In this issue

EMPIRE 30: TAIKA WAITITI Our 30th anniversary celebrations continue with an audience with New Zealand’s finest. Sorry, Crowded House.

GREEN BOOK The latest from Peter Farrelly. Has fewer jizz jokes than you might expect.

SUPERMAN As Superman The Movie turns 40, Richard Donner reflects on making us believe that a man can fly.

THE EMPIRE VIEWING GUIDE Spike Lee tells us how he made his latest joint, BlackKklansman.

THE RANKING John Carpenter’s The Ranking.

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.

10+ mins

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.

10+ mins

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.

10 mins

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.

9 mins

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.

10+ mins

The Seven Year Switch

After a long break, comic actor Adam Sandler gets serious again in The Meyerowitz Stories 

2 mins

The Rite Stuff

The makers of The Ritual’s five steps to creating a British Blair Witch Project

2 mins

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.

10+ mins

The Vault

The Vault

2 mins

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 

10+ mins

Rebel Alliance

Writer John Ridley’s Black Power drama Guerrilla pulls no punches.

2 mins

Changing Of The Lifeguard

Reinventing the hoff’s finest hour for the 21st century.

2 mins

Is Daniel Craig Right To Come Back As James Bond?

The actor is officially returning for Bond 25, but should we be glad he’s taking that licence to kill for one last spin? 

4 mins

Southern Discomfort

How director Dee Rees braved mud and mozzies to bring Mississippi’s grim past to life

2 mins

How Much Is A Pint Of Milk? Juliet Stevenson

Is the actress truly, madly, dairy?

3 mins

Borg/McEnroe

Borg/McEnroe

2 mins

The Empire Masterpiece

TWO-LANE BLACKTOPA road movie that goes the full Monte

4 mins

Murder By Numbers

How Lady Macbeth director William Oldroyd filmed the year’s most harrowing scene

2 mins

Nothing Lost In Translation

It has a new plot and an American A-List star. But, say the makers of big-budget anime adaptaion ghost in the shell, The cyperpunk spirit is still alive

10 mins

Twice Upon A Time

Making a tale as old as time feel fresh is no easy task. how disney's live-action beauty and the beast re-animated a much-loved classic.

8 mins

Apocalypse Then

Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac pair up for a hard-hitting epic.

2 mins

Killer Instincts

From Playing Mr Pink in a School Play to Wielding Blades as the Ultimate Assassin, Michael Fassbender Reflects on a Career That's Never Lost Its Edge.

5 mins

The Last Stand

Brutal, Minimalist and Yep, Emotional, Logan Is Hugh Jackman’s Farewell to Wolverine, and the Metal- Boned Brawler as You’ve Never Seen Him Before.

10+ mins

Once Upon A Time In The East

The future of international f ilmmak ing, or a colossal folly? Empire scales The Great Wall, 2017’s strangest blockbuster.

10 mins

Out Of The Shadows

Small-screen Zelda Fitzgerald Biopic Z : the Beginning of Everything Sees Christina Ricci Return to the Limelight. The Enigmatic Actress Tells Empire How She’s Survived Lifelong Fame.

10+ mins

Manga Management

How anime classic Ghost In The Shell got an A-list reboot.

1 min

The Hit Man

A seemingly routine thriller blew up into a bullet-riddled phenomenon. Now Keanu Reeves is back to up the Gun-fu ante in John Wick: Chapter 2.

9 mins

Rising Above

She’s battled her way from poverty to the Hollywood a-list. Fences star Viola Davis explains why quitting was never an option.

10+ mins

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