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Ben Wheatley feels as if shooting 'Meg 2' was a "wild-fever" dream. The 51-year-old director is at the helm of the action film that follows the research team on an exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean and admitted it has been nice to have some "distance" from it in the run-up to the release. He told Empire Magazine: "I feel like it's nice to have some distance from it, but it also feels like a wild fever dream now. It was a big chunk of time. It was two-and-a-half years, or something, I was on it for, all in all." In terms of shooting the underwater scenes, Ben went on to exp...
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'Meg 2: The Trench' director Ben Wheatley wants to turn the series into a full blown franchise. The filmmaker is at the helm of the killer shark sequel - which sees Jason Statham reprise his role as rescue diver Jonas Taylor - and while he doesn't want to get carried away, he thinks there is "a lot more to explore" in another follow up. He told Total Film magazine: "You don't want to talk about it until 'Meg 2' is out, but I hope [to see a third installment]. "There's a lot more to explore in that world. It's very rich. The international-ness of it is very interesting." He praised the first mo...
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Alicia Vikander has confessed that a 'Tomb Raider' sequel is "in somebody else's hands". The 33-year-old actress took over from Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in the 2018 film 'Tomb Raider' but confessed that Amazon's acquisition of MGM earlier this year has left the sequel in an uncertain position. Alicia told Entertainment Weekly: "With the MGM and Amazon buyout, I have no clue. Now it's kind of politics. "I think Misha (Green) and I have been ready, so it's kind of in somebody else's hands, to be honest." 'Lovecraft Country' showrunner Misha Green has been tapped to write and direct the film ...
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Alicia Vikander feels energised by Misha Green's involvement in the 'Tomb Raider' sequel. The 32-year-old actress is set to reprise her role as Lara Croft in the follow-up to the 2018 film and feels a connection to the 'Lovecraft Country' showrunner, who joined the project after the original director Ben Wheatley dropped out. Alicia told Entertainment Weekly: "It's pretty amazing – we're, like, the same age! "I was like, 'Oh, I'm just now on a Zoom with an extremely talented woman that I think has done some incredible work.' It would be so amazing if we get to go and do this very big-a** film ...
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Alicia Vikander hopes 'Tomb Raider' bosses will "find a way" to make a sequel. The 32-year-old star made her debut as Lara Croft in the 2018 movie 'Tomb Raider' and is hopeful that she will return to the role, even if the COVID-19 pandemic has put everything "up in the air". Alicia told ComicBook.com: "(Writer/director) Misha Green is about to ... A script is coming very soon. She's extremely hardworking. "And so, I can't say anything, because like you said, COVID kind of put everything just up in the air. But yeah, I'm excited to read scripts and hope that it's something that we'll find a way...
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Ben Wheatley thinks movies like 'The Meg' have "gone out of fashion". The 48-year-old filmmaker is set to direct 'Meg 2: The Trench' - a follow-up to the 2018 action movie about a giant prehistoric shark - and is looking forward to bringing back to cinemas the sort of blockbuster that used to be hugely popular. He said: “It’s a kind of cause-and-effect, blue-collar action movie that James Cameron and Steven Spielberg did really strongly and has gone out of fashion." And to do so, Ben couldn't ask for a better star than Jason Statham. He said: “He has a world-weariness about him that reminds me...
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Jason Statham wants to return to the 'Fast & Furious' franchise for the final two movies. The 53-year-old actor has played Deckard Shaw in three movies in the series as well as the spin-off 'Hobbs & Shaw' and, while he won't be appearing in 'F9', he is keen to work with director Justin Lin before the franchise comes to end after 11 films. Jason told Collider: "I'd love to come back for those couple of movies. It's thin ice that I'm skating on if I talk about what's going to happen in the next movies. "But I know Justin Lin, I know him really well, and it was funny, when I came on to do the cam...
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Ben Wheatley has promised to respect 'The Meg' in the second film in the franchise. The 48-year-old director is set to helm 'Meg 2: The Trench', the shark thriller sequel, and has insisted he will not drastically depart from Jon Turteltaub's original flick. Asked what audiences should expect from the movie, Ben told ComicBook.com: "A lot of it is respecting 'The Meg', and trying to make sure it's a great 'Meg' film. "And as you can see from the movies I've made, they're not necessarily, it's not ... when you go and do 'Doctor Who', I don't completely change it because I wanted to do it. I didn...
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Misha Green is to direct and write the 'Tomb Raider' sequel. The 36-year-old filmmaker will make her feature directorial debut on the movie which stars Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft and has replaced Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump as director and screenwriter on the movie respectively. Misha previously wrote and created the acclaimed TV series 'Lovecraft Country' that starred Jurnee Smollett, Jonathan Majors and Michael Kenneth Williams. She has also worked on 'Sons of Anarchy' and is writing and producing action movie 'The Mother' for Netflix. Graham King and Elizabeth Cantillon are producing via t...
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Ben Wheatley thinks video game movies aren’t interactive enough for viewers.The 48-year-old director believes that movies based on video games have had a hard time adapting to cinema as gamers are unable to interact with the movie after playing the video game.He told Polygon: “Video games have trouble crossing back into cinema because they are born out of cinema. But the magic sauce is interaction, which you’re then removing back out of the game to put it back into a film. That’s the trick the back and forth of it, and that’s why it’s been very hard to make things successful.”It comes after th...
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