Academy Award winner Liam Neeson has continued to churn out hitman related action films with diminishing returns, even firing off a trio of pandemic era releases – The Marksman, The Ice Road, and Blacklight – to keep fans of his very particular set of skills happy, and now he’s at it again in Martin GoldenEye […]
Ti West’s new horror X gets a batch of character posters
Ahead of its release this March, five new posters have been released from director Ti West’s 1970s-set horror X featuring stars Brittany Snow, Jenna Ortega, Scott Mescudi, Mia Goth and Martin Campbell; check them out here… “In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when […]
Movie Review – The Protégé (2021)
The Protégé, 2021. Directed by Martin Campbell. Starring Michael Keaton, Maggie Q, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Patrick, Patrick Malahide, Ekaterina Baker, Madalina Anea, Ori Pfeffer, Jack Derges, Lili Rich, Florin Piersic Jr., Caroline Loncq, Gamba Cole, Velizar Binev, and Florin Zhang. SYNOPSIS: Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody (Samuel L. Jackson) and […]
Goldeneye and Casino Royale director Martin Campbell is open to returning for Bond 26
With No Time to Die set to be Daniel Craig’s fifth and final portrayal of James Bond, the beloved action series will inevitably be rebooted once again by introducing a new version of the iconic British spy. Now, in an interview with Collider, Martin Campbell, who has previously rebooted the franchise twice by directing Pierce Brosnan’s Goldeneye in […]
Green Lantern director Martin Campbell admits he shouldn’t have tackled a superhero movie
Not everyone is built to helm a superhero film. From the fan reaction to respecting the source material, tackling a film from Marvel or DC is no easy task, and not many filmmakers understand this quite like Martin Campbell. Campbell directed Green Lantern back in 2011 and the film was a commercial and critical bomb. […]
Maggie Q, Michael Keaton and Samuel L. Jackson star in trailer for The Protege
Lionsgate has released a poster and trailer for director Martin Campbell’s (Casino Royale) upcoming action thriller The Protege which stars Maggie Q as a skilled contract killer who vows revenge against those responsible for the brutal murder of the legendary assassin who raised her. The film also stars Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, and Robert […]
Guy Pearce and Monica Bellucci join Liam Neeson action-thriller Memory
Collider is reporting that GoldenEye and Casino Royale director Martin Campbell has enlisted Guy Pearce and Monica Bellucci to star alongside Liam Neeson in his next project, the action-thriller Memory. Based upon the Belgian film The Memory of a Killer and scripted by Dario Scardapane (The Bridge), Memory sees Neeson portraying an expert assassin who […]
Liam Neeson to star in The Memory of a Killer remake for director Martin Campbell
Liam Neeson is set to star in Casino Royale director Martin Campbell’s action thriller Memory, an English-language remake of the 2003 Dutch film The Memory of a Killer, with Dario Scardapane (The Punisher) writing the screenplay. Neeson will play “an expert assassin with a reputation for discreet precision who, when he refuses to complete a job […]
Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson and Maggie Q to star in Martin Campbell’s action thriller The Asset
Deadline has revealed Michael Keaton (American Assassin), Samuel L. Jackson (The Hitman’s Bodyguard) and Maggie Q (Mission: Impossible III) have joined Casino Royale director Martin Campbell on his next project The Asset, a film that sees the trio as some of the world’s best assassins. Scripted by Richard Wenk (The Equalizer 2), The Asset follows […]
Movie Review – The Foreigner (2017)
The Foreigner, 2017. Directed by Martin Campbell. Starring Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan, Rufus Jones, Charlie Murphy, and Orla Brady. SYNOPSIS: The story of humble London businessman Quan (Chan), whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge fuelled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – is taken from him […]
