This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, including titles like american cake, arms wars, dead pool 3and Nosferatu.
THE TOP STORY of this WEEK
MARVEL ARMS WARS NOW IN DEVELOPMENT AS A FILM
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At their big Disney+ event in December 2020, Disney announced two Disney+ series that were essentially iron man Spin-offs: heart of steel (which is supposed to be another show in 2023) and arms wars, based on the classic 1980s comic story and focused on Don Cheadle’s War Machine character. However, Marvel has decided to change course completely with arms wars and developing the adaptation as a feature film rather than a Disney+ series. When arms wars While still slated as a series, production was slated to begin sometime in 2023, but this change also reportedly moves it further down Marvel’s production roster (i.e., starting filming after 2023) and to a release date likely to be sometime after 2024 at the earliest. if arms wars has a similar premise to the comic book storyline, it will involve War Machine attempting to defeat various villains wearing armored suits derived from Tony Stark’s inventions. That arms wars The script will be adapted by TV writer and showrunner Yasser Lester, whose credits include Black Monday.
Other top headlines
1. HUGH JACKMAN’S WOLVERINE RETURNS dead pool 3
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As fans await the full introduction of the mutants into the MCU, there has been some speculation on social media as to who might play the classic X-Men characters. Apparently, that discussion also included actors like Taron Egerton, who said in July he’s been in talks with Marvel about potentially playing Wolverine. Given the time-wimey-wibbly-shaky nature of the multiverse, it’s still possible that a new actor will play Wolverine, but for now it’s looking like he’ll be starring in a big, expensive action movie next time, once again by Hugh Jackman to be played. Jackman will reprise the role in dead pool 3 (9/6/2024) alongside Ryan Reynolds, for whom he has joined on Twitter an announcement video (whose silent parts have already been deciphered by a lip reader). The new dead pool 3 Logo was also revealed this week, playfully using Wolverine’s claws to sculpt it III. How the new film could impact Hugh Jackman’s previous Wolverine film loganJackman quickly clarified that the events of logan and the inside dead pool 3 are separate stories, and logan Director James Mangold also told fans, “Everyone chilling…I’m fine!” In related news, upon hearing that Hugh Jackman is returning as Wolverine (in dead pool 3 at least) Elizabeth Olsen expressed her excitement that her Scarlet Witch character would one day be working with the X-Men.
2. EMMA STONE REUNITES WITH YORGOS LANTHIMOS FOR A NEW MOVIE AND
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The world is still waiting for the release of 2023 Poor thingsthe latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos, the director of acclaimed films such as the lobster (Certified Fresh at 87%) and The favourite
(Certified fresh at 93%). However, Lanthimos is already preparing for his next film with the plain title ANDwhich will be his third film with star Emma Stone, who starred in both The favourite and the aforementioned Poor things. she Poor things Co-star Willem Dafoe was also cast AND, along with Jesse Plemons and Margaret Qualley. The premise of ANDwhich begins filming in New Orleans in October has not been announced.
3. ROBERT EGGERS’ NOSFERATU REMAKE FINALLY COMES TO LIFE
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Back in 2016, not long after the release of his first film The witch (Certified Fresh at 90%) director Robert Eggers announced his plans to remake the classic German vampire silent film Nosferatu as his next feature film. However, that obviously didn’t happen because his next film was The lighthouse (Certified Fresh at 90%) followed this year The Northman (Certified Fresh at 89%). That Nosferatu Remake delays have been so great that Eggers was quoted earlier this year as having doubts it would ever happen. Focus Features, the company behind it The NorthmanNow Robert Eggers is moving forward Nosferatuwith Bill Skarsgard (Pennywise in the IT Movies, and also the brother of The Northman star Alexander Skarsgård) as the titular vampire, and Lily-Rose Depp in talks to co-star as the “persecuted young woman…in 19th-century Germany” whom he pursues.
4. DIRECTOR SAM RAIMI REGISTERS THE 1978 VENTRILOQUIST HORROR MOVIE MAGIC
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Sir Anthony Hopkins is perhaps always best known for his chilling role as Hannibal Lecter in the 1991s The silence of the Lambs (Certified Fresh at 95%) and its sequels, but over a decade earlier he had also starred in another creepy movie called magic (Fresh at 86%). in the magicHopkins played a battered stage magician whose career begins when he becomes a ventriloquist with a doll named Fats, sparking a psychological war between the two halves of the ventriloquist’s personality. magic may be all but forgotten now, but director Sam Raimi plans to revive the film with a new remake he will produce and direct. Raimi’s producing partner will be Roy Lee, whose credits include quarantine, The strangers, boyand don’t worry darling.
5. JONATHAN MAJORS PLAYS FORMER NBA STAR DENNIS RODMAN in 48 HOURS IN VEGAS
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After his breakthrough starring role on HBO Lovecraft country (New at 88%) Jonathan Majors had a surprise role last year Loki (New at 92%) in one of Marvel’s greatest upcoming villains (Kang the Conqueror) in at least Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Avengers: The Kang Dynasty (May 2025). Aside from being one of Marvel’s big villains, Jonathan Majors could also soon be landing another larger-than-life role as he’s now in talks to play professional basketball star Dennis Rodman in a movie with the title 48 hours in Las Vegas. The film is based on allegedly true events in 1998, when Rodman asked his Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson if he could “take a 48-hour trip to Las Vegas in the middle of the 1998 NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz.” 48 hours in Las Vegas is being produced for Lionsgate by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, with directing credits included The Lego Movie and the latest jump road movies.
6. AMERICAN CAKE BE WARM UP BY UNIVERSAL IMAGERY
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The raunchy 1999 teen movie american cake (Fresh at 61%) helped revitalize the teen sex comedy of the 2000s and spawned a new franchise for Universal Pictures, including three direct sequels that received theatrical releases and one spin-off American Pie presented Franchise with five direct-to-video films (and counting). That american cake Franchise gets a new recipe in the form of a new movie (not yet called a reboot, but it sounds like one) from actor/director Sujata Day (Unsure), who has pitched in and will write a “fresh interpretation” of the concept. The premise of Sujata Day’s american cake hasn’t been revealed yet, but one possibility is that her film focuses more on a female perspective than the original.
7. SETH ROGEN TO PRODUCE NEW DISNEY FILM BASED ON EPCOT MASCOT FIGMENT
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Although Disney has produced and released several films based on their theme park attractions, and continues to develop more of them (such as Great Thunder Mountain, space mountainand Tower of Terror), down in Florida, there’s an entire Disney theme park that’s relatively unaffected by such adjustments, EPCOT. Walt Disney’s Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow could soon be its turn on the big screen as Seth Rogen is collaborating with Disney to produce a film based on Figment, the purple dragon who is the mascot for EPCOT’s Imagination Pavilion . Seth Rogen’s production company, Point Gray, shut them down Pokemon Detective Pikachu Writing team of Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit for the adaptation figure into a feature film. Although this will be Figment’s first solo film, the character has already made two cameo appearances on Pixar from the inside to the outside and toy story 4.
8. JAMES EARL JONES RETIRE DARTH VADER
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45 years after he first appeared as the voice of Darth Vader in the first war of stars (Certified Fresh at 93%) film in 1977, James Earl Jones officially refrained from voicing the character Darth Vader at the age of 91 to recreate Jones’ younger voice from his earlier films”. There are no confirmed as of this date war of stars Movies in which Darth Vader is expected to appear.
9. MARVELS BLADE LOSE HIS DIRECTOR WEEKS BEFORE SHOOTING
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As of this writing, Disney and Marvel still have the vampire fight bladewith Mahershala Ali, is slated to hit theaters on November 3, 2023 in just over a year. However, that may have to change soon as director Bassam Tariq has given up directing blade just a few weeks before shooting is scheduled to begin in Atlanta in November. Tariq who had landed blade based on his 2020 film Mughal Mowgli (Certified Fresh at 93%), still counts blade as executive producer. Marvel Studios is believed to be scrambling to find a replacement for Tariq so filming can begin as planned in November blade does not have to move the release date to 11/3/2023.
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