Happy New Year everybody! Big Screen Scoop returns for 2016, promising to aggregate even more news and be more on time than ever before! Thank you to everyone who popped in last year to read, and welcome to anyone new. Now on with the cynicism!
DIRECTOR OF NEXT TRANSFORMERS MOVIE IS EXACTLY WHAT MEETS THE EYE
Joining such luminaries as death and taxes, the inevitability of Michael Bay directing another Transformers movie has announced itself. And just as you were starting to convince yourself that this whole blockbuster thing wasn’t so bad after all. Bay has insisted that this will be the last one, which is probably his New Year’s Resolution, because he’s said it all before and he knows he doesn’t mean it.
As part of an interview with Rolling Stone for his upcoming Benghazi movie (how odd, I just got a migraine), the explosion enthusiast confirmed that he will be making the next Transformers movie in 2017. “I’m doing Transformers…5, is it?” he asked, showing about the level of connection you might expect for the franchise that has made him millions, but surely even he recognises as trash. Bay was set to stay away for good after the last one, but was apparently convinced to change his mind by JJ Abrams, who told him he was the only one who could do this. Perhaps Bay misheard and Abrams said ‘would’? Either way, what have you done for me lately Abrams? Not much I’ll bet.
RYAN COOGLER DIRECT PANTHER/COUNT THE HEADLIGHTS ON THE HIGHWAY
Just like Krusty the Clown and unlike Marvel’s own ever-lovin’ Thing, Ryan Coogler isn’t made of stone, so it looks like he might be accepting the dump truck of money Marvel drove to his house to direct the Black Panther movie.
Having previously looked at Ava DuVarnay and F. Gary Gray, it had been rumoured for a while that Coogler, director of Fruitvale Station and Creed was Marvel’s choice to helm ol’ T’Challa’s solo movie debut (he will of course be appearing early in this year’s Captain America: Civil War, along with you and me and everyone we know). Kevin Feige confirmed the interest, as well as saying that this movie was an important one. Marvel adding some diversity to the unending lineup is unquestionably a good thing, although I’m sure Feige says that about all the movies. Coogler is a talented young director and if he ended up working with Marvel, could make something really great, provided he gets the proper breathing room.