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Skyfall Screenwriter Fears Amazon Could ‘Drain’ James Bond of Life

Screenwriter and producer John Logan has been around the Hollywood block. He cut his teeth in the 1990s on projects exactly about how Tinseltown can apply pressure on creative ambition—writing the first movie about the making of Citizen Kane with RKO 281—and he reached major success with credits on Gladiator and The Aviator. Yet if you asked him today which projects meant the most, he might say it was his James Bond contributions, Skyfall and Spectre. Indeed, Logan appears to be feeling particularly concerned about 007 these days following the industry-shaking news that tech giant Amazon is purchasing MGM. Unto…
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Man of Steel Screenwriter Explains Controversial Zod Death

When Man of Steel came out in 2013, the Zack Snyder-directed reboot of Superman’s origins became immediately controversial with fans due to two sequences. In the first, a young Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) watches as his adoptive father Jonathan Kent (Kevin Costner) is killed by a tornado, with Jonathan covertly discouraging Clark from attempting to save him and possibly revealing his true identity as the Kryptonian alien Kal-El in the process. The second and even more hotly debated scene involved a final standoff between the now-adult Superman and the villainous General Zod (Michael Shannon) in a Metropolis train station, with…
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Ant-Man 3 Lands Screenwriter From Rick & Morty Team

Although Ant-Man 3 has yet to appear on any official Marvel Studios release schedule — except maybe for that big, years-spanning whiteboard in Kevin Feige’s office that we’ve all heard about — a script for the movie has been commissioned and a writer has been hired to pen it. That writer is Jeff Loveness, who has been a co-producer and member of the writers’ room for the animated Rick & Morty series for much of the last year or so. Loveness got his start writing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! From 2011 to 2015, and his other credits include the Oscars,…
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