Margot Robbie announced in a new Vanity Fair cover story that her upcoming female-fronted Pirates of the Caribbean movie is officially dead with Disney deciding not to move forward with the project.
It was announced in June 2020 that Oscar nominee Robbie would be the star of a new movie at Disney written by her Birds of Prey screenwriter Christina Hodson. Continue reading
Review by Jacob Licklider
Harry Sullivan and Naomi Cross have been interesting characters. Harry was a companion of the Fourth Doctor played by the late Ian Marter in Season 12, leaving in Terror of the Zygons with a brief reappearance in The Android Invasion and despite being a companion of one of the more popular Doctors, he only appeared as a companion in a handful of Missing Adventures and Past Doctor Adventures partially due to Marter’s passing in 1986. Big Finish Productions has recently used Harry in stories like Return of the Cybermen and Kaleidoscope casting the wonderful Christopher Naylor in the part. Naomi Cross on the other hand is a Big Finish original companion played by Eleanor Crooks, who also travelled with the Fourth Doctor and Harry Sullivan at some point. I say at some point as the characters haven’t had their technical debut as companions with the Fourth Doctor yet and are not set to release until 2024. Further complicating the characters, they have had appearances in the spin-off UNIT Nemesis in both sets with Naomi to appear in the third set later this month. So, it comes as a complete surprise that the second Seventh Doctor set to be released this year is exploring the Doctor finding Harry and Naomi again in Sullivan and Cross – AWOL. This is set either during or after UNIT Nemesis, the writers aren’t exactly clear on how everything fits together in terms of continuity but this set spends much of its first episode focusing on Harry and Naomi in 21st century London.
Actor Kevin Conroy, best known as the voice of Batman across various animated series and video games – has passed away at the age of 66, it has been reported.
From director James Cullen Bressack comes the incredibly witty and personal film ‘ Murder, Anyone?’ as he brings to life the words of his late father Gordon Bressack, acclaimed writer better known for his work on animated shows like Pinky and the Brain and Animaniacs. One of seven un-produced Bressack screenplays, it was originally written and put on as a stage play.
Variety is reporting that Disney is actively developing an Indiana Jones TV show for Disney Plus.
Netflix has released a visually gripping Credit sequence from Addams Family series Wednesday. The series ewill air exclusively on Netflix on November 23rd 2022, with all episodes to be released simultaneously. Check out the clip below:
Netflix has ordered Season 2 of “The Watcher” Netflix has also announced it will be turning “Monster” into an anthology series with the streamer ordering two additional seasons of the series. Both shows were created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.
“Forbearance” is director Lana Read’s third independent feature film. It is produced by female-led production company United Front Films and written by cancer-survivor Cedric Gegel. The cast features Vernon Wells (MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR, COMMANDO, POWER RANGERS) as Dr. George Ross, Paul Logan as Bo Erb, Juli Tapken as Callie Sunbury, Travis Hancock as Josh Sunbury, and Cedric Gegel as Jonah Sunbury.
Review by Jacob Licklider
So what happens when your production company switches to a box set structure but doesn’t necessarily have themes for every set? Well that has been something that the past ten months of Big Finish Productions’ output has been, switching away from numbering their sets as to not overboard potential new listeners with so much content they would have to catch up on. It is with this in mind that the Eighth Doctor Adventures range was changed from the four box set arc model to integrate it with the other releases which had some interesting side effects. This meant that this year Big Finish have scheduled four sets featuring the Eighth Doctor, the conclusion to Stranded, the two now standard 3-disc Eighth Doctor Adventures, and a special fourth set featuring Charley Pollard. The two standard sets were scheduled for the last two months of the year, most likely to have a gap for actual production of the sets, the first being What Lies Inside? released this month while the second, Connections, is out in December. What’s especially intriguing is that while there isn’t any sort of story arc, Rafe Wallbank crafted connected covers almost reminiscent of the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels covers (Interference in particular comes to mind). What Lies Inside? is the first set that falls into the category of 2022 sets where each of the stories has been completely standalone, following Silver and Ice and The Outlaws, and like those sets the structure is a two hour adventure and a one hour adventure, though here each episode is an hour long.
