Daisy Ridley has shared some new insight into her upcoming Star Wars movie, featuring Rey's return to the big screen.  Speaking to Total Film in our new issue out on Thursday April 25, which features Furiosa on the cover, Ridley opened up about going back to the galaxy far, far away.  "I honestly have had moments where I’m like, 'I don’t know if I remember what I did [as Rey],'" Ridley tells us. "It’s really strange. I think the whole thing will feel so different anyway with a totally different team. I’m in a very different place than I was. I’m probably going to be one of the adults ..read more

Furiosa may be one of this year's most hotly anticipated releases, but the wheels started turning on the Mad Max prequel long before even action classic Fury Road roared into cinemas. "So Furiosa was ready, in a story sense, 15 years ago" Doug Mitchell tells Total Film in our new issue out on Thursday April 25, which features Furiosa on the cover. "And it’s been percolating, the way things do in George’s brain, ever since." "We had finished the script of Furiosa before we shot Fury Road," Miller confirms over Zoom from Sydney. It's certainly been a long road to get here. At one point, Fur ..read more

As Tony Zhou, the creator of the YouTube series Every Frame a Painting, put it in a 2014 video essay: Some movie stars do comedy, some do action, but the only master at doing both has been Jackie Chan. With an exhausting list of death-defying movies under his belt, many of them contain some of the greatest movie moments of all time. A graduate of the China Drama Academy where he trained in martial arts, acrobatics, and acting, Jackie Chan is known worldwide as an action movie daredevil who also knows how to tell a joke. He may be a martial artist, but his sensibilities as an artiste share more ..read more

Luca Guadagnino, the director of Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All, and new movie Challengers, knows two things with certainty. As Janelle Monáe also says in her song 'Screwed': "Everything is sex, except sex, which is power." Challengers is the latest film in Guadagnino's body of work to echo that mantra, but, this time, the director goes down a different path to reach his destination, swapping cannibals and lazy Italian summers for professional tennis as the backdrop for his latest dabblings in sexual politics.  The movie is just as much about tennis as it is about the love triangle b ..read more

Chris Hemsworth has revealed the unusual advice Furiosa director George Miller gave him to help him get into the headspace of villain Dementus. "George suggested to me to journal as the character, which I hadn't done before," the Marvel star tells Total Film in our new issue out on Thursday April 25, which features the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel on the cover. "It was 2am one night. I was awake, and I just put pen to paper, and just started scribbling down thoughts and ideas as Dementus.  "I didn't think much of it. I went to sleep, and woke up, and was quite shocked at what came out of me ..read more

Fantastic Four star Joseph Quinn isn't worried about the upcoming movie being affected by superhero fatigue, but feels confident in the movie, saying it’s "brilliant." "I think that with the story of the Fantastic Four, it feels like we want to get this right," Quinn said in a recent interview with Variety, "There are aspects of it that are very different to other Marvel films. That felt very compelling to me. It’s really brilliant." The Stranger Things star will soon make his MCU introduction as Johnny Storm, AKA Human Torch, in The Fantastic Four as part of Marvel’s Phase 6. This will be a r ..read more

If you believe the reports, Keanu Reeves is playing Shadow the Hedgehog in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.  As of right now, however, we’ve had no official announcement – and Knuckles actor Idris Elba is mirroring the echidna’s guarded personality by protecting the threequel’s biggest gem of a secret. "I heard the rumors. Yeah, I know nothing," Elba told GamesRadar+ during a recent interview for the Knuckles series. "But wow, Keanu, yeah? Big tings." According to The John Campea Show and The Hollywood Reporter, Keanu Reeves is set to play Shadow, the Ultimate Lifeform first teased in the Sonic 2 po ..read more

Mad Max: Fury Road was never going to be an easy act to follow, but it sounds like upcoming prequel Furiosa, which sees Anya Taylor-Joy play a younger version of Charlize Theron's Fury Road character, has put the pedal to the metal when it comes to reaching the hair-raising thrills of the 2015 movie. The film "has one 15-minute sequence which took us 78 days to shoot", with close to 200 stunt people working on it daily, director George Miller's producing partner Doug Mitchell tells Total Film in our new issue out on Thursday, April 25, which features Furiosa on the cover. Known during producti ..read more

In just over a month Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will roar into cinemas. A prequel to modern action classic Mad Max: Fury Road, the film sees Anya Taylor-Joy take the wheel from Charlize Theron as a younger Furiosa, who’s thrust into a life of mechanical mayhem after being abducted from her home as a girl. In contrast to Fury Road – a pure chase movie set over two days and three nights – Furiosa is described as an odyssey for its eponymous future-Imperator, unfolding over some 16 years. Much of Furiosa’s past is intertwined with Dementus (Chris Hemsworth), the tyrannical leader of the bi ..read more

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania star Michael Douglas wanted to be killed off in the Marvel movie – and he even had an idea of how he wanted his character to go out.  "This actually was my request for the third one," Douglas said on The View (via Entertainment Weekly). "I said I’d like to have a serious [death], with all these great special effects. There’s got to be some fantastic way where I can shrink to an ant size and explode, whatever it is. I want to use all those effects. But, that was on the last one. Now, I don’t think I’m going to show up." Hank ended up surviving the events o ..read more