First he got the chance to give the world the legendary “Snyder Cut” of Justice League, and now Netflix is giving a hybrid theatrical/streaming release to his take on the ever-popular zombie movie genre-and it’s very much his take, because apart from directing, he co-produced, co-wrote (based on his own story) and did his own cinematography. Amy Adams plays the lead, with Marvel’s Anthony Mackie and Wyatt Russell in supporting roles.Īrmy of the Dead (May 21). So it finally arrives on Netflix now, the last film from Fox 2000 and possibly one of the last Scott Rudin productions. It was then scheduled to arrive in theatres in spring 2020, but all the movie theatres were closed. After poor test screenings, major rewrites and reshoots were demanded by producer Scott Rudin (now under fire for what employees have described as his abusive management style). It was begun in 2019 by the Fox 2000 division of 20th Century Fox, which no longer exists because Disney bought the company and shut it down. Finn’s novel, a female-led take on Rear Window about a reclusive woman who claims to have witnessed a murder through her apartment window, has had a long and confusing route to the screen. “I mean, the Ultrasuede, the wrap dress he did, the luggage for Hartmann.” Ewan McGregor plays the title role, and Murphy has said that McGregor was attracted to the fact that Halston’s story will demonstrate “how confusing it is to have to be an artist and a businessman at the same time.”
Halston (May 14): One of Netflix’s busiest producers, Ryan Murphy, executive-produced this limited series (based on a biography by Steven Gaines) about Roy Halston Frowick, who became one of the most influential fashion designers of the 1970s, and an icon of the Studio 54 era: “I was very aware, as a 15-year-old, of who Halston was,” Murphy (who, like Halston, is from Indiana) told Vogue magazine.
The cast includes Josh Duhamel as the leader of the old-guard superheroes, Leslie Bibb as his wife and partner in crimefighting, and Elena Kamouris as their daughter, who proves that young people with superpowers can be just as embarrassed by their parents as anyone else. This one is based on an independent comic by writer Mark Millar and artist Frank Quitely, which, like many independent comics, is a deconstruction of corporate-owned heroes: it’s about the generation-gap clash between a group of older superheroes who were active in the 1930s (and, naturally, resemble the Justice League as much as possible without getting sued) and their children, who also have superpowers but believe that the old ways of being a superhero are no longer relevant in this new, more complex world. Jupiter’s Legacy (May 7): No streaming service is allowed to go too long without a superhero show.