Nicolas Winding Refn teases his Maniac Cop remake with a Salvador Dali painting. Charles Melton joins the Daniels’ environmental superhero movie. Your genre television favorites lend their voices to mutant hybrid super soldiers in new animated film. Geena Davis still hopeful for a sequel to The Long Kiss Goodnight. Sock ’em in the jaw and yell, “Pop goes the weasel”—it’s Morning Spoilers!
Bad Day for Bigfoot
According to Deadline, Chris Elliott, Michael Ian Black, Sara Tomko, Oliver Cooper, and James Duval will star in Zach Green and Devin O’Rourke’s “creature-filled adventure comedy,” Bad Day for Bigfoot. The story observes the fallout as a “Bigfoot hoax goes horribly wrong in the middle of an actual Sasquatch hot spot, leading to a chaotic struggle between the hoaxers, investigators, and a supernatural force that defies explanation.”
Starman
Deadline reports Jeff Daniels will star alongside Brendan Fraser in Josh Wakely’s “cosmic sci-fi thriller,” Starman. Daniels will play Ed Watkins, “the protective and powerful co-leader of a transformational company he built alongside visionary technologist Tom Adams (Fraser), a man who means far more to Ed than the company itself.” In the film, Tom Adams is “an architect of the future who launches a historic expedition to Mars, positioning himself at the forefront of humanity’s next great frontier. But when unforeseen events strand him millions of miles from Earth, his mission becomes an urgent race against time—driven not by survival alone, but by love.”
The Tourist Curse
Deadline also reports Sydney Agudong, Henry Ian Cusick, Mahina Napoleon, Tori Anderson, Ta’imua, Kimee Balmilero, Jason Antoon, Mele’iwa Silva, Dionysio Basco, Rebecca Creskoff, Seana Kofoed, Celia Kenney, and Stephen Hill will star in The Tourist Curse, a “Hawai’i-set adventure comedy” from director Alexander Bocchieri. The story is said to concern “a group of game show contestants sent to a mysterious location and tasked with finding a missing artifact, who inadvertently awaken the local creature, turning their tropical treasure hunt into a cross island fight for survival.”
Untitled Daniels Project
Deadline has word Charles Melton will star alongside Matt Damon and Sandra Oh in Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s “superhero tentpole movie with global warming as the villain“.
The Long Kiss Goodnight, Part II
In a recent interview with Deadline, Geena Davis revealed she’s still hopeful for a sequel to Renny Harlin’s conspiratorial spy-action movie, The Long Kiss Goodnight, co-starring Samuel L. Jackson.
It’s my favorite too. I’m supposed to say Thelma & Louise because that movie is irreplaceable, but I have to say, I had so much fun with Sam and we’ve always wished that we could do a sequel. In fact, people might not know, but we changed the ending [of the movie] so that Sam’s character was alive. In the original script, he dies and we were like, ‘No, no, no, no, no. We want to be able to do a sequel if it happens.’ But it probably still could. We’re not too old!
It Ends
Bloody-Disgusting reports It Ends is now scheduled for an August 21 theatrical release through NEON. The story concerns “four recent college grads on a night time drive [who] find themselves stuck on a road that sprawls on forever, with seemingly no end in sight. They are occasionally attacked by stragglers and have to find a routine to plan their rest stops, but after a few thousand miles it all feels the same. Still, they keep on driving, only in the belief something better will come eventually.“
Maniac Cop
Nicolas Winding-Refn wrote “Maniac Cop by NWR” over a heavily edited image of Salvador Dali’s 1954 painting, “Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)” and posted it to Instagram—apparently as a piece of mood art for his upcoming “resurrection” of William Lustig’s 1988 film about an undead police officer on a revenge-fueled killing spree.
Klara and the Sun
Vanity Fair also has new images from Taika Waititi’s film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. Click through to have a look.
Evil Dead Burn
Your mother is a deadite in a new clip from Evil Dead Burn.
Pinocchio: Unstrung
Richard Brake’s evil Geppetto introduces his grandson to the eponymous little wooden boy in a new clip from Pinocchio: Unstrung.
Isla Monstro
An island of black ops mutant super soldiers rebrands itself as a flirty tropical resort in the trailer for Isla Monstro, starring the voices of Juliana Harkavy (Arrow), James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Gigi Edgley (Farscape), Spencer Grammer (Rick and Morty), Harry Lennix (Man of Steel), Kristina Klebe (For All Mankind), John DiMaggio (Futurama), Will Friedle (Batman Beyond), Dana Snyder (Aqua Teen Hunger Force), Maurice LaMarche (Pinky and the Brain), Christopher Sabat (Dragonball Z), Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), and more.
Son of Sara
A pregnant woman begins eating raw meat and vomiting long, stringy hairballs in the trailer for Son of Sara, starring Chloe Van Landschoot, Tymika Tafari, Garrett Hnatiuk, and Jane Moffat.
RoboCop: The Series
According to a new report from World of Reel, executive producer James Wan will also direct multiple “key episodes” of the upcoming RoboCop TV series at Amazon/MGM, which is currently planning “a six-month shoot, starting next January in Vancouver…”
The East Palace
A man who can enter the spirit world teams with a court lady who can “hear” the dead to lift a curse of a pond spirit intent on eliminating a royal family’s bloodline in the trailer for The East Palace.
Rick and Morty
Finally, Jerry swallows a “Worry Worm” before an important interview in a new clip from this Sunday’s episode of Rick and Morty.
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