Vanessa Kirby and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II are teaming up for a new sci-fi thriller. Eric Kripke teases the big battles (or lack thereof) to come in The Boys‘ final season. Plus, get a look at a new Korean horror show coming to Netflix. To me, my spoilers!
Liminal
Deadline reports Vanessa Kirby and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will star in Liminal, a “sci-fi action-thriller” at Apple from Fast X director Louis Leterrier. Based on the AWA graphic novel Telepaths by J. Michael Straczynski, Steve Epting, and Brian Reber, the original source material “takes place in a world where a tenth of the population suddenly gains telepathic powers as a result of electromagnetic disturbance. Subsequently, newly telepathic Boston police find themselves contending with a faction, led by a wrongly convicted prisoner, who are trying to escape a world in which their powers will make them targets.”
Gundam
Deadline also reports Gemma Chua-Tran is the latest to join the cast of Netflix’s live-action Gundam movie in an undisclosed capacity.
Hokum
Nexus Point News has a new poster for Damian McCarthy’s Hokum starring Adam Scott.
Hive
A babysitter’s latest charge is swallowed by the plastic slide of a haunted playground in the trailer for Hive, starring Xochitl Gomez.
The X-Files
Deadline reports Himesh Patel (Avenue 5) will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler in the upcoming X-Files reboot from Ryan Coogler. According to the outlet, the pilot concerns “two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents” (Deadwyler and Patel) who “form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.”
God of War
Deadline also reports Sonya Walger (For All Mankind, Lost) has been cast as Freya in Amazon’s God of War TV series. Per the outlet’s character description, Freya is “a Vanir goddess and princess who practices powerful, ancient magic. She is also Odin’s ex-wife and the former Queen of the Valkyries in Asgard, a title bestowed upon her on her marriage day. She is strong, insightful, and filled with regrets. When Freya’s unhappy marriage to Odin ended with her being exiled, she was cut off from her family, as well as her native land, Vanaheim. Freya has lived alone in Midgard for a century, a recluse in a hidden glade, feared by humans, and often referred to as the Witch of the Woods.”
City of Blood
THR reports a German TV series based on Reinhard Kleist and Tobias O. Meißner’s graphic novel, Berlinoir, is now in development at Disney+. Retitled City of Blood, the series is “set in an alternative version of Berlin” ruled by “a government of immortal blood suckers. After decades of hiding and fearing, they finally found a place where they can be the sovereigns and build a city that is appropriate to their requirements. But a group of human rebels is fighting against their oppressors.” Lea Drinda, Soma Pysall, Lars Eidinger, and Jördis Triebel are attached to star.
The Boys
During a recent interview with SFX Magazine, Eric Kripke stated the final season of The Boys contains no “full battle scenes,” but “a lot of very direct confrontations” instead.
It’s just a totally transformed world. It’s Homelander’s world and, unfortunately, we’re all living in it. Starlight is mounting a desperate resistance, but The Boys are scattered. Frenchie, Mother’s Milk and Hughie have been captured. We talked a lot about the French Resistance and prison camp breaks. We were really working our way through that kind of season.
I mean, there are not full battle scenes because we still don’t have Game of Thrones‘ budget, but there are a lot of very direct confrontations; a lot of the people that you want to see smashing into each other smash into each other. I hope it’s cathartic and emotionally satisfying, but I’m a tiny bit terrified.
If Wishes Could Kill
Finally, Netflix has a trailer for If Wishes Could Kill, a new series being touted as the streamer’s “first Korean young adult horror” program. The story concerns a “mysterious app” that promises wishes, but instead “starts a countdown to death. As a group of teens becomes entangled, they must break the deadly chain to survive.”
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