It’s hard to believe, but it’s been fifteen years since Warner Bros. released director Francis Lawrence’s DC Comics adaptation, Constantine, starring Keanu Reeves as an occult detective. When the film first came out in February, 2005, the reviews were mixed. At the time, Reeves had only finished The Matrix trilogy two years earlier, the MCU hadn’t yet launched, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins was months from being released, and the comic book movie genre wasn’t something Hollywood took very seriously. It was a different era of moviemaking. [caption id="attachment_905796" align="alignright" width="350"] Image …
The other week I conducted an interview with Akiva Goldsman for our ongoing remote interview series Collider Connected. As you’ve hopefully seen in our previous episodes, Collider Connected allows us to go in-depth with our subjects due to the length of the conversations, and the discussion with Goldsman was no different. Over the course of the extended interview, Goldsman talked about a ton of things including how he landed his first writing job on The Client with Joel Schumacher, shared some great stories about making Batman & Robin and Batman Forever, what his version of Batman vs. Superman …
Titans season 3 is currently in limbo right now thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown plaguing Hollywood. So when Collider's Steven Weintraub got on the dial with co-creator Akiva Goldsman, we tried to find out when DC Universe's moodiest super-teens would be returning to our screens. Goldsman was...tight-lipped, to say the least. Despite remaining quiet on the possible return of Batman ("I am not gonna' tell you that") or any season 3 story teases at all (my dude straight-up just shook his head), Goldsman did note that the DC Comics series is planning …
Collider first reported on a screen adaptation of Tom Clancy's Without Remorse in 2009. The story, featuring Navy SEAL John Kelly on a personal quest for revenge, was tackled by Stuart Beattie at the time. Then, Shawn Ryan and Christopher McQuarrie took separate cracks at it. Aborted plans were made to cast Tom Hardy as Kelly, and bring back Kevin Costner from Kenneth Branagh's's Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit to create a new Clancy-verse. Finally, after this long journey, Without Remorse is coming to the screen. And in an exclusive interview with our own Steve Weintraub, producer …
During an in-depth interview between Collider's own Steve Weintraub and famed screenwriter, producer, and director Akiva Goldsman, where the discussion covered included everything from upcoming projects like Showtime's Kavalier & Clay series to his work on Star Trek, one of the main topics delved into was Goldsman's work on the '90s Batman movies Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. While walking down memory land, Goldsman also recalled his work on the the scrapped Batman vs Superman movie, including the story he had worked up and his hopes for what it could have been. In case you …
Collider's own Steve Weintraub recently sat down with prolific screenwriter, producer, and director Akiva Goldsman for a wide-ranging chat about his work from the past to the present and yes, even the future. One thing we here at Collider have been jonesing to talk about with Goldsman is his work on the seminal '90s Batman movies directed by Joel Schumacher, 1995's Batman Forever, starring Val Kilmer as Bruce Wayne, and 1997's Batman & Robin, starring George Clooney as Bruce and Chris O'Donnell as Robin. As a co-screenwriter on Batman Forever (alongside Lee and Janet …
Will Smith is once again set to star in Paramount's sci-fi movie Brilliance, which Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman will adapt from the novel by Marcus Sakey, Collider has confirmed. If the news rings a bell, it's because Smith was previously attached to star in this same project several years ago when it was at Legendary/Universal, though he ultimately pulled out in order to star in Sony's NFL drama Concussion. It's actually kind of funny how scripts make their way around town before circling back, and I assume that any issues Smith may have …