The new Pet Sematary adaptation has found a star. The Russo brothers just won’t stop teasing the ominous importance of Avengers 4‘s real title. The Vampire Diaries‘ Ian Somerhalder heads to Netflix for even more vampiric shenanigans. Plus, new looks at the cast of Cloak and Dagger, and new footage from Deadpool 2, Supergirl and iZombie. Spoilers, punch it!
Han and Chewie probably won’t be bumping into a certain Bounty Hunter in Solo: A Star Wars Story… as far as we know at least. Image: Lucasfilm (Disney)
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Empire has some new pictures, including an interesting one of Paul Bettany as Dryden Vos, “a facially-scarred ‘big-shot’ criminal overlord who recruits a crew of reprobates for a heist”. Note the samurai-esque Mandalorian armour in the background, previously seen in the blurry background of a set photo from Ron Howard, which had some believing Boba Fett could make an appearance in the movie. He still could, of course, but now we know that this set of armour specifically is not Fett’s.
The magazine also has an image of Han, perilously hanging off the side of the Conveyex train (start your “Han Dies in Solo: A Star Wars Story” rumours now!) on the snowy world that’s been a huge part of the two trailers, and which finally has a name: Vandor.
Pet Sematary
Jason Clarke is in talks to play Louis Creed, the patriarch of the tragic Creed family in Starry Eyes directors Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch’s remake of Pet Sematary. Dale Midkiff originated the role in Mary Lambert’s 1989 original, based on the novel by Stephen King. [THR]
The Kitchen
THR reports Domhnall Gleeson is in “final negotiations” to play Gabriel O’Malley, “an intense Vietnam vet who works for neighbourhood gangsters as a hitman before skipping town” in Andrea Berloff’s film adaptation of the comic book from DC/Vertigo.
Avengers 4
In a recent interview with Yahoo UK, Joe Russo stated “it will be quite some time” after the release of Infinity War before the official title of Avengers 4 is revealed to the public.
No, no. It’s going to be quite a long while before people see that title. We need people to see this movie, digest this movie, and then we can tell them what the next story is they’re going to see.
Deadpool 2
We have three new “Walking Deadpool” TV spots from this week’s season finale of The Walking Dead. They’re mostly old footage, but there’s a few new shots in there too.
#WalkingDeadpool is like regular #Deadpool, except one’s flesh decomposes, and the other’s just looks like it. Stand by for Part 2! pic.twitter.com/Yl7rqTzlYi
— Deadpool Movie (@deadpoolmovie) April 16, 2018
Want more #WalkingDeadpool? Tune in to @AMCTalkingDead. That Chris @hardwick is a QT. pic.twitter.com/R7NobOD9Bh
— Deadpool Movie (@deadpoolmovie) April 16, 2018
#WalkingDeadpool may be done, but you and me… We’re just getting started. Tickets for #Deadpool2 are on sale Thursday. pic.twitter.com/bf1xFx0bYj
— Deadpool Movie (@deadpoolmovie) April 16, 2018
Ghost Stories
Film School Rejects has an exclusive clip from the upcoming horror anthology hosted by Martin Freeman, which appears to include haunted nappies.
V-Wars
Ian Somerhalder has been cast as Luther Swann, a doctor whose best friend has succumbed to vampirism in Netflix’s adaptation of the comic book series from IDW. [THR]
Arrow
The season finale is titled “Life Sentence”, according to Spoiler TV.
Legion
A delusion ends in disaster, apparently, in a cryptic synopsis for May 17’s episode of Legion (airing May 15 in the US).
Chapter 15
5/15/2018
A delusion starts like any other idea .. But ends in disaster. Written by Noah Hawley & Nathaniel Halpern; directed by Charlie McDowell.
Lost in Space
In a recent interview with Indie Wire, co-creator Matt Sazama revealed he’s already writing scripts for a second season with co-showrunner Burk Sharpless.
We are working on scripts and hoping that, if we get a green light, we’re ready to go. We’ve had a lot of thoughts about it, and hopefully, if everyone watches it, we’ll get to see more adventures of the Robinsons, because we do have some crazy stuff planned out that we really hope we get to film.
Cloak & Dagger
Entertainment Weekly has character portraits and descriptions of the show’s cast. Click through for more, and to read up on Tandy, Tyrone and company.
The site also confirmed that Emma Lahana’s character is Detective Brigid O’Reilly, a character from the comics who starts out as a police officer settling into an uneasy relationship with Cloak and Dagger acting as vigilantes in her precinct, only to be transformed by a gas attack herself into the toxic vigilante Mayhem.
Supergirl
Pestilence, plagues and “Old Testament stuff” inspire Mon-El to don his new costume in the trailer for next week’s “In Search of Lost Time”.
iZombie
Finally, Liv eats the brains of a live-action role player in the trailer for next week’s episode, “Chivalry Is Dead”.
Banner art by Jim Cooke.