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How Drive My Car Navigates The Perils Of Adapting Haruki Murakami [NYFF] How do you adapt a Haruki Murakami story? The Japanese author of many an enigmatic novel that usually includes a number of wells, cats, and jazz records, has been difficult to capture onscreen by virtue of most of his works being best described as amood. Murakami doesn’t operate by traditional narrative structures because his books — as navel-gazing as many of them are — are about creating an unsettling and disquieting atmosphere that transports the reader into a world that is notquitelike the one they live in....

James Gray Will Direct Brad Pitt In ‘Ad Astra’ This July For years,Brad Pittand filmmakerJames Gray(The Immigrant) have talked about working together. Pitt almost appeared inWe Own the Night, as well as a scrapped project of Gray’s,The Grey Man. At one point, the actor was evengoing to starin the director’s new epic,The Lost City of Z, but he decided to remain behind-the-scenes as a producer with his production company, Plan B....

Keanu Reeves Can Now Add Comic Book Writer (And Immortal Warrior) To His Resume Keanu Reeveshas worn many hats in his career: time traveler, assassin,possible real-life vampire. But Reeves' latest gig may be one of his coolest. Reeves is becoming a real-life comic book writer, penning a comic book series for Boom! Studios with co-writerMatt Kindt.The limited 12-issue comic book series, titledBRZRKR,premieres this October and features a lead character that looks a lot like Reeves....

Matt Damon Says Next Bourne To Be Prequel Or Reboot There’s beena lot of problemsgetting a fourthBournescript in good shape.Writers have come and gone,Paul Greengrassleft the projectandMatt Damoneven said he wouldn’t do another one unless Paul came back. So, I reckon the following bit of news was pretty much inevitable, if a little quicker coming than I might have expected. Speaking at the UK premiere forInvictus, Damon gave the following update on the status of theBournefranchise:...

Minions: The Rise Of Gru Clip: Otto Feels The Need For Speed For over a decade, the world has been forced to bend to our horrific pop culture overlords, the Minions. The yellow, Twinkie-shaped henchmen of reformed supervillain Gru, the Minions' popularity have made the “Despicable Me” franchise the highest-grossing animated film series in history. In addition to the feature films, the “Despicable Me” franchise includes14 short films, a television special, several video games, a theme park attraction at Universal Studios, and for some reason all of the cringey memes yourGreat Aunt shareson Facebook about wines and Covid vaccines....

Mitch Hurwitz Says ‘Arrested Development’ Movie First, Then Season 5 On Netflix Arrested Developmentseason 4 ended on a pretty big cliffhanger. It was a bold move by creatorMitch Hurwitzbecause there was no guarantee the show, which had been off the air for seven years, would reconnect with audiences. Especially since the entire structure was radically different.But it did. Season 4 ofArrested Developmentwasa big hit for Netflixand everyone wanted to bring it back, as long as Hurwitz had an idea....

Movies To Watch If You Loved Godzilla Vs. Kong When Legendary Entertainment debuted its “MonsterVerse” with “Godzilla” in 2014, you stuck it out through the generic family drama and the two MUTOs for the promise of seeing the big G. You reveled in the “Apocalypse Now” Vietnam War-era vibes of “Kong: Skull Island” in 2017, and you basked in seeing titans like Mothra, Ghidorah, and (technically) Rodan tussle with “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” in 2019....

New ‘Mandalorian’ Trailer Reveals Ming-Na Wen’s Character (And Nick Nolte’s Voice) We’re closer than ever to the debut ofThe Mandalorian, the newStar Warsstreaming series arriving on Disney+. Ahead of next week’s premiere, a newMandaloriantrailer has provided us with our first look atMing-Na Wen’s character, assassin Fennec Shand. We also get to hear Nick Nolte’s very distinct voice – the type of voice that sounds as if Nolte washed down a breakfast of broken glass with a tall glass of motor oil....

Now Kevin Eastman Is Comparing Michael Bay’s ‘Ninja Turtles’ To ‘The Avengers’ We won’t actually see theMichael Bay-producedNinja Turtlesuntil2014 or so, but in the meantimeTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesco-creatorKevin Eastmanis keeping the hype machine rolling by naming all sorts of other movies thatNinja Turtleswill be like. Among the titles he’s previouslyname-checkedareThe Raid: Redemption,Fist of Legend, andRise of the Planet of the Apes. Now he’s also likeningNinja TurtlestoThe Avengers, in terms of “scope and roots origin....

Page 2: Lord Of The Rings, Back To The Future, Indiana Jones, Blade Runner, Joe Dante, Breaking Bad, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Aladdin, Star Wars Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Rumor: Could Martin Scorsese And Robert De Niro Make ‘The Comedian’? There are those who are excited at the thought ofRobert De NiroandMartin Scorsesereuniting for a new film, no matter what it is. For months the object of anticipation has beenThe Irishman, which might light the fire of any fan of the pair’s crime films, as thatlong-in-development projectwould team the two men (with Joe Pesci, too) in a true crime tale....

Sequel Bits: ‘Sin City 2’, ‘Super Troopers 2’, ‘Sherlock Holmes 3’, ‘Indiana Jones 5’, ‘Ted 2’, ‘Magic Mike 2’, ‘The Shining’ None of these updates are all that major, but there are a lot of them so let’s get right to it. After the jump: Reid and I aren’t idiots! We’re not going to direct our first movie as a sequel to a Steven Soderbergh movie. That’s not smart. […] I want to start with something very small … make a lot of mistakes, make them real early, and then go jump in [on Magic Mike 2]....

Set Photos: Hydra Tanks From ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ NO PHOTOCaptain America: The First Avengeris still filming up a storm in across the pond and another brand new batch of set photos have surfaced online. Unfortunately, most of them are kind of blah: generic explosions, trailers and stuntmen in the outfitwe saw a few months ago. Obviously, nothing that can touch thehigh resolution photosMarvel officially released. However, in the midst of all these new photos are several that are worth your time, specifically a bunch of different tanks and ATV’s with logo of the evil Hydra on them....