Nathan Williams

5 days ago | movieweb.com | Nathan Williams

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Just ask the people who watched Star Wars in London last week. This wasn't the standard, publicly available copy, but a vintage print of the 1977 sci-fi classic. Excluding those of you old enough to be around in the summer of 1977 when it was first screened, no one had actually witnessed it in its untouched state. Since that point, that particular copy hasn't been distributed at all, locked up in a vault for complicated reasons.

1 week ago | movieweb.com | Nathan Williams

From its inception in 2019, The Witcher has weathered a fair amount of bad press. In its initial season, it overcame casting concerns, with Henry Cavill establishing the Netflix original series as a bona fide hit in a genre starving for a new fantasy-themed fix.

1 week ago | movieweb.com | Nathan Williams

35 years after first quietly taking the world by surprise, Dances with Wolves is today considered one of the best Westerns ever made, and the high-water mark of Kevin Costner's career. At the time, however, it was a cynical bargaining chip, encapsulating every stereotype about Hollywood power brokers. Costner had repeatedly made hits, but his newest pitch was met with a cold reception from Hollywood.

2 weeks ago | movieweb.com | Nathan Williams

In the late '80s, wholeheartedly embracing his sci-fi reputation, William Shatner wrote the first high-concept book in his own dystopian sci-fi book series, TekWar. Jumping on the cyberpunk trend of all things, the multimedia empire expanded into TV-movies, an episodic series, video games, collector's cards, and comics, the science fiction icon promoting it on appearances on TV, positioning himself as the next William Gibson or Philip K. Dick. By the year 2000, the excitement had evaporated.

2 weeks ago | movieweb.com | Nathan Williams

Most of us only think of the Blade Runner fiasco after the filming, the re-edits, and multiple versions. Yet, the chaos began the year author Philip K. Dick published the source novel. Adapting Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? for theaters was just as big of a nightmare for the author as it was for the screenwriters, director, stars, and fans.