Sophie Turner teases her “unashamedly capable” Lara Croft. Destin Daniel Cretton says he wanted to do something different for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Plus, get a look at what’s coming on The Beauty. Spoilers, assemble!
Primitive War 2
Variety reports a sequel to Primitive War, last year’s film about dinosaurs in the Vietnam War, is already in “late development,” and plans to shoot in Queensland, Australia, later this year. Described as a “darker, more intense escalation” of the previous film that’s somehow also a “more grounded war epic,” the sequel concerns “a new U.S. platoon sent into an increasingly unstable valley, where competing kill zones, rival apex predators and secret Cold War agendas converge. As containment collapses, the mission becomes one of survival—and the cost of failure threatens to extend far beyond the battlefield.”
Dragon Cursed
Deadline reports Amazon MGM Studios has secured the film rights to Elise Kova’s fantasy novel, Dragon Cursed. “Set in a fantastical world amidst the last human stronghold against dragons in which every teenager must survive brutal trials meant to separate dragon hunters from the dragon cursed,” the story concerns “a young woman [who] enters the trials [while] hiding a deadly secret, placing her in the hands of the dangerous enforcer assigned to watch her.”
The Mummy 4
During a recent interview with Screen Rant, Oded Fehr revealed he has yet to be asked to reprise his role as Ardeth Bay in the upcoming fourth Mummy movie.
I gotta tell you, man, I’m so excited that you’re excited. I have no idea. I haven’t been contacted. I don’t know anything about it. I know that the internet has been saying it as though it exists and it’s a done deal, but haven’t heard anything about it. So I’m hoping it happens. I’m hoping I get to be in it. But there’s nothing I can tell you about it.
I agree. I hope so. I hope that happens. I can tell you that I love The Mummy. It’s made me into a working actor. I love the actors on it. I’ve gotten to see a few of them in the last couple of years, and I hope it happens, but I have not been contacted.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Elsewhere, director Destin Daniel Cretton told Comic Book he “wanted to do something that felt different” with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the fourth MCU Spider-Man movie and the eleventh overall since 2002.
All the creatives involved when I came on board wanted to do something that felt different. Of course, it’s still the Spider-Man that everybody loves, but this is a new chapter in his life, and that tonal shift was something that was really exciting to me. It felt really different, and it was an extremely gratifying experience.
Supergirl/Street Fighter
Jason Momoa also revealed to Comic Book he spent more time in the makeup chair preparing for his role as Lobo in Supergirl than he did as the green-skinned Blanka in Street Fighter.
Oh well, it definitely be Lobo. Yeah…I don’t know…I was covered everywhere.
The Morrigan
Saffron Burrows plays an archeologist in Ireland who invokes the wrath of the titular pagan war goddess in the trailer for The Morrigan, co-starring Toby Stephens.
His Monster
Elsewhere, a grieving father believes a monster swept his daughter out to sea in the trailer for His Monster.
Tomb Raider
In conversation with the Los Angeles Times (via Screen Rant), Sophie Turner stated the new Tomb Raider series shows how “unashamedly capable” Lara Croft is.
It’s about her and her story and what drives her, rather than what so many people also love about her, which is how hot she is in the games and the movies. But I really want to show the other side. She’s so unashamedly capable. She is not a woman who hides her strengths at all.
The Beauty
Finally, FX has released a “this season on…” trailer for Ryan Murphy’s The Beauty.
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