Jason Reitman reveals The Real Ghostbusters‘ relation to Night Shift. Katharine Isabelle battles a cosmic horror from beyond the stars. Hugh Jackman confirms he’s still the MCU’s one-and-only Wolverine… but for how long? Don’t be what they made you—it’s Morning Spoilers!
The Mandela Catalogue
According to Deadline, Steven Spielberg is teaming with United Artists‘ Scott Stuber and Amazon MGM Studios on a feature film based on the popular YouTube horror series, The Mandela Catalogue. Directed by series creator Alex Kister from a script co-written with Tyler Clifton, the film will expound on the show’s premise: the fictional Mandela County, Wisconsin, has been “invaded by shape-shifting, nearly immortal creatures called “Alternates” that plan to bully mankind into eliminating itself.
Untitled Dario Argento Project
In a recent interview with the Italian news outlet Adnkronos (via World of Reel), Dario Argento stated his upcoming film starring Isabelle Huppert will be “the bloodiest of his career.”
It’s a very strong, very bloody film. Isabelle Huppert is gorgeous. An actress of unheard-of class. I’ve seen everything she’s done, cinema, television, and theater. It’s a spectacle to see her.
The Gunfighter
Deadline also reports Patrick Perez Vidauri is attached to direct The Gunfighter, an action film about a masked vigilante starring Vannessa Vasquez. Written by Tom Jenkins, the story follows Johnny Bandit, “a philosophy student by day and a mysterious masked vigilante by night. As his relentless pursuit of justice ignites fear, admiration, and controversy throughout the city, law enforcement races to uncover the man behind the mask while the public becomes divided over whether he is a dangerous outlaw or the hero the system has failed to be.”
Wolverine and The X-Men
In a recent interview with PBS, Hugh Jackman reiterated once again he is committed to continue playing Wolverine until Marvel decides to recast the character.
I’m 57. I’m doing it till I’m 90. So, you know… I’ll do a little time capsule for them.
I’m not going to say anything to whoever plays him, ’cause no one said anything to me, which I really am thrilled about. And I had not read the comics, so I was just coming to it fresh. And I learned a lot over the years. Of course I’ve got my own take, but it must be melding in with me in some way. I hope someone just comes in and does whatever the f*** they want and makes it their own.
Freaks Part II
Fantasia has our first look at Freaks Part II, the sequel to Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein’s 2018 film, Freaks. Set “several years after” their traumatic escape in the first film, the sequel sees Mary (Amanda Crew) and her daughter Chloe (Lorelei Olivia Mote) as they “live on the road, hiding their powers and identities. They are hunted by the Abnormal Defense Force, paramilitary police that specialize in ruthlessly exterminating ‘freaks‘ like them. Mary is fueled by revenge, determined to find the ADF officer (Lili Taylor) who killed her first child.“
Junction Row
Katharine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps, Hannibal) plays a recovering addict who must rescue Natalie Brown (The Strain) from a Lovecraftian monster, its spider-like brood, and a gang of drug dealers in the trailer for Junction Row.
Nightborn
Saga (Seidi Haarla) and her British husband Jon (Rupert Grint) struggle to raise their bloodsucking baby in the trailer for Nightborn, the latest film from Hatching director Hanna Bergholm.
Ghostbusters: Night Shift
Speaking with THR, Jason Reitman compared Ghostbusters: Night Shift to the Clone Wars animated series in terms of working lock-step with the timeline of the previous films.
It’s only important if you’re concerned about space and time. Night Shift is very specifically set within the larger context of the Ghostbusters stories. You’ll be able to watch the movies, come into the show, watch more movies and never miss a beat. It all links up.
We gave ourselves a mystery to solve. We thought of this young girl who found a proton pack in a barn, and we were trying to figure out who she was, how’d she wind up there, how did this proton pack get there. That naturally led to another question: Wait a second, what about that whole decade in between? What happened in the ’90s? That was the birth of this show.
Later in the the same interview, Reitman confirmed the show will be heavily influenced by The Real Ghostbusters, though he suggests that neither that series nor the Extreme Ghostbusters of the ’90s will be viewed as “canon.”
We started to watch [the 1980s/90s cartoon] The Real Ghostbusters. It actually became more than just inspiration for those films. It made us see the extraordinary possibility that Ghostbusters stories have when you stretch your elbows out a little bit. A series allows you to tell a character story, or character stories, with more space.
Anyone who’s coming into this animated series thinking they’re about to watch the series from the ’80s, oh, are they in for a surprise. It is funnier, it is scarier. The visuals are incredibly dynamic, and it does the thing that that first film in ’84 did, which is you come in thinking, ‘okay, maybe I’ll have a laugh,’ and then it spooks the shit out of you.
I think we all loved it in maybe different ways. It is so inventive, it’s so different, it has such a great identity. Maybe we are reining it in a little bit because this series is canon, and we’re trying to stay within the realm of maybe the movies. But at the same time it’s animation, so we’re still able to really expand and explore.
Rick and Morty
Finally, Rick and Morty are “reformed” by a living tree in an extended clip from this Sunday’s new episode.
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