Amber Midthunder isn’t sure if she’ll return to the Predator franchise any time soon. Sarah Michelle Gellar discusses how quickly the Buffy revival is coming together. Plus, get another new look at The Toxic Avenger, and try not to be too surprised: Jonathan Frakes teases that there’s going to be a starship in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Spoilers away!
Untitled M. Night Shyamalan/Nicholas Sparks Project
Deadline reports Phoebe Dynevor is in talks to star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in M. Night Shyamalan’s mysterious “supernatural romance” made in collaboration with Nicholas Sparks.
Avengers: Doomsday
During a recent interview with Omelete (via Screen Rant), Joe Russo described Doomsday and Infinity War as “a new beginning” for the MCU.
The greatest thing that ever happened is we got to, you know, get immersed in you know a 20 movie arc and and see an ending to that arc. What’s compelling about these two new Avengers movies is they’re a beginning. It’s a new beginning. We told an ending story, now we’re going to tell a beginning story. And then who knows where we’ll go from there. Maybe it’ll be another 5 years but I think we just needed that time and perspective to figure out where it needed to go next, and the only thing that brought us back was the right story.
In another recent interview with The Times, Anthony Russo confirmed Iron Man’s death in Endgame somehow tees up Robert Downey, Jr.’s return as Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday.
We can’t explain that as it’s part of the story. But there’s nobody else in the world who could play this character the way he’s about to.
Untitled Predator Project/Predator: Badlands
Meanwhile, Amber Midthunder told Collider she “doesn’t know” if Naru will ever return to the Predator franchise following Prey.
I don’t know. I don’t know what’s happening. [Laughs] I genuinely don’t. I also want to do another one. I would be happy to do another one. I love Dan Trachtenberg with my whole heart. I love that world, I love that character, and I think that there’s some fun ideas out there that I’ve heard that are very cool. I’m really excited. He obviously has Badlands coming out this year, so I’m really excited to see that. Whatever Dan does, I will always be his fan.
The Toxic Avenger
Fangoria has a new poster for the upcoming Toxic Avenger remake, finally seeing release this August.
The Variable Man
Deadline also reports a TV series based on Philip K. Dick’s The Variable Man is now in development from Humans creators, Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent. The “grounded sci-fi project” is said to concern “a cold war during which sides calculate their chances of winning with advanced tech.”
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
During a recent appearance at this year’s Indiana Comic Convention (via Screen Rant), Jonathan Frakes stated Starfleet Academy is aimed at “hardcore Star Trek fans” and boasts “the most massive set of any Star Trek” series, “ever.”
[Robert] Picardo’s in it, Tig Notaro’s in it. Right? I love Tig. But it has the most massive set of any Star Trek ever. There’s also a spaceship on the show, which I think, I hope that’s not a fucking secret. I have been known—I’ve had a bad experience with oversharing, and I hope that wasn’t an overshare, but it’s fabulous. The sets are great. The scripts are—they’re funny, which is always helpful on Star Trek… It’s [aimed at] much more hardcore Star Trek fans.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Meanwhile, Sarah Michelle Gellar told People the new Buffy series is “progressing probably faster” than she’d originally anticipated.
We’ve set up our offices, which means things are progressing probably faster than I’d anticipated. But it’s going to be a process, I think. To do it the way it needs to be done, everyone has to be patient with all of us, because this isn’t something that [will just happen].
I pinch myself every day when I get into these rooms, and I’m looking at Gail Berman, the Zuckermans and Chloé Zhao. It’s an incredible group. There was no world where I thought Chloé Zhao was going to call me and partner with me, and ask my advice on things and my opinion — especially because she hasn’t done television. She’ll call me, and she’ll say, ‘Well, I have to defer to you,’ and I’m like, ‘Wait, what?’ Those aren’t words I ever thought I would hear.
Yellowjackets
Finally, the team debate what to do about the unexpected eyewitnesses to their latest cannibalistic ceremony in the trailer for “Croak,” this week’s episode of Yellowjackets.
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