Thor: The Dark World is to heavily impact the plot of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., it has been announced, as an upcoming episode will pick up the plot threads left over from the big-screen adventure.
The episode, due to air on November 19th in the US, titled 'The Well', will follow on from the events of The Dark World, which is released Stateside on November 8. The movie is already out here in the UK.
The official synopsis reads: "In the aftermath of the events chronicled in the feature film Marvel's Thor: The Dark World, Coulson and the Agents of SHIELD pick up the pieces - one of which threatens to destroy a member of the team."
None of the big-screen stars have been announced as appearing, although the guest cast does include former 24/Ghostbusters 2 star Peter
MacNicol as Professor Elliot Randolph.
While this is all very exciting, and it truly is interesting to see the show acknowledge and interact with the main Cinematic Universe, one of the main complaints about the series thusfar is the fact that it has initially struggled to find its own identity. It would be nice if Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. could find its own feet a bit more before becoming more entrenched in the mythology of the movies.
The Good Wife's David Fonteno has been cast in an important role in Sleepy Hollow.
The star (Judge Banks in the superb legal procedural) will play an influential priest in the Fox show.
His character Reverend Boland is described as "a long-time adviser" to Captain Frank
Irving (Orlando Jones), who has been sceptical of Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison)'s
claims.
Sleepy Hollow, which has already earned itself a second run, airs on Fox in the US, and Universal in the UK.
The upcoming Star Wars Episode VII has yet to find a cast, filming schedule or even a finished script, and yet the production is already starting to become troubled.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, requests from the production team to delay the Summer 2015 release date have been flatly refused by Disney.
CEO Robert Iger has created a release strategy for the new Star Wars that requires Episode VII to open in summer 2015, and is said to have dismissed the idea of moving it back to 2016. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, however, believes that the script is nowhere near ready to go before the cameras, and she has the backing of many members of the movie's creative team.
Director JJ Abrams, however, is still keen to make the release date, and is reportedly not backing Kennedy in her request for a delay. Abrams and Star Wars veteran Lawrence Kasdan recently took over scripwriting duties, with Michael Arndt leaving the project for undisclosed reasons.
This is not the only clash between Abrams and Kennedy: Star Wars sources are also claiming that Kennedy and Abrams
have been at loggerheads over casting, with the latter becoming
"autocratic" over who features in the film.
Zombie overlord George A. Romero has shared some harsh words with The Big Issue about AMC's The Walking Dead.
Speaking to the publication about the possibility of his directing an episode, the horror legend said: "They asked me to do a couple of episodes of The Walking Dead but I didn't want to be a part of it.
"Basically
it's just a soap opera with a zombie occasionally. I always used the
zombie as a character for satire or a political criticism and I find
that missing in what's happening now."
In 2011, Romero had again commented on the possibility of becoming involved with the series, and at the time he was more open-minded, mainly due to his love of the comic series. Speaking then, the director said: "I love the books, [but] I never watched any of the episodes because… my zombies are sort of my own.
"I've
been waiting to see the whole first season, which I missed because I've
been travelling. I've been waiting to look at it, but I haven't seen
any of it."
Obviously he didn't like what he saw.
The Walking Dead's fourth season continues on AMC in the US, and on FOX in the UK.
Mark Gatiss is bracing himself for a backlash from die-hard Who fans over his upcoming docudrama An Adventure In Time And Space.
Speaking to Broadcast, Gatiss said that he tries to ignore the wishes of dedicated fans when working on the parent show.
"Writing Doctor Who, you don't give a monkey's [about fans]. You write it for your audience, not for the people who will watch it anyway.
"I
don't mean to sound contemptible at all - I'm a fan so there are a lot
of things that I want to nod to or embrace - but you can't be ruled by
that."
Going on to discuss the drama itself, Gatiss said: "Here, this is holy writ; they're real people."
The potential to upset the more... extreme fans doesn't seem to phase Gatiss, though. "Oh, I'm totally prepared for howls of protest. Doctor Who fans exist for the minutiae. They'll complain about
everything. They'll probably complain about Verity Lambert's shoes. But I
made it for everybody and I hope it's very touching."
While I expect that Gatiss' comments will upset some fans, it's worth noting that the last time the writing of Who focused on the more hardcore fans at the expense of the wider audience we got nonsensical fanwanky continuity porn like Attack Of The Cybermen (not to mention the first of the shows' cancellations). Gatiss is completely, undeniably right to approach the show with the general audience in mind.
Not that this will probably stop the more troubling members of our fan community (the sort who's reaction to a lack of a "proper" [whatever that means] trailer for The Day Of The Doctor, or to One Direction putting on a show on the 23rd, make Ian Levine look calm and rational) from calling for his head.
An Adventure In Space And Time is due to air in late November.
It’s that time of year again, when across the country everyone sits down to watch some spooky movies, eat too much candy, and dress up like whorey cats to get drunk and fornicate by the romantic light of a pumpkin.
But what movies should you be watching while you apply your slutty whiskers with promiscuous mascara this year?
"...Ladies"
Here’s our top five picks. Note that these aren’t the five best horror movies, or the five scariest movies - these are the five movies that best capture the spirit of Halloween, in all its various forms.
And no, none of the Halloween movies are on there. That’d just be lazy…
Plus last time we watched them Dave The Intern wet himself in fear, and nobody wants to bring back old memories...
5: Hocus Pocus
Start the evening off with a nice, gentle kids film. Since the Nineties, this has become a cult seasonal classic. There’s probably a large portion of you out there who have grown up watching this every year, so why make this year any different?
Hocus Pocus is the tale of three witches (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy and Bette Midler, who chews the scenery to a fantastic degree) brought back to life one Halloween night when a virgin lights a candle. What follows is all a lot of good clean fun, with talking cats, hypnotised kiddies, zombies and chases through graveyards.
It’s all very wholesome, and there’s no scares to be found of course, but the over-the-top sets and spectacular lighting makes this feel very much like a Halloween cartoon brought to life. There’s even singing involved.
We want to start our evening off gently, and this is the perfect way to do it.
You were gonna watch it anyways, admit it. The Final Jump Scare: Sarah Jessica Parker is actually attractive in this movie. And that’s terrifying to think about…
4: The Nightmare Before Christmas
It may have “Christmas” in the title, but this movie is pure Halloween.
From the unmistakable designs of Tim Burton, and with songs by Danny "Simpsons Theme" Elfman, this is a beautiful gothic fairytale about the weird and wonderful citizens of Halloweentown. They may catch the Chrimbo spirit as the movie progresses, but in look and tone, this is pure October 31st.
With Burton’s signature flair (though contrary to belief, he doesn’t direct this movie), the characters range from the strangely adorable to the utterly terrifying (Oogie Boogie is still the stuff of nightmares, no pun intended), with twisted spires and curled rocky outcroppings that give the beautiful stop-motion animation an utterly wonderful and thoroughly unmistakable atmosphere.
And, unlike other movies on this list, The Nightmare Before Christmas is at heart a gothic fairytale love story, between would-be Santa Jack Skellington and living rag doll Sally. Theirs is a romance that has, in just two decades, become a permanent and iconic part of our collective pop culture (even being referenced in a Blink-182 song… Yay?)
Again, you were gonna watch this one anyway, weren’t you…
The Final Jump Scare: That opening number about Halloweentown has become the movie’s signature song. But it sounds a whole hell of a lot spookier when sung by Marilyn Manson:
3: Trick ‘r Treat
This is probably the Halloween-iest Halloween movie ever made. It combines everything that you associate with the season. There are serial killers, vengeful ghosts, trick-or-treaters, vampires, cruel pranks, poisoned candy, girls in slutty costumes, werewolves, and pumpkins aplenty, all crammed in to 75 minutes of pure fun.
This isn’t a scary film, but in many respects it’s still the ultimate horror movie, with nearly every trope and creature thrown in somewhere.
The movie takes a Love Actually approach to the genre, with several interlinking stories taking place at the same time, over one eventful October 31st. And tying everything together is Sam (presumably short for Samhain), a sack-headed child-like spirit of the season. Mostly Sam’s happy to just watch the various horrors unfold, but if you neglect the traditions of the holiday he won’t take it very well at all.
Remember that when the trick-or-treaters come by tonight…
It’s a perfect blend of everything that we love about Halloween, and a glorious celebration of the best night of the year. And with a sequel recently announced, long may this franchise continue.
The Final Jump Scare: For FEARnet’s Halloween marathon in 2011, director Michael Dougherty created a short trailer that sees Sam, in bunny ears, presiding over a family Easter that goes wrong. It seems that it’s not just at the end of October that this little boy comes out to play…
2: Creepshow
This one is a bit of a stretch, as it’s the only one of our list that doesn’t directly tie in to Halloween.
But it still lives up wonderfully to the spirit of the night, as it brings back memories of the times we all spent as kids sharing spooky stories (with lashings of OTT gore thrown in).
This 1982 anthology movie, from the pen of Stephen King (who also makes a rather dodgy acting appearance) and under the direction of George A. Romero, is a glorious throwback to the days of EC Comics, Tales From The Crypt and other such horror magazines. As we watch monsters emerge from crates, alien fungus consume hapless hicks, bug attacks, vengeful ghosts return for cake, and psychopathic hit-men exacting deranged kills, we can’t help but be transported to more innocent times where we all held torches under our chins and put on our best Karloff impressions as we tried to scare our friends.
This may not explicitly feature Halloween, but it simply has to be a staple of the season.
The Final Jump Scare: Not only does horror master Stephen King appear in the movie, the little kid in the bookends of the movie is played by none other than Joe Hill, his son and heir to the horror throne. Try reading NOS4R2 while picturing mini-Hill as the writer. It adds a whole terrifying dimension to things.
1: Ghostwatch
There’s got to be one scary movie on the list, so why not the scariest movie ever?
On October 31st 1992, the BBC decided to take the cameras to a haunted terrace house in the London suburbs, for a live Halloween ghost hunt. Friendly faces Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Craig Charles and Mike Smith lead the proceedings, with studio chat, viewers phoning in with their ghost stories, and the input of a professional spook investigator and a professional sceptic to provide some scientific credibility to proceedings. Parents and kids across the country gathered around to watch, safe in the knowledge that ghosts aren’t real, and that it would all be safe, spooky fun.
In retrospect, it’s obvious that this is fake - the acting is genuinely dreadful, and the professionals called in by the BBC are played by the head teacher off of Teachers and the American President off of Doctor Who.
But at the time it really seemed real, with every effort made to hide its fictional nature. Sure, the show opens with a writing credit (a last minute rule imposed by higher-ups with cold feet), but not even that gives the game away as Parky is clearly reading from an autocue. And as the events spiral out of control, Parky mentions that the following show [listed in TV guides, but never planned to air] was cancelled as the crew stayed with events in the house. It’s not until the cast list at the end that viewers at the time realised that it was all a fiction. But by then it was too late. The show was responsible for one teen’s suicide, as he wanted to kill himself before Pipes got him, inflicted “acute anxiety” and - seriously - post-traumatic stress on several children who watched, and was denounced by the Broadcasting Standards Commission for being “a deliberate attempt to cultivate a sense of menace” (which is British for “scaring the shit out of everybody, just for fun”).
Yeah, you read that right - it literally scared a teenager to death. The Final Jump Scare: There are eight confirmed sightings of Pipes during the movie (and a few others that have been discredited by the writers). But director Lesley Manning has gone on record as saying that there are “up to thirteen” appearances from the spectre. That’s right, Pipes is still out there, un-noticed… waiting in the shadows… Sweet dreams.
The news of a planned reboot of Charmed has really set the original stars off on one.
Perhaps revelling a bit too much in the renewed attention that has been cast on the series, Alyssa Milano has again taken to Twitter. She's not slagging off the reboot this time, though, but rather trying - apparently single-handed - to make a movie with the original cast happen.
She tweeted yesterday: "I would definitely do a #charmed movie. Would you, @H_Combs @rosemcgowan and @DohertyShannen?"
Shannen Doherty replied: "yep I would. Enough was left undone to address and make a good movie."
Given how underwhelming the careers of the four former-witches have been post-Charmed, it's not surprising that they are trying to leap on this return to the spotlight, but, really, c'mon girls this is all starting to look a bit desperate isn't it?
As if hype wasn't already high for The Day Of The Doctor, showrunner Steven Moffat has dropped some hints about just how big of an impact the episode is possibly going to have on the series as a whole.
"A big episode can be anything that moves the plot along," Moffat told Broadcast. "My main thing [when writing the script] was that as much as we celebrate the past, we can change the narrative.
"You can't tell a story by being frightened about it."
Moffat, reveal your secrets dammit!
Moffat has spoken before about how this episode will be looking to the next fifty years of the show rather than looking back over the first fifty, but this latest comment really does make it look like The Day Of The Doctor could well be a legitimate game-changer. Moffat has also previously spoken to Empire about how little we know about The Doctor, and why he left Gallifrey in the first place. Since we know that Matt Smith is still around for Christmas, killing off The Doctor permanently seems out of the question. But it's starting to look like literally anything else goes.
There's just over three weeks to go until we find out just what he means by this.
The Day Of The Doctor stars Matt Smith, David Tennant, Jenna Coleman, Billie Piper, Jemma Redgrave and John Hurt and airs on television and select cinemas worldwide on November 23rd.
Fede Alvarez has taken to Twitter to play down reports that he and Rodo Sayagues have left Evil Dead 2.
He explained that comments by Sayagues had been mistranslated, leading to reports that the pair had exited the project months ago.
Apparently the writer had actually been saying that production of the Sam Raimi-directed Army of Darkness 2 would be taking precedent over Evil Dead 2.
Sayagues wasn't mincing his words when he spoke about leaving the project, so it's hard to see how something could have been translated so badly.
Still, it looks like Evil Dead 2 is back on track. But just what the hell is going on behind the scenes remains a mystery.
It seems to have become the done thing in recent years for animated franchises to spit out short Halloween spin-offs. Shrek’s done it twice, the Monsters vs. Aliens gang have returned to face Mutant Pumpkins From Outer Space (it’s not as good as it sounds), even The Smurfs are getting in on the action this year.
It’s usually the same old story - twenty-odd minutes of sub-par animation, with only half the proper voice actors bothering to show up, sold direct to DVD for a daft price.
Which brings us to Toy Story Of Terror, which bucks all those trends (well, apart from being twenty minutes long) - the animation is top-notch, the cast are all back (along with Carl Weathers in a scene-stealing role as Action Man rip-off Combat Carl), and most pleasing of all is the wallet-friendly fact that it actually aired on TV rather than just going straight to the shelves.
The story starts with the gang on a roadtrip. They’re happy in the boot of the car, until - as is always the case in spooky stories - a flat tyre forces Bonnie’s family to pull in to a creepy motel for the night. And as the gang leave the safety of their suitcase, they are picked off one by one by an unseen creature that lurks in the shadows…
What’s wonderful about Toy Story Of Terror is just how well it manages to both lampoon the established tropes of the genre while simultaneously keeping so lovingly to them. At first Mr. Pricklepants serves as a genre-savvy audience surrogate, cracking jokes about how predictable the story is (when the first of our friends is claimed by the mystery creature, Pricklepants dryly remarks that the gang will now be picked off one by one as they search for their lost friend). Rather than letting this self-awareness lesson the atmosphere, though, or trying an unwise attempt to subvert expectations, the story still plays out along the expected route without shame or apology, and is stronger for it.
And so we get the classic slasher movie tropes - from the creature in the shadows to a girl in peril in a motel shower; from discovering a sinister reminder of a fallen friend to the female lead becoming the “Final Girl” left to face the horrors alone - and they really work surprisingly well in this child-friendly format. In fact, part of the childlike joy that this short exudes comes from the fact that, as with all the best Pixar work, it refuses to patronise or water down for the kids. Seeing their Toy Story friends picked off one-by-one by an unseen monster must offer some genuine creepy thrills for the youngsters, while the scene where Jessie meets Combat Carl - hiding beneath a sink, half-deranged by what he has seen, and having had his hand ripped off by the creature - could be taken straight from Weathers’ previous work on Predator. This is a Good Thing.
Another pleasant surprise is that the writers have managed to resist the urge to make this Woody and Buzz-heavy. While the two characters obviously feature, neither is in a starring role (and Buzz particularly is essentially in a background position), allowing other characters to shine. Mr. Pricklepants gets a lot of screen time, expanding on a rather minor role from Toy Story 3, while Combat Carl is a fantastic character, and it’s something of a shame that the conclusion of this story makes it unlikely that we’ll meet him again in any future Toy Story outings. But in every possible way (and fittingly for the genre that this short lends itself to), this is Jessie’s story. Ironically, given that the big-screen adventures of the gang seem to be over now, if Toy Story Of Terror proves anything it’s that the ensemble is strong enough to allow the supporting characters lead roles in future escapades without us missing Woody or Buzz.
Admittedly, the latter stages of the short do fall into familiar territory, with large chunks of the plot being sadly reminiscent of Toy Story 2. But that familiarity doesn’t detract too much from the experience, and it does allow for a now-traditional Toy Story escape from a perilous vehicular situation.
It doesn’t live up to the big-screen counterparts, of course, but there are still some great gags (Combat Carl refers to one captive toy as “Old Timer”, only for the camera to pan to reveal that he is speaking to one of those toy clocks with a grey moustache), some wonderful animation, and most crucially of all, a truly engaging sense of warmth. Rather than feeling like a cynical cash-in as most of these Halloween shorts do, Toy Story Of Terror has clearly been produced with the same sense of love as any of the three cinema outings. That it isn’t as good as the main films is hardly a complaint - indeed, the biggest compliment that the short can receive is that it legitimately feels like a short episode of actual Toy Story, rather than a cheap knock-off.
Despite descending into tales already told towards the end, this is one Halloween spin-off that you’ll want to watch tonight. And just maybe every Halloween from now on. Geekin’ Out Verdict: 9/10
CBS is suiting up for a spin-off to the wildly successful How I Met Your Mother, to be called, with a weariying inevitability, "How I Met Your Father".
"Sigh..."
Not willing to let the fact that - at nine seasons - How I Met Your Mother has been well and truly done to death already, the brave souls at the station plan to launch the show soon, with the cast - this time with a female lead - reportedly set to feature in the series finale of the parent show, drinking at MacLaren's Pub.
According to Deadline, creators and executive producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, as well as Up All Night's Emily Spivey, are currently working on the project. No cast or character details have been revealed yet, but I think we can assume that there'll be a lead who's desperate to find love, a wacky maneater, a guy who starts off as the love interest and a settled couple.
And two kids who just can't fucking believe how long their mum is taking to tell this damn story.
Director Fede Alvarez and co-writer Rodo Sayagues have left The Evil Dead 2.
"I am sorry to tell you this but that movie won't happen," Sayagues told Gorosito.tv.
"Evil Dead 2
is not going to happen, at least not with us involved. We left that
project many months ago because we preferred to put our energies on
other things.
"I don't know if the producers still have
intentions of making it. But what I can tell you is that we are not part
of that project."
There's been no word from the studio that the project has been officially cancelled, so at this point we can only assume that the project will ndeed go ahead without them.
To add to the confusion about the state of the reboot franchise, Sam Raimi has recently confirmed that the original Evil Dead movies are to continue with the upcoming fourth entry Army Of Darkness 2. Bruce Campbell is signed on to return as Ash.
Alvarez had previously hinted that Ash and reboot-lead-character Mia could team up at a future point in time.
Eh, the second Evil Dead movie was pretty much a reboot of the first anyway, so if two separate continuities of a series could ever meet it would be in the Evil Dead franchise.
Director Roland Emmerich has told The Playlist that there are currently two versions of the script for the upcoming sequel to Independence Day out there - one featuring Will Smith's Steve Hiller, and one not, as he still isn't sure if Smith will return.
Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman are expected back, however (and if rumours are to be believed Michael B Jordan will appear as an adult version of Hiller's step-son), and despite Emmerich describing the process as a "daily battle", he claims that the movie is "looking good."
Probably adding "It's clearly 'Earth' not 'Earf', idiots!" [Citation Required]
In a - frankly bizarre - manner, Emmerich also said that he'd scrapped plans to film two sequels back-to-back, instead having only the one film planned: "I thought about spending four years of my life on one movie and I didn't
want to turn into something from the movie," said Emmerich. "It's a
movie about aliens, I don't want to turn into an alien."
After getting record ratings with its fourth season debut, AMC's The Walking Dead has been granted a fifth season.
Says AMC President Charlie Collier: "We are very happy to make what has to be one of the most anti-climactic renewal announcements ever. The Walking Dead is renewed for a fifth season."
What is perhaps more surprising is that Scott Gimple is to remain as showrunner for the fifth run - The Walking Dead doesn't have a great track record when it comes to holding on to it's producers, after all.
Where the fifth season will take our survivors is up for debate at the moment: later on in the current run we are due to be introduced to post-prison trio Abraham, Eugene and Rosita, so it looks like we're hitting the road again. Whether AMC will shell out on a more expensive season of location filming as the survivors head out on a road trip, or whether we'll cut straight to Alexandria, giving our characters a more cost-effective permanent set is as yet unknown. Who knows - maybe they'll even depart from the comics altogether?
The Walking Dead Season Four airs on AMC in the US, and on Fox in the UK.
The BBFC have revealed that they have recently classified a short for the DVD release of The Day Of The Doctor. The four-minute clip is called "The Last Day", and is presumably a prequel to the main episode (and possibly the iPlayer content that the BBC have promised for the Anniversary weekend). But what does "The last day" refer to? Could it be the moment when The Doctor activated...well... The Moment, ending the Time War? Most intriguing is that the cast is not listed - everyone already knows who is in The Day Of The Doctor, so does this ommission imply a big name surprise guest star?
Probably not, no.
On the subject of The Day Of The Doctor, the latest issue of Empire magazine (in newsagents tomorrow) Steven Moffat has been talking about the episode ("It's the most important day in The Doctor's life" apparently), and about the casting of John Hurt. Says the showrunner of the veteran actor's performance: "I was very relieved when he said yes. I knew it would entail casting someone [as the "mayfly Doctor we've never met] so enormous that everyone would drop their coffee when they saw who it was." Moffat closed with this teasing hint: "What's [The Doctor's] name? Who was he married to? Who are his children? Why did he leave Gallifrey? Fifty years on, we know only a fraction more than we knew on the first day. You think you know him but you know nothing."
In the same issue, Mark Gatiss invited Empire reporters onto the set of An Adventure In Space And Time. It's looking bloody fantastic, folks - far from being a distraction from the main event on the 23rd, I'm going to stick my neck out and say that this TV Movie may well wind up being the sparkling gem of the celebrations. In one particulary moving passage, Gatiss describes a visit to the set by Who's original director Warris Hussein. When Hussein was watching a scene between his fictionalised counterpart (Sacha Dhawan) and "Verity Lambert" (Jessica Raine), Gatiss noticed a tear roll down the man's cheek. "It's a very touching story," Gatiss concludes. "I go to bits every time I get to the end. I can't help it."
It's not all about the birthday weekend, though - some lucky folks have managed to catch a glimpse at the (unpolished) edit of this year's Christmas special. And the word is that it's really rather good. One poster on Gallifrey Base said that the episode was "heartbreaking" and "one of the best episodes" since Who returned in 2005. Another said, of Matt's regeneration scene, "Matt will be spectacular in the xmas
special, what we expect... the big speech, the emotion but most of all
when he goes he is proud and upstanding, he knows he has to go, he
accepts it, with reflection he goes... but it's such a nice
regeneration, better than 10's [sic]".
Looking further afield towards Series Eight, which starts filming soon: Who commentator Eddie McGuigan has taken to Twitter with a cryptic comment about Being Human star Damien Moloney (a name that was oft-mentioned by fans in the hunt for the twelfth Doctor), saying "Damien Moloney is a fine, fine actor. I'm sure he'll be brilliant. Cue a darker route, at last! #hinchcliffeholmesparttwo".
There's no real indication as to just what McGuigan is on about - clearly he's referencing Who with the reference to Hinchcliffe and Holmes, but other than that who knows? The obvious guess would be that Moloney is playing a villain in the upcoming series (and "...at last" could be an oblique reference to The Master, at a push), but on the other hand, this could all just be a load of nonsense.
Speaking of nonsense, rumours are afoot that Gillian Anderson is also set to appear in the next season. All this seems to stem from a comment that she made about how excited she is about an upcoming sci-fi project. Given that there has been a lot of buzz lately - mainly from Gill herself - about a third X-Files flick, you don't need to be a Scully-level sceptic to call bullshit on this one.
The Day Of The Doctor stars Matt Smith, David Tennant, Jenna Coleman, Billie Piper, Jemma Redgrave and John Hurt, and airs worldwide on November 23rd.
The stars of Charmed have been speaking their minds about the plans to reboot the glorified cosplay show, and, well, it's not good news for the people behind the new series.
Alyssa Milano was the first to speak out, saying on Twitter that "The thing about them doing a #charmed [sic] reboot is... it just... it feels like yesterday. It feels too close."
It's hard to disagree - the show, which ran for eight seasons, only finished airining the Summer of 2006.
Hot on the heels of Milano, the rest of the girls took to social media to share their views. Most scathing was Rose McGowan, who simply stated that "They really are running out of ideas in Hollywood" while Shannen Doherty dismissed the idea as "strange".
Most diplomatic, however (perhaps with her eye on a cameo) was Holly Marie Combs, who stayed true to her level-headed-big-sister role in the show by saying "Here's the thing. Everything is a reboot. If you think otherwise you haven't read enough Shakespeare yet. At least they had the decency to call it what it is. Instead of ripping it off and then pretending to not be ripping it off."
Although even she went on to hint that she's no fan of the idea, by finishing with "Watch it. Or don't. Then if you don't have anything nice to say..... Come sit by me. ;)"
While producers and scriptwriters have been attached to the project, there is still no casting news, timescale or pilot order confirmed.
I'd be surprised if this one goes ahead, to be honest.
The episode, due to air on November 19th in the US, titled 'The Well', will follow on from the events of The Dark World, which is released Stateside on November 8. The movie is already out here in the UK.
