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What is your favorite Kurt Russell film? I'm going with 'Tango And Cash' that co-starred Sly Stallone. Their chemistry was top-notch, and I'm surprised there were no sequels.

Good news or bad news for fans of John Carpenter's 'Escape From New York' as Zack Snyder is talking with Josh Horowitz of the 'Happy Sad Confused Podcast' about his upcoming films, including a remake of the 1981 film that starred Kurt Russell as Snake Pliskin.

"The approach is for me – the movie is going to be set in ’97. It’s from the perspective of 1981. I set the movie – the war between the United States police force and the criminal elements takes place on July 9, 1981, which is the release date of the original movie. The rest is pretty much Escape From New York."

"Talk about a movie that’s the perfect combination of kitsch and camp. It’s all the things, that’s why I love it. But also, it’s [in] a way that’s satire and can get to us. We can make comments about government and all the overreach or whatever you want to call it, the People’s Liberation Front of America, all that stuff is very … That’s in the headlines. It’s quite current, in some ways."

When asked who will replace Russell as Snake Pliskin, he said: "He better look like Snake, or I’ll walk out." He further elaborated on the possible casting of Jeffrey Dean Morgan: "Whether it’s Snake or another role. He literally has been hitting me up. He’s the best. I love him. He’s great."

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What is your favorite zombie film or show? I have to go with 'I Am Legend' with the alternate version ending where Will Smith's Robert Neville survives. My biggest complaint with shows like 'The Walking Dead' is that there's no trying to discover the cure. Human vs human colonies fighting each other is overdone.

Some good news for fans of Brad Pitt's 'World War Z' as Paramount Pictures has signed Edward Berger (All Quiet On The Western Front, Conclave) to direct the long-awaited sequel to the 2013 film. Can you believe that David Fincher was rumored to direct for years?

The film made $540 million worldwide and saw a historic retooling by dropping its third act, taking place in Russia with Pitt's Gerry fighting in the Army while his wife, played by Mireille Enos, was held captive by Matthew Fox's helicopter pilot, and was changed to Gerry discovering a way to hide from the infected in a WHO laboratory in England. Almost 40 minutes of footage went away, and it would be interesting now to see it.

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What is your favorite TV show filmed in Hawaii? I'm going with 'Lost.' I always thought the perfect job in film would be a background extra for the beach scenes where the castaways hung out.

Book Em' Danno! Big news for fans of the 1960's TV show 'Hawaii Five-O' and its 2010 reboot starring Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan. Director Destin Daniel Cretton, hot off filming 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' is developing a big-screen version from a script by Chris Bremmer (Bad Boys For Life) for Paramount Pictures.

Cretton is red hot right now, so I'm wondering if he is more of a fan of the original or the reboot, as he could direct any film of his choosing, so this is a strange choice unless he's a big fan of the series. This is no surprise to me, as Joseph Kosinski is directing 'Miami Vice 85', which will reboot the 1980s series in that time period and not modern day. Most directors get into directing cause they are fanboys of movies and television.

I actually watched every episode of the reboot and enjoyed it, but after watching an episode, I didn't really think about it. It was formulaic candy. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Maybe Cretton is just using it as an excuse to get paid millions to shoot a movie in Honolulu.

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What is your favorite samurai project?

Sad news for the crew in the film industry in Vancouver, as FX's 'Shōgun' has wrapped filming on its second season after eight months of production. Along with season 3 of 'The Last of Us', the samurai show employed one of the largest crews in the city, which will leave a giant hole until the show comes back or The CW unlikely brings back the Arrowverse.

The show filmed at North Shore Studios, an old sawmill in Port Moody and in the coastal city of Ucluelet. The series was created by Justin Marks (Top Gun: Maverick) and stars Hiroyuki Sanada (The Last Samurai) as Lord Yoshii Toranaga in a show adapted from James Clavell's novel set in 1600s Japan, where Toranaga is at war with the Council of Regents after an abandoned European ship is found nearby. I would like to think they are really at war with the weather and they have to use umbrellas instead of swords, which would be a better weapon for the endless Vancouver rain.

The second season takes place ten years after the first and features returnees Ren Meguro, Fumi Nikaidô, Shinnosuke Abe, Asami Mizukawa, Hiroto Kanai, Masataka Kubota, Sho Kaneta, Yûko Miyamoto, Yuka Kouri, Tommy Bastow, Jun Kunimura, Yoriko Dôguchi, Eita Okuno and Takaaki Enoki. Joining the cast will be Takashi Yamaguchi, Risei Kukihara, Ryô Satô, Seishiro Nishida, and Mantaro Koichi. Hopefully they started taking Prozac and sunlamps when they arrived in Vancouver.

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What is your favorite crossover of two hit shows? I'm going with 'Supernatural' and 'Scooby Doo.' It was hilarious, perfect meta and allowed the characters to enter new comedy territory for stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki.

Good news for fans of CBS's franchise of 'Fire Country' and 'Sheriff Country', as the shows will have another two-hour crossover event on November 6th, 2026. 'Fire Country' is going into its fifth season while 'Sheriff Country' enters its second.

The thing about crossovers is that usually they are filmed in the same city but while both are set in the town of Edgewater, Northern California, Fire is filmed in Vancouver while Sheriff is shot in Toronto. I mean, for my American readers your saying it's still Canada, but it's like a six-hour flight, as the country is actually bigger than the USA for land. So while the coordination isn't as stressful as an Arrowverse crossover with five shows, they still have to deal with flying cast back and forth.

The crossover's official logline is "A dangerous prison break escalates into a volatile hostage crisis. Sheriff Mickey Fox (Morena Bacarrin) must make a high-stakes decision with personal consequences that could change the course of the case and put lives on the line. After escaped convicts trigger a dangerous manhunt, Bode (Max Thieriot) and the Station 42 crew join forces with Sheriff Mickey Fox and her deputies to protect their loved ones and the community caught in the crossfire."

The franchise's first crossover was last April, and a third series is in development that focuses on the Medical department that means for the next few years Friday night is Edgewater night on CBS.

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What is your favorite racing film? I'm definitely going with Tony Scott's 'Days of Thunder' which was basically 'Top Gun' in the NASCAR world. The golden hour visuals, Hans Zimmer's pulpy score, Tom Cruise as scrappy hero Cole Trickle and Robert Duvall as the racing car builder who talked to his cars left a film that can be infinitely rewatched.

Jonathan Levine (Mr. Irrelevant, Long Shot, 50/50) is deep in talks to direct 'Days of Thunder 2' for Paramount Pictures and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, with a script from Will Staples (Without Remorse). The original film came out in 1990 and made $157 million worldwide from a budget of $60 million.

The two biggest questions I'm wondering about are whether Nicole Kidman would return to the role of Doctor Claire Lewicki and if this is setting up a crossover with Brad Pitt's 'F1.'

Kidman met Cruise on the film, and they would go on to marry in 1990 and have two kids before they divorced in 2001. Kelly McGillis also didn't return as the love interest, Charlie, in 'Top Gun 2 ', so maybe Cruise's characters are as bad as he is in real life for keeping wives. But can you imagine how great if Kidman actually did return?

As for 'F1', this is certainly more doable as both films come from producer Bruckheimer and take place in the racing world. Whatever happens, don't let a crossover with Stallone's 'Driven' happen.

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What is your favourite SciFi show filmed in Vancouver? I'm going with 'Sliders', which was about Jerry O'Connell and his friends travelling through alternate worlds trying to find their way home. Yet in every world they went to, Vancouver still rained for ten months of the year.

Ryan Coogler's 'The X-Files' two-hour pilot reboot for Hulu, which he wrote and directed, finished filming in Vancouver last month and is generating so much buzz that news is it may be released as a feature film in theatres, as Coogler has asked Disney to consider it. But the series hasn't even been picked up yet.

What makes this an exciting prospect is the film was shot on 65mm film by Autumn Durald Arkapaw, his DP on 'Black Panther 2' and 'Sinners'. The show stars Himesh Patel (The Odyssey) and Danielle Deadwyler (Rooster) as two FBI agents who reopen the division on paranormal activity. Steve Buscemi (Armageddon), Amy Madigan (Weapons) and Ben Foster (Alpha Dog).

No word has leaked if the original show's stars, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, appear, but it certainly would make it more cinematic on the big screen. But if they do, that means the project is not a reboot at all but a revival, which is what we are all hoping for.

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