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‘Deadpool 2’ Trailer Reveals X-Force and that ‘Wilderpeople’ Kid

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The latest Deadpool 2 trailer just dropped, so get your chimichangas ready! The Ryan Reynolds superhero vehicle is showing off all the decapitating, fourth-wall-breaking, quippy goodness we crave. The biggest reveal is X-Force finally making their debut! “Who the hell are they?” you ask? Basically, a special task force of badasses who aggressively eliminate threats to mutants in ways that would make Professor X facepalm.

Here’s the…erm…official(?) plot summary by Twentieth Century Fox on IMDB:

“After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade must battle ninjas, the yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor – finding a new taste for adventure and earning the coveted coffee mug title of World’s Best Lover.”

You have to respect a movie that doesn’t even take its own plot summary seriously.

Fans have plenty to be excited for after this balls to the walls trailer. First off, having Tim Miller pass the director’s chair to David Leitch looks to have been a brilliant move. The action sequences bear the signature style we loved in John Wick, such as dynamic camerawork, steady shots that don’t rapidly cut during fight sequences, and lots of insane stunt choreography.

The meta-humor is very much in tact from the previous film. The trailer sets the mood with Air Supply’s “All Out of Love,” as Deadpool dives head first through the back window of Dopinder’s taxi, whilst being chased by gun-toting ruffians. The two-minute trailer leaves plenty of money in the swear jar, once again earning the sequel’s R rating. The introduction of X-Force give a hilarious wink to the audience, as Deadpool seeks to form a team “young enough to carry their own franchise for 10 to 12 years.” Isn’t corporate greed hilarious?

A nice little nugget horror fans should appreciate quite a bit is that Bill Skarsgård, yes…freaking Pennywise, is on the X-Force. You can spot him sitting in the background looking all Pennywisey at the 1:39 mark. Looks like Skarsgård will be trading in his clown makeup for superhero garb. His character has not been confirmed as of yet, but Nerdist speculates he may be taking on the role of Zeitgeist.

Bill Skarsgård in ‘Deadpool 2’ – Twentieth Century Fox

As if the ensemble of Cable, the X-Force, Colossus, and that kid from Hunt for the Wilderpeople (a.k.a. Julian Dennison a.k.a the MacGuffin) isn’t enough, we get a tease for a possible Professor X cameo. We’re not yet sure if it’s going to be McAvoy, Stewart, or another actor who’s willing to shave his head because all we saw was Deadpool riding around in the professor’s chair. Fingers crossed for the sagely X-Men leader making an appearance.

Many fans are being stricken with superhero fatigue, and who can blame them? The thing that makes Deadpool 2 special is how the film feeds off of the tired tropes studios have created. It points out everything wrong with superhero universes, while shamelessly building its own in an unconventional way. This is one for even the most jaded of moviegoers to be excited for. Deadpool 2 hits theaters May 18.

Check out the new trailer here:

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.

We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.

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“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”

That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”

Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:

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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening

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Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.

Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.

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Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.

Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.

Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.

The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.

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Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.

These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:

According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”

Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.

Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.

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