Netflix’s Narnia Adaptations May Have Found a Surprising Director

David Harbour retains hyping up the Thunderbolts film. Ross Duffer teases Stranger Things’ remaining season as a return to the primary. Plus, a brand new have a look at the return of His Dark Materials, and what’s approaching The Mayfair Witches. Spoilers get!

The Chronicles of Narnia

According to What’s on Netflix, Netflix is courting Greta Gerwig (Barbie) to direct “the first two films in its upcoming reboot of The Chronicles of Narnia as a streaming film and television franchise.”

Constantine 2

During a latest interview with The Wrap, director Francis Lawrence said he hopes to make his Constantine sequel a “real R-rated movie” as an alternative of the “R-rated movie that’s really a PG-13 movie” he felt the primary movie was.

One of the largest issues for me in regards to the first one was we adopted, per Warner Bros., the foundations to make a PG-13 film when it comes to violence, blood, language, sexuality. But the scores board gave us a tough R based mostly on their the grey zone of depth. And my huge, huge remorse was that we have now an R-rated film that’s actually a PG-13 film. And if I used to be going to should go have an R, I might have actually made an R-rated film. I might have made it a lot scarier and far more violent and I might have actually made an R-rated film.

The concept is that this time, not less than for me, is to essentially go at it and make an actual R-rated Constantine which is, I feel, what folks all the time needed initially, not the PG-13 model that simply occurs to get an R.

Thunderbolts

Meanwhile, David Harbour described his Thunderbolts staff as “losers” in a latest interview with ComicBook.

We’re like losers, which I like (laughs). We’re the losers. I feel it’s enjoyable to observe us simply mess every part up. It’s very humorous; there’s additionally lots of pathos in that. There’s lots of drama in a bunch of people that simply preserve getting their lives incorrect and — due to character flaws — preserve messing issues up.

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey

IGN has our first have a look at Christopher Robin within the upcoming Winnie the Pooh slasher film, Blood and Honey.

The Pale Blue Eye

Netflix has additionally launched a brand new poster for The Pale Blue Eye.

#FLOAT

A gaggle of vloggers decides floating down a haunted river makes for good content material within the trailer for #FLOAT.

Stranger Things

Speaking with Variety, Ross Duffer said the ultimate season of Stranger Things can be “sort of the [same] tone” as season one.

[Season 5], the way in which we see it, is form of a end result of all of the seasons, so it’s form of obtained a little bit bit from every. Whereas earlier than every season was so distinctly… [Season] 3 is our huge summer time blockbuster season with huge monsters, and [Season] 4 was the psychological horror. I feel that what we’re making an attempt to do is return to the start a little bit bit, in form of the tone of 1.

Welcome to Derry

Also in dialog with Variety, HBO Max Head of Originals Sarah Aubrey described the upcoming It prequel sequence as “demented.”

We have been working with Jason Fuchs, Brad Caleb Kane, Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti very carefully. They’re so deep into this mythology they usually have such a agency deal with on the storytelling round these characters and in addition the demented scares that they’re placing into issues. Sometimes I’m, like, ‘What’s incorrect with you?’ Just all of the wild methods they assume as much as terrify us. You’ll be listening to extra concretely about that improvement very quickly. Andy could be very concerned in each little bit of this, so that’s the actual recipe for fulfillment and for delighting followers.

His Dark Materials

Spoiler TV has images from the third season premiere of His Dark Materials. Click by to see the remainder.

The Mayfair Witches

AMC has additionally launched an particularly gothic TV spot for The Mayfair Witches.

Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock

Finally, the Fraggles take pleasure in their first vacation particular since both 1984’s “The Bells of Fraggle Rock” or 1987’s A Muppet Family Christmas (their lore is totally different every time) within the trailer for “Night of the Lights,” airing November 18 on Apple TV+.

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