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Best 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
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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T here’s no shortage of memorable female
characters inGame 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.
GAME OF THRONES STARLETS
SET TO STORM THE BIG SCREEN
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
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.
Mad Max: Fury Road
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