With Jordan Peele on production duties and rumors of Sorry to Bother You star Lakeith Stanfield being eyed for a major role, there’s reason to believe that the upcoming “spiritual sequel” to 1992’s Candyman may have a lot more to offer than your average horror reboot.
The fact that Zac Efron is hardly the first actor you’d expect to play a real life serial killer makes it tempting to characterize the recently premiered Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile as an opportunity for the Neighbors star to show his range as a performer. But while many a former teen star before him has turned to darker material as a means of counteracting a potential typecast, Efron claims that the role of Ted Bundy appealed to him for entirely different reasons.
For the past year, most of what we’ve heard about Matt Reeves’ The Batman has taken the form of rumor and unverified reports, but in a recent interview with THR, the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes helmsman finally opened up about the Caped Crusader’s next solo outing.
Rumors of Anakin Skywalker or Darth Vader making an appearance in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy have been making the rounds online for longer than Disney has even been releasing these films, and so far, there’s been nothing to show for all the hearsay. Nonetheless, with Star Wars: Episode IX said to be the grand finale for the entire Skywalker Saga, this seems like as good an opportunity as any for the famously nostalgic J.J. Abrams to play this card, and in a new piece from CinemaBlend, the case is assessed on how likely it is that there might finally be some substance behind all the murmurings.
As MGM prepares to bring a new Chucky to the big screen with the upcoming Child’s Play reboot, franchise creator Don Mancini and peers are at work on a TV show that continues in the original continuity of the property. And if you need further assurance that we’ll be getting the same demonic doll that left a trail of victims through seven movies over the course of two decades, we now have confirmation that Chucky will still be able to swear once he makes the jump to Syfy.
Though Fast and Furious 9 is slightly over a year away from release, much of the focus right now is on the upcoming spinoff movie Hobbs and Shaw, which will see Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham’s characters team up against a new villain played by Idris Elba. But once the David Leitch-helmed film has arrived in cinemas, it seems that it could be a long wait before we see Luke Hobbs back on our screens.
A few days ago, several Avengers: Endgame LEGO figures leaked online that teased the return of three of Iron Man’s older suits in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War sequel. But while a few callbacks to the hero’s solo adventures would be all well and good, Tony Stark is a character who’s always looking ahead to the next suit of armor, which is where this latest toy leak comes in.
Any big screen adaptation of a real life serial killer will inevitably be the subject of some controversy, and in the case of Joe Berlinger’s Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, the common accusation is that the film glorifies the life and persona of Ted Bundy.
With production now wrapped for Rambo V: Last Blood, fans are keen to see whether the long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s Rambo can recapture the magic of the series’ heyday, but if Sylvester Stallone had stuck with his earlier plans for a fifth movie in the decades-spanning saga, then this next installment would’ve been a radical departure from the franchise norm.
What was already an impressive cast list for the upcoming Zombieland 2 now has one more noteworthy addition in the form of Rosario Dawson, with Deadline reporting that the 25th Hour star is set to join the likes of Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin for the long-awaited follow-up to 2009's Zombieland.
