Not exact matches
Fandango's Erik Davis has confirmed Sony's
slate of Spider - Man adjacent
films are not
set in the MCU after all, as a clarification from Pascal's earlier comments that the movies would be part
of the universe.
Nothing is
set in stone for the DCEU
slate right now outside
of the three
films that have already nabbed release dates and are in various stages
of production: Aquaman, Shazam!
20th Century Fox is building - up their own
slate of video game
films with Michael Fassbender leading an Assassin's Creed movie
set to shoot later this year and a Splinter Cell adaptation with Tom Hardy attached to star and Doug Liman possibly directing.
After John Carpenter's Halloween and Halloween II were followed by four more sequels
of varying quality, writers wiped the
slate clean and
set this sequel 20 years after the events
of first two
films.
While I'm hoping for a better
slate of films in the second
of half
of twelve, that does nothing to diminish the fact that this is a superbly made comedy that
sets itself apart from its namesake show.
Based on a highly selective and unscientific sampling
of opinions on the Croisette, the general consensus is that while this may be a milestone 70th - anniversary year for the Festival de Cannes, it's been a disappointing
set of films overall, with one
of the weaker competition
slates in recent memory.
Just last summer the script was
slated to get a rewrite from Raphael Bob - Waksberg, the creator
of Bojack Horseman, and now the
film is replacing previously -
set director Rob Schrab with someone who has more animation experience, but not as promising comedy experience.
While the
slate here is clearly not empty and offers more substance than some Disney cartoons have received, it's a far cry from the types
of two - disc
sets given to both hits (Tarzan) and underperforming
films (Atlantis: The Lost Empire) just a few years ago.