Marissa Bode is trading the land of Oz for fungal horror. Sarah Michelle Gellar talks about the meaning behind the new Buffy show’s title. Plus, the end is nigh for Netflix’s Witcher. Spoilers now!
Snare
Variety reports Marissa Bode (Wicked), Greg Tarzan Davis (Top Gun: Maverick), and Sonja O’Hara will star in Snare, a “psychological horror thriller” written and directed by Adam Hoelzel and O’Hara, herself. In the film, O’Hara stars as Ro, “a mushroom expert who falls into a love triangle that eventually results in obsession and body horror.” Bode will play Greta Mills, “Ro’s witty and ambitious mycological research partner.”
This Is Not a Test
According to Bloody-Disgusting, Adam MacDonald’s This Is Not a Test has been rated “R” for “strong bloody violence, gore, suicide, language, some sexuality and brief teen drinking.”
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
The outlet additionally has word that 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple has also been rated “R” for “strong bloody violence, gore, graphic nudity, language throughout, and brief drug use.”
Redux Redux
A vengeful mother continues traveling to parallel dimensions to kill her daughter’s murderer over and over again in the trailer for Redux Redux, starring Michaela McManus.
The Strangers: Chapter 3
Lionsgate has also released a trailer for the third and final chapter in Renny Harlin’s The Strangers trilogy.
The Eye
Invoking the curse of the “Evil Eye,” a woman learns she can bring her late husband back from the dead by killing an innocent in the trailer for The Eye, starring Shruti Haasan.
Jessica Jones/Strange Academy/Champions
The latest report from insider Daniel Richtman (via Comic Book Movie) suggests a new Jessica Jones TV series is in development at Disney+. Additionally, the scrapped Strange Academy series is back on track, and the long-gestating plans for a Young Avengers show will now be known as the Champions, with both shows reportedly now set after the events of Avengers: Secret Wars.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale
Appearing as a guest on the Shut Up Evan podcast (via Screen Rant), Sarah Michelle Gellar revealed the Buffy the Vampire Slayer legacy sequel’s subtitle, New Sunnydale, is a play on words because Buffy Summers “knew Sunnydale.”
It’s a continuation. Continuation. I think so. Because where is she now in this world? And what is this world that Buffy lives in with her and without her? You know, kind of exploration? So it’s not a reboot. It’s not picking up with all of the same characters right away. It is not like a sequel reboot. I just think it’s Sunnydale. That’s why. That’s why the name was even important to me, you know? And Buffy knew Sunnydale. Like, it’s– it’s Buffy, but it’s also something else.
In the same interview, Gellar explained her decision to return to the role, stating she was initially unimpressed by Chloé Zhao’s passion until something in the pitch finally clicked with her.
I have learned a very hard lesson in life. There’s a reason why that saying is never say never. So I will eat my words. And I’m okay with that. Like, I learned my lesson. That’s totally fair. I never saw how to do it. I never saw how and why it could be as good. I’m not trying to be better. I just want to hold up. Right? I want to hold and honor the memory and what we created. And I know sometimes that memory is conflicted for people about how they’re supposed to feel about it. But a lot of people put their blood, sweat, and tears, into making what I think is an incredible, incredibly great show, and I’m incredibly proud of it.
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