Sure, he's got a few announced films, including a Hancock sequel and a third installment of Bad Boys, but
his original film slate is pretty empty.
Not exact matches
Netflix's target for
original movies next year compares with a 2017
slate of about 50
film titles that it has released or is scheduled to debut globally.
Robespierre is among the greatest discoveries to emerge from the Sundance indie
slate in the past few years and offers continued relevance to the festival, which seems increasingly distanced from its
original mandate to support not only independent
film but movies that take risks.
John Carroll Lynch was originally
slated to be in Lucky as an actor but took on director duties after the
original helmer dropped out, according to Greg Gilreath, a producer of the
film which stars the late Harry Dean Stanton along with David Lynch, Ron Livingston and Ed Begley, Jr..
Netflix has added to its
original feature
film slate by snapping up the rights to Special Correspondents, the upcoming remake of the 2009 French comedy of the same name, which sees Ricky Gervais directing and co-starring with Eric Bana (Deliver Us from Evil).
While Hellraiser II is not the atmospheric brood-fest that the
original is, it is still a horror
film admirably reliant on a
slate of unusual (and different) ideas.
The animation style is totally recognizable based on the earlier
films and E.H. Shepard's
original drawings, but there's still room for surprises, such as the very differently - animated section where Owl describes the Backson by drawing on a
slate.
As of this writing, that
film is still
slated to open in November in 2015; though Bob Peterson, the
original director, has been moved off the project, co-director Peter Sohn is still on board.