The Walking Dead’s Final Season Picks Up 2 New Apocalypse Players

Alex Kurtzman desires Star Trek to get “much weirder.” Yahya Abdul-Mateen is getting his Black Manta look collectively for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Plus updates from The Mandalorian, The Lord of the Rings, and nice information for Tuca & Bertie followers. Spoilers are dropping in 3…2…1…

Blue Beetle

Xolo Maridueña confirmed to Variety he has certainly been solid as Jaime Reyes within the upcoming Blue Beetle film.

The solely factor that’s on my thoughts proper now could be simply the truth that he’s Latino. I’ve a lot delight in attending to be part of this challenge with Angel, somebody like him,” he stated. “I think it’s so important, and I don’t want to stand on the soapbox for too long but representation is so important. Luckily I have a background in martial arts and training in that kind of realm but this is a whole different game, this is like the big boys, so I’m ready to pack on a couple pounds and hit the gym.

The Three-Body Problem

Deadline reports Eiza González (Godzilla vs. Kong) is now “in talks” to affix Netflix’s adaptation of The Three-Body Problem from producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Details on her character are usually not obtainable at the moment. Don’t neglect it’s going to be a podcast additionally!

The Mandalorian

In a latest interview with WRAL.com, Giancarlo Esposito revealed Disney has “just finished shooting Boba Fett and soon they will start on season three” of The Mandalorian.

Sesame Street

According to producer Shawn Levy, the proposed Sesame Street film starring Anne Hathaway is now “trying to claw [its] way back to a new iteration of a greenlight” at a streaming service.

We had been about to make it the primary time and Anne bought pregnant. We had been about to make it the second time in [the] spring of 2020, and COVID shut us down. We now are nonetheless at Warner Brothers, and Warner Brothers, as everyone knows, is a really totally different panorama now. They’re pushing lots of their content material in direction of HBO Max. So we’re determining the trail ahead and whether or not it will likely be a streaming gambit solely [or] whether or not it will likely be a hybrid, and simply sort of attempting to claw our manner again to a brand new iteration of a greenlight.

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Starfleet Academy

During a latest interview with The New York Times, Alex Kurtzman confirmed Paramount+ continues to be curious about making that beforehand introduced Star Trek collection set at Starfleet Academy.

I feel we’re simply getting began. There’s simply a lot extra available.

Later within the interview, Kurtzman said he “wants to get much weirder” with the Star Trek franchise and start “pushing the boundaries much further than I think most people would want.” He provides, “I think we might get there. Marvel has actually proven that you can. But you have to build a certain foundation in order to get there and we’re still building our foundation.”

The Walking Dead

According to Deadline, Ian Anthony Dale has joined the solid of The Walking Dead’s closing season as Tomi, “a long-time member of a group recently discovered by our heroes” whose “existence continually impacts them in ways none of them could imagine or avoid.” Laurie Fortier has moreover been solid as Agatha, a personality whose particulars are “being kept under wraps.”

Thor: Love and Thunder

Set photographs from The Daily Mail have our first have a look at Christian Bale as Gorr, the God Butcher.

The Lord of the Rings

Filming has apparently wrapped on the primary season of Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV collection.

Evil Dead Rise

Director Lee Cronin revealed the upcoming Evil Dead Rise will introduce a pizza restaurant referencing Evil Dead II’s Henrietta Knowby.

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Yahya Abdul-Mateen is able to reprise his function as Black Manta in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom writing, “Black Manta Back Under Construction!”

Disenchanted

Director Adam Shankman confirms filming has formally wrapped on Disney’s sequel to Enchanted, Disenchanted. He wrote, “Myself and Giselle…errrr….@amyadams would just like to say: And that’s a wrap.” and stated to count on a 2022 launch.

Free Guy

We even have two new Free Guy posters—one with a mech just like the Mantis exo-suit from Halo 4.

Double Walker

A younger lady’s ghost avenges her personal mysterious loss of life within the trailer for Double Walker coming to VOD November 12.

Lightyears

Deadline additionally reviews Beth Lacke, Stephen Louis Grush, and Cass Buggé have joined the solid of Amazon’s Lightyears. Lacke will play Chandra, “a former student of lead protagonist Irene York (Sissy Spacek) who is dissatisfied with her job as a caregiver at a local nursing home and with life in general” whereas Grush has been solid as Nick, “a socially awkward loner who operates the family drapery business and who boasts his own strange charisma.” Buggé is Jeanine, a lady “married to Byron (Adam Bartley) for seven years and newly arrived in Farnsworth. She works as a customer service rep for a travel company and is trying to build a social circle. While she still loves her husband, she’s finding it increasingly difficult to tolerate his suspicions about their elderly neighbors, Irene and Franklin (J.K. Simmons).”

Our Flag Means Death

Variety additionally has phrase each Leslie Jones and Nat Faxon will seem on Our Flag Means Death in recurring roles.

Prisoners of the Ghostland

Bloody-Disgusting reviews Sion Sono’s extremely anticipated Prisoners of the Ghostland is now scheduled for a simultaneous theatrical and VOD launch on September 17, 2021.

Tuca & Bertie

Coming Soon confirms Tuca & Bertie has been formally renewed for a 3rd season at Adult Swim.

The Last of Us

New photos from the set of The Last of Us reveal post-apocalyptic Calgary.

Y: The Last Man

FX has launched one other fast teaser for Y: The Last Man.

What If…?

Jeffrey Wright introduces the collection’ idea in a brand new Marvel What If featurette.

Yellowjackets

Finally— Christina Ricci, Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, and Tawny Cypress star within the trailer for Yellowjackets, a brand new collection concerning the survivors of a highschool soccer crew’s airplane crash within the Ontario wilderness who discover one another later in life and properly, you’ll see.

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