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15 Feb

The Happening Revisited Through the Lens of a Pandemic

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When the pandemic hit it was Steven Soderberg’s Contagion rather than M Night Shyamalan’s The Happening that people wanted to revisit. Perhaps Mark Wahlberg running away from the wind wasn’t the vibe people were looking for. Revisiting this much maligned but secretly wonderful curio in light of where we are in the world now, though, throws up some interesting parallels. The big difference between the way the characters in The Happening dealt with their pandemic and what’s going on in the world now is lockdown. What the characters battling the airborne infection in The Happening should have done is self…

30 Oct

None of This Would Be Happening If Frank Zappa Had Been President

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The election is days away. No one knows if there will be an orderly turnover or the disorderly donut hole of malevolent maneuverings. The nation is divided and civil unrest is in the air. This follows a summer which was prophetically and perennially summed up in “Trouble Every Day,” a song from Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s 1966 debut album Freak Out! “Wednesday I watched the riot,” Zappa sings on the song he wrote after seeing the Watts Uprising of 1965. “I seen the cops out on the street. Watched ’em throwin’ rocks and stuff, and chokin’ in…

09 Sep

What’s Happening With Marvel’s X-Men?

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This article contains spoilers for recent Marvel X-Men stories. A long time ago, back at the beginning of the interminable, endless month of March that the pandemic has trapped us in, Marvel’s X-Men books were barrelling towards their first big post-Dawn of X crossover, X of Swords. And then the world stopped, and plans changed for the X-Men while everything was paused. Now that we’re back, plans have changed, and books are coming fast and furious. So what’s going on with Marvel’s Merry Mutants? Which book did Storm get sick in? What book should you read for a good Laksa…

24 Aug

Iain M. Banks’ Phlebas TV adaptation at Amazon no longer happening

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For obvious reasons, it’s been a year for disappointments and delays to much-anticipated TV and film projects. The frequency of bad news though, never makes it sting any less. Unrelated to the global coronavirus pandemic, it’s been confirmed by writer and Utopia creator Dennis Kelly that Amazon Prime’s planned television adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ The Culture novel series is no longer going ahead. Speaking to Den of Geek about new experimental Sky Atlantic-HBO drama series The Third Day, Kelly revealed his disappointment that the Banks project, first announced in February 2018, is no longer moving forward. “We’d talked about it for two or…

08 Jul

Luther Film ‘This Close’ to Happening, Says Idris Elba

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Idris Elba has stoked the fires of the Luther fandom once more by teasing the imminent announcement of a feature film for his obsessive BBC DCI. “There isn’t a real formal plan for Luther at the moment,” Elba said during a Q&A Zoom event for his Sky series In The Long Run (via Sky News) but added “I’ve made it very clear that I’d like to see Luther come back as a film. And I can tell you this, that we are this close to making a film of Luther.” The Thor and Star Trek Beyond actor has been chatting…

12 Jun

Bride of Frankenstein Remake Still Happening at Universal

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Bride of Frankenstein was long set for a major remake movie treatment from Universal as part of the “Dark Universe,” a continuity-unified Marvel-esque movie franchise for which the exorbitantly-produced Tom Cruise-headlined 2017 remake of The Mummy was designed as the kick off. Of course, that movie flopped spectacularly, derailing the Dark Universe plans, leaving Bride at the proverbial pre-production altar. However, said Bride remake may still have a chance to scream on the big screen. David Koepp, a veteran screenwriter who previously took a turn—as did several other scribes—on a rewrite of Universal’s Dark-Universe-intended Bride of Frankenstein script, divulged that…

03 Mar

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret Movie Finally Happening

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After decades of brushing off attempts to adapt her 1970 YA novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. for the screen, author Judy Blume has sold the rights to the book after a rabid bidding war that saw studio Lionsgate win out. The Edge of Seventeen director Kelly Fremon Craig has been tapped to helm the Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. movie, and it will be produced by James L. Brooks’ Gracie Films, Julie Ansell, Richard Sakai, Amy Brooks, and Blume herself. “This title was an anthem when we first read it as teens, and it remains…

20 Sep

A Happening of Monumental Proportions

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During the course of one day, a group of students at a school in Los Angeles find themselves caught up in a plot of sex, lies and dead bodies.Rated: RRelease Date: Sep 21, 2018

happening

The Happening Revisited Through the Lens of a Pandemic

None of This Would Be Happening If Frank Zappa Had Been President

What’s Happening With Marvel’s X-Men?

Iain M. Banks’ Phlebas TV adaptation at Amazon no longer happening

Luther Film ‘This Close’ to Happening, Says Idris Elba

Bride of Frankenstein Remake Still Happening at Universal

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret Movie Finally Happening

A Happening of Monumental Proportions

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