Practical Magic 2 is beginning to cast its next generation. The Backrooms movie adaptation may have found some serious stars. Fear Street: Prom Queen‘s director talks killer inspirations. Plus, what’s coming on Lazarus. Spoilers now!
Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Oscar winner Kieran Culkin is the latest star to join the Hunger Games prequel’s expansive cast. The Hollywood Reporter has word that Culkin will play a younger version of Caesar, the eccentric host of the titular games played by Stanley Tucci in the original movie series.
Street Fighter
Deadline reports Andrew Koji, Jason Momoa, Noah Centineo and Roman Reigns are currently in talks to play undisclosed characters in Legendary’s live-action Street Fighter movie, after the film was removed from next year’s release slate.
The Backrooms
Deadline also has word Chiwetel Ejiofor and Cristin Milioti are in talks to join A24’s feature adaptation of The Backrooms, the viral series of found-footage videos from Kane Parsons about an unpeopled, seemingly endless office building.
Practical Magic 2
Variety also reports Joey King has joined the cast of Practical Magic 2 as the daughter of Sandra Bullock’s character, Sally Owens.
Shaun of the Dead 2
During a recent Reddit AMA, Simon Pegg once again confirmed he has no plans for a Shaun of the Dead sequel.
I think it’s best left alone. I don’t think there’s any point in rebooting it. Some stories just have a beginning, middle and end. And the trouble with sequels sometimes, is that you have to undo the resolution of the original film in order to start another story. With films like Mission: Impossible, or the kind of superhero genre, or Star Trek, it works because it’s a continuing adventure. But with Shaun of the Dead, Shaun has an arc that he starts somewhere and ends somewhere. And we’re happy with the way that ends. And I that think sometimes, when you sequelize a film like that, you can end up spoiling the original, because when you watch the original again, you’re thinking, ‘Well they’re gonna go through this other thing.’ The resolution stops having any meaning. So, no, is the answer to that question!
Fear Street: Prom Queen
In conversation with Bloody-Disgusting, director Matt Palmer confirmed the slasher’s look in Fear Street: Prom Queen is heavily inspired by Mrs. Tredoni, the raincoat-wearing killer in Alfred Sole’s Alice, Sweet Alice.
Alice, Sweet Alice was definite influence. There’s a chase scene in that with the killer in the raincoat. And I’m big giallo fan too, so I think there was a giallo element that I always wanted from the start. We were like, ‘What color of jacket we put against the red lockers?’ We looked at yellow, but that felt a bit too on the nose, because Alice, Sweet Alice already done that. We tried blue. And then one of our concept artists came back with red on red, which we hadn’t thought of because we were looking for something that wasn’t red, and it was like, ‘Oh, my God! That looks awesome!’ Ironically, I read that the guy who directed Alice, Sweet Alice said that he always wanted a red raincoat but couldn’t do that because it already been done in Don’t Look Now, so we ended up back where Alice, Sweet Alice wanted to be. The mask took a long time. There’s been so many iconic horror masks. It felt like everything had been done, and it was a bit of a panic. Then the production designer came back with that one, and it scared the shit out of all of us when we looked at it, so we were like, ‘That’s that’s the one.’ And then the Wellington boots, which is just more practical, really, in terms of wading around in everyone’s blood.
Talk to Me 2
Meanwhile, Danny and Michael Philippou provided an update on Talk to Me 2 during their recent appearance on The Boo Crew podcast (via Bloody-Disgusting).
We have two versions of the script for Talk to Me 2 that are focusing on two different sets of characters that are in two different places. I’m equally excited about both. There’s one scene in one of them that I think will be one of the best things I ever shoot. I think it’s so horrific. I’m like this is insane and I’ve already started talking to people. I’m like, how can we pull this off practically? So those conversations are happening, but it’s about stepping away from the world and then coming back into it super reinvigorated. So that’s why we didn’t do that next.
I’m writing another horror movie at the moment, which I adore so much. And it feels like it’s huge. So there’s that. And then I think would be Talk to Me 2.
Jurassic World Rebirth
Bloody-Disgusting additionally has seven new posters for Jurassic World Rebirth, in which, unsurprisingly, people are imperiled by dinosaurs.
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Marguerite Moreau plays a “dirt-jouster” in the post-apocalypse who agrees to heist the last freshwater aquifer from a Native American reservation in order to escape a manslaughter charge in the trailer for The Protector.
Escape from the 21st Century
We also have another trailer for Escape from the 21st Century, the upcoming film in which three kids from 1999 discover they can travel back and forth 20 years through time by sneezing, and that 2019 absolutely sucks.
Lazarus
Finally, Adult Swim has released a clip from this week’s episode of Lazarus.
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