Heart Eyes‘ Josh Ruben talks about finding the tone for his Valentines slasher. Get a gruesome look at the latest horrifying addition to the Steamboat Willie public domain pantheon. Plus, the Swan Song TV show has found its showrunner. Spoilers now!
Bloody-Disgusting reports a film adaptation of the video game Exit 8 is now in development at Toho with Genki Kawamura (Monster) attached to direct. Much like the game it’s based on, the story concerns “a man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway on a frustrating mission to get out.”
During a recent interview with Bloody-Disgusting, Heart Eyes director Josh Ruben stated he used Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives as his “north star” in balancing the film’s horror and comedy elements.
My gold standard, my north star, was Tommy McLoughlin’s Jason Lives. That film is as brutal as it is silly as it is fun, and that was the white whale. Then everything after that was searching within myself, the kid that loved rom-coms, like Sleepless in Seattle, which is as funny and sweet as it is heartbreaking, super well acted but also silly, etc. Also, movies like Defending Your Life and Big and so on and so forth.
Bloody-Disgusting also reports Jurassic World Rebirth‘s tie-in toy line from Mattel includes “The Bite n’ Blast” Mosasaurus, a giant aquatic reptile with the ability to both eat and regurgitate its prey–an included Dilophosaurus–with the press of a button. Naturally, whether this happens in the film remains to seen.
Elsewhere, Fangoria has a poster for the latest remake (lest we forget 2012’s Silent Night) of 1984’s Silent Night, Deadly Night.
Steamboat Willie extracts a man’s teeth and tongue before playing Richard Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” on a gramophone in this four-minute “sneak peek” at I Heart Willie.
Rihanna stars as Smurfette in a new Smurfs movie co-starring the voices of James Corden, Nick Offerman, JP Karliak, Daniel Levy, Amy Sedaris, Natasha Lyonne, Sandra Oh, Octavia Spencer, Nick Kroll, Hannah Waddingham, Alex Winter, Maya Erskine, Billie Lourd, Xolo Maridueña, Kurt Russell and John Goodman.
Deadline has word Anna Maxwell Martin has joined the cast of the upcoming For All Mankind spinoff, Star City, as Lyudmilla, “the head of the KGB surveillance department at Star City.” Starring Rhys Ifans, the series is described as “another alt-history retelling of the space race–when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers, and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.”
According to Deadline, Ruaridh Mollica (The Franchise) has joined the cast of Marvel’s Vision Quest in a currently undisclosed role.
Variety reports Russell Rothburg has joined the upcoming TV series based on Robert McKammon’s Swan Song as writer, executive producer, and showrunner. Hailing from Greg Nicotero, Monarch Media and Monster Agency Productions, the series’ official log line states: “Following the U.S. government’s nuclear showdown with an unprecedented malevolent enemy, the world, as it was, is gone forever. In its place is a society whose remaining citizens are caught in a life and death struggle to stay alive in a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies. One small girl offers a glimmer of hope against a supernatural being hell bent on the planet’s destruction.”
Good news! Deadline reports Shudder has officially renewed The Creep Tapes for a second season.
Finally, Adult Swim has released a trailer for Oh, My God…Yes!, a new animated comedy series about life in the 30th century.
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