This week in news: Joe Russo says Captain America: Civil War is a love story, David Koepp to pen Indy 5, Margot Robbie hits the ice and Lego Batman flies in.
Fan fiction, ahoy! Joe Russo says Captain America 3 is a love story
Move over Science Bros, there's a new bromance in town. Captain America: Civil War will, co-director told us this week, be a love story between Steve (Chris Evans) and Bucky (Sebastian Stan). “What’s fascinating about the Cap-Bucky story as well is it’s a love story,” says the co-director. "These are two guys who grew up together, and so they have that same emotional connection to each other as brothers would, and even more so because Bucky was all Steve had growing up." Read what Stan has to say about it here.
Whip? Check. Fedora? Check. Screenwriter? Check.
He’s written gems like Jurassic Park and Carlito’s Way, and now David Koepp has been charged with writing Indiana Jones 5, a screenplay likely to be so dazzling and unlike the one he wrote for Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull that he’ll win a place in our hearts forever. We hope. He’ll be working closely with Steven Spielberg on it, although there’s no word yet on George Lucas’s involvement. Watch this space. The one between spaces.
Trailers! Trailers! Trailers!
Trailers are like buses, you wait ages for one and then six come along at once. Unlike buses, they’re actually a lot of fun to look at, so there were no complaints when the trailer gods sent a half-dozen our way this week. Included in the bundle was a teaser for Bridget Jones's Baby, a first look at Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon, a new trailer for The Huntsman: Winter's War, Shane Black’s The Nice Guys, Ricky Gervais’ Special Correspondents and [Jesse Eisenberg-starring family drama Louder Than Bombs](
http://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/jesse-eisenberg/). Oh, and as a bonus, Chris Pratt offer a tour of the Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 set.
Star Wars and Mad Max win big at the 2016 Jameson Empire Awards
Another big night at the Jameson Empire Awards saw the Grosvenor House Hotel transformed into a particularly well-upholstered outpost of the Galaxy as Star Wars: The Force Awakens snagged the big awards. John Boyega and Daisy Ridley were Best Newcomers, The Force Awakens took Best Sci-Fi and Matt Damon won Best Actor. Sure, he’s not in that film but he does play a spaceman. Here’s a rundown of all the night’s winners.
Margot Robbie says it’s great to skate
Ice-skating champion and, it later transpired, all-round nut job, Tonya Harding achieved notoriety when she paid a man to biff her main rival with a metal poll in 1994. For some reason this story has taken 20 years to be turned into a movie – presumably the poll was a tough negotiator – but it’s finally happening and the role of Harding has gone to star-on-the-rise Margot Robbie in a film called I, Tonya. Read about the project here.
First look at Lego Batman
A cult hero almost as soon as The Lego Movie landed, Lego Batman, with his dim-bulb self-regard and party-hardy lifestyle, probably expected his own movie. The rest of us? Well, it seemed a bit unlikely. But this week brought real, tangible proof that Lego Batman is happening with first pictures from the movie. Will Arnett is promising us a granular portrait of the Lego crime fighter, right down to the odd missed alarm clock. “I love getting into the ho-hum day-to-day of being Batman,” he explained.