Avengers: Doomsday is confirmed to end on a life-and-death cliffhanger. The new Street Fighter may have already cast its Ryu and Ken. And did Craig Mazin all but confirm Joel is doomed by the end The Last of Us season two? If that one don’t spoil your morning, nothing will! Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow, it’s Morning Spoilers!
Highlander
According to Deadline, Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists and Scott Stuber are in “final negotiations to secure the rights to remake” Highlander. Naturally, Henry Cavill is attached to star in the long-gestating project from John Wick director Chad Stahelski and screenwriter Michael Finch.
Street Fighter
A new rumor from Nexus Point News alleges Andrew Koji and Noah Centineo are in talks to play Ryu and Ken in Legendary’s Street Fighter movie from director Kitao Sakurai.
Avengers: Doomsday
During a recent interview with Collider, Anthony Mackie confirmed Avengers: Doomsday ends on a cliffhanger that will have audiences believing “everyone is expendable.”
You know what? I was really excited, man. It’s one of those stories that really pushes the boundaries, and it — the cliffhanger at the end, you know, the last moments of the film — it really builds and sets us up for a way for the continuation of the Marvel saga, which is really exciting. […] You see these characters, and you see how they’re introduced and how they play in the universe moving forward, and no one is safe. Everyone is expendable.
Consumed
In conversation with the LA Times, the 82-year-old David Cronenberg stated “the world does not need [his] next movie,” rumored to be an adaptation of his 2014 novel, Consumed.
Even when I thought I might never make another movie, I never thought I’d stop being creative. I thought maybe I’d write another novel. There are many ways you can be creative.
Directing is physical and it really takes it out of you. You could certainly imagine a moment where you’re halfway through a movie and you say, ‘I actually can’t do this anymore. I’m not focused enough to be good at it. I don’t even know if I can survive today.‘
Then again, there’s Manoel de Oliveira, the Portuguese director who was still making films at 103. Now that is something to aspire to. I’m not tempting fate — I will knock wood, even though it’s not the cross. I hope I’m healthy enough. I seem to be healthy enough. But you never know.
Akira
Speaking with Moovy TV (via Screen Rant), producer Andrew Lazar promised an update is forthcoming on Taika Waititi’s live-action Akira.
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Deadline has our first look at Rohan Campbell as Billy Chapman in the new Silent Night, Deadly Night remake.
28 Years Later
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland discuss the current state of the zombie apocalypse in a new 28 Years Later featurette.
The Ritual
A real pastor goes to bat for the authenticity of The Ritual in a new featurette.
The Last of Us
In another recent interview with Collider, Craig Mazin stated audiences will be “shell-shocked” by the second season finale of The Last of Us.
If they feel the way I feel, they’re going to be a little shell-shocked and they’re also going to feel weirdly excited to see what happens next. It’s not about how much story there is. It’s about whose story it is. So much of what makes the second game and this season and this part of the story fascinating to me is how perspective changes everything. In a Rashomonic sense, but also just in a very specific sense to these people, these young women, who are going through something so similar, and even in the same space and time but not together, how that unfolds is fascinating to me. But I do know that how I felt at the end of watching all of it, I don’t know what the word in English is, but it pins you back. Well, it pinned me back. I hope it works that way for others. There may be some cry-cursing.
The Studio
Speaking with The Direct, The Studio co-showrunner Alex Gregory said he’d like to keep making the show “indefinitely” if Apple TV+ allows.
I think we’d like to keep doing it indefinitely… Put it this way, I don’t think there are any plans for an end… I am hopeful [for a Season 2].
I think we might like to go overseas for something. I mean, there are all sorts of things to do, and there were full episodes written that got shelved in favor of other episodes. It’s, yeah, it is a business that has a lot of stories to tell, so we’re excited to see where we can take it.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Wyatt Russell also promised Collider the second season of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters will feature “more monsters” than the first.
Season 2 was really interesting to be able to get to do because we had to expand on certain themes and stuff that we found in the first season to really work. I haven’t been briefed on what I can tease and what I can’t. I can say that the mystery deepens.
There are more monsters that arrive that are really fun to explore in the story. We wanted to level it up, I guess you could say, and in the Monarch way, ratchet up the stakes of the relationships as well. I can tease that the relationships really get ratcheted up.
Doctor Who
Finally, Russell T. Davies defended how often Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor cries, describing his performance as “princely” in a new interview with TV Line.
I mean, I remember the first time [Ncuti] did it, which is in [the 2024 Christmas special] The Church on Ruby Road. He thought Ruby had vanished, been erased from time and space, which was astonishing, and he turned around in the studio and gave us that performance, which was absolutely spellbinding.
You don’t tell an actor whether to cry, not to cry, not an actor of that stature. Absolutely not. It’s like, you wouldn’t tell anyone to laugh or not to laugh! It’s beautiful thing he does, and it’s a completely new thing for the Doctor, that opens doorways into whole new experiences. Diversity is many things, and sometimes it’s putting emotions on screen you haven’t seen before, or that the Doctor has withheld himself from. But it does make me laugh…. I know sometimes fans get up in arms about and they complain about it. They’re the same fans who say, ‘Why don’t you do something new with the program?’ and you’re like, hello. It’s literally a princely performance. I’m just here to watch and thank the lucky stars that I get to share in a princely performance like that. What an actor. Amazing.
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