Chris Evans keeps himself plenty busy playing Steve “Captain America” Rogers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but that hasn’t stopped the him from taking on other projects. Now, Deadline reports that the actor is in talks to add not one, but two new roles to his résumé.
OK, so that’s a bit misleading. Not only are both parts from the same film, they both live inside the same man. You see, Lionsgate is working on a big-screen adaptation of the BBC One miniseries Jekyll, and Evans is being eyed for the lead role(s).
While some have reported that he is in talks to play the classic Jekyll/Hyde duo, it looks like the actor will actually be playing Tom Jackman who — in the original — is the last living descendant Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous characters. James Nesbitt played the characters for BBC One.
If you’re having a touch of deja vu, it’s probably because we recently reported that Russell Crowe was in talks to portray Jekyll/Hyde in Tom Cruise’s upcoming Mummy reboot, but that project is totally separate from this one. Crowe will be playing the original, non-updated Jekyll/Hyde, and could appear as the duo in several films.
This project is still in its very early stages, so no one has signed on the dotted line just yet, but it does look like there’s a strong chance Evans could be brought on board. Screenwriters Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry, who also collaborated on The Nice Guys, penned the script, but the film has yet to hire a helmer.
Stay tuned and we’ll keep you updated as the details filter in. Regardless of what happens, it looks like we’ll be seeing plenty of both Jekyll and Hyde in the near future.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
https://twitter.com/imagine/status/2113712964419063911
YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?