Tag: James Mangold
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The Deadpool 3 Story Ideas Logan’s Director Discussed With Ryan Reynolds
After years and years of wishing it would be so, a great many Marvel fans are finally going to get the proper team-up between Deadpool and Wolverine they’ve wanted for in “Deadpool 3.” Indeed, both Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman will be reprising their roles as Wade Wilson and Wolverine, respectively, uniting for the first…
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Indiana Jones 5 Started Its Set Design Journey By Borrowing From Real WWII History
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” may have been a box office disappointment, but it wasn’t for lack of trying to capture the spirit of a classic Indy outing. The movie focuses on the titular archeologist as he approaches retirement and embarks on one last adventure, making for a reflective film that was ultimately…
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Why James Mangold Couldn’t Give Indiana Jones The Same Morbid Outcome As Logan
When James Mangold took the adventuring archaeologist reins from Steven Spielberg on “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” fans were wary for a couple of reasons. One was the simple fact that, aside from ABC’s “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles,” Spielberg was the series’ sole director. As the “Jaws” sequels and the “Jurassic World”…
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There’s A Common Thread Between Indiana Jones And Logan
Nothing lasts forever, not even in the movies. Heroes, one way or another, die. Sometimes they’re put out to pasture because people stop buying tickets to thrill to their exploits. And sometimes, they have, as Spock sagely noted in “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country,” outlived their usefulness.When that latter moment arrives for a once-beloved…
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How Fox Stopped The Wolverine From Being The First R-Rated X-Men Film
How did we get from the hot mess that is director Gavin Hood’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” to the soulful elegy that is director James Mangold’s “Logan?” The answer is Mangold’s second entry in the “Wolverine” trilogy, “The Wolverine.” Loosely based on Chris Claremont and Frank Miller’s limited 1982 comic book arc about Wolvie’s adventures in…
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How To Watch Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny At Home
Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. — better known as Indiana Jones — has made a career out of tirelessly trotting the globe, perpetually on the hunt for the greatest and most priceless relics of the ancient world and dead-set on keeping them out of the hands of the most fearsome villains in history. But just because…
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How Johnny Cash’s Life Story Compares to ‘Walk the Line’
In 2005, unless you were already a fan, many people got to first learn and truly discover the fascinating life of Johnny Cash when the James Mangold-directed film Walk the Line was released. What was once pretty much only the knowledge of some great country rock ‘n’ roll songs shifted to an understanding of the…
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Sofia Coppola’s Remake Improved on This Clint Eastwood Western
The Western has been one of the most popular American film genres since the silent era of cinema. Even if 1939’s Stagecoach is credited with creating the modern version of the genre, Westerns existed before John Ford’s classic, and they have evolved significantly in the eight decades that followed. Many of these stories have become…
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Bob Iger Says Disney Plans To Make Less Marvel & ‘Star Wars’ Content After So Many Disney+ Shows “Diluted Focus And Attention”
With poor box office numbers so far for Pixar‘s “Elemental” and James Mangold‘s “Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny,” Disney sees itself in the middle of its worst theatrical slump in a long time. And it arguably started back in March with “Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania,” which made less than $500 million worldwide…
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No, De-Aged Harrison Ford Wasn’t All A.I. in ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’
Yes, the de-aging of Harrison Ford in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is an impressive tech breakthrough by Ilm that far exceeds the much-debated work on “The Irishman.” No, they didn’t rely solely on A.I. or machine learning. Instead, the de-aging for the Nazi-fighting prologue set in 1944 (with Ford looking 35 years…