X MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

It's been confirmed that the sequel to X Men First Class will be X Men: Days of Future Past

Bryan Singer exclusively told IGN that the script is being written now, adding “It’s going to be very ambitious. It’s called Days of Future Past and it deals with aspects of that comic but also some very new things but I don’t want to give any of it away. Matthew Vaughan will be directing and I’m totally excited about it.”


The  Days of Future Past storyline was first published in 1981 and deals with alternate timelines.
Set in a dystopian future in which Sentinels rule the United States, the X-Men – along with all mutants – are incarcerated in concentration camps. The storyline was also loosely used in a two part animated version and you'll find this embedded below.

Riding to Piccadilly

Those western revivalists Piccadilly Publishing will launch a further four eBooks this month.

Worse Than Death by James W Marvin;

Bloody Bounty
by Neil Hunter,

Hardcase by Neil Hunter

Bronco Madigan by Hank J
Kirby.

This new publishing house is bringing out many of the classic UK westerns that first got me into the genre. I love these guys - check out their Amazon page HERE

Doctor Who to get Hammered!!!

Trending on Twitter is the news that Christopher Eccleston will play the main baddie in Thor 2.

Thor director Kenneth Branagh will not return for the sequel, which will instead be helmed by Alan Taylor, who has worked on Game Of Thrones and Mad Men. Hemsworth will reprise his role from the first film, while Natalie Portman will return as Thor's love interest, scientist Jane Foster. Tom Hiddleston, Idris Elba and Anthony Hopkins are also contracted for the sequel.

FANGS

The indie horror thriller  starts a limited theatrical release tomorrow and will be available on DVD 6th August - we've got an in-depth review coming up as well as an interview with director Neil Jones and stars Marcia Do Vales and Stuart Brennan.

For now though - here's the latest trailer:





“A phenomenal new take on the vampire film” SCREAM Magazine

Fresh from seminary school a new Reverend embarks on his first parish. A small, low maintenance Chapel based in the quiet idyllic setting of a quiet country village. While on the surface the village seems to be a peaceful parish, with perfect residents, soon it becomes apparent that something more sinister lurks beneath the façade of a local businessman. On a wet, cold night a mysterious girl visits The Reverend at the chapel. Cold and upset she is welcomed in warmly, soon it becomes apparent that her visit is not for sanctuary but to deliver a message, a message in the form of a deep, bloody bite... Awoken with an unknown, uncontrollable thirst a confused Reverend can find no evidence of the girl from the night before, with nothing but the thirst and memory of the bite, The Reverend embarks on his mandate, to clean up the village and the neighbouring estate, by preaching or feasting... Burn Hand Film Productions   

Retirement is...

A Published Author - Agatha Christie

In 1919, Agatha Christie thought she deserved a well earned rest after the birth of her daughter Rosalind. The baby came in at a bulky eight and a half pounds and Agatha's first words after the birth were reported as, 'I don't feel sick anymore.'

It was a busy time for Agatha and on top of the birth she found herself having to face a move to London after her husband, Archie was offered a job at £500 a year. On top of Archie's savings and investments which brought in another £100 a year, Agatha also received £100 a year from a fund set up under the term of Agatha's grandmother's will. The money was ample to support a modest sized family and Agatha was pleased that she would be able to afford a maid and a nanny - all middle class families of the time had servants. It was the done thing, old boy and it wouldn't have been cricket to go without.

A housemaid proved no problem but Agatha had trouble finding a suitable nanny but eventually, after interviewing many intimidating women, she settled for a thirty five year old woman named, Jessie Swannell.

And so it was all system go for the family as they settled in a ground floor flat in Addison Mansions. With so much going on in her life, it is little wonder that Agatha had almost forgotten about the manuscript of a detective novel she had written and sent off to publishers.

A letter came from publisher John Lane at Bodley Head who suggested the young author visit their offices to talk about her novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Agatha did so  and was told that Bodley Head would publish the book if she considered changing the ending. Agatha had written the denouncement as a court room scene, but John Lane felt that it didn't read true. He felt that Agatha didn't know enough about the legal profession to make the scene credible.Agatha was more than willing to change things as the thought of being a published author thrilled her. Agatha thus created the blueprint that many of her future novels would follow, when she had her detective, Poirot called all the suspects together at the end of the novel and explained how the murder was carried out.

Agatha signed the contract without showing it to a lawyer, which was something she would come to regret years later when she was the bestselling writer in the entire world, but for now the thought of seeing her name on a book, of becoming a published writer was enough.


"I had married the man I loved, we had a child, we had somewhere to live and I was a published author. I saw no reason why it shouldn't be happy ever after." Agatha Christie

Agatha's initial contract meant that she didn't get any royalties until the book had shifted 2000 copies, and the author was also obliged to offer Bodley Head her next five novels. That didn't seem to matter as Agatha had no intention of writing another, and had only penned the first one after being challenged to do so by her sister, Madge.

Agatha would have laughed had anyone told her of the long and lucrative literary life ahead of her, and for now it was enough to be a published author...

August 1st