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  • ‘Interview with the Vampire’ Renewed for Season 3, Will Adapt New Source Material

    ‘Interview with the Vampire’ Renewed for Season 3, Will Adapt New Source Material

    Just as Anne Rice‘s 1976 novel of the same name ultimately did, AMC’s Interview with the Vampire has become the cornerstone upon which an entire shared universe of stories will be built. Spinning out of the staggering success of the first season of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe continues to grow.

    2023’s Mayfair Witches explored a different corner of Rice’s supernatural catalog and a second season is already in production. Two additional projects inspired by Rice’s novels–a six-episode series about the Talamasca and six-part digital short series entitled Night Island–are also on the way but given her Vampire Chronicles make up the bulk of her bibliography, Rice’s vampires will almost certainly remain at the center of AMC’s Immortal Universe. And so it’s no surprise, especially given the series’ popularity, that a third season of Interview with the Vampire has been given the go ahead at AMC.

    With the Season 2 finale just around the corner, AMC has shared the news that Interview with the Vampire has been renewed for a third season and, in doing so, revealed that it will be based on Rice’s sequel to her first vampire novel.

    Via THR, AMC released the lifeline for Season 3 of Interview with the Vampire. As fans of Rice’s novels will immediately recognize, the logline for the next season of the series indicates that it will adapt Rice’s 1985 novel, The Vampire Lestat.

    Resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy best-seller Interview With the Vampire, the Vampire Lestat sets his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can — by starting a band and going on tour. Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. Those Who Must Be Kept. They join Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed and others we can’t tell you about yet on a sexy pilgrimage across space, time and trauma. No Auto-Tuning. No Trigger Warnings. All Feels Amplified

    In a statement, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks, Dan McDermott, talked about the renewal and praised showrunner Rolin Jones and Immortal Universe executive producer Mark Johnson.”When you buy the rights to 18 Anne Rice novels that have sold more than 150 million copies, in your wildest dreams you hope there’s a show as good as Interview on the other end,” said McDermott. “What Rolin has done with these stories and characters, working so closely with Mark, as the steward of this universe, has exceeded the loftiest version of our expectations,” he continued. “We can’t wait to see where this creative team takes the series from here and know we are walking alongside an incredibly loyal and passionate base of fans who feel as strongly about this material as we do.“

    Ahead of the renewal, Jones had indicated his desire to see the third season draw from Rice’s sequel novel saying, “The next book was the one I wanted to do. So I hope I get a shot at it — The Vampire Lestat.” Now that his wish is granted, fans will see Lestat emerge into modern times to give his version on the stories told by Louis, form a rock band and expand on the history and mythology of the world of vampires.

    The Season 2 finale of Interview with the Vampire will air Sunday, June 30th, on AMC+ and AMC.

    Sources: THR, Nerdist

  • Giant Additions to ‘One Piece’ Season 2’s Cast

    Giant Additions to ‘One Piece’ Season 2’s Cast

    The week of One Piece continues, as it seems we can expect a lot more. As theorized yesterday, we speculated that there were quite a few hints that we’ll see more castings throughout the week. After finally uncovering some of the members of Baroque Works, mostly the characters we see early on in the journey, we already have our next revelations for what we can expect from the series.

    The latest update for Netflix’s hit series comes with two large additions and a rather important one. Clive Russell will play Crocus, a friendly man who welcomes the Straw Hats into their journey in the second season. He is joined by Dorry and Brogy actors, Werner Coetser and Brendan Murray. Their addition confirms that we’ll be visiting Little Garden.

    We don’t know how exactly they’ll adapt the iconic Alabasta arc, but if they have more casting announcements planned throughout the week, we may get a good idea what to expect. If they go throughout the whole week, we may expect the biggest castings for the franchise by the end. Holding out hope for some tease of Chopper, especially as there are still theories if he’ll be CG or a puppet but a voice actor would definitely be great to see.

    Source: Twitter

  • Marvel Studios Headed to SDCC ’24

    Marvel Studios Headed to SDCC ’24

    After skipping San Diego Comic Con in 2023, Marvel Studios will return to Hall H this July. According to Deadline, Kevin Feige and crew will return to with an eye on a big Saturday presentation.

    The trade report comes on the heels of what seemed like confirmation of the studio’s return to SDCC on the Official Marvel Podcast. During that interview, Feige stated that “we start shooting the Monday after Comic Con. The day after Comic Con is the first day of filming on Fantastic Four.” Though it’s filming in London, it wouldn’t be surprising to see cast members present in San Diego a d it surely wouldn’t be the first time Marvel Studios’ actors have pulled off such a stunt.

    In addition to running out the cast of The Fantastic Four, the studio could also showcase footage from streaming projects such as Agatha All Along, Daredevil: Born Again and Wonder Man, theatrical projects such as Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts* and update the slate of their Multiverse Saga.

    SDCC ’24 runs from July 25th-28th.

    Source: Deadline

  • Kevin Feige Calls ‘The Fantastic Four’ His Most Anticipated Project, Confirms Setting and Production Details

    Kevin Feige Calls ‘The Fantastic Four’ His Most Anticipated Project, Confirms Setting and Production Details

    It’s an all-new, all-different era at Marvel Studios. After years of being obnoxiously secretive, the studio has experimented with different methods of revealing news about upcoming projects. Whether the constant changing of titles of Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha All Along, the social media reveal of Hugh Jackman‘s return for Deadpool & Wolverine or the surprise Valentine’s Day cast announcement, or the April 4th reveal of concept art featuring the Human Torch which also launched an neat viral campaign for The Fantastic Four, the once taciturn studio has taken a new, more forthcoming approach to connect with fans as they try to rebuild their image.

    Another new initiative taken by the studio to reach the fanbase is the launch of The Official Marvel Podcast. Perhaps in an effort to put the podcast on the map, Marvel came out swinging with its first episode by having Marvel Studios One Above All, Kevin Feige, launch the venture. And while the boss had quite a bit to say about the studio’s upcoming slate, he was most effusive about the long-awaited film, The Fantastic Four.

    The co-host of the podcast came out swinging by asking Feige which upcoming project excited him most and after giving a typical Big Kev response, the head honcho changed gears and gave some surprising insight into The Fantastic Four.

    “Well, you know, the corporate answer is: they’re all our babies and we love them all equally. And I’m very excited for Deadpool & Wolverine, and then Agatha All Along, and Captain America: Brave New World, and Thunderbolts with an asterisk, and the new Daredevil. And that’s true,” started Feige. “But if you want the real answer – if we’re trying to get real on this podcast,” he continued, “the answer is The Fantastic Four.“

    First teased as an upcoming project at SDCC ’19, The Fantastic Four has had quite a journey to the start of production. Spider-Man trilogy director Jon Watts was originally attached to project but stepped away in 2022.

    Collaborating with Jon on the Spider-Man films has been a true pleasure. We were looking forward to continuing our work with him to bring the Fantastic Four into the MCU but understand and are supportive of his reasons for stepping away. We are optimistic that we will have the opportunity to work together again at some point down the road.

    -Kevin Feige on Jon Watts departure from The Fantastic Four, April 2022

    Following Watts‘ departure, WandaVision director Matt Shakman boarded the project in August 2022. Shortly after, Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer were hired to pen the first draft of the project, which has since seen Avatar 2 writer Josh Friedman and Marvel finisher Eric Pearson put in some work on it. Despite rumors to the contrary, Shakman has stayed the course while the project developed which, according to Feige, is now just a month away from finally getting underway.

    “Matt Shakman, our Director who did WandaVision for us, is working on [The Fantastic Four]. He’s already moved to London, and we start filming at the end of July,” revealed Feige. “Funny story: we start shooting the Monday after Comic Con. The day after Comic Con is the first day of filming on Fantastic Four,” he added, perhaps teasing the studio’s presence in San Diego. Feige then expressed his excitement for the 2025 film.

    “And I’m extremely excited by it, because I think those characters are mainstays… are legendary pillars of the Marvel Universe that we’ve never got to play with or explore in any significant way – apart from Multiverse Of Madness and a few fun teases – before, in the way that were doing in that film. So I’m extremely for that.”

    -Kevin Feige, June 26 , 2024

    While that amount of information alone from Feige would have been enough, Marvel’s Big Cheese took things one step further. When pressed by the co-host, Feige addressed fan speculation over the setting of The Fantastic Four, which fans believe will be a period piece–something which Feige directly confirmed before addressing another bit of speculation about the retrofuturistic setting of the film.

    “Yes. Yes, very much so. It is a period, and there was another piece of art we released with Johnny Storm flying in the air making a 4 symbol, and there was a cityscape in the corner of that image, and there were a lot of smart people who noticed that cityscape didn’t look exactly like the New York that we know and the New York that existed in the ’60s in our world. And those are smart observations, I’ll say.”

    -Kevin Feige, June 26, 2024

    Rumors about the setting of the film have long had it taking place somewhere other than the MCU’s main 616 universe and while Feige stopped short of confirming those rumors, he certainly did nothing to shoot them down. Given Feige’s SDCC tease, it’s quite possible the cast of The Fantastic Four will make some sort of an appearance in San Diego and/or at August’s D23, providing fans with a little more information on what to expect.

    As of now, The Fantastic Four is slated for theaters on July 25, 2025.

  • DC Studios’ Max Series ‘Lanterns’ Ordered Straight to Series

    DC Studios’ Max Series ‘Lanterns’ Ordered Straight to Series

    After a long black night, a bright day has finally come for DC’s Green Lanterns. After being announced as an integral part of the new DC Studios’ slate in January 2023, the Max streaming series Lanterns has been ordered straight to an eight-episode series by HBO.

    Following rumors that a writer’s room had been assembled for the series, DC Studios’ recently officially revealed that Ozark writer Chris Mundy would be the showrunner for the streamer. As previously reported, DC Comics writer Tom King and Watchmen and Lost creator Damon Lindelof will also help write the series which will focus on the Green Lanterns two most well known members, Hal Jordan and John Stewart.

    “We’re thrilled to bring this seminal DC title to HBO with Chris, Damon and Tom at the helm,” said DC Studios’ co-chairs James Gunn and Peter Safran.

    John Stewart and Hal Jordan are two of DC’s most compelling characters, and Lanterns brings them to life in an original detective story that is a foundational part of the unified DCU we’re launching next summer with Superman.

    -James Gunn and Peter Safran on Lanterns

    Previously described as a “terrestrial-based investigation story” that “plays a really big role leading us into the main story” in the DCU’s first chapter of stories, Lanterns will revolve around the central characters finding an “ancient horror on Earth.” As of now, there’s no indication of when to expect the series on Max but casting is rumored to be underway for Jordan and Stewart.

    Source: THR

  • ‘One Piece’ Season 2 Finds its Baroque Works

    ‘One Piece’ Season 2 Finds its Baroque Works

    It’s been a long wait but since One Piece premiered last year in August, the second season is finally getting ready to enter production. With a WGA strike prolonging the wait, it seems our wait won’t be that long (hopefully) to see how they adapt one of the series’ most iconic arcs, Baroque Works or the Alabasta arc. It’s especially exciting after teasing the organization in the first season with Zoro’s introduction. We still only knew about one member of the Baroque Works but our wait has come to an end.

    One Piece has yet to showcase the big guns of the organization, but we got some of its important early episode members. there were rumors that production was set to start at the end of June. So, perhaps they are revealing some of the cast that are heading to production that is returning to South Africa.

    We get our first look at who is playing Miss Valentine (Jazzara Jaslyn), Mr. 5(Camrus Johnson), Mr. 9 (Daniel Lasker) and Mr. 3 (David Dastmalchian). Lasker played int he South African-filmed series Raised by Wolves. Johnson appeared in CW’s Batwoman while Jazzara is known for her work on Warrior. The big addition is Dastmalchian who just recently led the film Late Night With the Devil but also had roles in The Suicide Squad, Oppenheimer, the Ant-Man franchise, and more. He’s also been quite vocal about wanting to join this franchise and has a rather perfect role.

    They’ll join our returning straw hats in Iñaki Godoy, Mackenyu, Emily Rudd, Jacob Romero, and Taz Skylar. Some major castings are still open for the next season such as Vivi, Nico Robin, Bon Clay, Crocodile, and whoever will be voicing Chopper, who is confirmed to appear by manga series creator Eiichiro Oda. Perhaps we’ll get a bit more throughout the week as production gets going on the long-awaited second season.

    Source: Twitter, Variety

  • First Look at the Mild-Mannered Clark Kent from the Set of ‘Superman’

    First Look at the Mild-Mannered Clark Kent from the Set of ‘Superman’

    A deluge of photos from the Cleveland set if DC Studios’ Superman has but social media over theast several days and it doesn’t seem as though it’s slowing down. Fans were recently treated to the first look at David Corenswet‘s Superman standing in the wake of destruction in Metropolis. Now, the first look at Corenswet as Kal-El’s mild-mannered alter ego has emerged.

    Fresh from set of Superman, feast your eyes on Corenswet as the intrepid Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent!

    Corenswet’s look as Kent is certainly a little more modern take and provides a semi-believeable “disguise.”

    In addition to the first look at Kent, today’s action also provided a glimpse of Mikaela Hoover‘s Cat Grant. The photo shows Grant stepping off the same prop as Lois Lane and Perry White in previous photos.

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  • ‘Rogue One’ Star Confirmed to Return for ‘Andor’ Season 2

    ‘Rogue One’ Star Confirmed to Return for ‘Andor’ Season 2

    Nearly two years after it debuted on Disney Plus, Lucasfilm’s Andor remains the standard for a Star Wars streaming series. Set five years before the events of Rogue One, Andor dove into the earliest days of the Rebellion and boldly did so with an all-new cast of characters outside of the series’ lead, Cassian Andor, once again portrayed by Diego Luna. Recently, Luna teased that Season 2–which will cover the four years between Season 1 and Rogue One–would feature cameos from Rogue One characters and now it seems one has been revealed.

    The scale of the show is so huge. Directors work in blocks of three episodes, so we did four blocks [in Season 1] of three episodes each. We looked and said, ‘Wow, it’d be really interesting if we come back, and we use each block to represent a year. We’ll move a year closer with each block.’ From a narrative point of view, it’s really exciting to be able to work on something where you do a Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and then jump a year.

    –Andor creator Tony Gilroy on the structure of the show’s timeline.
    In an interview with The Playlist, Alonso Ruizpalacios, who is one of several directors to have worked on Andor Season 2, revealed that Ben Mendelsohn is set to reprise his role as the villainous Orson Krennic.

    While discussing Season 2 of the streaming series, Ruizpalacios said he was excited to have worked with “heavyweights” such as “Stellan Skarsgård, Forest Whitaker, and Ben Mendelsohn.” While the return of Krennic makes plenty of sense, it’s the first news of Mendelsohn’s return; in fact, the actor had previously indicated that he did expect to be involved in the show. “As for being contacted by Lucasfilm for a new project, I can tell you that no, I have not been approached for something like this,” Mendelsohn told Bad Taste in February 2024. “And yes, it would be great to see him again somewhere, but for now, everything stops here,” he continued.

    But as far as I’m concerned, I would be very willing to explore it further and significantly in that world. I never expected to play a character like that, but then again, I never expected to become an actor, either. For me, they are all wonderful things. I think Krennic has a tremendous amount of things left to give to the audience. What you need to understand about a character like Krennic is that, if he had the chance, he would have tried to take over the entire game, and it seems to me that this aspect has not yet been explored sufficiently.

    -Ben Mendelsohn on returning as Krennic, Bad Taste, February 2024

    Series creator Tony Gilroy has already stated that the last shot of Andor Season 2 will be set immediately before the opening of Rogue One. “Our final scene of the show is no secret. It’s going to be [Cassian] walking across the tarmac to get in the ship to go to the Rings of Kafrene to go meet Daniel Mays’ [the character Cassian kills in the opening of the film], he’s going there.” So where does Mendelsohn’s character fit in? As a member of the Republic’s Strategic Advisory Cell, Krennic was involved in the planning of the Death Star from its earliest days, suggesting that the work of his former colleague, Galen Erso, be utilized in weaponizing the DS-1. While Rogue One provided a flashback to Krennic’s tragic encounter with Erso after the former had failed in his work, Andor Season 2 leaves plenty of room to tell more of Krennic’s story and could even see him interacting with other high-level members of the Empire such as Tarkin or Thrawn. Whatever the case, we’ll have to wait quite some time before we find out as Andor Season 2 isn’t expected to hit Disney Plus until 2025.

    Source: The Playlist, Bad Taste

  • Giancarlo Esposito Teases His “Badass” MCU Character

    Giancarlo Esposito Teases His “Badass” MCU Character

    After years of being fancast in multiple MCU roles, Giancarlo Esposito finally joined the cinema’s largest interconnected universe. It’s been just under a month since it was revealed that Espositio‘s character was set to debut in Captain America: Brave New World when it hits theaters in early 2025 and as reshoots on that project have wound down or moved out of the public eye, the buzz around the debut has died down a bit. However, at the premiere of his next film, MaXXXine, Esposito was asked about the role and teased that he’s set to be a real badass.

    “When you see me in the MCU, you’re going to see a badass and I’m excited for that,” Esposito told Deadline. “Acting is using every part of your body, your emotions, your senses, your feelings to portray something. But when you…you haven’t really seen me use my body in a way I’ll be using it. The MCU is exciting. I can’t tell you who I play but you’re gonna be excited when you see it,” he teased.

    The MCU has knocked on my door and it’s a role you won’t predict. It will be teased and there will be a series afterwards.

    -Giancarlo Esposito on his mystery MCU character

    While Esposito has done plenty of teasing of his character over the past couple of months, the identity of the agent of chaos has yet to be revealed. A set photo released online in early June showed the character will be heavily armed and led to wild theorizing and speculation by fans who believe he’s playing every Marvel character from Bushman to Willis Stryker to Shatterstar. To date, I’ve not seen an accurate guess of Esposito‘s character.

    Captain America: Brave New World hits theaters on February 14th, 2025.

  • More ‘Superman’ Set Photos Provide First Look at Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois Lane

    More ‘Superman’ Set Photos Provide First Look at Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois Lane

    As production on DC Studios’ Superman continues in Cleveland, so does the run of photos of the Metropolis set hitting the web. Just hours after the first look at David Corenswet on set in the suit alongside Edi Gathegi‘s Mister Terrific, new photos have provided the first look at Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane.

    While we can’t share them here, you can click the link to Just Jared below to check them all out; however, from the photo embedded in the tweet, you can see Brosnahan‘s Lane wearing her trademark purple!

    While it’s still not entirely clear what’s happening in downtown Metropolis in the photos, additional photos seem to show Brosnahan‘s Lane and Wendell Pierce‘s Perry White stepping off a plane amidst some destruction in the streets (Loeb Drive, specifically, in reference to Jeph Loeb, who wrote 1998’s Superman For All Seasons, a four-issue miniseries that has been referenced by James Gunn as inspiration for the film).

    Given that earlier photos from the set showed Superman looking to the sky, it’s possible that in addition to whatever caused chaos in the streets of Metropolis, Kal-El also saved a plane, carrying Lois, Perry and others, from crashing. Whatever the case, there seems to be quite a bit going on in Superman outside of a beef with Lex Luthor. With filming expected to continue in Cleveland, perhaps some more details will emerge allowing fans to piece together a bit of the story.