Geek Information February 20, 2024: Sam Mendes To Direct 4 Separate Beatles Films, Every Advised From the Perspective of One of many Fab 4

American Magnificence and SPECTRE director Sam Mendes will direct 4 separate Beatles motion pictures, each instructed from the angle of one of many members: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. 

A press launch quoted by Variety says that the 4 Beatles motion pictures will intersect to “inform the astonishing story of the best band in historical past.” Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the households of the late George Harrison and John Lennon have granted full music and life-story rights to the filmmakers. That is reportedly the primary time the Beatles have given their full assist to a scripted movie concerning the Fab 4.

“I’m honored to be telling the story of the best rock band of all time, and excited to problem the notion of what constitutes a visit to the flicks,” stated Mendes in a press release concerning the Beatles motion pictures. Director Mendes will even produce alongside his Neal Avenue Productions accomplice Pippa Harris and Neal Avenue’s Julie Pastor.

“We intend this to be a uniquely thrilling, and epic cinematic expertise: 4 movies, instructed from 4 totally different views which inform a single story about probably the most celebrated band of all time,” stated Harris in a press release. “To have the Beatles’ and Apple Corps’ blessing to do that is an immense privilege.”

Sony Footage plans to distribute all 4 Beatles movies theatrically in 2027. The flicks will cowl the Beatles’ historical past main as much as their 1970 breakup.

Matt Damon Says He Would Like To Play Jason Bourne Once more however Is ‘Not Getting Any Youthful’

Matt Damon appears keen to play Jason Bourne once more if manufacturing will get shifting on one other installment earlier than he ages out of the half. Damon has performed the a part of the previous CIA murderer in 4 out of 5 Bourne motion pictures, starting with 2002’s The Bourne Id and most lately in 2016’s Jason Bourne (pictured).

In a current look on The Late Present With Stephen Colbert reported by IndieWire, Matt Damon stated that All Quiet on the Western Entrance director Edward Berger is within the early levels of growing a sixth film within the Bourne franchise with Damon reprising his position as Jason Bourne. “There’s a nice director named Edward Berger,” stated Damon. “[All Quiet on the Western Front] is a implausible movie, and he’s great and he stated he had an thought. I’d like to work with him, so he’s engaged on it. Look, I’m as anxious as you might be to see if this factor [happens] — I hope it’s nice and that we are able to do it.”

Regardless of Damon’s enthusiasm about the potential of a brand new Bourne film with him because the lead, the 53-year-old actor does not appear to wish to pull a Liam Neeson and star in motion motion pictures in his 60s and 70s. “At a sure level any individual goes to wish to take it over,” stated Damon. “I’m not getting any youthful.”

‘Blade Runner 2099’ Finds New Director With Jonathan Van Tulleken

Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099 collection has discovered a brand new director, Jonathan Van Tulleken, for the primary two episodes of the upcoming restricted collection. Blade Runner 2099 follows the occasions of 1982’s Blade Runner — set in 2019 — and 2017’s Blade Runner 2049. Because of the 50-year time bounce from the latter to the brand new collection, no actors from Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi masterpiece or Denis Villeneuve’s Oscar-winning sequel are anticipated to reprise their roles for Blade Runner 2099.

In line with Deadline, Tulleken replaces Jeremy Podeswa who needed to bow out resulting from scheduling adjustments brought on by the WGA strike. Initially set to start out filming in Belfast, Northern Eire final yr, manufacturing for Blade Runner 2099 has relocated to Prague, Czech Republic and can reportedly start in April.

Deadline studies that “in 2011, Alcon secured movie, tv, and ancillary franchise rights to supply prequels and sequels to the 1982 science-fiction thriller Blade Runner. Since that point, Alcon has financed and produced the Blade Runner 2049 in addition to the current Blade Runner: Black Lotus, an anime collection that debuted in 2022 on Grownup Swim and Crunchyroll.”

Tulleken lately directed episodes of FX’s Shōgun and Apple TV+’s The Changeling.

New ‘Civil Conflict’ Trailer Exhibits the USA in Ruins Throughout a Fashionable-Day Second Civil Conflict

The brand new trailer for A24’s Civil Conflict reveals the USA not so united. The brand new film written and directed by Alex Garland will not be concerning the precise Civil Conflict within the 1800s, however slightly a modern-day one. The film stars Kirsten Dunst (pictured), Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, and Nick Offerman.

The official Civil Conflict logline reads, “An adrenaline-fueled thrill trip by way of a near-future fractured America balanced on the razor’s edge.” In line with Variety, the brand new trailer’s “footage kicks off with an tackle from the president, performed by Nick Offerman, who calls residents to arms towards ‘the Florida alliance and the Western forces of Texas and California’ for his or her secession from the USA. The trailer additionally teases new battle sequences going down in New York Metropolis and Washington, D.C. — together with a rocket launch obliterating the Lincoln Memorial.” Dunst performs a conflict photographer within the film.

Civil Conflict drops in theaters nationwide on April 12. Click here to observe the brand new trailer.

‘Irish Want’ Trailer: Lindsay Lohan Switches Lives With Her Greatest Good friend in Netflix Rom-Com

Lindsay Lohan is switching lives with one other character on-screen within the rom-com Irish Want. Not like in Freaky Friday during which she switched our bodies along with her mom, Lohan switches lives along with her greatest pal in Janeen Damian’s Irish Want.

In line with Entertainment Weekly, “Set amid the rolling inexperienced seaside hills of Eire, the Irish Want trailer facilities Lohan within the story of Maddie, a younger lovelorn lady who travels to Europe for her greatest pal’s wedding ceremony to the person Maddie thinks she loves. A mystic want leads Maddie to swap lives along with her pal the subsequent morning when she wakes up in the identical mattress as her romantic curiosity.” The film additionally stars Ed Speleers, Alexander Vlahos, Ayesha Curry, and Jane Seymour.

“It’s a pleasant story of luck and love and confidence,” stated Lohan to Netflix. “Maddie’s [one of the only] characters that I’ve performed [who’s] a lady on her personal making her approach on the earth. We formed her in a approach that she was a bit extra insecure to start with, after which she grows all through the film, and by the top, she actually comes into her personal.”

Irish Want premieres March 15 on Netflix. Click here to observe the brand new trailer.

Michael Keaton Says ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel ‘Had To Really feel Handmade’

Michael Keaton says he was keen to reprise his titular position in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice so long as it wasn’t CGI overkill. Keaton joins Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Jenna Ortega, and Monica Bellucci within the long-awaited sequel to 1988’s Beetlejuice.

“The one factor that he and I made a decision on early, early, early on from the start, if we ever did it once more, I used to be completely not interested by doing one thing the place there was an excessive amount of know-how,” stated Keaton to People about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. “It needed to really feel handmade.”

Keaton continued, “What made it enjoyable was watching any individual within the nook truly holding one thing up for you, to observe everyone within the shrunken head room and say, ‘These are individuals beneath there, working this stuff, making an attempt to get it proper.’ While you get to try this once more after years of standing in entrance of a large display, pretending any individual’s throughout the best way from you, that is simply huge enjoyable.”

Catherine O’Hara, who reprises her position as Delia Deetz in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, joked about Keaton, “He seems to be the identical. Beetlejuice has aged very nicely.”

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice premieres in theaters September 6, 2024.

‘Tales From the Crypt’ Writer EC Comics Resurrected After Practically 70 Years

Within the Fifties whereas DC and Atlas Comics centered on superheroes, EC Comics served up Tales From the Crypt, Bizarre Science, and Two-Fisted Tales. EC Comics printed its final comedian e book in 1956, however now the model has returned from the crypt after 68 years with a brand new line of comics.

In line with The Hollywood Reporter, “Oni Press, the writer maybe greatest recognized for the breakout indie hit Scott Pilgrim, has partnered with William M. Gaines Agent, Inc., the rights holders of the EC line, to launch all-new tales with A-list comics creators starting this summer season.”

“EC Comics is likely one of the most artistically vital and culturally vital publishers of all time,” Oni’s writer Hunter Gorinson wrote to The Hollywood Reporter in an e mail. “In methods each clever and surprising, EC confronted the darkness lurking behind the skinny façade of American society — a by way of line of radically confrontational storytelling that we intend to each uphold and escalate with the primary new EC tales in many years.”

The Hollywood Reporter continues, “The primary e book from the brand new line will probably be Epitaphs From the Abyss, a horror title debuting in July, adopted by sci-fi comedian Merciless Universe in August. The brand new comics will hold the anthology format with artistic groups rotating out and in.”