Dune
Following yesterday’s new photos from Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” film adaptation, actress Zendaya has shared another official still offering a new look at her character as the nomadic Fremen warrior Chani. Her character encounters Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) and Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) soon after they arrive, and eventually becomes Paul’s love interest.
The shot includes a good look at how the film will render the blue eye side-effect of the spice, and at the still-suit which recycles the body’s water and allows for desert travel. [Source: Instagram]
The Last Ridge
Argent Pictures, Mandalay Pictures and “Book Club” writer-director Bill Holderman are teaming up on a feature adaptation of McKay Jenkins’ WWII tale “The Last Ridge”. Jill Ahrens, Ryan Ahrens and Ben Renzo, and Jason Michael Berman will produce.
The project deals with the formation of the 10th Mountain Division, a troop of U.S. expats, ski bums and thrillseekers turned soldiers who helped turn the tide against the Nazis in Europe – including Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman. They also planned and executed one of the most daring nighttime mountain attacks in U.S. military history. [Source: Deadline]
Influx
“Bloodshot” director David S.F. Wilson has been set to helm the sci-fi movie “Influx,” based on the 2014 novel by Daniel Suarez, for Sony Pictures. Zak Olkewicz (“Fear Street”) is adapting.
The story centers on a physicist who is locked away in a high-tech prison just as he is about to make a startling breakthrough. He discovers a shadowy organization has been keeping technological advances for itself and out of the hands of humanity at large, and he must find a way to team with his fellow prisoners to fight back. [Source: Heat Vision]
Bruce Lee
Criterion has released the trailer for its upcoming “Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits” box-set which includes five iconic martial arts films with impressive new restorations – “The Big Boss,” “Fist of Fury,” “Game of Death,” “The Way of the Dragon,” and “Enter the Dragon”. The boxset arrives on Blu-ray on July 14th.
Extraction
Ahead of its premiere next Friday on Netflix, the Chris Hemsworth-led and Sam Hargrave-directed Middle Eastern thriller “Extraction” has scored a new featurette which you can see here. Both take us behind the scenes on filming one of the most action-packed sequences in the film which was shot to look like it was done in one take. Hemsworth stars as Tyler Rake, a mercenary-for-hire who signs on to rescue the son of an international crime lord.
