michael Glaser’s The Running Man. A film that sacrifices substance for showmanship, The Running Man is a simple premise contrived into a series of acutely different,...
Directed by Paul Michael Glaser
Written by Steven E. de Souza
USA, 1987
Amid a maelstrom of bullets, a trio of prisoners orchestrate a break out. William Laughlin (Yaphet Kotto) and Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger) take sentry duty, shooting down advancing guards while Harold Weiss (Marvin J. McIntyre) tries to disable the security system that prevents them from escape.
Weiss keeps inputting the code, “653-9x” into the computer to no avail. As the guards close in, desperation mounts. He keeps repeating the code over and over. Desperation turns to panic until, miraculously, his dedication pays off. The system is disabled. They flee.
This repetitious formula might’ve worked for Weiss, but it doesn’t work nearly as well for Paul Michael Glaser’s The Running Man. A film that sacrifices substance for showmanship, The Running Man is a simple premise contrived into a series of acutely different,...
- 6/8/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games series has often been compared with Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels primarily because both centre on a young female protagonist and somehow both became phenomenons for their shared young-adult demo. Personally, I think this is both an insult to the novel and the latest big screen adaptation, since The Hunger Games is leagues above Twilight in artistic credibility. The sense of familiarity of The Hunger Games in fact goes much further back, recalling everything from William Golding to Phillip K. Dick and even Stephen King. Here are several films which may or may not have inspired Gary Ross’s big screen adaptation – eleven films which come highly recommended and should be essential viewing for any fan of the soon-to-be billion dollar franchise.
1- Battle Royale
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Written by Kinji Fukasaku
2000, Japan
The concept of The Hunger Games owes much to Japanese author...
1- Battle Royale
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Written by Kinji Fukasaku
2000, Japan
The concept of The Hunger Games owes much to Japanese author...
- 3/26/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Chicago – “Art is not a competition. But if it were, these would be the winners,” quipped filmmaker Mike Birbiglia at the Jan. 28 awards presentation for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Birbiglia’s deadpan humor would’ve made him an ideal host for the event, and his appearance was one of the few bright spots in a rather disappointing ceremony.
John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, stepped in to replace Indie Queen Parker Posey, whose inspired comic turn in Michael Walker’s “Price Check” garnered positive buzz among festivalgoers. The show opened in tears and solemnity as Cooper paid heartfelt tribute to the late film executive Bingham Ray, who suffered a fatal stroke during the festival.
One of the evening’s big winners was Benh Zeitlin’s visually arresting drama “Beasts of the Southern Wild” about a six-year-old girl (Quvenzhané Wallis) who embarks on a search...
John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, stepped in to replace Indie Queen Parker Posey, whose inspired comic turn in Michael Walker’s “Price Check” garnered positive buzz among festivalgoers. The show opened in tears and solemnity as Cooper paid heartfelt tribute to the late film executive Bingham Ray, who suffered a fatal stroke during the festival.
One of the evening’s big winners was Benh Zeitlin’s visually arresting drama “Beasts of the Southern Wild” about a six-year-old girl (Quvenzhané Wallis) who embarks on a search...
- 1/29/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Killers? Let's face it. Most of them are pretty artistically inclined. Ed Gein made furniture and clothing out of human remains, Michael Myers is known to step back to take in the sight of his handiwork, and Jason, well, he... he... okay, so he just makes a mess. Still, another artistic madman is on the loose in Steve Laurence's Art House, and we have a look at his escapades for you!
Martin Laurence, Emily Baxter, Ryan Elliott, Rob Maloney, Blasse, Adrian Annis, and Uma Dhir star.
Thanks to DC reader Avery for the heads-up!
Synopsis
Art House is set over one hellacious night as Ben Richards races against time searching for his wife before it's too late...
After work Ben goes out with his friends for a few drinks while Liz journeys to a model shoot from an internet advert. Liz cannot find the location and phones Jeff for help,...
Martin Laurence, Emily Baxter, Ryan Elliott, Rob Maloney, Blasse, Adrian Annis, and Uma Dhir star.
Thanks to DC reader Avery for the heads-up!
Synopsis
Art House is set over one hellacious night as Ben Richards races against time searching for his wife before it's too late...
After work Ben goes out with his friends for a few drinks while Liz journeys to a model shoot from an internet advert. Liz cannot find the location and phones Jeff for help,...
- 12/12/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Chicago – With so much great science fiction on the tube now from masterpieces like “Being Human” and “Torchwood” to enjoyable diversions like “Warehouse 13,” it’s one of the best times to be a fan of the genre. And so when a piece with a brilliant premise, talented ensemble, and high production values like “Outcasts” comes along, it’s tempting to assume that it will deliver on its potential like so many of its colleagues. “Outcasts” is nothing but a string of rising disappointments.
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.0/5.0
Synopsis:
“We have another chance - but will the human race make the same mistakes again?
After Earth is hit by catastrophe, humans become refugees on their own planet, a place now fraught with extreme danger … until a group of courageous pioneers were given a unique opportunity: the chance to create a new and better future on a distant planet called Carpathia. The city they built,...
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.0/5.0
Synopsis:
“We have another chance - but will the human race make the same mistakes again?
After Earth is hit by catastrophe, humans become refugees on their own planet, a place now fraught with extreme danger … until a group of courageous pioneers were given a unique opportunity: the chance to create a new and better future on a distant planet called Carpathia. The city they built,...
- 8/22/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
“This isn’t about humanity! This isn’t about the future!”
So said a member of the Outcasts cast late in the show’s abbreviated run and it’s a shame because a story set in the future should be about that very thing. Creator Ben Richards wrote earlier this year,
“The inspiration behind Outcasts was the desire to tell a pioneer story, and the only place you can do that really now is in space.
“I wanted to explore second chances, most fundamentally whether humanity is genetically hardwired to make the same mistakes again and again.
“The stories that kick start the series are intense, and hopefully moving, but the world view is never cynical or willfully pessimistic.”
In other words, he was hoping for the critical success of Battlestar Galactica but told stories more worthy of Space: 1999. The BBC series ran eight weeks earlier this year while...
So said a member of the Outcasts cast late in the show’s abbreviated run and it’s a shame because a story set in the future should be about that very thing. Creator Ben Richards wrote earlier this year,
“The inspiration behind Outcasts was the desire to tell a pioneer story, and the only place you can do that really now is in space.
“I wanted to explore second chances, most fundamentally whether humanity is genetically hardwired to make the same mistakes again and again.
“The stories that kick start the series are intense, and hopefully moving, but the world view is never cynical or willfully pessimistic.”
In other words, he was hoping for the critical success of Battlestar Galactica but told stories more worthy of Space: 1999. The BBC series ran eight weeks earlier this year while...
- 8/14/2011
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
By Sophie Hall
Saturday Night Entertainment television is very horrible.
Don’t get me wrong. I do not mean in terms of the content, because I love it when Phillip Schofield gets all ‘Prime time’ on me. I merely mean in terms of the pressures they set upon society. Am I Right, Cruel World?
Oh us. The unsuspecting general public, who just like something to watch whilst we sip from mugs. Because sometimes mug sipping is just not enough. Sometimes the mugs are merely empty. (This isn’t a metaphor for the depravity of life, it was a mug-based analysis only.) But nowadays, turning on the television is like reawakening a rubbish school bully who gives your trousers a ‘look’. So many demands and threats are suddenly thrust upon us:
Got to Dance.
Strictly come Dancing.
Do You think you can dance?
and
How Do you solve a problem like Maria?...
Saturday Night Entertainment television is very horrible.
Don’t get me wrong. I do not mean in terms of the content, because I love it when Phillip Schofield gets all ‘Prime time’ on me. I merely mean in terms of the pressures they set upon society. Am I Right, Cruel World?
Oh us. The unsuspecting general public, who just like something to watch whilst we sip from mugs. Because sometimes mug sipping is just not enough. Sometimes the mugs are merely empty. (This isn’t a metaphor for the depravity of life, it was a mug-based analysis only.) But nowadays, turning on the television is like reawakening a rubbish school bully who gives your trousers a ‘look’. So many demands and threats are suddenly thrust upon us:
Got to Dance.
Strictly come Dancing.
Do You think you can dance?
and
How Do you solve a problem like Maria?...
- 4/18/2011
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
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