FRANCHISE BYTES
Posted: 050819

Rambo 5 will have Sylvester Stallone play the character for the last time in a film that has him traveling to Mexico to save a girl from a sex-trafficking ring…Chad and Carey Hayes have been hired to rewrite the script for next Die Hard film that will have Bruce Willis return as John McClane while telling a story of his younger self working as a regular cop in 1970s New York…Hasbro and Paramount are reportedly considering rebooting the Transformers franchise…Rebecca Ferguson will return in Mission: Impossible 6 and 7 (they are shooting both back to back). Henry Cavill and Alec Baldwin may appear in flashback scenes…Ready Player One’s Zak Penn is working on a revival of the Matrix franchise…once again Peter Jackson isn’t involved with the Lord of the Rings TV series being developed by Amazon….there were supposed to be only three Fantastic Beasts films but J.K. Rowling came up with so much story that there will now be five films total…Sylvester Stallone says Creed II is the last time we will see him play Rocky Balboa…MGM and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions are remaking Candyman. Peele will co-write the script…Guardians of the Galaxy’s Chris Pratt will become the latest actor to play Simon Templar, the Saint…there will be no more Jack Reacher films starring Tom Cruise. Lee Child has signed a deal to make a Jack Reacher TV series for a streaming service…Legendary has acquired the film rights to The Toxic Avenger franchise from Troma Entertainment…Jodie Whittaker is set to return for the twelfth season of Doctor Who.