Bandai Is Getting Ready to Try Making Its Live-Action Gundam Movie Happen Again


Tony Todd will posthumously appear in Final Destination: Bloodlines. Mason Gooding teases Scream 7‘s most brutal Ghostface yet. Plus, Plankton gets his time to shine in the next Spongebob Squarepants movie. Spoilers get!

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Mobile Suit Gundam

Bandai has formally announced that it will set up Bandai Namco Filmworks America on April 1 with Legendary to begin production of the live-action Gundam movie, with Jim Mickle set to write and direct.


Final Destination: Bloodlines

Bloody-Disgusting confirmed the late Tony Todd does indeed reprise his role as William Bludworth in Final Destination: Bloodlines.


The Blood Countess

Variety reports Isabelle Huppert, Birgit Minichmayr, Lars Eidinger, Thomas Schubert and André Jung will star in The Blood Countess, a new Elizabeth Bathory movie from writer/ director Ulrike Ottinger. Co-written with Elfriede Jelinek (The Piano Teacher), the story sees Huppert as “the Countess Elizabeth Báthory (aka ‘The Blood Countess’), as she awakens from her long beauty sleep and emerges from the underworld. She and her devoted maid (Birgit Minichmayr) embark on a baroque quest through Vienna to recover the red elixir of life. The book, if found and read by the vampire’s enemies, threatens their vampire realm. Hot on their heels are a vegetarian nephew (Thomas Schubert), his psychotherapist (Lars Eidinger), two vampirologists, a police inspector, and more lively characters in this twisted and humorous vampire tale.”


Black Panther 3

During a recent interview with Screen Rant, Marvel Studios’ VP of Production & Development, Nate Moore, admitted “if an actor of the caliber of Denzel Washington wants in, we’re gonna figure out a way to make that happen” and that he’d “probably [play] somebody from canon.”

If that manifests, which we’re gonna try, I think it will probably be somebody from canon. Who that is, is early days. We honestly haven’t had really substantive creative conversations with Ryan, mostly because he’s finishing his film Sinners, which is gonna come out this year and is gonna be great. So again it’s too early to say, but obviously if an actor of the caliber of Denzel Washington wants in, we’re gonna figure out a way to make that happen.


Scream 7

Appearing as a guest on I’ve Never Said This Before With Tommy DiDario (via Bloody_Disgusting), Mason Gooding warned Scream 7 boasts “the most brutal” Ghostface to date.

This is the most brutal Ghostface I think there’s ever been from an anatomically logistical standpoint. There’s a lot of blood and viscera, and I feel like with Kevin Williamson directing, fans have a lot to look forward to with what we do with these characters.


Can I Get a Witness

In a future where both photography are print are outlawed, a young woman illustrates an arcane end of life ceremony in the trailer for Can I Get a Witness, starring Keira Jang, Joel Oulette and Sandra Oh. 


Plankton: The Movie

Plankton forms a reluctant alliance with SpongeBob and friends after Karen decides to take over the world herself, in the trailer for Plankton: The Movie.


Shiver Me Timbers

We also have a trailer for a third killer Popeye movie, Shiver Me Timbers, in which debris from Halley’s Comet mutates a crusty fisherman into the world’s strongest sailor.


Goldie

Finally, Apple TV+ has released a trailer for its new animated series about a Godzilla-sized grade schooler, Goldie.

 


 

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