‘Six Billion Dollar Man’ Gets Pushed To Summer 2020 As Pic Looks For New Director; ‘The Shining’ Sequel Finds Date; ‘Godzilla 2’ & More Shift
May 23, 2018
‘Six Billion Dollar Man’ Gets Pushed To Summer 2020 As Pic Looks For New Director; ‘The Shining’ Sequel Finds Date; ‘Godzilla 2’ & More Shift
In the wake of director Damian Szifron being moved off of the Mark Wahlberg feature adaptation of ’70s TV series Six Billion Dollar Man, Warner Bros. is moving the film from May 31 next year to June 5, 2020 as the studio looks for a director. There was buzz that it was Mel Gibson and we’re hearing that’s not true. Warner Bros. originally had the summer date held for a DC title.
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The Stephen King sequel to The Shining, Doctor Sleep is now dated for Jan. 24, 2020. It is the only pic dated at this time. Mike Flanagan directs and co-adapted with Akiva Goldsman.
Meanwhile, Godzilla 2 from Legendary goes from March 22 next year to May 31, Six Billion Dollar Man‘s old date, so Warner Bros. won’t be left without an event pic. During that post-Memorial Day weekend, Godzilla 2 will battle against an untitled Universal/Blumhouse movie.
More immediately the studio’s highly anticipated summer title Crazy Rich Asians will now launch on Wednesday Aug. 15 instead of Friday Aug. 17 in what is a busy weekend with STXfilms Melissa McCarthy-Brian Henson comedy The Happytime Murders, Screen Gems’ Alpha, and Aviron’s Three Seconds.