On this episode of Collider Movie Talk (October 18th, 2016) John Campea, Mark Ellis, Jon Schnepp, Ashley Mova and Wendy Lee discuss the following:

-New Assassin’s Creed trailer released

-Joe Manganiello reveals spring 2017 shoot for The Batman

-Opening this Week

-Rogue One character posters released

-Sony’s Mulan hires Game of Thrones director

-Shrek 5 hires Austin Powers writer

-Kevin Costner joins Jessica Chastain in Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game

-Mail Bag

20th Century Fox has released a new Assassin’s Creed trailer online. Directed by Macbeth’s Justin Kurzel, the film is based on the popular video game and stars Michael Fassbender as death row inmate Callum Lynch; who is taken to a mysterious facility and put into a device called the “Animus” where he is forced to live out past memories from his 15th century Spanish ancestor in the hopes of discovering the location of a lost and important object.

Earlier this year, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes revealed an 18-month timetable for the upcoming solo Batman movie, with a release date yet to be set for the Ben Affleck directed standalone. Now, speaking with Entertainment Tonight, Deathstroke star Joe Manganiello casually revealed filming will begin next spring. While this could just be a slip of the tongue from the actor, Warner Bros has yet to confirm or deny the start date which means we could conceivably see the solo Batman movie as early as 2018.

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Following the final trailer for the first of the Star Wars anthology films, Lucasfilm released a set of character posters on social media that show who will help the Rebellion defeat the Empire. Rogue One is directed by Gareth Edwards and is scheduled for theaters on December 16th.

While Disney continues its search for a director to helm their live-action Mulan film, the rival project from Sony is one step ahead of the game. Deadline reports that Game of Thrones director Alex Graves has signed on to helm the live action pic, which is written by Mirror, Mirror screenwriter Jason Keller.

After a long hiatus, DreamWorks Animation is ready to revive the Shrek franchise and now, a new writer has been added to the fifth movie in the series. In an interview with Hollywood News, Trolls co-director and producer on Shrek 5, Mike Mitchell, revealed they have a pretty good story that’s being written by Michael McCullers, the screenwriter behind the Austin Powers films.

Variety reports that Kevin Costner is now in talks to join Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba in Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut Molly’s Game. Chastain will play Molly Bloom who, after failing to make the Olympic team, decides to take a year off before law school and get a job as a waitress in Los Angeles. Through a bizarre set of circumstances, she ends up making millions by running, for eight years, the most exclusive high-stakes poker game in the world.

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