Updates From Star Trek: Discovery, X-Men ’97, and More

The Lovecraftian fishing game Dredge is becoming a movie. The Crow reboot just got a bit of a delay. Jennifer Tilly teases a big Chucky return. Plus, what’s coming on the long-awaited return of Smiling Friends. Spoilers, away!

Untitled Vampire Project

THR reports Hailee Steinfeld is the latest to join Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler’s currently untitled vampire movie. Details on her role are currently under wraps.

Dredge

Variety also reports Black Salt Games has partnered with Story Kitchen on a live-action film adaptation of Dredge, “the single-player Lovecraftian fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent.” In the game, “players are invited to sell their catch, upgrade their boat and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets as they explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten. Taking control of a fisherman and his boat, users explore a collection of remote isles and their surrounding depths to see what lies below. Selling the day’s catches to locals unearths more information about each area’s troubled past, but darkness ushers in the night’s worrisome eldritch horrors.” According to the outlet, Story Kitchen’s official logline describes the project as “The Sixth Sense on the water” and “a grounded atmospheric cosmic horror blend of HP Lovecraft and Ernest Hemingway.”

Don’t Move

Variety additionally reports the Sam Raimi-produced horror movie Don’t Move—in which “a seasoned killer injects a grieving woman with a paralytic agent” forcing her to “run, fight and hide before her body completely shuts down” — has been acquired by Netflix. Kelsey Asbille and Finn Wittrock star are attached to star.

The Crow

According to Comic Book, the upcoming reboot of The Crow has been pushed back two months and will now release this August 23rd.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

A behind-the-scenes photo from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop appears to confirm an animatronic Mangle is under construction for the Five Nights at Freddy’s sequel.

Arcadian

Bloody-Disgusting has a clip from Arcadian, the new monster movie starring Nicolas Cage in theaters this Friday.

Chucky

Jennifer Tilly confirmed the Tiffany doll will “resurface” on Chucky during a recent interview with TooFab.

People absolutely love that doll. And I think this season was a little sparse on [the] Tiffany doll. There’s something very adorable about Tiffany. Tiffany the doll is very self involved. And it’s so funny to see her running around doing her Tiffany doll things. I understand why people have a love for the doll.”

Tiffany-in-Jennifer Tilly is also very much Tiffany, but maybe not as compact and cute. So I think it’s nice to have a balance. I think they like to see me, but they also do like to see the doll. So, I think they’re going to be happily surprised when the doll resurfaces. Not to give anything away, but I do think that the doll is never gonna to be down for long. I think there’s always a place for the Tiffany doll in the Chucky franchise.

Star Trek: Discovery

Spoiler TV has photos from “Jinaal,” this week’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery. Head over there to see the rest.

Ghosts

Spoiler TV also has images from “Holes Are Bad,” the April 18 episode of Ghosts. More at the link.

Holes Are Bad – When Sam and Jay leave the ghosts home alone for the weekend in an attempt to have a romantic getaway, shocking revelations are made about two of Woodstone’s beloved spirits, on the CBS Original series GHOSTS, Thursday, April 18 (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)*.

Smiling Friends

Adult Swim has released a full trailer for the second season of Smiling Friends premiering this May 12.

X-Men ‘97

Finally, Nightcrawler returns in a clip from today’s new episode of X-Men ‘97.

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