First still from Scorsese’s Silence, Martin Freeman joins Civil War and Indiana Jones 5 confirmed

Martin Scorsese is a director renowned for his acclaimed crime epics The Departed, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino, Gangs of New York, Shutter Island and The Wolf of Wall Street as well as works like Raging Bull, Hugo and The Aviator. His latest work is a missionary drama titled Silence and we’ve just got our hands on the first image from it. Silence stars Andrew Garfield (The Social Network, The Amazing Spider-Man), Adam Driver (The Force Awakens, Girls), Ciaran Hinds (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Road to Perdition) and Liam Neeson (Batman Begins, Schindler’s List).

Following an iconic debut in Steven Spielberg’s (Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, Lincoln, Jurassic Park) 1981 adventure Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones completed a near perfect trilogy with the well liked prequel Temple of Doom and classic sequel The Last Crusade (featuring an ingenious turn from Sean Connery as Indy’s dad). Spielberg revived the series in 2008’s Kingdom of the Crystal Skull but it spoilt the series’ clean streak despite classy additions like Cate Blanchett and John Hurt.

There’s been plenty of chatter about a fifth film and producer Kathleen Kennedy (Poltergeist, Back to the Future, The Sixth Sense, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) has spoken out about the possibility. “”An Indiana Jones film will one day be made inside this company,” said Kennedy. “When it will happen, I’m not quite sure. We haven’t started working on a script yet, but we are talking about it.” Harrison Ford (Blade Runner) and Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy).

Martin Freeman (Fargo, The World’s End) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Star Trek Into Darkness, The Imitation Game) are have turned out to be an inseparable on screen force following playing Watson and Holmes on the hit show Sherlock as well as Baggins and Smaug in fantasy epic trilogy The Hobbit. After Cumberbatch joined the MCU as Doctor Strange, Freeman is following suit by joining the ensemble of Captain America: Civil War. His role is still undisclosed but we’d love to see him play Norman Osborn (former Green Goblin-turned key politician in the Marvel universe).

Civil War stars Chris Evans (Snowpiercer), Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation), Jeremy Renner (The Town), Elizabeth Olsen (Godzilla), Anthony Mackie (The Adjustment Bureau), Daniel Bruhl (Rush), Chadwick Boseman (42), Sebastian Stan (Black Swan) and Robert Downey Jr (Sherlock Holmes).

Silence – 2016

Captain America: Civil War – April 29th 2016

Indiana Jones 5 – 2018?

Chris Pratt sought for Indy role and Wiig and McCarthy in talks for Ghostbusters

Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade (also known as the Indiana Jones trilogy) are arguably the finest works of director Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park) and Harrison Ford (Blade Runner, Star Wars, The Fugitive) but the recent fourth instalment, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, left a sour taste to the franchise. You’d think that’d deter both the filmmakers as well as the fans from making a fifth but Disney’s Lucasfilm purchase gave them the chance to remilk both Star Wars and Indy.

Disney appear to be looking into a reboot method with Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy, The Lego Movie, Parks and Recreation) taking the fedora-donning lead role. The sequel may follow the route of Mad Max: Fury Road, a direct sequel with a recast star. The ever busy Spielberg could be returning as it’d be hard to imagine anyone besides him at the helm.

Ivan Reitman’s original Ghostbusters is one of the few true immortal cult classics but the cast’s (Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis) surviving or still working members weren’t likely to return for a reboot. The responsibility for the new castings falls to Bridesmaids director Paul Feig who’s recruited a pair from his previous work. Oscar nominees Kristen Wiig (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Skeleton Twins) and Melissa McCarthy (St Vincent, The Heat) will be flanked by Saturday Night Live alumni Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.

Meet the new team below.

Ghostbusters – July 22nd 2016

Indiana Jones 5 – 2017?

Star Trek 3 beams up new writers and Disney sign deal for Indiana Jones

I’m still unsure who exactly will be calling the shots on Star Trek 3. The Into Darkness sequel will only have previous director JJ Abrams involvement in producing so the role of director is up for grabs. The current leaders for the job are Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ Rupert Wyatt and Attack the Block’s Joe Cornish but some new writers have been beamed up to the Enterprise. Patrick McKay and John D. Payne are debut writers who’ll join the man of the moment Roberto Orci, who wrote no less than Fringe, Star Trek: Into Darkness and Sleepy Hollow.

Meanwhile, The Mouse House, aka Disney Studios, have negotiated a huge deal with Paramount. After bringing in Star Wars into their walls, they’ve snapped up Lucasfilm’s other major accomplishment: Indian Jones. Steven Spielberg’s brilliant series really took a disappointing turn in 2008 with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull but Disney are confident that they, obviously with the help of Spielberg and Harrison Ford, will bring the genre defining Indy back to his adventurous roots, as oppose the the sci-fi elements introduced five years ago.

Star Trek 3 – 2016

Indiana Jones 5 – 2016/17?