Matt Maytum

Matt Maytum

Former Editor of Total Film magazine

Matt Maytum is the former Editor of Total Film magazine. Over the past decade, Matt has worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at GamesRadar+. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.

Latest articles by Matt Maytum

Kumail Nanjiani in Eternals
Kumail Nanjiani says he's still waiting to hear from Marvel if Eternals 2 is happening

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive Exclusive: "When I did Eternals, I was like, 'I’ve been preparing my entire life to do this movie'," the actor tells Total Film

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Luther: The Fallen Sun
Idris Elba on Luther’s franchise potential and Bond comparisons

By Jane Crowther Published

Exclusive "John almost feels like a superhero – he doesn’t wear a cape, he wears a coat."

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Andy Serkis in Luther: The Fallen Sun
Andy Serkis on his Luther villain: "I don’t think I’ve come across anything quite as dark for a long time"

By Jane Crowther Published

Exclusive Meet the disturbing baddie that Idris Elba must face up to

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Luther: The Fallen Sun
Idris Elba and the Luther team on adapting the TV show on a "much, much bigger scale" in The Fallen Sun

By Jane Crowther Published

Exclusive How the dogged DCI is taking the leap to film

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Luther: The Fallen Sun
Idris Elba returns in an exclusive new look at Luther: The Fallen Sun

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive Plus, a first look at Andy Serkis’ villain

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Michael B. Jordan in Creed 3
Michael B. Jordan says Creed 3 is "the most challenging thing I've done in my career, by far"

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive Exclusive: Total Film catches up with Michael B. Jordan to talk about his directorial debut Creed 3

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Brad Pitt in Babylon
Brad Pitt talks Babylon’s party scenes and working with Damien Chazelle

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive Exclusive: "There’s such an energy to this thing," Brad Pitt tells Total Film

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Margot Robbie in Babylon
Margot Robbie on Babylon: "It’s like if The Wolf of Wall Street and La Dolce Vita had a baby"

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive Exclusive: Margot Robbie and Damien Chazelle talk to Total Film about their wild new movie, Babylon

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Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Gwen Stacy faces a "unique dilemma" in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

By Leila Latif Published

Exclusive Exclusive: Director Kemp Powers reveals that The Spot is the villain of the next two Spider-Verse movies

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Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan on Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer: "He’s one of the greatest actors of all time"

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive Exclusive: Christopher Nolan waxes lyrical about stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr.

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Cillian Murphy on set of Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan: "Oppenheimer is one of the most challenging projects I’ve ever taken on in terms of scale"

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive Exclusive: Christopher Nolan tells Total Film about recreating the first-ever nuclear weapon detonation without the use of computer graphics

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Christopher Nolan, Hoyte van Hoytema and Cillian Murphy on set of Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan reveals Oppenheimer's not entirely in black-and-white – and he had to develop a new type of IMAX film for it

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive Exclusive: Christopher Nolan tells Total Film about working with Kodak to develop a new type of film for capturing Oppenheimer's black-and-white segments

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Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt in Oppenheimer
See Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downey Jr. in exclusive new images from Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive A new look at 2023’s Oppenheimer

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Total Film's Oppenheimer covers
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is on the cover of Total Film’s upcoming 2023 preview issue

By Matt Maytum Published

News "It’s a story of immense scope and scale"

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Frankie Curio and Paul Mescal in Aftersun
Aftersun review: "A blinding debut you won't forget in a hurry"

By Matt Maytum Published

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Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
Guillermo del Toro on why Pinocchio forms an unofficial trilogy with The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive Exclusive: Guillermo del Toro discusses his Pinocchio with Total Film: "It’s a movie that is not for kids, but kids can watch it"

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Rian Johnson teases more Knives Out movies: "I might just dive in and see what we come up with"

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive Exclusive: Glass Onion director Rian Johnson has the murder mystery bug – expect the adventures of Benoit Blanc to continue

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Avatar: The Way of Water
Return to Pandora with these exclusive images from Avatar: The Way of Water

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive A new look at James Cameron’s epic sequel in Total Film magazine

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Bill Nighy in Living
Living: Kazuo Ishiguro talks remaking Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive Exclusive: The Nobel Prize-winning novelist talks to Total Film about his latest big-screen project

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Namor readies for war in exclusive new Black Panther: Wakanda Forever image

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive Exclusive: Total Film talks to Tenoch Huerta and Marvel boss Kevin Feige about bringing Namor to the big screen

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Enola Holmes 2
The game is afoot in these exclusive images from Enola Holmes 2

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill and Louis Partridge return for the sleuthing sequel

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Emily Mackey in Sex Education and Margot Robbie in Wolf of Wall Street
Sex Education's Emma Mackey talks Margot Robbie comparisons and Barbie's "unexpected" tone

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive Exclusive: Emma Mackey talks to Total Film about her upcoming role in Barbie alongside Margot Robbie

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Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick
Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, and more talk us through the making-of Top Gun: Maverick

By Matt Maytum Last updated

Features Thirty-six years after the original took flight, Top Gun: Maverick gave us that lovin' feeling once again. Tom Cruise and his cast and crew talk Total Film through the making of the record-breaking sequel

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Harry Styles as Tom Burgess in My Policeman
Harry Styles and Emma Corrin hit the town in exclusive new look at My Policeman

By Matt Maytum Published

News Director Michael Grandage explains why they never considered using makeup or VFX to age up the younger actors in the two-timeline drama

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Eedy Karn (Kathryn Hunter) and Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) in Lucasfilm's Andor.
Exclusive: First look at Kathryn Hunter's character in Andor

By Matt Maytum Published

Exclusive The Tragedy of Macbeth star plays "the stage mother from hell" in the Star Wars series

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