Disney moves forward with a fifth Halloweentown. Pennywise returns for a “very different” second season of It: Welcome to Derry. And a new YA vampire romance combining elements of Twilight, X-Men and Harry Potter finds its director. Do you know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to Morning Spoilers!
Telephone
Deadline reports filming has wrapped on Telephone, a “sci-fi thriller” starring Laysla De Oliveira (Lioness) and Riccardo Scamarcio (A Haunting in Venice) from director Anthony Scott Burns. The story follows Sandy, a woman “abducted by her mysterious neighbors and told she must travel back in time to save the future. Once in the past, she faces a choice: trust these strangers for the sake of mankind or follow another traveler who offers to help her prevent the tragedy that shaped her life.”
What Happens at Night
Variety also reports Charlie xcx will have a “cameo” in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming “gothic psychological horror film,” What Happens at Night. Details on her role are currently under wraps.
Bond 26
Deadline additionally has word Amazon has whittled its choice for the next James Bond to just four actors expected to screen “through the next week.” They include Jack Lowden, Callum Turner, Josh O’Connor, and an unnamed fourth actor.
House of Night
Deadline also reports Johanna Watts is attached to direct the upcoming film adaptation of P.C. and Kristin Cast’s popular YA fantasy romance series, House of Night. According to the synopsis: “Zoey is marked to become a vampyre and enters the House of Night, a mysterious boarding school where teenagers with a genetic mutation learn how to survive the transformation from human to vampyre. Thrust into a seductive new world of magic, danger and desire, Zoey is surprised to discover she possesses rare powers, making her the object of both admiration and envy. As human-vampyre conflict brews, Zoey must learn to harness her growing powers, uncover the secrets surrounding her, and decide which friends she can trust – all while a dark, ancient threat lurks beyond the walls, coming for her and everyone she loves.”
Game of Pets
According to Deadline, an animated film adaptation of Aaron Blabey‘s middle-grade book series, Game of Pets, is now in development at Amazon MGM Studios, Rideback, and Foundation Media Partners. Though no director is currently attached, the story concerns Griff, “an 11-year-old kid with innumerable allergies, who learns from a talking axolotl named Bob that he may be the only one who can save the world, if he can survive his own suspiciously well-behaved pets.”
Halloweentown 5
Elsewhere, The Wrap has word a fifth Halloweentown movie is now in “early” development at the Disney Channel and Disney+. Though details on the plot are currently unavailable, Lily Houghton (Forbidden Fruits) and Ryan Koehn (Gossip Girl) are attached to write the script.
Inferno
According to a new rumor from insider Daniel Richtman (via Dread Central), a remake of the 1953 “survival thriller” Inferno is now in development at 20th Century Studios. Originally released in 3-D, the story concerns “a wealthy man who breaks his leg in the desert (Robert Ryan) and finds himself abandoned by his wife (Rhonda Fleming) and her lover (William Lundigan). They’re supposedly going to get help. In reality, they’re counting on the wilderness to finish him off, leaving him to fight his way out of a situation they don’t expect him to survive.”
Ebenezer
Bloody-Disgusting reports Ti West’s Ebenezer has been rated PG-13 for “frightening material.”
The Driftless
We also have a trailer for The Driftless, an anthology of “four terrifying tales of the macabre Midwest” concerning “Mississippi River cults, accursed liquor, time-altering artifacts, and blood-thirsty vengeance from beyond the grave.”
It: Welcome to Derry
During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Brad Caleb Kane stated the second season of It: Welcome to Derry will be both “very bloody” and “very different” from the first.
We’re making something very exciting for Season 2 that I can’t talk too much about, but it’s got a different palette. It’s the Depression, it’s 1935. Beyond that, I can’t talk about it, but you can imagine a Warner Bros. gangster picture through the lens of Pennywise and Stephen King. That’s kind of what we’re doing.
We’re deep into the writers’ room now. We have multiple scripts, we’ve broken more than half the story for season 2, and we’re edging into pre-production. Beyond that, I think I’ll get suffocated by somebody if I tell you too much more. But, yes, we are deep into it, and it is happening. It’s very exciting. It’s very, very bloody, and it’s very different from Season 1.
Eternally Yours
Finally, CBS has released a brief trailer for next week’s Halloween episode of Eternally Yours.
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