The Nevers, then we can t help but feel a swell of pride!
Created by Joss Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Avengers), who also directs some of the episodes, the story is set in 19th-century London, following a strange event that saw a giant unidentified object flying over the city. Soon afterwards, a small group of women discover they have been gifted with strange new abilities - from creating balls of flame to being able to see glimpses of the future - and they soon become known as The Touched.
Amalia (Belfast-born Laura Donnelly - The Fall) and Penance (Dublin-born Ann Skelly - Red Rock) travel around London, looking for fellow members of The Touched, hoping to bring them back to their safe-house where they can be free of the fear of the cityfolk, who believe The Touched have somehow been cursed.
Actors not returning for the sequels to the hit original isn t new - think of Keanu Reeves for Speed 2, or Will Smith for Independence Day: Resurgence, or Linda Hamilton for Terminator 3 - but the reasons behind Diesel not returning for 2003 s
2 Fast 2 Furious were a bit more complicated that usual.
On the very first episode of
TBR Spotlight: The Fast & Furious Saga, in which Eoghan, Garry and Rory tackle the first two Fast & Furious movies, they talk
[LISTEN from 31.55 below] about the reasons behind Vin Diesel not returning for the role of Dom in the first sequel.
Despite producers reportedly offering Diesel a whopping $25 million paycheque to return, he still turned it down, telling Variety that They didn t take a Francis Ford Coppola approach to it. They approached it like they did sequels in the 80s and 90s, when they would drum up a new story unrelated for the most part, and slap the same name on it.
For his new movie, he pushes the zombie boat out again with the arrival of the zombie tiger (and, no spoilers, but there are other zombified creatures in the movie, too), but when we had the opportunity to chat to the cast of Army of the Dead, we wanted to know what they thought might be the scariest or most bizarre zombie animal imaginable.
You can check out their answers right here:
The cast also told us all about their favourite zombie movies of all time (not including Army of the Dead, for the sake of fairness).
So if you re wondering which zombie movies were chosen by Dave Bautista, Tig Notaro, Omari Hardwick, Matthias Schweighöfer, Ana de la Reguera, Nora Arnezeder, and Ella Purnell, you can hear all of their answers to that right here:
We’ve all heard about unrealistic Hollywood beauty standards, impossible-to-attain expectations spilled by the actors, and unrealistic film portrayals that sell fiction for the price of reality.
When you think of it, Hollywood is fueled by cinematic stereotypes that often include race, gender, and social status. Think of Asian characters shown as nerdy, super rich people played by almost exclusively white older men, and women characters used as a pillar for main male characters to grow. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Speaking of the other side of Hollywood s pathological deficiency in accuracy, we see many bold stereotypes about life and people of other countries. Like, that Irish people constantly drink beer or that Italy is one huge vineyard. And you may guess how annoying it is for people who actually come from there. So when someone asked “What does Hollywood get wrong about your home country?” people across the world had a whole lot to say, so you d better watc