Jaeden Martell
Metal Lords Review: Game of Thrones’ D.B. Weiss Delivers A Light Comedy About Heavy Metal
The Pitch: Heavy metal, with its knowingly ridiculous embrace of deafening volumes and over-the-top violent imagery, and predominantly young male audience, has been fertile territory for comedy since This Is Spinal Tap. And over the last few decades, some enduring comedies have irreverently paid tribute to hard rock bands and the adolescents who love them, including School of Rock, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and Detroit Rock City. Screenwriter D.B. Weiss, best known as the co-creator and co-showrunner of Game of Thrones, has brought us a potential new addition to that canon with Metal Lords. In 2019, Weiss and his Game of Thrones creative partner David Benioff inked a $200 million deal to produce films and series for Netflix. And while some of Benioff and Weiss’s more ambitious ...
Lost Boys Remake in the Works with Noah Jupe and Jaeden Martell in Lead Roles
A new theatrical remake of The Lost Boys is in the works at Warner Bros. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) and Jaeden Martell (It) have been cast in the lead roles. Jonathan Entwistle, who directed several episodes of The End of the F***ing World and is attached to the upcoming Power Rangers film, is on board to helm The Lost Boys, working off a script penned by Randy McKinnon. The original Lost Boys, released in 1987, was directed by the late Joel Schumacher and starred Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Alex Winter, Corey Feldman, and Corey Haim. The horror comedy told the story of two brothers who, after moving to a California beach town with their divorced mother, discover that it is being terrorized by a vampire biker gang. The upcoming adaptatio...
