British filmmaker Ben Wheatley, director of the Hitchcock remake Rebecca currently dominating Netflix’s Top 10, has joined Jason Statham’s giant shark sequel The Meg 2. As reported by THR, Wheatley will helm the picture, with Statham and most of the original’s principal cast expected to return. Wheatley has made a name for himself with dark, off-kilter movies including Rebecca, the 2015 thriller High Rise, and the 2016 black comedy Free Fire. He’s an odd choice to direct a big budget megashark action sequel, but hopefully his background in grim, semi-satirical films can inject some …

Considering the psychological damage that love wreaks on people, I’m surprised that romance and horror aren’t more frequent bedfellows. The two genres have never been so perfectly intertwined as with Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, and the book was famously adapted in 1940 into one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best movies. Eighty years later and now director Ben Wheatley attempts a new adaptation of the story that works to fit in his sensibilities along with those of contemporary audiences. To Wheatley’s credit, he excels at what makes Rebecca so terrifying—the horrific notion of the idealized woman …

When you think about what visionary Polish physicist and chemist Marie Curie accomplished during her extraordinary life, it’s impossible not to be impressed. Not only did she (with her husband Pierre) discover the elements Radium and Polonium, coin the term “radioactivity” to describe the emission of uranic rays, and become the first woman to ever win a Nobel Prize and hold a professorship at the Sorbonne, she did it well over a hundred years ago when it was even harder for a woman to enter the field of science. In addition, her work in the field of x-rays …

Netflix hasn't exactly released the first images from Ben Wheatley's gothic thriller Rebecca, but the Daily Mail got their hands on some intriguing photos of stars Armie Hammer, Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas. Rebecca isn’t quite a remake of Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1940 film of the same name, but it is based on the same Daphne du Maurier novel. The story follows a newly-married young woman (James) who visits her husband’s imposing family estate on a bleak English coast, where she finds herself battling the shadow of his dead first wife — the mysterious Rebecca — …

The Tomb Raider movie sequel with Alicia Vikander reportedly has a release date and a director in Ben Wheatley.

How do you get me interested in a Tomb Raider sequel? Hire an incredibly weird and singular director like Ben Wheatley. Deadline reports that the helmer of Kill List, Sightseers, High-Rise, and A Field in England is going to direct the next Tomb Raider movie with Alicia Vikander reprising the lead role of Lara Croft. Back in April, we reported that Wheatley’s frequent collaborator Amy Jump was writing the screenplay, and I suppose her involvement was enough to get Wheatley interested in the project. Those who have seen Wheatley’s Free Fire knows he has the chops for …

Ben Wheatley is making his return to TV to take on U.K. politics and the walking dead at the same time. The High Rise filmmaker has been tapped by Britain's Channel to write and direct a six-episode series titled Generation Z, a darkly comedic horror satire that follows a zombie outbreak in a Brexit-divided nation. Here's a pretty expansive synopsis courtesy of Deadline: The future looks bleak for today’s youth – seemingly-endless austerity, astronomical house prices, insurmountable student debt, a political system which appears intent on destroying itself… And to add insult to injury, …

Richard Madden is blowing up off of Bodyguard, so it only makes sense that his co-star, Keeley Hawes, would book a cool project herself, and now she has, as Collider has learned that the BAFTA-nominated actress has signed on to join Ben Wheatley's gothic thriller Rebecca along with Sam Riley (Free Fire), Emmy winner Ann Dowd (The Handmaid's Tale) and Ben Crompton (Game of Thrones). Armie Hammer, Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas are set to star in the Netflix film, which is being produced by Working Title. Rebecca isn't quite a remake of Alfred …