The Toxic Avenger has his health insurance denied, Saw XI gets an autopsy, and Nia DaCosta throws her last two movies under the bus. Plus, our best look at Rick Flag, Sr.’s pompadour yet! De Wanna Wanga, it’s Morning Spoilers!
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
During her recent appearance at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (via THR), Nia DaCosta stated 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple boasts “a good script,” something she notes her Candyman remake and The Marvels both sorely lacked.
Making the 28 Years Later sequel was one of the best filmmaking experiences I’ve had. One of the issues I had with Candyman and Marvels was the lack of a really solid script, which is always gonna just wreak havoc on the whole process. But Alex Garland hands you a script, and you’re like, ‘This is amazing.’ You don’t really have to change it, although I did. I basically asked for more infected. [Laughs.] That was, like, my big contribution. I inherited an amazing cast, then I was given the leeway to cast the rest of the film. There were a couple locations I inherited. I was given leeway to develop all the other locations. Some of it overlapped, like the character Samson — Danny [Boyle] and I would collaborate a bit on the look, but at the end of the day, Danny shoots so different from the way I shoot.
Avengers: Doomsday
In conversation with MovieWeb, Vanessa Kirby suggested Sue Storm has been permanently altered by her death and resurrection in Fantastic Four: First Steps.
I’ve been thinking a lot doing Avengers and stuff about how someone that’s been through, in the space of basically a week, someone who has given birth and has died and come back to life… how a death experience like that would change you. I’ve been listening to a lot of people that have had those kind of experiences and what they learn, and therefore how different they are after they come back from that.
The DCU
During a recent interview with The Wrap, Sean Gunn stated he “doesn’t see a problem” with Maxwell Lord at present and so isn’t playing the character as a villain in the DCU.
I just wholeheartedly agree with [James Gunn’s] comment that, to call the character a villain is certainly not something that is leading the way for me as I tackle the character. I think he’s a lot more nuanced than that. And I don’t really see the problem with what he’s doing so far.
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