ABC calls for more Marvel TV, Bourne 5 gets a new writer and John Goodman and Ken Watanabe

The Bourne Legacy was a fairly mediocre action spin-off to a modern masterpiece trilogy, and was a minor box office let down, and yet Universal want to expand on Aaron Cross’ (Jeremy Renner) story, despite Matt Damon, the original Jason Bourne, saying he’s willing to do another with director Paul Greengrass. We had believed that Sherlock Holmes’ Anthony Peckham would be the new Bourne’s writer but newcomer Andrew Baldwin has been appointed. Baldwin has no existing credits but has multiple projects in development such as Bastille Day and The Outsider. As long as the script has smarts to it, my only existed issue would be the style. The Bourne films are far more hard hitting when they subscribe to less CG effects but that’s unlikely with Justin Lin (Fast and Furious) aboard.

The principal photography of Michael Bay’s action sequel Transformers: Age of Extinction wrapped up long ago but that hasn’t stopped it from making a few last minute castings. These aren’t your run of the mill extras or post production stand ins. Golden Globe winner John Goodman (The Big Lebowski, Monsters Inc, Argo, The Artist, Barton Fink) and Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai, Inception, Letter From Iwo Jima, Godzilla, Batman Begins) will be voicing their own transformers named Hound and Drift respectively. They join the likes of Mark Wahlberg, Jack Reynor, Peter Cullen, Nicola Peltz, TJ Miller, Kelsey Grammer and Stanley Tucci in the cast.

Agents of SHIELD hasn’t been the ratings smash many expected but the meticulous twists of the second half of its first season have been great fun. That lead to the making of Netflix’s The Defenders but ABC will be looking to install future Marvel adventures. It’s pleasing to hear that a second series has been confirmed, most likely in time for the new season.

As well as this, Captain America star Hayley Atwell took to Twitter to confirm a 13 part Agent Carter series which, if successful, will likely be extended to 22. The expansion of 2013’s Agent Carter short film will likely explore the origins of SHIELD shortly after WW2. Hopping and dancing around MAOS and The Winter Soldier spoilers, we’d be surprised if the eagle eyed Carter doesn’t find something askew in the intelligence organisation. Although there’s been no word on this, it’d be awesome if the films’ stars Dominic Cooper (Howard Stark) and Toby Jones (Arnim Zola) reprised their roles to become series regulars.

Agent Carter – 2015 on ABC

Agents of SHIELD season 2 – this autumn on ABC

The Bourne Betrayal? – August 21st 2015

Transformers: Age of Extinction – July 10th

Dan Stevens for Night at the Museum 3 and Bourne finds Justin Lin

The Bourne series was of the highest calibre and consistency until recently. Doug Liman’s Identity followed by Paul Greengrass’ Supremacy and Ultimatum formed an intelligent and bold trilogy centring around amnesic spy Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) and was based on Robert Ludlum’s novels. Last year’s The Bourne Legacy switched focus to Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), another subject of the tests forced on Bourne. Tony Gilroy was the director but the Damon absented film fell flat. A fifth film could now be on the cards with a new director well versed in action sequels.

Justin Lin is the Taiwan born director who’s directed four of the six Fast Films: Tokyo Drift, Fast and Furious, Fast 5 and Fast 6. James Wan is taking over with Fast 7 next year leaving Lin’s space for a new feature open. We think it’s likely that Lin will direct with Sherlock Holmes (the movie) writer Anthony Peckham and star Jeremy Renner. Matt Damon won’t return so the movie needs a huge star in a supporting role (yes I do not count Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton as huge stars just yet). Bryan Cranston maybe if their after a villain or maybe Mark Wahlberg if they need a bit of an epic but funny sidekick role.

Dan Stevens is of cause best known for his role as Matthew Crawley on ITV’s Downton Abbey. He recently broadened his pallet with a lead role in drama Summer in February. He could be joining star Ben Stiller (Tropic Thunder) and director Shawn Levy (Real Steel) for the third instalment of the comedy adventure series Night At the Museum. He’ll be playing Lancelot, the knight of the yet uncast King Arthur, in this imaginative fantasy sequel which could also see Robin Williams reprise the role of Teddy Roosevelt. Will Steve Coogan and Amy Adams also return?

The Bourne Betrayal – 2016?

Night at the Museum 3 – 2016?

The Twelfth Doctor revealed, Bourne 5, Poltergeist reboot and much more

If your’re reading this, thanks for still coming to Tuorhoth Movies despite our recent absence. In this post we’re going to give a very quick summary of what happened in the last few days in the film, and a small but of television, news world. If you’re avoiding the identity of the new Doctor Who, you may not want to read on.

We were given short notice that the 12th Doctor would be unveiled on Sunday with the BBC only making the statement a few days before. On the night, Zoe Ball presented the half an hour show on BBC One with her guests, all avid Who fans. They including Outnumbered’s Daniel Roche, Liza Tarbuck and the Fifth Doctor Peter Davidson himself as well as head writer Steven Moffat and a crowd 400 strong,

Towards the end of the show, we we’re getting closer to the all important name that, in the days prior, was the bookies favourite. It was none other than Peter Capaldi. The 55 year old Glaswegian star will be the third Scot to play the legendary role. He will be best known to BBC comedy fans as Malcolm Tucker in hit show The Thick of It, which last year had it’s fourth season, and it’s spin off film In the Loop. His 2nd role in film was in Local Hero and has since starred in World War Z (which we’ll get to later) and the upcoming films The Fifth Estate, Benedict Cumberbatch in Julian Assange biopic, and Maleficent, Angelina Jolie’s new dark fantasy. His role in World War Z could be a cunning in-joke to tease his next TV role as the Doctor. He’s credited as WHO (World Health Organisation) Doctor which I wouldn’t suspect is a coincidence.

Capaldi is no stranger to Doctor Who. When he was 15 year’s old, he wrote to the Radio Times about the show. In season four of the show’s revival, he played a citizen of the Roman Empire in The Fires of Pompeii and was also a major political figure in Torchwood’s Children of Earth run. Next year he will star in The Musketeers, BBC’s high budget take on the classic story.

Peter Capaldi will first be seen as The Doctor in this year’s Christmas Special, marking the show’s 800th episode, after Matt Smith gives up the role he’s had for four years. The 50th Anniversary special will be aired this November and will star Matt Smith (The Eleventh Doctor), David Tennant (The Tenth), John Hurt (The Time War incarnation of The Doctor), Jenna Louise Coleman (Clara Oswald), Billie Piper (Rose Tyler), Jemma Redgrave (UNIT science officer Kate Stewart from season 7’s The Power of Three) and Joanna Page (Gavin and Stacey’s Stacey as Queen Elizabeth I). Peter Capaldi and Jenna Louise Coleman will star in Doctor Who season 8 in August 2014.

All Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss/Benedict Cumberbatch/Martin Freeman fans will be delighted to see the new Sherlock series 3 trailer online. Sherlock will hopefully return this autumn or very early next year and yes that is John with the mustache.

Rashida Jones has joined the new Dreamworks animation BOO: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations. The Parks and Recreation star will lend her voice to the comedy that already stars Seth Rogen. While Hasbro get big box office success with Transformers and Battleship, Mattel are getting back at them with an adaptation of Max Steel in development. Is this the start of a new toy franchise war on the big-screen? Clint Eastwood has added more castings to his upcoming film Jersey Boys. The film is released next year and will star Christopher Walken and now Jeremy Luke and Joey Russo.

Jeremy Renner is now in talks for another Bourne film. He played rogue Aaron Cross in the relatively unliked Legacy were the absence of Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne was clear. Perhaps in this, Damon can return with Renner is a supporting role or perhaps an antagonist. Anthony Peckham, writer of Guy Ritchie, Jude Law and Robert Downey JR’s Sherlock Holmes and Clint Eastwood, Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman’s Invictus, is now on board to write the sequel with it’s announced 2015 release.

A new poster for Marvel’s new live-action TV show Agents of SHIELD is now up. We see all six of our heroes in front of a SHIELD crest. It doesn’t exactly tease much as to the events of this autumn. Steven Spielberg has left American Sniper. This is one of many delayed Spielberg projects after the development crash of Robopocalypse. Bradley Cooper was set to star in this reality based thriller but it’ll have to wait for a new director to board Warner Bros’ in their development.

Sam Rockwell is now in talks for a Poltergeist reboot. The star of Seven Psychopaths and Moon is reported by The Wrap to be in early discussions for the continuation of the chillingly brilliant 1982 ghostly hit but will most likely forget it’s hugely disappointing predecessors Poltergeist II: The Other Side, Poltergeist III and Poltergeist: The Legacy. It’ll be interesting to see the family adventure director Gil Kenan (Monster House, City of Ember) will make of a horror classic. The film will also star Cinderella Man’s Rosemarie DeWitt.

Ellen DeGeneres will host the next Academy Awards. The Finding Nemo and Ellen DeGeneres show star hosted the Oscars before, in 2007, and will present the world’s biggest movie calender event Spring next year.

Benedict Cumberbatch has joined animation The Penguins of Madagascar. The big screen spin off of Dreamworks’ Madagascar trilogy and the penguins own TV show will now star Benedict Cumberbatch (Star Trek: Into Darkness, Sherlock) and John Malkovich will voice Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private’s new nemesis.

JJ Abrams will not direct Star Trek 3, due to conflicts with Disney’s Star Wars, but it is unknown who will. He is however producer so we can expect him to oversee the project and make sure that lensflares burn our eyes at every possible second. It’s a done deal for screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and Star Trek will most likely return in 2016 as they celebrate 50 years of the franchise. Bond’s 50th anniversary party boosted Skyfall into the billion dollar territory (currently only achieved by 16 films ever) and it definitely could bring box office delights for Paramount.

Christopher McQuarrie will direct Mission: Impossible 5. He announced it on Twitter with two words Mission: Accepted. Series figurehead Ethan Hunt will return with Tom Cruise once more in the role while Jeremy Renner and Paula Patton are rumoured to reprise their roles from Ghost Protocol as well as Ving Rhames as Luther. Their unlikely to leave out comical IMF agent Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg). McQuarrie has worked with Tom Cruise before on ropey cop flick Jack Reacher as well as writing The Usual Suspects, The Tourist, Jack the Giant Slayer and Valkyrie.

Leonardo Di Caprio is set for Viking drama King Harald which Mel Gibson was developing. A new Muppets Most Wanted trailer has headed our way with promotion as the best motion picture ever. A fairly bold claim seeing as it has Scooter and a hoard of penguins shuffling to Maroon 5’s Moves like Jagger. Finally, we here shocking news that Harrison Ford will be in The Expendables 3. Bruce Willis has left the project now as Sylvester Stallone tweets Bruce Willis out, Harrison Ford in.