HBO Max’s Dune Prequel Has Found a Director

Doctor Who’s Sylvester McCoy heads to Rob Zombie’s Munsters. Elisabeth Moss hypes up the following season of The Handmaid’s Tale. The Flash faces some ghosts from the previous in a preview for subsequent week’s episode. Plus, a teeny new tease for Obi-Wan Kenobi. Spoilers get!

Poppy Playtime

Deadline stories Mob Games is partnering with Studio71 on a movie adaptation of Poppy Playtime, the favored survival horror recreation through which “a former employee of Playtime Co. receives a cryptic message on a VHS tape,” prompting him to “revisit an abandoned Playtime toy factory following the mysterious disappearance of their entire staff, which happened 10 years prior.” The seek for a author, director and producer remains to be below means.

The Unravelling

Deadline additionally stories Tom Meetan is hooked up to star in The Unravelling, an upcoming horror movie from producer Ben Wheatley and director Gareth Tunley through which a person experiences “increasing hostility from the world around him – including his own once-loving family, colleagues and friends. Soon, inexplicably and terrifyingly, everyone in the world is trying to kill him!”

Wolf Manor

Filming has wrapped on Wolf Manor, a movie starring James Fleet, Jay Taylor, Thaila Zucchi, Rupert Procter and John Henshaw through which the crew of a vampire film is as a substitute attacked by a werewolf. Head over to Bloody-Disgusting for images.

Allegoria

Shudder has acquired the North American streaming rights to Allegoria, a horror movie starring Krsy Fox, Bryce Johnson, Scout Compton and Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Adam Busch. Written and directed by Spider One, the movie follows “a group of artists” whose “lives become unwittingly entangled as their obsessions and insecurities manifest monsters, demons and death.” The movie will likely be out there to stream on the service August 2, based on Bloody-Disgusting.

Day Shift

Meanwhile, Jamie Foxx’s personal vampire slayer film, Day Shift, will likely be out there to stream August 12, 2022 on Netflix. [Bloody-Disgusting]

The Munsters

Rob Zombie shared a brand new picture of Sylvester McCoy’s Igor on Instagram.

🌙 After one other lengthy night time of capturing on THE MUNSTERS it’s a wrap on our new pal Sylvester McCoy! 🦇 I do know you will love him as IGOR. He an ideal addition to our loopy new world of Gods and Munsters . 💀💀💀💀💀 #themunsters #robzombie #sylvestermccoy #drwho #anewworldofgodsandmunsters

DASHCAM

A musician’s want to interrupt quarantine “incites contempt from her progressive friends” propelling her into “a perilous and profane high-wire horror chase through an increasingly foreboding English countryside” within the trailer for DASHCAM.

Dune: The Sisterhood

Variety stories the Dune prequel sequence at HBO Max has set Chernobyl director Johan Renck to helm the primary two episodes. The sequence is ready “10,000 years prior to the events” of the Denis Villeneuve film, and can comply with “the Harkonnen Sisters as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind and establish the fabled sect known as the Bene Gesserit.”

The Handmaid’s Tale

In dialog with TV Line, Elisabeth Moss admitted she “almost can’t keep up” with the “amount of activity that’s happening” within the fifth season of The Handmaid’s Tale.

I’ll say that the season itself is probably one of many wilder rides that we’ve had. We’ve positively had some seasons [where], you realize, lots occurs. Some seasons, not as a lot occurs. I virtually can’t sustain with [what happens in the upcoming episodes] and it’s not lip service. I really imply I virtually can’t sustain with the quantity of exercise that’s taking place.

Stranger Things

Season one Eleven will get a season 4 character poster courtesy of the official Stranger Things Twitter web page.

Kung Fu

Mia learns the reality about herself within the trailer for “Disclosure,” subsequent week’s episode of Kung Fu.

The Flash

Ghosts from the previous hold returning within the trailer for “Death Falls,” subsequent week’s episode of The Flash.

Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi

Finally, a brand new teaser for the Obi-Wan Kenobi sequence, re-using principally all the things from the unique teaser, poetically states “the Jedi code is like an itch… they cannot help it!”

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