Johnny Depp to star in remake of the Invisible Man for Universal

Universal Studios has decided to revive its own Shared Monster Movie Universe for a new generation of fans.

The first title on the list is The Mummy, with Tom Cruise on board as lead. That film is set for a 2017 release, and is set to be directed by Alex Kurtzman and written by Prometheus writer Jon Spaihts. But Cruise won’t have to wait long before he is joined by another superstar in this revival of the Monster Movie Universe, as Johnny Depp has recently been cast in the remake of the H.G Wells classic, The Invisible Man.

the Ring 3 scheduled for October

I love horror movies, especially those which revolve around malevolent supernatural ghost characters.  I loved the Ring, and while the sequel was a bit underwhelming and stretched the boundaries of the vengeful Samara it still had its moments.  But i will confess I actually liked the short film Rings which unfortunately was only made available as an extra included with the re-release of the original american remake DVD.  Only 14 minutes long it is a masterpiece of strategic minimalist film making.

Stephen King’s the Stand movie “on hold”

The history of the long twisted history of the attempts of numerous false starts in adapting one of Stephen King’s the Stand, one of his largest books has been almost long and difficult as the book itself . The list of directors took on and then departed the project, is a numberous the most recent being Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) who stepped up to the helm in February 2014. At the time, Boone planned to make a three hour, R-rated movie with an A-list cast. This gradually evolved; becoming four movies, then a TV series with a movie finale. At the start of February, 2016, Warner Bros. Pictures’ option on The Stand rights expired, and so now it rests back at CBS Films, which must decide whether to make the movie with another studio… or fund it alone.According to producer Roy Lee, while The Stand movie still in the works, the creative team behind the project are once again looking at how best to tackle the adaptation. Speaking to Collider at DICE 2016, Lee confirmed recent reports that Boone will work on another King adaptation, Revival, first, before making any decisions on the future of The Stand.

Stephen King’s IT to begin production soon? Two films still planned, details inside…

Many readers of Stephen Kings massive series of writings consider The Dark Tower to be his Magnum Opus, his greatest achievement, and I tried to get into the book series but stopped only a short way into the drawing of the three (book 2)  I just could not get it, others consider the Stand as his greatest achievement assumably as it is (was) his biggest book as far as pages, until Under the Dome was published, me, personally I personally feel that his greatest novel was and will always be IT (with Misery, following by a razor thin margin, only due to the different in scope and page numbers)

As a novel, It frightened a generation of eager readers and later went on to up the ante and fully terrify that same generation when ABC’s 1990 mini-series of the same name hit television screens (starring Tim Curry as Pennywise).