David Lynch is trying to find a new home for his mysterious animated movie Snootworld. You’re gonna have to wait a lot longer for Saw XI. Plus: Somehow, Velma returned! To me, my Spoilers!
Oswald: Down the Rabbit Hole
Bloody-Disgusting reports Ernie Hudson has joined the cast of the upcoming horror film based on the public domain Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Hudson is said to play Oswald Jebediah Coleman, “a brilliant animator who is cast away to a bone-chilling magical prison. After over 100 years of being trapped there, Oswald’s come-to-life cartoon rabbit is menacing, gruesome and out for blood.”
Graveyard Smash
Deadline reports Wolf Creek director Greg McLean has teamed with Concourse Media and CinemaWays on Graveyard Smash, an action-horror movie in which “a young woman and her three best friends find themselves trapped inside a virtual-reality game where every level forces its players to survive a different genre of a horror movie. When they learn that dying in the game means dying in real life, the friends are forced to hack, slash and battle their way to the toxic mastermind behind it all.”
David Lynch’s Snootworld
In conversation with Deadline, David Lynch revealed Netflix has passed on Snootworld, his proposed animated film co-written with Edward Scissorhands and The Addams Family screenwriter, Caroline Thompson.
I don’t know when I started thinking about Snoots but I’d do these drawings of Snoots and then a story started to emerge. I got together with Caroline and we worked on a script. Just recently I thought someone might be interested in getting behind this so I presented it to Netflix in the last few months but they rejected it. Snootworld is kind of an old fashioned story and animation today is more about surface jokes. Old fashioned fairytales are considered groaners: apparently people don’t want to see them. It’s a different world now and it’s easier to say no than to say yes.
In the same interview, Thompson revealed the film concerned tiny creatures who become lost in a carpet after undergoing their people’s traditional shrinking ritual.
It takes my breath away how wacky it is. The Snoots are these tiny creatures who have a ritual transition at aged eight at which time they get tinier and they’re sent away for a year so they are protected. The world goes into chaos when the Snoot hero of the story disappears into the carpet and his family can’t find him and he enters a crazy, magnificent world.
Saw XI
Deadline additionally reports Saw XI has been pushed back a full year and will now reach theaters September 26, 2025.
MaXXXine
MaXXXine has been rated “R” for “strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use.” [Bloody-Disgusting]
Never Let Go
Bloody-Disgusting has a teaser poster for Never Let Go, the latest horror film from Alexander Aja starring Halle Berry, Percy Daggs III and Anthony B. Jenkins.
Heroes: Eclipsed
Deadline reports that Heroes showrunner Tim Kring is working on a continuation of the 2006 superhero series, which will be set years after the events of the original show and see a new generation of powered “evos” battle “familiar villains and new enemies.”
Velma
TV Line has word Velma will return for a second season this April 25 on Max.
Ghosts
Spoiler TV has photos from “The Traveling Agent,” the April 25 episode of Ghosts. More at the link.
Pete discovers a power that he never knew he had – one that brings him closer to his buddy Jay (and further apart), on the CBS Original series GHOSTS, Thursday, April 25 (8:31-9:01 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs)*.
A Thousand Suns
Lastly, we have a trailer for A Thousand Suns, an online “mind-bending sci-fi anthology series that explores visions of humanity’s past, present and future” premiering this April 16.
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