Today’s Movie Morsels is overflowing with goodness for you awesome people. We’ve got the latest — and perhaps greatest — character poster yet for Avengers: Age of Ultron, word on who will be composing the music for the first Star Wars spinoff film, Rogue One, a behind-the-scenes featurette on Furious 7, the latest casting news for Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast, an Insidious: Chapter 3 poster and a preview for its trailer, and, best of all, Stephen King and Joe Hill’s advance reviews of Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak. Whew!
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Yesterday, it was the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, and today we’ve got the character poster for the biggest, baddest, most mentally unbalanced android in existence, as voiced by James Spader in the title role of Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron…
Good for Ultron — he deserves an ass shot… This year’s most eagerly awaited sequel lands on May 1st. Excelsior!
Star Wars: Rogue One
The very first Star Wars spinoff film has got itself the first Star Wars theatrical film composer who is not John Williams. Oscar-winner Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) will score Rogue One, which reteams him with director Gareth Edwards, with whom he worked on Godzilla. Starring Felicity Jones, and with a screenplay by Chris Weitz, Rogue One shoots this summer for a December 16, 2016 release.
Furious 7
Remember that extended Furious 7 clip that debuted last week? The one featuring the plane drop/auto skydiving sequence? Since it’s said to be one of the highlights of the film, how about a little behind-the-scenes featurette on how it was done? Universal just released the following video for director James Wan’s mega-anticipated seventh film in the Fast & Furious franchise, which earned a rave review from our own Scott Weinberg, who saw the film when it premiered at SXSW 2015 this weekend. Furious 7 opens everywhere on April 3rd.
Crimson Peak
We’ve still got a full seven months to go before we can see Guillermo del Toro’s next opus Crimson Peak, starring Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston. And if the early reviews of the film that have just been tweeted by father-and-son scribes Stephen King and Joe Hill are any indications as to its quality, this could be the longest seven months of every horror fan’s life. Here’s what King has to say…
Was treated to a screening of Guillermo del Toro’s new movie, CRIMSON PEAK, this weekend. Gorgeous and just fucking terrifying.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 16, 2015
CRIMSON PEAK electrified me in the same way Sam Rami’s EVIL DEAD electrified me when I saw it for the first time way back in the day.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 16, 2015
Not to be outdone, Hill is even more effusive in his praise…
Remember that list I tweeted the other day, the 13 most beautiful horror films. CRIMSON PEAK is the most beautiful of all.
— Joe Hill (@joe_hill) March 15, 2015
CRIMSON PEAK is Del Toro’s blood-soaked AGE OF INNOCENCE, a gloriously sick waltz through Daphne Du Maurier territory.
— Joe Hill (@joe_hill) March 15, 2015
C’mon, October 16th, get here already!
Beauty and the Beast
And the live-action Beauty and the Beast casting announcements just keep on a comin’… We last reported that Josh Gad is set to play the film’s LeFou, henchman to Luke Evans’ Gaston. Now we hear that Emma Thompson has been brought on board to play Mrs. Potts and Kevin Kline will take on the role of Maurice, the father of Belle (Emma Watson). Director Bill Condon’s adaptation, which includes both the original film’s songs by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman and the Broadway musical version’s tunes by Menken and Tim Rice, will invite all of us to be its guest on March 17, 2017.
Insidious: Chapter 3
Focus Features has just unveiled the above poster for Insidious: Chapter 3, as well as a teaser for the film’s trailer, arriving later today. Written and directed by Insidious co-creator Leigh Whannell, the prequel details the origins of psychic Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye), when she assists a teenage girl (Stefanie Scott) plagued by a demon. Insidious: Chapter 3 opens on June 5th.
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