M. Night Shyamalan teases his “high-testing” Nicholas Sparks collaboration. The supporting cast of The Big Bang Theory navigate the moth apocalypse in Stuart Fails to Save the Universe. Tom Cavanagh’s Reverse-Flash hopes to break into the DCU. Spectrum is Green: Spoilers are go!
Nocturnal
Deadline reports Pascal Laugier (Martyrs, Incident in a Ghostland) is attached to direct Nocturnal, a horror film about vampires from a screenplay by David Birke (Slender Man, Benedetta). Set in 1943, the story concerns “a group of refugees fleeing Vichy France who attempt a desperate crossing of the Channel, only to wind up stranded on a supposedly deserted island. The island turns out to be home to an undying supernatural evil. The curse of undeath takes each of the fugitives, one by one, until only one is left alive and still human. She must now adapt to surviving at the margins of the strange, violent and perverse community formed by her former friends.”
Replacer
Deadline also reports Halsey will co-write and star in Replacer, a “psycho-sexual horror” movie with implied sci-fi elements from director Avan Jogia. Produced by Lilly Wachowski, the story sees Halsey as a “troubled DJ” named Proxy “stranded in Montreal” as she “meets an alluring artist and his group of friends who run an underground radio station. The station’s broadcast becomes warped by a mysterious signal hidden deep beneath the city’s subway system. Proxy must escape before the sound turns her, and her new friends, into something raw, primal, and unrecognizable.”
The DCU
In a recent interview with CinemaBlend promoting his new Acorn series, You’re Killing Me, Tom Cavanagh stated he and Grant Gustin are still hopeful to reprise their respective roles as Reverse-Flash and The Flash in James Gunn’s DCU.
Well, I know that I know that Grant would love to do it, ’cause who wouldn’t want to be a part of James Gunn’s DC? I think the better question is, ‘James, can I please play the Reverse-Flash?’
The Scourge
According to Variety, the Vietnam-based Skyline Media hopes to sell a film adaptation of the video game The Scourge, creating the “first Vietnamese feature film inspired by an original local game IP.” The story “draws on a Vietnamese urban legend about a cursed Saigon apartment block from the 1990s, following an estranged young man who returns home to discover his mother is possessed. He must work alongside his sister to unravel a malevolent force tied to forbidden rituals, buried family secrets and the spirit world.”
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Bloody-Disgusting has confirmed Jane Schoenbrun’s upcoming film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma has been rated R for “bloody violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use, and some language.”
Remain
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, M. Night Shyamalan stated his Nicholas Sparks collaboration, Remain, has proven to be the “highest-testing movie” of the director’s career.
Just between us, it’s my highest-testing movie of my career. We’re now in post-production, finding every detail. Honestly, my hope is that when you experience Remain, you feel both sides of it at once — full of love and that quiet, lingering unease that doesn’t let you go.
Victorian Psycho
THR has a new image of Maika Monroe and Ruth Wilson in Victorian Psycho.
Backrooms
The latest TV spot for Backrooms includes some previously unseen footage.
Pacifico
“A group of young travelers” find themselves “stranded on an island in the Pacific where they struggle to escape an evil alien presence” in the trailer for Pacifico, premiering at Cannes later this week.
American Horror Story
Variety reports Love Story‘s Paul Anthony Kelly has joined the cast of American Horror Story‘s thirteenth season in a currently undisclosed role.
Barbaric
According to THR, a TV series based on Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden’s comic book, Barbaric, is now in development at Netflix with Sheldon Turner (X-Men: First Class) and Robert Rovner (The CW’s Supergirl) attached as showrunners. The series focuses on “a ruthless and crass barbarian who is cursed to only use his violence for good, which sends him, his talking axe, and a young witch on a road of self-discovery, redemption and revenge.”
Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
Finally, the supporting cast of The Big Bang Theory find themselves in an alternate, post-apocalyptic reality of giant moths and cyborgs in the trailer for Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, premiering July 23 on HBO Max.
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