The future of international f ilmmak ing, or a colossal folly? Empire scales The Great Wall, 2017’s strangest blockbuster.
Thomas Tull was eight years old when he first heard that the Great Wall Of China is the only man-made object you can see from space. Like all powerful myths, it lodged itself in this New York boy’s imagination and dug its roots in deep, never to be withered by the fact it’s totally untrue. “It might be an urban myth, but I found it fascinating,” Tull says now. “I couldn’t get it out of my head.” Questions buzzed around his young mind: “Why would they build something like that? What were they trying to keep out?”
It wasn’t until 2010 that the answer — the mythical answer, that is — came to him, during a trip (of course) to China. By this point, Tull was 40 years old and had set up the appropriately named Legendary Entertainment, a production outfit specialising in bombastic sci-fi and fantasy films such as The Dark Knight, Watchmen, Clash Of The Titans and Inception. “I started thinking, ‘Well, what if this feat of engineering — this incredible undertaking that required sheer force of will — was really to repel not people or a band of raiders, but mythical creatures?”
That was the moment Thomas Tull started building his own Great Wall.
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Jungle Boogie
They Could Have Shot Their Monster Movie in a Green Screen Chamber. Instead,the Makers of Kong:skull Island Journeyed Into Some of Earth’s Most Far-flung Corners. And Empire Tagged Along, Every Glorious, Snake-infested Step of the Way.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The Franchise’s First Stand-alone Instalment, Sends a Squad on an Impossible Mission, and Is Star Wars’ Biggest Change-up Yet.
To The Max
The Future of Hollywood? Or a Brat Who’s Lucked Out? Prolific, Hyperactive Wunderkind Screenwriter Max Landis Welcomes Us Into His World.
Adapt Or Die
Michael Fassbender and Justin Kurzel, the Duo Behind Assassin's Creed, Think They've Finally Found the Secret to a Great Video-game Adaptation: Treat It Like Shakespeare.
Choosing Life
The years drifted by. The players drifted apart. But despite all the odds, Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie are finally back in T2 Trainspotting, a sequel with a surprising link to The Likely Lads.
The Seven Year Switch
After a long break, comic actor Adam Sandler gets serious again in The Meyerowitz Stories
The Rite Stuff
The makers of The Ritual’s five steps to creating a British Blair Witch Project
Alpha Female
Her race to the big screen has lasted an astonishing 75 years. But the indomitable WONDER WOMAN's journey is almost at an end.
The Vault
The Vault
The Jedi Returns
Once the Golden Boy of the Rebellion, Luke Skywalker Is Now a Hermit on a Far-far-away Planet. Can Plucky Padawan Rey Persuade Him to Return to the Fray? Director Rian Johnson and Star Mark Hamill Set the Scene for Star Wars: The Last Jedi
