Bloober Team’s The Medium is heading to the big screen. Friday the 13th prequel Crystal Lake adds another deep-cut connection to its cast. Plus, what’s coming on Revival. Spoilers away!
Gremlins 3
During a recent appearance at Manchester’s Comic-Con (via Games Radar), Zach Galligan revealed a script has been written for a third Gremlins movie Warner Bros. is “waiting on” Steven Spielberg to “read and approve.”
After 35 years, they’ve come up with a script […] Warner Bros. is incredibly interested in doing it, apparently it’s waiting on Mr. Spielberg to read it and approve it. But you can thank the success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Horrified
According to Deadline, Julie Benz, Jason Behr, Allison Dunbar, Doug Jones, Aimeé Teegarden, Busy Philipps, Ron Perlman, and Jim Rash will star in Horrified, a horror-comedy in which a “down-on-her-luck scream queen (Benz) returns to the horror convention circuit for fast cash. The comeback veers off course when she finds herself up against a pig-masked killer from her old franchise weaponizing her cult legacy against her friends and fans, forcing her to confront past demons and fight for survival in a blood-soaked slasher showdown.”
The Medium
THR reports Gary Dauberman’s production company, Coin Operated, has secured the film rights to The Medium, the award-winning video game from Bloober Team. While the search for a screenwriter is currently underway, the game is set “in the post-communist era of Poland in the 1990s” and concerns “a woman named Marianna, imbued with psychic abilities, who is called to unravel the mystery of the death of an innocent child.”
Him
Empire has a new image from Justin Tipping’s “sports-horror” movie, Him.
Stay Tuned
Deadline reports Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells will star in Stay Tuneda TV series based on the 1992 comedy from Akiva Goldsman, Jordan Cahan, and Greg Lessans. Much like in the movie it’s based on, the series will see Rannells and Gad “trapped on the wrong side of the screen and forced to navigate their way through TV’s most binge-worthy obsessions.”
Crystal Lake
According to a new report from Friday the 13th Franchise, Nancy Vagrant has been cast as Kay Christy, an unspecified “relative” of Steve Christy, the mustachioed camp owner from the original Friday the 13th in Crystal Lake.
Untitled Sea Monster Series
Deadline reports Rohan Campbell is the latest actor to join the cast of the still-untitled Netflix series about a sea monster attacking Newfoundland starring Josh Hartnett, Makenzie Davis, and Charlie Heaton.
The Librarians: Next Chapter
TV Line also has word Jeremy Swift, Dominic Monaghan, Josh Gates, Stefan Kapičić , Oliver Dench, Ty Tennant, Flula Borg, Alan Emrys, Malcolm Sinclair, Reece Ritchie, Cat White, Gledisa Arthur, Jack Cunningham-Nuttall, Danny Rea, Luka Divac, and Alex Henry will make guest appearances on the second season of The Librarians: Next Chapter. Additionally, Christian Kane and Lindy Booth will both reprise their roles as the original series’ characters Jacob Stone and Cassandra Cillian, respectively.
Revival
Finally, Syfy has released a clip from tonight’s new episode of Revival.
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