Robert Egger’s Werwulf gets an “R” for mondo “disturbing violent content.” The long-awaited Sharknado prequel movie gets a poster. Don Mancini reveals he’s prepping a new Chucky project. And Francis Lawrence reveals he’s “more hopeful” for his Constantine sequel in light of recent events. What if I told you that God and the devil made a wager, a kind of standing bet for the souls of all mankind? It’d tell you it’s Morning Spoilers!
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
During his recent appearance on The Morning Mosh Pit (via Screen Rant), Andy Serkis revealed filming has wrapped on The Hunt for Gollum.
We’ve just wrapped principal photography and I’m directing this one, so it’s been an incredible journey back into an endlessly complex and wonderfully drawn and written character for the third time. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit trilogy, and now going back in on this film. So, I’m very excited about it. He just is one of Tolkien’s most complicated characters and does definitely bear closer examination.
The Mummy: Book of the Dead
Meanwhile, Arnold Vosloo recently confirmed his return as Imhotep in The Mummy: Book of the Dead during his recent appearance on the Danger Close Podcast (via Bloody-Disgusting).
I can report now…I just signed my deal. We are doing another Mummy. Brendan and them are shooting now in London. And the character Imhotep is back, that I play. I’ll be going there in November. The first time I’ve admitted… I’m back in the next Mummy. Imhotep is back. Somebody wakes me up… they read from the Book of the Dead…and there we are. The script’s very good. I’m excited.
Behind the Mask II: The Return of Leslie Vernon
According to actor Ben Pace on Instagram, filming has officially begun on Behind the Mask II: The Return of Leslie Vernon.
Child’s Play 8
According to a new report from Deadline, Don Mancini is now “developing the next iteration of the Chucky franchise” while simultaneously “expanding his creative footprint with a slate of original film and television projects.”
They Follow
Speaking with People magazine, Maika Monroe praised the work of returning cinematographer Mike Gioulakis on They Follow.
[The sequel] definitely is [on] a bigger scale, but I think it’s still very grounded in the original. And one of my favorite parts was the cinematography and the shots, and I think all that is very much there.
Werwulf
Dread Central reports Robert Egger’s Werwulf has been rated “R” for “strong bloody/disturbing violent content, gore, sexual assault, graphic nudity, and strong sexual content.”
Constantine 2
Speaking with Collider, Francis Lawrence admitted he’s “now more hopeful” his long-gestating sequel to Constantine will finally see the light of day following James Gunn and Peter Safran’s exit at DC Studios.
Well, I’ll tell you this. Not that I want anybody to lose their jobs, so this is not like a schadenfreude kind of thing, but I will say that we’ve been trying to make Constantine 2 for 20-something years, and we have an idea, and we have a script, and we’ve been wanting to make it, and the people that were at DC were an impediment to us making it. So, we are now more hopeful as of yesterday’s news that maybe now there will be another opportunity. But again, we’ve been trying to make this for 20-something years, and there’s always been obstacles in the road to making it, and it’s not me, it’s not Keanu, it’s not Akiva. J.J. [Abrams] is on it, as well. We all want to do it. So, it’s really going to be people at Paramount, Warner, whoever’s running DC now, getting everybody on board to say, like, ‘Hey, we can do a sequel of our version of Constantine.’
Sharknado Origins
Dread Central also has a new poster for Sharknado Origins, the first Sharknado movie since 2018.
Get Jiro
Finally, Adult Swim has released a clip from this Saturday’s new episode of Get Jiro.
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