CINEMA
This week we learned that the eternally anticipated third installment of 28 days laterwhich will possibly give rise to a new trilogy, has already found its protagonists. Alex Garland (right now in theaters with Civil Warhis fourth film in directing work) and Danny Boyle are associated with Sony Pictures Entertainment to film this new sequel with a luxury stellar trio made up of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes. It is also rumored that the recently Oscar-winning Cillian Murphy could return to the franchise, but in the following installments after this one. It will hit theaters sometime in 2025.
The fans of Evil Dead You are in luck, because, after the magnificent Evil Dead Risethe deadties created by Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert and Bruce Campbell They return with not one, but two film projects. If some time ago it was confirmed that the French filmmaker would be in charge of the first of these productions Sébastien Vanicek (Vermin: The Plague) to get behind the cameras with the second the American will take care of Francis Gallupi (The Last Stop in Yuma County). These two feature films will hit theaters at an undetermined time in 2025.
The fever of filming sequels, prequels or derivatives of horror classics is in fashion, as the aforementioned shows us. Evil Dead Rise, The Exorcist: The Believer bright wave The first prophecy. So much so that Paramount+ is going to dust off a 2022 film that remained in a drawer titled Apartment 7A which is nothing more and nothing less than a prequel to The Devil’s Seed (Rosemary’s Baby) the masterpiece of Roman Polanskibased on the novel by Ira Levinand starring Mia Farrow. The film, directed by the director Natalie Erika James (Relic), had some test runs over the course of these two years that left the producers satisfied and will arrive on the streaming platform next Halloween.
We continue with more sequels within horror cinema and that is paramount She is also the driving force behind what will be a new film inspired by The Legend of Sleepy Hollowthe iconic short story written by Washington Irving which Tim Burton already brought to the big screen with that masterpiece starring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci and Christopher Walker among others. This new version will be written and directed by Lindsey Anderson Beerdirector of Animal Graveyard: The Originthe prequel to the film inspired by the novel by Stephen King. For now nothing else is known about its production or release date.
TRAILERS OF THE WEEK
We now have at our disposal the new trailer for The Watchers (titled in our country as The watchers), the film that marks the directorial debut of Ishana Night Shyamalandaughter of M. Night Shyamalanwhich also presented the trailer for his next project, traplast week, and it stars Dakota Fanning with Georgina Campbell, Oliver Finnegan, Olwen Fouere either Siobhan Hewlett . Inspired by the novel by AM Shine, adapted into a film script by the same director, tells the story of Mina, a 28-year-old artist who becomes stranded in a forest in the west of Ireland. When Mina finds refuge, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures every night. It premieres on June 14.
Now it’s about documentaries and it is a very special one dedicated to an iconic creator who marked the childhood of half the world. Jim Henson: Idea Man It is a project led by Ron Howard which pays tribute to the filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and puppeteer who created feature films such as Dark glass either Inside of the labyrinthprograms like the Muppets or series like The storyteller. Jim Henson: Idea Man takes us inside the mind of the unique creative visionary from his early years as a puppeteer on local television to the global success of Sesame Street, The Muppet Show and much more, with unprecedented access to Jim’s personal files. It will arrive on the pay-per-view platform on May 31.
Last year Russell Crowe surprised us with The Pope’s Exorcista notable horror film that became a new success in the career of the actor who starred in Gladiator either LA Confidential; Well, although it may seem like a joke, this year Crowe returns with a new film about exorcisms, but with the surprising twist that this time he plays an actor hired for a film on the subject, in which, in the purest style from the classic William Friedkin, will play a priest willing to perform an exorcism on a possessed young woman; But that is when paranormal events begin to occur that will turn the actor into a victim of evil forces. This new film, titled Exorcism (formerly known as The Georgetown Project), presented its first trailer this week, and is directed by Joshua John Miller (The final girls). The film will hit US theaters on June 7, for a subsequent release on Shudder.
Jennifer Lopez it doesn’t stop; Yes a few months ago he brought us This Is Me… Nowan unclassifiable musical film about his own life, now we have a much more interesting project that presented its first trailer this week: we talk about Atlasa science fiction film that will premiere on Netflix on May 24, and in which Lopez plays Atlas Sheperd, a data analyst in the near future and enemy of AI whose mission is, precisely, to pursue a artificial intelligence that has rebelled against humanity, played by Simu Liu (Shang-Chi, Barbie). Action galore and good special effects is what this Atlas promises, which we will be able to get our hands on in a few weeks.
SERIES
Good news that comes to us again from Apple TV+: if the week passes we would talk to you about the renewal of For all Humanity and the production of a new spin-off of one of the best science fiction series of today, this week the filming of the highly anticipated second season of Severancewithout a doubt another of the best series of recent times starring Adam Scott in the shoes of a worker from a mysterious company that erases the memory of its employees (something they voluntarily submit to) so that they do not remember what has happened during their working hours. With Ben Stiller serving as producer and even director of some of its episodes, and with a spectacular cast with names like those of John Turturro, Patricia Arquette either Christopher Walker, the first season of Severance, which we told you about at the time in Zona Negativa, quickly became a phenomenon, and one of the flagships of the quality of Apple’s streaming platform. We hope to soon have a first preview of this second batch of episodes.
We remain in the orbit of science fiction produced by Apple TV+and if a few months ago we were talking to you about the new series announced about Neuromancerthe novel by William Gibsonthis week the project took a step forward with the announcement of its leading actor; deadline was in charge of announcing that Callum Turneran actor whom we have recently seen in the fantastic Masters of the Air, will play Case, the hacker protagonist of the story. The Neuromancer series, which will have ten episodes in its first season, will come from the hands of the showrunner Graham Roland (Jack Ryan) and JD Dillard (The Outsider), who will have before them the complicated task of adapting Gibson’s novel, one of the great references of the cyberpunk genre but also a difficult reading through its own language, telling the story of a hacker fallen from grace and stripped of his talent called Case (played by Turner) who, together with his partner Molly, must enter a world of business conspiracies, espionage and betrayal.
The one that is taking off to bring us a spectacular second season is Wednesday; and the series of Netflix produced and directed by Tim Burton and that launched stardom Jenna Ortega It is making itself known with its second batch of episodes, after becoming a phenomenon with its premiere in 2022, and for this second season it is preparing an impressive cast: if a few weeks ago we knew that the unique Steve Buscemi (which has essential titles in its filmography such as Reservoir Dogs, Fargo either The Big Lebowski) joined the cast of this second season of Wednesdaythis week, thanks to Varietywe discovered that Thandie Newton It will be another of the new casting features for the second season. We really wanted to see Newton again in one of the great series after the unforgettable role he gave us in the unjustly canceled Westworld (from the creators of the recent fantastic falloutwhich we hope has better luck on Prime Video despite the success of its first season), so we couldn’t be happier to see it again in this long-awaited second season of Wednesdaywhose production was delayed by the strike of actors and scriptwriters, and which will begin filming next April in Ireland.
