Starz and Lionsgate are developing a TV series based on the world of the international chain of hotels that provide refuge for professional assassins, the Continental.
Developing the series are the writers and directors of the movies, including David Leitch and Chad Stahelski (co-directors of John Wick; John Wick franchise screenwriter Derek Kolstad and Chris Collins. Collins will write the pilot script.
Keanu Reeves is attached in an off-screen role only (at this point). No timetable has been given for completion of the pilot script.
Replicas – Will Foster Keanu Reeves) – Photo courtesy of Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures.
The film hasn’t even finished shooting but the first trailer for Replicas – starring Keanu Reeves, Thomas Middleditch and Alice Eve – was unleashed on an unsuspecting New York Comic-Con 2017 audience this evening.
Replicas is the story of a scientist whose family dies in a car accident just before he makes the breakthrough to transfer human consciousness to a computer – so he creates clones of them with one heartbreaking exception…
Replicas’ release date is TBD. The trailer is propulsive.
Marti Noxon’s To The Bone – Ellen (Lily Collins) – Photo courtesy of Netflix
Marti Noxon’s To The Bone centers on Ellen (Lily Collins), an anorexic 20-year old who has spent most of her teen years going through various recovery programs – losing even more weight though each.
Desperate for a reversal in her disorder, Ellen’s family agree to send her to an unusual group home for youths.
Marti Noxon’s To The Bone launches globally on Netflix on July 14th.
John Wick Chapter 2 — John Wick (Keanu Reeves) Photo by Niko Tavernise/Summit Entertainment/eOne
The first John Wick film was one of the rare action flicks to actually warrant the title film. It was mad crazy in terms of action and remarkably thorough at sketching out the world in which the characters lived and worked.
John Wick Chapter 2 expands that world in fun, messy ways and is even more propulsive than the first. I would say that it’s the rare sequel that is even better (if only marginally) than the original – it deepens every aspect of its world and character.
John Wick: Chapter 2 – Keanu Reeves reprises his role as wishes-he-could-just-retire hitman, John Wick. Photo courtesy of Lionsgate.
While we’re waiting for John Wick Chapter 2, Lionsgate has kindly put together a supercut from John Wick – John Wick Chapter One: Symphony of Violence. It showcases some of the great action/violence from the first film set to the 1812 Overture.
Not for the faint-hearted. Check it out after the break. John Wick: Chapter 2 opens on February 10th.
Keanu Reeves stars as defense attorney Richard Ramsay, who has promised his widowed friend, Loretta Lassiter, that he will keep her son, Mike, out prison.
Thing is, Mike is on trila for killing his father – her husband – and things may not be as they seem.
The Whole Truth also stars Renée Zellweger and will be in theaters and on VOD on October 21st. The trailer follows the break.
Why would we go to see yet another hitman comes out of retirement to wreak vengeance movie?
Because it takes the reliable (okay, maybe overused) trope and reinvigorates it with style, a degree of wit and a unique world with unusual details. Also, Keanu Reeves at his best.
