The next two Avatar movies are preparing to go full speed ahead. The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke discusses the parallels between its final season and the current moment. Plus, Dungeon Crawler Carl is heading to TV. To me, my spoilers!
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt For Gollum
Speaking to Screenrant, Andy Serkis has confirmed Viggo Mortensen will not reprise his role as Aragorn in the film, and the role is currently being recast.
I don’t know what’s out there at the moment, but I know there’s a lot of speculation, but let’s just say we are recasting the role and we are on the way to finding someone.
Dead Mall
Variety reports a film adaptation of Adam Cesare’s Dark Horse comics series Dead Mall is now in development with Michael Varrati (The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula) attached to write the script. Described as a cross between “Event Horizon and Hellraiser in a mall,” the story follows “five teens who sneak into their local mall for one last look before it’s demolished, only to discover the mall is far from abandoned. Inside the crumbling retail labyrinth, they encounter a sprawling, ever-changing cosmic horror that has made the mall its home, transforming the familiar consumer temple into a nightmarish maze where survival is anything but guaranteed.”
Avatar 4 & 5
Speaking with Inverse, franchise producer Rae Sanchini now says Avatar 4 and 5 are moving “full speed ahead.”
Right now we’re figuring out the schedule. We’re working hard on it right now, budgeting, scheduling, planning, building out our new pipeline for them. As far as we’re concerned, we’re full speed ahead.
Super Mario Bros. 3
In a recent interview with Screen Rant, Charlie Day stated he’s hopeful Danny DeVito will voice Wario in the next Super Martio movie, while Keegan-Michael Key championed Chloe Grace Moretz for the voice of Princess Daisy. Anya Taylor-Joy also stated she hopes Jessica Lange joins the voice cast in some capacity, though she admits she doesn’t have an idea of “who she’s going to play.”
The Mummy
The Asylum has also released a trailer for its new mockbuster of Lee Cronin’s The Mummy starring Lisa Zane, Jon Jacobs, Apoorva Mittra, Siena Goines, and Sheba Jade.
The Witch Farm
According to Deadline, the BBC has greenlit a four-part miniseries based on Danny Robins’ paranormal podcast, The Witch Farm. The series is set in South Wales, 1989, and follows Bill and Liz Rich as they “leave London for Heol Fanog, a remote modern farmhouse in the foothills of the Brecon Beacons, determined to make a fresh start. At first, the isolation feels like freedom. But when, in the midst of a traumatic home birth, Liz becomes convinced she’s seen a ghostly figure in the bedroom, they start to feel increasingly afraid.”
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Variety also has word Christopher Yost (Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok) and Seth McFarlane (The Orville, Ted) are developing a TV series based on Dungeon Crawler Carl—Matt Dinniman‘s series of comedic, dystopian science-fantasy LitRPG books—at Peacock. The story is set after “an alien invasion has wiped out most of humanity and any survivors are forced to fight for their lives on a sadistic intergalactic game show” and follows Coast Guard vet Carl as he “finds himself stuck with his ex-girlfriend’s award-winning show cat, Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk, as they try to survive the end of the world, fighting monsters, aliens, an insane A.I. and even other survivors—all for the sake of good TV.”
The Boys
The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke discussed the series’ similarities to current events in a recent interview with Screen Rant.
No, it’s funny. Most of the earlier seasons we wrote and we were directly one-to-one reacting things that were happening in the world. We wrote season five before the election. And so it was really the very first time we were like, ‘Alright, so let’s speculate about what American authoritarianism would look like based on…’ We were honestly going more on history, like other countries who have gone through it and what does it look like? And then we were just slapping red, white, and blue on it. And my genuine, turns out naive, hope at the time was like, I think everyone will be like, ‘Boy, we really dodged a bullet.’ But then we all got hit in the face with the bullet. And it’s absolutely stunning and troubling to me how many of the things we genuinely thought were out there concepts, like, ‘Well, that’s wild that we’re depicting this,’ have already come to pass and in a way that’s not great.
I hope that people see The Boys, they’ll probably say like, ‘Wow, you guys are being real psychic.’ But we were just trying to imagine what fascist creep in America would really look like. I just hope it serves… I hope it just alarms people, honestly. I hope they look around and they’re like, ‘Oh s–t, some of this stuff is really f–king happening. That doesn’t seem good. We should maybe do something about this.’ That would be great. But I don’t expect to change anything because I think if the last eight years have shown us anything, the thing that The Boys is best at is not changing anything.
The Last of Us
Canadagraphs has set photos of Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby with Kyriana Kratter’s Lev filming the third season of The Last of Us.
The Trail of Gold
Finally, HBO Max has released a trailer for The Trail of Gold, the first-ever Argentinian animated series produced by Adult Swim and Cartoon Network.
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