Movie and TV Trailers

[Necron 99]

Regarding The Wheel of Time that series was a big influence on me from middle school onwards. I was quite upset when the author died, as he had expressed that he didn't want anyone else to finish the story. In the end his wife decided to let Brandon Sanderson finish it up, and I think he did a good job. Overall the series went on for far too long, but it had so many excellent moments in it that I still enjoyed reading it to the end. A lot of things in the story are ruled by the gender of the character, and that leads to a lot of stereotyping on both sides throughout the books, but it didn't detract from the story for me. Depending on how they adapt it to television though it could be an absolute shit show.

For Example: In the WoT world, magic comes from the One Power. It has a masculine and a feminine side. The masculine side was tainted by The Dark One during the last major conflict and all male channelers are doomed to go insane and murder everyone around them. The female side was left untainted and the female channelers hold immense power in the world as hunters of male channelers and as true powers behind the thrones of many nations. As such the female channelers are generally viewed with extreme suspicion by the general peasants both male and female.

Now that could be adapted to screen in so many ways. A lot of other societal structures work in a similar vein. It will entirely depend on the show runners and the writing. I figure I'll know before two episodes are finished if it's worth watching or if it's going to be a Netflix Lost In Space level shitshow.

I plan to at least give it a watch, just like I did with Lovecraft country, I stayed with that one for about 4-5 episodes before I could see it was a lost cause, and sure enough, after one season, it got the boot. Too much emphasis on unnecessary aspects that do nothing to serve the actual story.

Another series that just recently started showing (albeit on Apple TV), I plan to try and watch when I can, Isaac Asimov's Foundation:

[Necron 99]

Ran across a concept trailer for a reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street. I should preface this with how much I despise the idea of reboots, especially these days when so many of them just turn into utter garbage, ending up nothing but pale shadows of the original movies. That being said, this concept trailer actually caught my eye in a pretty good way. The fact that they want to bring back England and Langenkamp goes a long way to making this appealing, instead of just throwing a bunch of new faces onto the screen and seeing what sticks.

Wes Craven achieved massive success with 1984's A Nightmare on Elm Street. Not only did the movie introduce the world to a young Johnny Depp and Heather Langenkamp, it created the literal stuff of nightmares in Freddy Krueger, its iconic monster.

The film went on to spawn eight sequels, a TV series, prose novels, and zefr comic books. Surprisingly, however Freddy Krueger hasn't graced the big screen since 2010's A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot starring Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy and Thomas Dekker.

Over the years, multiple scripts, pitches, and ideas for the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise have gone through early-stage development, only to fizzle out entirely. Most recently, Lord of the Rings actor and Mandy producer Elijah Wood has established himself as one person interested in getting a new Nightmare off the ground.

However, he sees Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund, who has announced his retirement from the franchise, as necessary to his vision. Wood imagines Englund's role as more of a passing-of-the-torch sort of thing, rather than the sort of active menace Robert Englund has established himself as too old for nightmare on elm street x trailer.

In the meantime, David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, a screenwriter with credits including episodes of The Walking Dead and two installments of The Conjuring franchise, was announced as the writer of a new Nightmare film in 2015. "It's still happening," he said in 2019, renny harlin, sean chandler, cody leach, but "nothing is percolating just yet." One can't help but wonder if we'll ever actually get to see his take on Freddy Krueger. Like so many franchises before it, Nightmare on Elm Street is stuck in a horror movie of its own. Lisa wilcox nightmare on elm street.

Passing the torch might be nice, if continuation of the series doesn't just go to pot. The concept trailer below, though, does look pretty good. I would probably watch a movie if it came out, based on what I see. Kudos to the folks who put this together.

[Necron 99]

Cool to see some sci-fi/horror stuff coming out that is not from Hollyweird. I believe this will be coming to Netflix or similar streaming service.

[Ancalagon]

Regarding The Wheel of Time that series was a big influence on me from middle school onwards. I was quite upset when the author died, as he had expressed that he didn't want anyone else to finish the story. In the end his wife decided to let Brandon Sanderson finish it up, and I think he did a good job. Overall the series went on for far too long, but it had so many excellent moments in it that I still enjoyed reading it to the end. A lot of things in the story are ruled by the gender of the character, and that leads to a lot of stereotyping on both sides throughout the books, but it didn't detract from the story for me. Depending on how they adapt it to television though it could be an absolute shit show.

For Example: In the WoT world, magic comes from the One Power. It has a masculine and a feminine side. The masculine side was tainted by The Dark One during the last major conflict and all male channelers are doomed to go insane and murder everyone around them. The female side was left untainted and the female channelers hold immense power in the world as hunters of male channelers and as true powers behind the thrones of many nations. As such the female channelers are generally viewed with extreme suspicion by the general peasants both male and female.

Now that could be adapted to screen in so many ways. A lot of other societal structures work in a similar vein. It will entirely depend on the show runners and the writing. I figure I'll know before two episodes are finished if it's worth watching or if it's going to be a Netflix Lost In Space level shitshow.

I plan to at least give it a watch, just like I did with Lovecraft country, I stayed with that one for about 4-5 episodes before I could see it was a lost cause, and sure enough, after one season, it got the boot. Too much emphasis on unnecessary aspects that do nothing to serve the actual story.

Another series that just recently started showing (albeit on Apple TV), I plan to try and watch when I can, Isaac Asimov's Foundation:

This has potential.

[Necron 99]

For the love of all that is good and wholesome in this world, please make the bad man stop...
Another "reboot" of a spectacular Christmas film, Hollyweird has definitely run out of any and all original ideas. This just looks awful.

[Ancalagon]

This is a shameless cash grab. Classics should never be remade! Unfortunately, its easier for studios to just rehash something when a sizeable chunk of the public will mindlessly throw $$$ at it. Much more lucrative than exercising some imagination and coming up with something relatively fresh.

[Necron 99]

Reboots and remakes aplenty, this may be the first movie to the big screen, in years, that I actually enjoy watching. The trailer checks all the right boxes in my eyes, maybe something good can finally come out of Hollyweird after all.

[Necron 99]

Been a while since I've seen a movie with Angelina Jolie, this one has potential and looks like it came out earlier this year. I'll have to track it down. I like Jon Bernthal in pretty much everything I've seen him in. Also noticed that Aidan Gillen is in the trailer, best known for his role as Petyr Baelish (Littlefinger) in the AGoT series.

[Ancalagon]

Been a while since I've seen a movie with Angelina Jolie, this one has potential and looks like it came out earlier this year. I'll have to track it down. I like Jon Bernthal in pretty much everything I've seen him in. Also noticed that Aidan Gillen is in the trailer, best known for his role as Petyr Baelish (Littlefinger) in the AGoT series.

Jon Bernthal - Cool.
Aidan Gillen - Cool.
Angelina Jolie - Not cool.

[grodog]

Batman looks interesting-ish, thanks!

Is this the second in a new series , or the beginning of a new reboot?—im never sure what I’ve missed

Allan.