STACK #123 Jan 2015

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THE MOST ANTICIPATED SCARE FOR THIS YEAR IS… Sure there’s Insidious: Chapter 3 , and The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death , which takes place 40 years after the events of the original, but if you want to be chilled to the bone this year, you have to go for Crimson Peak . It’s the latest from Guillermo del Toro, the master of the fantastic, back to creep us out in the way only he can. Now, if only a studio would greenlight his long-gestating H.P. Lovecraft project, At the Mountains of Madness . Crimson Peak, starring Charlie Hunnam and Jessica Chastain, is due in the second half of 2015.

2015: ACTION GOES PEDAL TO THE METAL

Mad Max: Fury Road

I n case you haven’t noticed, 2015 is shaping up as a banner year for action, action, action! Hot out of the blocks in April is Furious 7 , with Avengers: Age of Ultron set to follow in the same month. But the one that’s really got us excited is director George Miller’s return to the driver’s seat for Mad Max: Fury Road . Check out the trailer and you’ll see why. Alongside Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky is a splendid looking Charlize Theron as the enigmatically named Imperator Furiosa. We can’t wait! Then there are franchise reboots Jurassic World and Terminator: Genisys in June. Late 2015 is also chock-a-block with blockbusters – Star Wars Episode VII:The Force Awakens and Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 5 are due in December. And don’t forget there’s another espionage agent back in the spying game, with the 24th Bond installment Spectre also tentatively set for a late 2015 release.

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HIGHWIRE ACT B est known for Back to the Future and Forrest Gump , Robert Zemeckis is a filmmaker who has consistently pushed the envelope with FX wizardry. His latest project, The Walk, is bound to be another spellbinding spectacle. It’s based on the real-life exploits of a high-wire daredevil, who in 1974, embarked on a daring crossing of the Twin Towers. Joseph

From top left, Lena Headey, Natalie Dormer in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, Emilia Clarke blasting out in Terminator Genisys, Maisie Williams, Gwendoline Christie

GAME OF THRONES STARLETS SET TO STORM THE BIG SCREEN

T here’s no shortage of memorable female characters in Game of Thrones , and if you can’t get enough of these fine starlets, the good news is you’re set to see a whole lot more of them on the big screen. But make no mistake, life for these leading ladies will be just as harrowing as it is in Westeros. It’s been strongly rumoured that Maisie Williams ( GoT’ s Arya Stark) is in the running for a major role in video game adaptation The Last of Us . Set in a world where most of humanity has been wiped out, this highly anticipated production has Sam Raimi attached, while the game’s director Neil Druckman is the scribe. Natalie Dormer ( GoT’ s Margaery Tyrell) was recently seen in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and will also feature in Part 2 this year, where she will be joined by GoT co-star Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of

Tarth). 2015 is going to be big for Ms Christie, as she’s also got a part in the highly anticipated reboot in a galaxy far, far away: Star Wars Episode VII – The Force Awakens . Meanwhile, Emilia Clarke, who is of course the Mother of Dragons in GoT, will play Sarah Connor, the mother of future resistance fighter John Connor, in Terminator: Genisys , also due out this year, with Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising his iconic role. And Lena Headey (aka Cersei Lannister) will headline horror film Jacqueline Ess, based on a short story from Clive Barker’s classic Books of Blood . If you want to see these fantasy femmes doing what they do best, make sure you grab Game of Thrones: Season 4 from JB Hi-Fi on February 18. And you can make it a Natalie Dormer double, with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 , due out the same day.

Gordon-Levitt takes the lead in The Walk with French actress Charlotte Le Bon co-starring. The events will be familiar to anyone who’s seen Man on Wire , the 2009 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, exploring the same true events. The Walk is due for release October this year, but if you need a Joseph Gordon-Levitt fix in the interim, make sure you check out JB Hi-Fi’s Exclusive Collector’s Edition of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For . This all- star caper also stars Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis and Rosario Dawson, and is due in store Jan 28 and reviewed on page 46.

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