Alfie Williams teases the third installment of the 28 Years Later franchise. Guillermo del Toro explains why his animated adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant is so difficult to make. Bong Joon Ho’s first animated feature, Ally, fills out its English voice cast. Plus, a new trailer for Rick and Morty season nine. Spoilers ahead!
Ally
Variety reports Ayo Edebiri, Bradley Cooper, Dave Bautista, Finn Wolfhard, Alex Jayne Go, Rachel House, and Werner Herzog have joined the English-language voice cast of Ally, Bong Joon Ho’s animated movie about deep sea fish. Ally is Bong’s first animated film.
Doppelgänger
According to a new rumor from The InSneider (via World of Reel), Tom Cruise is in talks to star in Doppelgänger at Paramount, a sci-fi/action film in which “a CIA agent discovers that Russian intelligence has found a Brazilian man who is his exact double, intending to replace him as a covert mole inside the CIA.”
The Odyssey
During a recent interview with Time magazine, Christopher Nolan confirmed Lupita Nyong’o will play both Helen of Troy and her sister, Clytemnestra, in his new film adaptation of The Odyssey.
28 Years Later 3
An Instagram post from Alfie Williams captured appears to suggest he’s now bow training for the third 28 Years Later movie.
The Third Hotel
Deadline reports Michelle Garza Cervera is attached to direct a film adaptation of Laura van den Berg‘s psychological horror-mystery novel, The Third Hotel. Written for the screen by Isa Mazzei, the story concerns Clare, “a recent widow who travels to Latin America weeks after her husband Richard’s mysterious death, driven by the need to understand her role in his early passing. Lost in a new, unfamiliar city, she spots a man in the street, and it’s not just someone who looks like Richard, it’s him in the flesh. What begins as a skeptical pursuit of Richard’s double quickly devolves into an all-consuming obsession, unraveling Clare’s grip on reality and pulling her into a liminal nightmare where she is suspended between the living and the dead.”
Experiment 11
According to Deadline, production is expected to begin next month in Canada on Experiment 11, a new horror film from Scare Tactics creator Kevin Healy and The Blair Witch Project‘s Eduardo Sanchez and Gregg Hale. Though the article doesn’t reveal the film’s cast, the story “will be set inside a mysterious medical research facility where a group of participants are forced into a rapidly escalating experiment with consequences tied to the future of humanity.”
Flesh of the Gods
Deadline also confirms production has officially begun on Panos Cosmatos’s latest movie, Flesh of the Gods. Starring Kristen Stewart, Wagner Moura, Esmé Creed-Miles, Roland Møller, and Alba Baptista, the vampire thriller follows Raoul and Alex, “a married couple in glittering ’80s L.A. who descend each evening from their luxury skyscraper condo and head into an electric nighttime realm. When they cross paths with the mysterious and enigmatic Nameless and her hard-partying crew, Raoul and Alex are seduced into a glamorous, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills and violence.”
The Buried Giant
In a recent interview with Deadline, Guillermo del Toro said his animated adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s fantasy novel, The Buried Giant, will be a “fascinatingly difficult stop-motion movie for adults” produced “without any concession to a family audience.”
If you do a live action Pinocchio and all of a sudden a puppet walks through it becomes uncanny valley, which is a horrible thing that doesn’t belong in the same world. Just like if you do a live action movie about an old couple crossing a landscape full of trolls and fairies, and there are special effects and actors. I want all the creatures to be of the same material. It’s gonna take us years. And it’s incredibly difficult.
Sanguine
A “medical student working at an ER witnesses a new virus spreading among young patients” in the first teaser for Sanguine.
Get your adrenaline pumping with Marion Le Corroller's first feature SPECIES (SANGUINE), screening at the #Cannes2026 Midnight Screenings. 🩸 pic.twitter.com/7HRV0kQW9t
— WTFilms (@What_The_Films) May 12, 2026
The Grim Rapper
A slain rapper makes a pact with an Aztec demon for a second chance at life and revenge in the trailer for Full Moon’s latest, The Grim Rapper.
Shark Thrash
The Asylum has also released a trailer for its Thrash mockbuster, Shark Thrash, starring Gina Vitori (who played an unidentified weapons officer in Star Wars: Ahsoka).
The Human Vapor
Netflix has released a trailer for a surprise eight-episode miniseries modernizing Ishirō Honda’s 1960 monster/crime film, The Human Vapor.
Rick and Morty
Finally, the Smith family is chased by robotic furniture in a new trailer for Rick and Morty‘s ninth season.
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