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Netflix’s ‘The Dark Crystal’ Reveals All-Star Cast List (and First Look Photos)
Oh Netflix, sweet Netflix. They’ve been killing it with the adaptation game lately, from the ever-popular Chilling Adventures of Sabrina to The Haunting of Hill House. Their next revitalization project – Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal – already had some buzz, but with the newly released cast list, excitement is definitely building.
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance will serve as a prequel to Henson’s classic fantasy film. Instead of a feature-length movie, the prequel will be released as a TV series. Netflix has ordered a 10-episode first season.
As announced by Variety, the series is set many years before the events of the 1982 movie. In this prequel, the world of Thra is dying. The Crystal of Truth is at the heart of Thra, a source of untold power, but it is damaged – corrupted by the evil Skeksis – and a sickness spreads across the land. When three Gelfling uncover the horrific truth behind the power of the Skeksis, an adventure unfolds as the fires of rebellion are lit and an epic battle for the planet begins.
The epic voice cast includes Taron Edgerton (Kingsman) as Rian, Anya Taylor Joy (The Witch) as Brea, and Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones) as Deet – all Gelfling.
Other Gelfling characters will be voiced by Helena Bonham-Carter (Fight Club, the Harry Potter series); Eddie Izzard (Hannibal); Toby Jones (The Mist, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy); Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones); Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Cloverfield Paradox); Mark Strong (Kingsman, Kick-Ass); Theo James (Castlevania, the Divergent series); and Alicia Vikander (Tomb Raider, Ex Machina).
Voicing the Skeksis and Mystics are Mark Hamill (Star Wars, Justice League Action), Harvey Fierstein (Independence Day, Mulan), Ralph Ineson (The Witch), Keegan-Michael Key (The Predator, Key and Peele), Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Mission Impossible), and Andy Samberg (Brooklyn Nine Nine).
If that wasn’t enough, the cast list also includes Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Caitriona Balfe, Harris Dickinson, Shazad Latif, Jason Isaacs, and Donna Kimball.
Why yes, that is a lot of talent.
Lisa Henson – Jim Henson’s daughter and CEO of the Jim Henson Project – said in a statement;
“It is humbling to see so many truly gifted actors join The Dark Crystal universe by adding their voices to Age of Resistance,” Henson said. “It is thrilling to see this assembled team of artists, puppeteers and now voice actors, many inspired by my father’s original film, work together to realize this unique world—through performance and craft—at a scale that is rarely seen today.”
Louis Leterrier (Now You See Me, The Transporter) will direct the series. He’ll also serve as executive produce along with writers Jeffrey Addiss, Will Matthews, and Javier Grillo-Marxuach.
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance will stream on Netflix in 2019.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
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.
“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
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.
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
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.
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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