John Hurt is set to reprise his role as the War Doctor, who first appeared in the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special two years ago, in a new audio play from Big Finish, titled Doctor Who: The War Doctor.
In a press release, Jason Haigh-Ellery, executive producer at Big Finish said that while “ watching his performance in ‘The Day of the Doctor’ I did find myself fantasizing that some far off day we might have the chance to work with him on the audio adventures of Doctor Who and now two short years later it’s happened… Now we have the chance to get to know that character more and hear John stretch in the role. We’re all in for a hell of a ride as the War Doctor engages in battle. But who are the greater threat – the Daleks or the Time Lords?”
The audio play will span over four box sets, containing three linked hour-long episodes each. The first of these box sets, Only the Monstrous was directed by Doctor Who: Dark Eyes writer and director Nicholas Briggs.
The cast of this new audio play include Jacqueline Pearce (The Avengers, Callan), who plays Time Lord Cardinal Ollistra, a major player in the Time War against the Daleks
Only the Monstrous will be released this Christmas, with the second volume, Infernal Devices set to be released in February 2016.
Volumes Three and Four are still in pre-production.
Dear Muggles, new cast members have reportedly been added to the Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
A new report indicates that Jon Voight (Mission: Impossible, Transformers, Ray Donovan, 24), Carmen Ejogo (Selma, The Purge: Anarchy, Zero Hour) and Gemma Chan (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Dates, Bedlam) have joined the cast. No details on their characters have been revealed.
David Heyman, who produced all of the Harry Potter movies, will come back to work again with the new series. David Yates returns as director, having directed the final four instalments in the Harry Potter series. Steve Kloves, who wrote the screenplays for seven of the eight Harry Potter films- has been working with Potter creator J.K. Rowling on the screenplay for the spin-off.
The film is scheduled to be released on November 18th, 2016.
The first trailer has just been released for the latest addition to the Far Cry video-game series, Far Cry Primal.
You can watch the trailer below:
The ‘Far Cry’ franchise has had an amazing run over the last several years with 3 and 4 being huge commercial hits that garnered much praise from critics and gamers alike. It was natural that there would be a new game in the works. Finally, we got our answer what the new ‘Far Cry’ game will be about – the franchise is going back in time and will showcase survival in the Stone Age.
The main series of games has followed different protagonists through various fictional settings like the tropics in ‘Far Cry’ an Unnamed African Country in ‘Far Cry 2’, the Rook Islands in ‘Far Cry 3’ and the country of Kyrat ‘Far Cry 4’. Now the game will let you be a human from the year 10000 BCE by the name of Takkar in the ancient land of Oros. The objective for the player will be to survive and conquer this beautiful, but wild Mesolithic land. Oros will be full of mega fauna like enemy tribes, Mammoths and saber-toothed tigers. There have been many crazy things in this franchise like yetis and mutants, but I did not expect this move by Ubisoft. I must say it looks like a huge upgrade for the player to be hunting wooly mammoths instead of sharks.
Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Shanghai, and Ubisoft Kiev are helping with bringing the world of ‘Far Cry Primal’ to life. Jean-Christophe Guyot – the creative director behind ‘Prince of Persia’ from 2008 and ’Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands’ – is the game’s creative director.
‘Far Cry Primal’ is expected to be available on February 23, 2016 with a PC release in March of that year.
Even though Tom Holland has been cast to play Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (clearly indicating Marvel’s intention is to start with Peter Parker), some fans are still hoping to see Miles Morales at some point.
Jon Watts, director for the untitled Spiderman film due in 2017, was asked during an interview with Yahoo if there has been any serious discussion of Ultimate Spiderman Miles Morales appearing in his film. Watts is quoted as saying the following:
“I can’t talk about that, because, you know, that will reveal too much. We’re still writing the story…we haven’t finished all the way through the story yet, so who knows.”
If you’re hoping to see two Spideys in one film, your wish could come true… maybe.
Thoughts on this rumour? Would you like to see Miles Morales in an upcoming Spider-Man film?
Junkie XL is set to compose the soundtrack for the upcoming 20th Century Fox film, Deadpool, based on the notorious Merc with the Mouth himself.
The Grammy nominated composer is no stranger to feature film scores. Junkie XL’s (otherwise known as Tom Holkenborg) impressive resume includes working on several box office hits such as Zack Snyder’s 300: Rise of an Empire, Neil Burger’s Divergent, and George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. He also has worked with Hans Zimmer, one of the most renowned composers in film. Zimmer had Junkie XL collaborate with him to work on additional material for The Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel, but his biggest work with Zimmer will be heard next year as he composed the score for Superman in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.
The Deadpool film’s scheduled release date for the film is February 12, 2016.
Thoughts on this news? Are you looking forward to hearing Junkie’s work on Deadpool?
The Everything Geek Podcast is DELIGHTED to announce that actor J.W. Cortes is the next actor we’re confirming for a celebrity guest interview on the podcast!
J.W. is best-known for playing Detective Alvarez in Gotham. His other notable roles include the Fire Lord Attendant in The Last Airbender, Emmanuel in A Kiss of Chaos, Police Officer in Gun Hill Road, Cop in As Good as Dead, Army Recruiter #1 in The Washington Snipers, Agent Suarez in The Blacklist and the voice of a Person on the Street in Grand Theft Auto IV.
We’re looking forward to chatting with and interviewing J.W. on the podcast. If you have any questions for J.W. , please feel free to leave them in the comments. We’ll make sure to post updates once a date is confirmed for J.W. to be on the podcast.
Our apologies for the lack of guest announcements recently. I’d been waiting until our website was live before getting back to them, but now that our website is live we can get back on track with announcing new guests!
After the success of our interview with actor Chris Chalk (Lucius Fox) recently, we’ll be announcing our second Gotham guest tomorrow.
This time we’ll be announcing a supporting cast member who has featured as a GCPD officer throughout the show.
I’m looking forward to announcing who this guest is!
Good news for fans of The X-Files! Not only do you have a six-episode revival series to look forward to, but a new report indicates that the revival will use the same opening credits as the original series.
Series creator Chris Carter was quoted as saying the following:
“We thought about doing some changes to the original credits, but then it seemed like like sacrilege. Those credits were on 202 episodes. They belong on these next six.”
His statement was to the audience at the MIPCOM television trade fair in Cannes (France) where the first episode of the revival was premiered, which was one of only a few moments where the audience broke into applause.
The X-Files revival officially begins airing on January 24th, 2016.
Thoughts on this report? Are you happy that the revival will be using the original opening credits?
In one of the more bizarre recent Marvel stories, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn had posted on his Facebook page recently that Marvel weren’t allowing him to use the Sneepers aliens in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. This was because the word sounded like an Icelandic word which translated to “clitoris”.
As well as confirming this, Gunn confirmed that at least one Sneeper will appear in the sequel to last year’s hugely-successful first Guardians of the Galaxy film.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is scheduled for release on May 5th, 2017.
Thoughts on this news? Are you looking forward to seeing at least one Sneeper in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?
A concept art poster for the second season of Marvel’s Daredevil series has been revealed.
The series premiered its first season on Netflix earlier this year, and the concept art poster will be available at the Marvel booth at New York Comic Con this weekend. The poster was designed by Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada.
The second season of Daredevil is expected to be released on Netflix in early 2016.
Thoughts on the concept art poster? Are you looking forward to more Daredevil episodes?
