Disney’s Haunted Mansion Movie May Have Found Its Stars

Moonhaven’s solid continues to develop. Issa Rae and J.J. Abrams are engaged on an adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Fledgling for HBO. Plus, new footage from Day of the Dead and Legends of Tomorrow’s return, and what’s subsequent for American Horror Stories. Spoilers get!

Haunted Mansion

THR reviews Tiffany Haddish and LaKeith Stanfield are actually in talks to star in Disney’s Haunted Mansion film from director Juston Simien. Stanfield will play “a widower who once believed in the supernatural but is now a rather lifeless tour guide in New Orleans’ French Quarter” whereas Haddish has been solid as “a psychic hired to commune with the dead.”

Evil Dead Rises

During a latest interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bruce Campbell re-iterated that he doesn’t seem in Evil Dead Rises however went on to hype the upcoming Evil Dead online game.

I gained’t be showing in it, no. I will be within the upcoming Evil Dead recreation, which I believe is due for February 2022. I simply completed the voice for that. The good factor is, your voice doesn’t age as a lot as your physique, so I can milk that for just a few extra years. I’ve received to say, I’m pleasantly stunned by the sport. When you will have merchandising and stuff that comes out of your motion pictures, you need it to be good, you don’t need it to be rubbish. In this case, it received delayed and delayed and delayed, like a number of years, however what occurred is, they have been attempting to do it proper. They received mainly all of the characters from the universe, from the flicks, the TV present, it’s spectacular who they’re bringing again. I’ve seen the gameplay and it’s lastly like several nice recreation that’s on the market. The Evil Dead, we’ve had three, 4 or so video games previously. They have been okay, they have been slightly clunky, however I believe they’re now up swinging with the massive boys. Everything in it’s precisely what avid gamers anticipate so far as high quality. It’s actually cool and so they have younger, medium, and previous Ash, which is smart should you’re going to cowl the entire Evil Dead. Some individuals I believe most likely wish to play the crabby, older, trash-talking Ash. I believe most avid gamers will go, yeah, this was well worth the wait.

The Suicide Squad

In dialog with Comic Book, Peter Capaldi said he “stuck to” James Gunn’s script for his interpretation of the Thinker after discovering it “quite difficult to pin down” the character from his “various” and “confusing” depictions within the comics.

My introduction was the script. I simply learn the script. James requested me to do it after which despatched me the script, and I believed the script was nice. And that’s actually the place I took it from. I dug into a number of the comics, which is an archeological dig to take a look at his numerous in comics. It was fairly tough to pin down precisely who he was as a result of he modifies a lot. And additionally, he appears to be fairly previous after which he disappears, after which he comes again once more. And I believed it was fairly complicated. I believed I’d be higher simply to cleave to the script. Stick with the script and attempt to conjure up that Thinker, versus making a reference to the comics. The very first thing while you go on the web and name him up, you get slightly drawing of him within the orange jumpsuit, which type of is iconic for him and did, I believe, affect James and our Thinker. But yeah, no, I simply tried to do what the script tells me to do. It’s fairly tough. I imply, James is good, I believe, nevertheless it’s a really heightened form of world that you need to attempt to exist in and be humorous and scary on the identical time.

James Gunn himself additionally shared a brand new Suicide Squad poster on Twitter.

Untitled James Gunn DC Projects

On the identical topic, Gunn revealed he’s spoken to Warner Bros. about future DC initiatives following the Peacemaker TV sequence.

Moonhaven

Joe Manganiello has joined the solid of AMC’s Moonhaven as Tomm Schultz, “an ex-military” personnel “with a philosophical bent” who serves as “the right hand of the lead Earth diplomat to the moon.” Shultz will “find his ambitions changed when he’s injected with a mind-altering moon drug.” [Deadline]

From

According to Deadline, Shaun Majumder, Avery Konrad, Hannah Cheramy, Simon Webster, Ricky He, Chloe Van Landschoot and Pegah Ghafoori have joined the solid of From, a “contemporary sci-fi/horror series” about “a nightmarish town in Middle America that traps all those who enter.” Cheramy will play Julie Matthews, “the daughter of Jim (Eion Bailey) and Tabitha Matthews (Sandino Moreno)“ and sister of Webster’s character, Ethan. He will play Kenny, “Sheriff Boyd’s deputy” whereas Van Landschoot performs Kristi, a pupil “trapped in town during her 3rd year of med school.” “Majumder will play the mysterious Father Khatri while Ghafoori is Fatima, “a resident of Colony House and an Iranian immigrant to the US.” Konrad rounds out the solid as Sara, “a true wildcard among the town’s residents: some think her mind was simply fractured by the nightmare of the town; others wonder if, in her madness, Sara is closer to the secrets of this place than anyone else.”

Fledgling

Deadline additionally reviews HBO is adapting Octavia Butler’s vampire novel, Fledgling, right into a TV sequence from Issa Rae, J.J. Abrams, and Lovecraft Country’s Sonya Winton-Odamtten and Jonathan I. Kidd. The story follows “an apparently amnesiac young girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted — and still wants — to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself.”

Stargirl

At a latest press occasion coated by Comic Book, Geoff Johns said John Wesley-Shipp’s upcoming look as Jay Garrick “opens up the door” for future Flash crossovers on Stargirl.

I grew up watching The Flash TV present, he was my favourite superhero once I was a child and I used to be blown away by John Wesley Shipp when he performed The Flash after which was fortunate sufficient to work with him on The Flash. And when he began taking part in Jay Garrick and we introduce our model of the Justice Society and we’re on earth-2 just like the comics, we’re on our personal Earth separate from the remainder of these exhibits, however to have John play Jay Garrick The Flash in Stargirl, it connects our universe instantly with the opposite exhibits and in addition exhibits that we’re a part of a grander universe. And it opens up the door to alternatives for us to finally work together with these characters. And that was vital, identical to the comics, and once we do do it, we’ll do it in a hopefully very particular Stargirl manner.

Legends of Tomorrow

Comic Book has photographs from “The Final Frame,” the August 8 return episode of Legends of Tomorrow. More on the hyperlink.

Superman & Lois

Comic Book additionally has photographs from “The Eradicator,” the August 10 episode of Superman & Lois. Click by means of for extra.

Day of the Dead

Elsewhere, Bloody-Disgusting has photographs from the premiere episode of Day of the Dead.

Roswell, New Mexico

KSiteTV has new portraits of Roswell, New Mexico’s third season solid. See the others on the hyperlink.

Riverdale

KSiteTV additionally has a brand new poster for the upcoming episodes of Riverdale.

American Horror Stories

Santa Claus curses a gaggle of social media influencers who livestream a person’s suicide within the trailer for “The Naughty List”—subsequent week’s episode of American Horror Stories. 

Motherland: Fort Salem

Finally, Raelle wakes up three occasions within the trailer for “Irrevocable,” subsequent week’s episode of Motherland: Fort Salem.

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