Ben Affleck Out As Batman Director - Collider Movie Talk

On this episode of Collider Movie Talk (January 31st, 2017) John Campea, Jeremy Jahns, Mark Ellis, Jon Schnepp, Ashley Mova and Wendy Lee discuss the following:

-Ben Affleck will not direct The Batman

-James Cameron confirms Avatar scripts are done, production begins in August

-Opening this week

-Final trailer released for Beauty and the Beast

-Director Chad Stahelski planning Highlander trilogy

-Mel Gibson offered role in Daddy’s Home 2 with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg

-C3PO and R2D2

-Directors and Screenplays

Variety reports that Ben Affleck has decided to step down as director of The Batman but will remain on as a producer and star of the project. Variety’s sources close to the project said Affleck and Warner Bros. discussed how to make the best film possible and this was the decision both parties came to.

There has been plenty of movement on James Cameron’s Avatar franchise, with a number of start and stop dates, as well as a number of reports that stated the movie would have two sequels, then four and then five. But now, we finally have a real update thanks to director James Cameron himself. Cameron spoke to The Daily Beast this weekend to give an update on his Avatar sequels.

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Walt Disney Pictures release the final Beauty and the Beast trailer last night during a special presentation and airing of the Bachelor last night. The upcoming live-action remake stars Emma Watson as Belle, a young woman who goes to an enchanted castle to rescue her father Maurice (Kevin Kline), who is imprisoned by a Beast (Dan Stevens). In exchange for her father’s freedom, she decides to stay in the castle where she slowly awakens the humanity the Beast had long since buried. The movie is set for release on March 17, 2017.

Summit and Lionsgate have been trying to get a Highlander remake off the ground for years and they finally pulled the trigger by hiring John Wick co-director Chad Stahelski to develop and direct the reboot. Collider’s own Steven Weintraub recently sat down with Stahelski to chat about John Wick: Chapter 2 when Stahelski revealed that while the movie is still in development, it’s a “massive priority” for Lionsgate and Summit, one that Stahelski believes should be told in a trilogy a’ la’ Star Wars.

Deadline reports that Mel Gibson’s Hollywood comeback is now complete. While recently securing a Best Director nomination for his work on Hacksaw Ridge, Gibson will also make a splashy return in front of the camera with Paramount officially offering him a starring role alongside Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg in Daddy’s Home 2. John Lithgow also has an offer to join the cast. Daddy’s Home 2 will see two types of father figures – the strong alpha male and the sensitive caring type go head to head - but this time, it will include an older generation. If the offers are accepted, Gibson and Lithgow would be play the “older generation.”

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