The Uglies is the newest McG film to look forward to. This is what we know so far about it.
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Ah, the early 2000s. A time of flashy excess. A time when monoculture still existed, and we were all soaked in it. A time when the gritty ironies of ‘90s Gen-Xers became candy-coated and magnified into multi-colored pastiches of bubblegum irony. This new flavor of irony was so sincerely manufactured, it turned a corner and became “real” again. We were having fun, and we knew we were having fun, and we winked loudly about it all along the way. All of these cultural impulses and more coalesced together in two 2000s-defining (for better and for worse) …
Talk about a new spin on the James Cameron classic True Lies has been around for decades, but it appears the material is being revived at an unlikely home. We learned in 2017 that a planned sequel to the 1994 action-comedy was being scrapped in favor of a TV series adaptation executive produced by Cameron and directed by McG (Charlie’s Angels). And today, while appearing on Collider Live to discuss his upcoming Netflix film Rim of the World, McG revealed the TV show is now in the works at Disney+: “Well right now my new thing for television …
Say what you will about the wide-ranging quality of Netflix films, the streaming giant is unafraid to take big swings in a variety of genres in a way that major movie studios rarely do anymore. And as those remaining studios continue to get gobbled up or merged into one mega-studio, that diverse well of creativity begins to dry up in favor of safe sameness and adaptations of already familiar properties and brands. On the flipside, Netflix also gives us movies like Rim of the World, an alien invasion/action-adventure flick that looks like a lot of easy, …