News Shotgun 10/28/23
Here’s all the movie and TV news you need to know from the past week, it’s the News Shotgun
RIP Richard Moll and Richard Roundtree: A couple of notable names passed away this past week. Richard Moll, probably best known for his role as Bull Shannon on Night Court, died at age 80 this week. Moll was also Harvey Dent/Two-Face on Batman: The Animated Series and appeared in many other movies and TV shows, like Everything Action favorite Sidekicks. Richard Roundtree died at age 81 this week as well, best known for playing Shaft in the original 1971 classic and its sequels along with the 2000 and 2019 Shaft movies featuring Samuel L. Jackson. Roundtree also appeared in movies like Earthquake, Q: The Winged Serpent, Brick, and Se7en.
The Black Phone 2 gets release date: A sequel to last year’s creepy Joe Hill adaptation, The Black Phone, is in the works at Blumhouse. The production company set a release date of June 27th, 2025 for the sequel, but there are no plot details or if director Scott Derrickson will be returning.
Keira Knightley starring in sci-fi movie Conception: Keira Knightley has signed on to star in the dystopian sci-fi movie Conception, which is being written and directed by Camille Griffin. The movie is set in a future where the British government controls all aspects of birth and parenting, with strict laws that have dire consequences if violated. Knightley plays a civil servant who enforces these laws until something happens that endangers her chance to be a parent.
Adult animated series Carol & The End of the World coming to Netflix: Adding to the slew of animated projects coming to Netflix in the near future is Carol & The End of the World. The series comes from Dan Guterman, who previously worked on Community and Rick & Morty. Martha Kelly leads the voice cast as the titular Carol, who must deal, along with the rest of the planet, with another planet that is on a collision course with the Earth and will destroy the planet when they collide. The show debuts on December 15th with 10 episodes on Netflix.
Paramount+ cancels Rabbit Hole and Fatal Attraction: Paramount+ has canceled two of their original series, Rabbit Hole and Fatal Attraction, after each show’s first seasons. Rabbit Hole starred Kiefer Sutherland trying to unravel a massive digital conspiracy while Fatal Attraction was a remake of the 80s erotic thriller starring Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan. Paramount+ has said the first seasons will still be available to watch on the service, which they have to specifically mention now as almost every streaming service is removing content from their catalogs to save money on licensing fees.
Action movie The Bricklayer gets US release: The Bricklayer, a new action movie from director Renny Harlin, has secured a US release from distributor Vertical. The movie is based on a novel by former FBI agent Paul Lindsay under the pseudonym of Noah Boyd and stars Aaron Eckhart as retired CIA agent Steve Vail to track down a rogue insurgent who is killing foreign journalists and framing the CIA. Clifton Collins Jr, Nina Dobrev, Tim Blake Nelson, and Ilfenesh Hadera co-star. The movie will be out sometime early next year.
Mission: Impossible 8 moves release date: Due to the delays caused by the writer’s strike and the still ongoing actor’s strike, Mission: Impossible 8 has moved to the summer of 2025, specifically May 23rd, 2025. The movie will also get a new title and not be Dead Reckoning Part Two as previously planned but will still continue the plot from Dead Reckoning Part One and IMF’s battle against the evil AI known as The Entity. A Quiet Place: Day One, a spin-off prequel to the Quiet Place series, has shifted release dates as well to June 28th, 2024, originally it was going to release on March 8th next year.
The Life of Chuck gets cast members: Mike Flanagan, after recently having The Fall of the House of Usher drop on Netflix, is gearing up for his next movie, an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Life of Chuck. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan, and Jacob Tremblay have joined the cast, which previously cast Tom Hiddleston and Mark Hamill. The movie is based on three interconnected stories from the King anthology novel from 2020 If It Bleeds and follows the life of 39-year-old Charles Krantz in reverse, from his death due to a brain tumor going back to his childhood living in a supposedly haunted house. Along with directing the movie, Flanagan wrote the movie and it got an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA to begin production earlier this month.
Fallout TV series gets a release date: Amazon’s adaptation of the beloved Fallout video game series has gotten a release date for Prime Video, which is April 12th next year. The show comes from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the husband and wife team that brought us Westworld and The Peripheral and is an original series set in the Fallout universe version of Los Angeles. Walton Goggins, Moises Ares, Ella Purnell, Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Emerson, Aaron Moten, Leslie Uggams and more star in the series.
Highlander reboot moving forward: Lionsgate’s reboot of the beloved 80s cult classic Highlander is moving forward, with a big push to sell it at the American Film Market. Chad Stahelski is set to direct, who has said it will be like his John Wick movies but with swords, and Henry Cavill is set to star.