Grantchester's Tom Brittney May Be the New Batman
Rapper 50 Cent brings a comic book about snorting cremains to Starz. Both Nicolas Winding Refn’s sci-fi/giallo and Yeon Sang-ho’s Neuralink zombie movies get their first trailers. The X-Men battle the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—but maybe not the ones you were expecting. I am the rocks of the eternal shore, crash against me and be broken. It’s Morning Spoilers!
According to a new rumor from World of Reel, Grantchester actor Tom Brittney has been cast as Batman in James Gunn’s The Brave and The Bold.
Deadline reports that Simu Liu has joined the cast of Xavier Gens’ sci-fi survival thriller, Homewrecker, in a currently undisclosed role. Starring Allison Williams and Michelle Randolph, the story is said to feature “three star-crossed Americans” who “are suddenly forced to work together to survive a terrifying unexplained global event that threatens to destroy life as they know it.”
Deadline also reports Sonia Mena will star alongside Chase Yi in Paranormal Activity 8.
Sadie Sink confirms her mystery character is neither Spider-Man nor Aunt May in a new Chinese promo for Brand New Day.
Someone called the “Leather Man” stalks a cyberpunk city of the future in the first trailer for Her Private Hell, a sci-fi/giallo mashup from director Nicolas Winding Refn boasting an original score from Pino Donnaggio. Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton, Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu, Diego Calva, Dougray Scott, Aoi Yamada, Shioli Kutsuna, and Hidetoshi Nishijima star.
A woman with amnesia must contend with a giant leech monster and her father’s ghost in the trailer for The Leaching.
A zombifying virus is unleashed at a bio-tech conference on neural linking in the trailer for Colony, the latest film from Train to Busan director, Yeon Sang-ho.
Entertainment Weekly has word Eva Green sustained “a really nasty” injury (possibly to her leg) while filming the third season of Wednesday in Dublin, Ireland. “In the aftermath,” the outlet notes, “production was halted while the shooting schedule was rearranged.” Thankfully, she is now said to be “recovering well.”
Deadline reports that a TV series based on Bone Parish, the BOOM! Studios comic book by Cullen Bunn and Jonas Scharf is now in development at Starz. Developed for television by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Diane Ademu-John (Dune: Prophecy) and Declan de Barra (The Witcher: Blood Origin), the series is said to be set “in the dark underworld of New Orleans,” where “the Winters family builds an empire around a powerful new drug—crafted from the ashes of the dead—that grants users vivid, haunting visions of the past. But as demand surges, rival factions, deadly secrets, and supernatural forces close in, pulling them deeper into a violent and inescapable nightmare of crime, horror, and family legacy.”
THR reports that Disney+ and the Disney Channel have ordered a new live-action series based on Max Brallier’s The Last Kids on Earth range of YA novels. The new version hails from showrunners Chad Fiveash and James Stoteraux (The Vampire Diaries, Gotham Knights) with Kevin Tancharoen (The Brothers Sun, Agents of SHIELD) attached to direct. The official logline reads: “When monsters overrun the sleepy town of Wakefield, a mismatched group of teens must band together, not only to survive, but to become the unlikely heroes charged with stopping the end of the world.”
Finally, the X-Men battle the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (The Uncanny X-Force version, with the Confederate drummer and beetle-vomiting geisha) in a new clip from X-Men ’97.
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