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Things are heating up in the trailer for Mike Flanagan’s Carrie!

Posted on by Leonard Wilson

It’s not always easy to adapt someone else’s work. 

Stick too close to the source material, and you end up with Gus Van Sant’s Psycho. Veer just a bit away from it, and you may end up with surprises like Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining or Frank Darabont’s The Mist. Tossing out the source material or rushing the story gives you Nikolaj Arcel’s The Dark Tower. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Even Stephen King had a rough time adapting his own work to film with Maximum Overdrive. 

So seeing that we have yet another adaptation of King’s first novel, Carrie, I was a little confused and surprised when Mike Flanagan’s name came up. I know I haven’t kept up on everything online these days, but wasn’t he working on an adaptation for The Exorcist? Either way, we have it, and it looks like it has the potential to be pretty great. Flanagan’s no stranger to King’s works, having adapted Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep.

As always, Flanagan’s invited some of this friends to join in on the fun. For me, the standout returning actor is Samantha Sloyan, who previously worked on Hush, Midnight Mass, and The Life of Chuck, among others. Samantha’s playing Margaret White, and while Piper Laurie’s portrayal in Brian DePalma’s 1976 classic still scares me, I’m excited to see how this will turn out. Additionally, we have Midnight Mass‘ Michael Trucco and Rahul Kohli on hand. Of course, Flanagan production would be complete without his Hush lead actress, muse and wife, Actor/Director Kate Siegel. Matthew Lillard (Five Nights at Freddy’s) and Amber Midthunder (Prey, Novocaine) are also featured, with Summer H Howell (Night of the Reaper) as Carrie. 

Carrie premieres on Amazon Prime early this October, just in time for Halloween. 

There’s a lot of music being made in Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth!

Posted on by Leonard Wilson

The teaser for Behemoth didn’t do anything for the first 30 seconds. Yeah, I like Pedro Pascal. He’s fun to watch. Is he a bit overexposed these days? Sure, but then again, so are Tom Holland, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson. Doesn’t mean they can’t act. Still, it wasn’t holding me. 

“This is going to be another Tar, isn’t it?” I said to myself. 

Then Tony Gilroy’s name popped up. I leaned forward in my chair. I was like Robert Downey, Jr. and Robert Rusler’s characters in John Hughes’ Weird Science, watching Lisa pass them by on the escalator at the Mall. I love and own Michael Clayton, and was on board for both seasons of Disney Plus’ Andor. His stories aren’t the most exciting, admittedly (his brother Dan handled that better in Nightcrawler), but I love the conversations his characters have. 

As the music played, I started smiling and quickly opened another browser window. Tony Gilroy usually works with James Newton Howard, and as far as I knew, I hadn’t heard a Howard score since maybe Malecifent, Red Sparrow, maybe? . The score of this film may be larger than the story itself. Not only is James Newton Howard involved, but so are Alan Silvestri (The Avengers), Michael Giacchino (The Fantastic Four: First Steps), Henry Jackman (X-Men: First Class), and Michael Abels (Us & Nope), along with Emily Bear (Our Little Secret), Brandon Roberts (Underwater and Andor), Nami Melumad (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) and Lukas Frank (East of Wall). I’m curious to hear what kind of soundtrack that could be. James Newton Howard has been known to work with other composers, like with Hans Zimmer on Christopher Nolan’s first two Batman films.

As for the film itself, it looks like Pascal’s cellist has a number of issues going on. On hand are Olivia Wilde (Booksmart), Will Arnett (The Lego Batman Movie), and Eva Victor (Dating & New York), Margarita Levieva (Adventureland) , Matthew Lillard (Five Nights at Freddy’s) and JoBeth Williams (Poltergeist). It’s hard to say what it’s all about in just a teaser, but we’ll find out if when it’s released this December. 

Enjoy!

Tom Cruise is going to dig us out of this mess in the Digger Trailer!

Posted on by Leonard Wilson

Okay, Disaster/Comedy it is? 

Warner Bros. just released the full trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger, which is kind of giving off a mix of Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove and some classic Coen Brothers fare. It also features more of the cast, which includes Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal), Sandra Hüller (Project Hail Mary), John Goodman (Kong: Skull Island), Emma D’Arcy (HBO’s House of the Dragon), Sophie Wilde (Talk to Me), Robert John Burke (HBO’s The Last of Us), Jesse Plemons (Bugonia), a trio of Guillermo Del Toro actors in Burn Gorman (Pacific Rim), Corey Johnson (Hellboy) and Michael Stuhlberg (The Shape of Water).

Tom Cruise’s character looks like he sets off a chain of events that he’ll have to set right, though how, we’ll have to find out when the film premieres later this year. 

Enjoy!

People are climbing dangerously again in the Fall 2:Deadpoint trailer!

Posted on by Leonard Wilson

This past Saturday, I went to the movies to see Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl. This was one of the trailers before the film. Though I enjoyed Scott Mann’s Fall back in 2022 (not to be confused at all with 1997’s spicy romance film with the same name), I didn’t think there’d be a sequel for it. Thanks to Netflix and bingewatching, the popularity for the film soared and now here we are. The Spierig Brothers (Daybreakers, Jigsaw) are taking over the directing duties for the second film, with a third already in the works.

The film stars Harriet Slater (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) and Arsema Thomas (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story), who are climbing places they just shouldn’t. 

Enjoy!

Robert Eggers shifts to Lycanthropy in the Werwulf trailer!

Posted on by Leonard Wilson

I’m kind of liking this trend of Robert Eggers in putting out something spooky/creepy on Christmas. His latest film, Werwulf borrows about 80 percent of the main cast from his remake of Nosferatu. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp, Ralph Ineson, and of course, Willem Dafoe are all on hand here. Even composer Robin Carolan and Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke are back. I’m curious to know what his take on werewolves are here. Will get something spectral, like Michael Wadleigh’s Wolfen or perhaps it’s a bit more personal, like Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man? Either way, we’ll find out this holiday season. 

Enjoy!

Pierce Brosnan Is Brendan Ingle In The Trailer For Giant

Posted on by Jedadiah Leland

Back in the day, my favorite boxer was Britain’s own Naseem Hamed, a flamboyant showman who always turned his entrance into a production but who could also back up his ego in the ring.  A lot of my friends couldn’t stand Prince Naseem, as he was known, and they used to watch HBO Boxing specifically hoping to see him lose.  In retrospect, he was one of the last of the genuinely entertaining boxers.

Giant, which has already been released to generally positive reviews in the UK, stars Amir El-Masry as Hamed and Pierce Brosnan in the role of Hamed’s trainer, the legendary Brendan Ingle.  Judging from the just-released trailer, Brosnan, who always been the most underrated of all the actors who played James Bond, is almost unidentifiable in the role of Ingle.

Giant will be released in the U.S. later this year.

A chill in the air comes with Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil trailer!

Posted on by Leonard Wilson

Constantin Film really could use a win when it comes to the Resident Evil movies. Despite veering off the path of most Capcom’s video game franchise, their movies were both successful (to a degree) and enjoyable. Though I didn’t catch 2021’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, my cousin tells me it’s pretty awful. 

I woke up this morning to find Zach Cregger’s developed his own entry to the series, and his name alone is enough to spur a bit of excitement. As the director of 2022’s Barbarian and 2025’s Academy Award Winner (for Amy Madigan), Weapons, he has an idea of how to bring a bit of horror on the screen. Add to that, Darius Wolski (The Crow, Dark City, Alien: Covenant) is handling the cinematography. Maybe they’re on to something here? 

It looks like the film takes place in a snowy area, and I’m not entirely sure it has any real connection to the games (or prior films), but honestly, perhaps a fresh start is the way to go here. The film reunites Cregger with his Weapons star Austin Abrams (that tent fellow), along with Paul Walter Hauser (Fantastic Four: First Steps), Kali Reis (Mercy) and Zach Cherry (Amazon’s Fallout). We’ll find out when Resident Evil premieres in cinemas on September 18th.