Shade Wrath Of Angels

Shade Wrath Of Angels: Rise Of The Middle Kingdom , the follow up to Wesley Snipes’ comic-book epic, has been commissioned by Tom Hanks, the man who made both Superman Returns and X-Men: First Class .

During an interview with Heat Vision , we quizzed him on the film and what the process of turning it into a successful film had been.

“There were actually a few things that were never really part of a successful movie,” says Hanks. “”But the writers, I mean, there were two guys who were there, but the movie didn’t get a lot of attention in the way that the movie did.”

Unsurprisingly, when this took place – with Brett Ratner onboard to script and shoot – Hanks pitched the idea to Fox, explaining that the company was once a firm fan of Men In Black .

“It was kind of an experiment in making Men In Black , where you were working on a movie about a man who has been acting as a police officer in New York City, where he was taking into account criminals who were coming for him.”

According to Hanks, the idea was born from Brett Ratner, who was also a novelist who wrote the screenplay.

“It was the only Men In Black movie that was publicly available and it was my turn to direct it,” laughs Hanks. “The movie was extremely successful, I think it’s now been the biggest franchise in our history. It’s been really entertaining and I think it’s a fun movie that you can enjoy or you can have fun with.”

But is it possible for Hanks to make a feature film himself? “The answer is a lot. There’s a lot of challenges, and we have to rethink what was done in the book,” he says. “At the time, you had to make sure that the characters were as believable as possible, and the story was obviously not told with a live-action version. The challenge is to create something that people will see and enjoy.”

Hanks was the director of Greta Gerwig’s Oscar-winning film Little Women and her second movie Lady Bird. Her most recent film was Lin-Manuel Miranda’s biopic We Can Be Heroes. She also directed the Pixar films Coco and Soul, the latter of which she directed. Gerwig recently shared how much of an impact Gerwig’s career has had on her career. “My life really did change after being married to a businesswoman in Italy,” she says. “There was something very satisfying about this moment in my life when I finally realised I wasn’t in the movie, or the movie. I felt this tug of approval from her daughter, which made me realize that it’s all a little bit of her self, and I felt that I could pull something out of that and bring it to the world, and I couldn’t be more excited about what I’d be able to do.”

"I’ve been one of the people who have said that for a long time, they said this character was coming back, and I thought that’s one of the things I’m really excited about. He’s been this unusual movie person. It’s a little bit of him coming back, because it’s such a unique character. I feel that it’s a testament to the spirit and the emotional creativity of this character, and this person really resonated with me. It was kind of an expression of a lot of the characters' abilities that were very interesting to me.”

Bryan Singer, who worked on Ex Machina and the forthcoming Queen of the Galaxy, said of the titular Espineza, “I think we have a lot to live up to in Ex Machina and it’s very much not our story.”

But how does the Espineza come into being? How is the role taken, and the way the movie is perceived, and what role has this been cast in?

“It’s one of the more memorable things about Ex Machina,” she explained. “She’s been working with me since I was a teenager. In that kind of way it gives me an opportunity to be part of something and you can explore it and learn a lot. I think it’s one of the most complex characters in the film.”

“So it’s kind of one of those movies where it’s kind of a bit of a hybrid,” Singer added.