Recently, rumors have swirled that Johnny Depp could finally be playing the Joker — in director Matt Reeves' The Batman. One fan has decided he's not content to wait for Warner Bros. and Depp to get their acts together and actually sign on the dotted line to make that happen.
Read MoreFor eight seasons between 1991 and 1999, Richard Karn portrayed Al Borland, the straight man and voice of reason to Tim Allen's Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, on the ABC sitcom Home Improvement. Let's take a look at how Karn fell into the role that made him famous, and what he's been doing since.
Read MoreFans of the Valiant Comics character Bloodshot have long been waiting for him to have his moment in the cinematic spotlight, and now that the Bloodshot movie is nearing its March 13 debut, those same enthusiasts are wondering just how many minutes of Bloodshot goodness they'll be gifted with.
Read MoreNatasha Romanoff, AKA Black Widow, has always been a bit of an enigma. The trailers for her solo flick have shown us a lot, but they've also raised a few questions. One in particular centers around the fact that if Nat is Russian born and Russian trained, then why doesn't she have a Russian accent?
Read MoreThe Fast and Furious franchise is famous for its high-octane car chases and spectacular crashes, but are all of those wild stunts really as dangerous as they look? Absolutely. Stunt driver and coordinator Robert Nagle shared with Looper his most harrowing Fast and Furious stunt experience.
Read MoreIt wasn't easy for Christian Bale to prepare for director James Mangold's Ford v Ferrari, but it was worth the effort. Looper recently spoke with Ford v Ferrari stunt coordinator Robert Nagle about how he made the veteran actor road-ready. Here's the truth behind Bale's intense training for the pic.
Read MoreWhat makes the stunts in Michael Bay's new action opus look so good? Looper talked to Toby Segar, a member of the parkour collective Storror, which did the freerunning stunts in 6 Underground, to find out.
Read MoreYou wouldn't think that Just Mercy, the award-nominated film starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx, would be a visual effects spectacular — and yet, it is. Looper recently spoke with the film's visual effects producer Matthew Akey, who revealed why Just Mercy has so many VFX shots.
Read MoreUnderwater, the new sci-fi horror film from William Eubank, might be full of monsters and scares, but it's Kristen Stewart's platinum-blonde, shaved hairdo that has everyone talking. Underwater costume designer Dorotka Sapinska revealed the truth about Stewart's look in an interview with Looper.
Read MoreThe Rise of Skywalker served as a final act for every character in the Skywalker saga, but it went above and beyond to honor Princess Leia and the actress who played her, Carrie Fisher. The film's editor, Maryann Brandon, recently explained to Looper what happened during Leia's final moments.
Read MoreOn the surface, James Bond and 1917 don't have much in common. Speaking with Looper in a recent interview, Michael Lerman — who worked on 1917, Spectre, and Skyfall with Sam Mendes — revealed that 007 actually inspired and informed 1917 through almost every step of the production.
Read MoreAlice Krige might be playing the Witch in Gretel & Hansel, but the reimagining of the fairy tale isn't the first time that the veteran actress has played an iconic baddie. With Jean-Luc Picard back on the small screen, we thought it'd be interesting to ask Krige about her time as the Borg Queen.
Read MoreJojo Rabbit doesn't look like a normal Holocaust film, and its protagonist's point-of-view comes through loud and clear in one of its most important props. It's a book which ends up being instrumental to the plot, and production designer Ra Vincent says it had a big influence on the production.
Read MoreThe Apple TV+ series For All Mankind takes place on an Earth very much like ours, with (mostly) the same technology that real-life astronauts used in the early '70s. For All Mankind isn't just making stuff up — all the space-faring tech on the show is based on the real thing.
Read MoreOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood, the ninth feature film from Quentin Tarantino, takes place in 1969 — when Woodstock rocked the world, Easy Rider and Butch Cassidy ruled the box office, and the Manson family terrorized Southern California. Here's how the film brought the era to the big screen.
Read MoreIt's been 17 years since Bad Boys II came out. Someone who was born in the same year the Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) and Mike Lowry (Will Smith) last appeared on the silver screen is now almost old enough to vote. So why release Bad Boys for Life in 2020, when the world seems to have moved on?
Read MoreMaybe you know Kevin Nealon from his nine-season stint on Saturday Night Live, his TV and film work, or his stand-up career. But maybe you know Nealon from his YouTube series Hiking with Kevin. Looper recently spoke with Nealon about what makes Hiking with Kevin so special.
Read MoreIt would be easy to assume that Coyote Peterson is fearless. After all, the wildlife educator and popular YouTube star made his name by letting dangerous animals get up close and personal with him. But Peterson does get scared, and he shared with Looper his most frightening animal encounter.
Read MoreIf you've seen a horror movie in theaters over the past decade, there's a good chance it came from Blumhouse. The prolific production company has been at the forefront of the horror scene since Paranormal Activity debuted in 2009. What's the secret to Blumhouse's success? We've got the answer.
Read MoreWriter and director Leigh Whannell's fresh take on H. G. Wells' sci-fi novel The Invisible Man isn't just one of the best horror films of 2020 — it's also a sharp-witted, modern update of the source material that's perfectly attuned to modern anxieties.
Read MoreGemma Jackson has been Ritchie's go-to production designer since collaborating with him on 2017's King Arthur. She took some time to chat with Looper about what it's like to work with such an eclectic filmmaker on movies like Aladdin and The Gentlemen.
Read MoreCoyote Peterson, founder of the Brave Wilderness YouTube channel and host of the new Animal Planet series Brave the Wild, has a mission: getting up close and personal with the most dangerous and misunderstood critters. Looper talked to him about how he got started.
Read MoreThe Walking Dead isn't the kind of show where characters stick around. The show needs to fill all that space somehow, though, and that means restocking with new characters like Callan McAuliffe's Alden. The show's landscape might be inhospitable, he tells us, but its set is surprisingly friendly.
Read MoreThe Breaking Bad universe is home to some of the most memorable villains in television history: Walter White. Gustavo Fring. Uncle Jack, the neo-Nazi. Tuco Salamanca. Todd Alquist. "The Cousins." Lalo Salamanca. On the other hand, Tony Dalton, who plays Lalo, is nothing like his on-screen persona.
Read MoreWho's ready to live, die, repeat once again? If you're not, you might want to start gearing up, because star Emily Blunt says a sequel to 2014's egregiously overlooked sci-fi action spectacular Edge of Tomorrow is very much in the works. She made the remarks while doing press for A Quiet Place 2.
Read MoreOnce upon a time in a galaxy far, far away, episode one of Star Wars couldn't hold a young star's attention. In an interview with TotalFilm magazine (as reported by its sister site GamesRadar), Keira Knightley admitted that she fell asleep on the set of The Phantom Menace.
Read MoreJoining the main cast of a beloved show in its 14th season is a daunting challenge, but Jennifer Esposito managed to win over NCIS fans almost from her first appearance as Special Agent Alex Quinn on the series' season 14 premiere in 2016. Unfortunately, she only stuck around for one season.
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