The Flash Is Recruiting a Long-Gone Friend for a Mysterious Season 8 Role

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is engaged on but one other Stephen King adaptation. Renfield’s forged good points an Expanse star. A brand new have a look at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds goes previous west. Plus, get new seems to be at posters for The Batman and Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Spoilers now!

Renfield

According to Deadline, The Expanse’s Shohreh Aghdashloo has joined the forged of Renfield as Ella, “a bold woman who is one of the most feared crime lords in the city.”

Untitled Nikyati Jusu Film

Deadline moreover reviews Universal and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw have acquired the rights to a brand new, at present untitled horror movie from Nanny director, Nikyatu Jusu. Details on the plot are at present underneath wraps.

The Toxic Avenger

In dialog with Bloody Flicks, director Macon Blair said his Toxic Avenger remake was engineered to “connect with contemporary audiences” whereas nonetheless preserving “some of that Lloyd Kaufman vibe”.

I noticed Toxie as an impressionable child and it had fairly an affect on me—the absurdity and gleeful dangerous style of it. So in a single sense it’s an thrilling privilege to get to take a swing at a brand new model however it’s additionally type of daunting as a result of there are completely different objectives we’re making an attempt to hit concurrently. Troma followers are passionate and devoted and it’s necessary to make a film they really feel like honors the unique. I don’t presume we’re going to have the ability to please each single individual however the intention and the hope is that followers will really feel like we’ve preserved a few of that [Lloyd] Kaufman vibe. But on the identical time, we wish to make a film that may join with up to date audiences who could not have heard of Troma or Toxie, who’re coming into it with out that context, so it could possibly’t all be winks and nods and rehash of the unique.

I used to be approached to pitch my take. At first, I used to be hesitant however then I saved enthusiastic about it and ended up suggesting a model of the character and the world to Legendary they needed to listen to extra and we type of developed it from there. The tenet was that the story may exist by itself phrases however in spirit would really feel related to the unique.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Sonic, Tails and Knuckles have fun the Chinese New Year on three new character posters.

The Batman

Elsewhere— Batman, Penguin, Catwoman and Riddler get pleasure from their personal set of character posters courtesy of Twitter Movies. “The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate!”

Project Gemini

After junking planet Earth, a gaggle of astronauts hoping to terraform an alien planet are systematically murdered by the locals within the trailer for Project Gemini.

The Changed

Tony Todd stars within the trailer for The Changed—basically, a brand new tackle Invasion of the Body Snatchers—coming to VOD March 4.

Titans

Deadline reviews Joseph Morgan, Franka Potente and Lisa Ambalavanar have joined the forged of Titans’ fourth season. Morgan has been forged as Sebastian Blood/Brother Blood, “an introvert with a strong intelligence and a hidden darker nature”, whereas Potente will play May Bennett/Mother Mayhem, “a natural leader who always carries the threat of violence with her, a predator in human form with an unfettered belief in her mission in the world.” Ambalavanar may also recur as Jinx, “a quick-witted criminal loner and a master of dark magic with a joy for manipulating others and creating chaos while doing it.”

The Flash

Deadline additionally reviews Rick Cosnett (Det. Eddie Thawne in season one) will return for “at least” three episodes of The Flash’s eighth season, enjoying a completely different character every time.

Billy Summers

Deadline additional reviews that  Billy Summers—one more Stephen King collection from Bad Robot—is in growth from Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. The story follows the titular Summers, “a hitman who is looking to retire” as he “takes one last highly lucrative job to feather his nest. The job requires him to embed himself in a quiet town, where he pretends to be an aspiring writer (he actually pours himself into the prose). He sets up in an office with a direct view of where hitman Joel Allen will be delivered to face trial for shooting two men during a poker game. Allen also has committed enough murders for some high-level mobsters to be scared the gunman will incriminate his former employers to lessen his sentence. Summers, a meticulous craftsman, becomes more and more cynical about the mobsters who’ve hired him, and his skepticism is well warranted as things go awry following the job’s completion.”

Dungeons & Dragons

According to Variety, Rawson Marshall Thurber (Red Notice) has been employed to write down, direct and govt produce the pilot episode of the upcoming live-action Dungeons & Dragons collection from Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro, separate from the currently-planned film.

Loki

A brand new report from Backstage supposes the second season of Loki will start manufacturing this summer season.

Halo

Variety reviews David Weiner (Brave New World, Fear the Walking Dead) is now in talks to take over the position of showrunner from Stephen Kane, ought to Halo be renewed for a second season.

Star Trek: Prodigy

The Protostar crew is compelled to improvise within the synopsis for this week’s episode of Star Trek: Prodigy, “A Moral Star, Part 2″.

When the plan goes awry, the crew must improvise. Meanwhile, Gwyn discovers a dark truth that will forever jeopardize their quest toward salvation.

Written by: S1 Writers Room (Kevin & Dan Hageman, Julie Benson, Shawna Benson, Lisa Schultz Boyd, Nikhil S. Jayaram, Diandra Pendleton-Thompson, Chad Quandt, Aaron J. Waltke)

Directed by: Ben Hibon

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

A new poster for the upcoming Captain Pike spinoff, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, has been released by Paramount+, depicting the Captain on his beloved horse Tango. Or maybe Mary Lou, other horses are available.

Snowpiercer

Andre smashes Wilford in the face with some sort of steel rod in the trailer for “The First Blow,” subsequent week’s episode of Snowpiercer.

4400

Finally, Shanice makes a case for political violence in the trailer for next week’s episode of 4400.

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