This week’s news from DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures could then be seen as something of a reaction to that, as the new Ghost in the Shell now has its first Japanese actor. Specifically, this allegation was made on social media when Scarlett Johansson and Michael Pitt were announced as playing the lead (called Motoko Kusanagi in the original) and The Laughing Man, respectively. Previous casting news about the Hollywood live action remake of the anime classic Ghost in the Shell has been very much part of the ongoing discussion of the practice referred to as “whitewashing” (Caucasian actors being cast in roles that could, or arguably, “should” have been played by other races). MILES TELLER AND JOSH BROLIN SIGN UP AS FIREFIGHTERS IN NO EXIT Miller’s A Christmas Carol will be adapted by screenwriter Tom Stoppard ( Shakespeare in Love, Tulip Fever, Anna Karenina) as a 19th century story, instead of the more contemporary approach Hollywood sometimes uses.Ģ. The other Christmas movie announced this week is a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which will be directed by Bennett Miller, whose previous films were The Cruise, Capote, Moneyball, and Foxcatcher. This new live-action adaptation will be called The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and it will be directed by Lasse Hallström, the Swedish director of such films as Chocolat, The Cider House Rules, and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? As a direct adaptation of the story, rather than adapting the ballet, Hallstrom’s film is expected to be a more direct adaptation of the story of a young girl whose discovery of a Nutcracker doll leads to an adventure opposing the evil seven-headed Mouse King. Hoffman’s 1816 story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, which was the inspiration for Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Suite, which Disney previously adapted as part of the 1940 film Fantasia. First off, Walt Disney Pictures is now developing a live action adaptation of E.T.A. This week, perhaps quite coincidentally, two of the biggest newest announced movies are both adaptations of classic Christmas stories. Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios have scheduled their first Spider-Man movie, played by Tom Holland, for next summer, July 7, 2017. It is not yet known which version of Venom will form the basis of Sony’s first film, though the two most obvious candidates are reporter Eddie Brock and longtime Peter Parker adversary Flash Thompson, AKA Agent Venom. Instead of directly spinning off of Spider-Man ( Venom actually started off as Peter Parker’s alien symbiote costume in the comics), Sony’s new Venom will be a standalone film which the studio is hoping will start a whole new franchise separate from Spider-Man (and ostensibly, likely the MCU as well). This week, Sony Pictures announced that they are indeed moving forward with plans for Venom, though exactly how they are doing it may come as a surprise. When it was revealed last year that Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios were collaborating to reunite Spider-Man with the rest of the MCU ( The Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man, etc), it left in question the other Marvel movies that Sony Pictures had in development, that there were going to be Spider-Man spinoffs, such as The Sinister Six, and a female-centric spinoff movie (rumored to be Black Cat).
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