We apologise for not publishing an update yesterday. We were close to finishing our report on Tim Blake Nelson’s casting as Mole Man in The Fantastic Four and a potential collaboration of Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby director Baz Luhrmann and Saving Mr Banks writer Kelly Marcel on an Elvis biopic. We return today though with a couple of stories that would be the biggest of the week were it not for the obvious.
We’ve still got some pretty major scoops on our hands though. You may remember that when Disney made the multi-billion purchase of Lucasfilm in late 2012, they delighted fans by confirming JJ Abrams’s Star Wars: Episode VII (which finally announced its cast of Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, John Boyega, Domhnall Gleeson, Adam Driver, Kenny Baker, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis and Max Von Sydow) as well as crushing some with the cancellation of the highly regarded animated TV series The Clone Wars, after a six season run. Later though they did announce their plans for Star Wars: Rebels, which just revealed a short teaser for the upcoming debut trailer.
Rebels fills the gap between 2005’s Revenge of the Sith and 1977’s A New Hope, so it doesn’t take place during any instalment. This brief preview offers glimpses at new characters but we can expect the full trailer, dated for this Sunday (Star Wars Day), to unveil the return of Lando Calrissian, voiced by The Empire Strikes back and Return of the Jedi’s Billy Dee Williams. David Oyelowo (The Last King of Scotland, Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Tiya Sicar (The Internship) and Freddie Prinze Jr (I Know What You Did Last Summer) also star but the most exciting aspect is the authentic design; the spaceships, the menacing villain and the Imperial propaganda posters all ooze of Star Wars style.
The excellent Matt Smith handed over the batten, after a three year run, for the lead role In British sci-fi phenomenon Doctor Who to The Thick of It’s Peter Capaldi last Christmas and is now in the process of establishing himself as a Hollywood star, a shot Smith’s Who predecessor David Tennant lost in horror misfire Fright Night. Smith’s attempts involved a supporting role in Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut Lost River but he’s just landed a far bigger role.
He’s joined the cast of sci-fi sequel Terminator: Genesis, in a role Deadline describe only as major. This is likely because they hope Smith to return for the planned sequels. Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World) directs Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones, Dom Hemingway) as Sarah Connor, Jason Clarke (The Great Gatsby, Zero Dark Thirty) as John Connor, Jai Courtney (A Good Day to Die Hard, Divergent) as Kyle Reese, Dayo Okeniyi (The Spectacular Now, The Hunger Games) as Danny Dyson, JK Simmons (Spider-Man, Juno) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (True Lies, Total Recall, The Expendables, Predator) as The Terminator.
Terminator: Genesis – June 26th 2015
Star Wars: Rebels – coming soon to Disney XD
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