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This Is Not a Test‘s movie adaptation has been acquired by IFC and Shudder. Krysten Ritter sneakily gives us our first look at Jessica Jones’ return to Marvel. Plus, Sam Raimi’s return to horror gets its first trailer. Spoilers get!
Deadline reports Will Brittain, Katherine Hughes, and Robert Lewis Stephenson will star in The Crawling, a “cosmic horror” movie from director Christian Everhard. Featuring practical creature effects from Steve Wang and Cleve Gunderman, the story follows “a disgraced cop (Brittain) and his therapist wife (Hughes) as they escape to a remote cabin to repair their fractured lives, though their search for peace unravels into paranoia and terror when an unspeakable force begins to tear them apart.”
Variety has word Backcountry director Adam MacDonald’s film adaptation of Courtney Summers’ zombie outbreak YA novel, This Is Not a Test, has been acquired by IFC and Shudder. Starring Olivia Holt, Froy Gutierrez, Luke MacFarlane, Corteon Moore, Chloe Avakian, and Carson MacCormac, the story follows a student named Sloane “and a small group of her classmates who take cover in their high school to escape their suddenly apocalyptic hometown. As danger relentlessly pounds on the doors, Sloane begins to see the world through the eyes of people who actually want to live and takes matters into her own hands.”
Deadline reports a biopic on Dracula actor Bela Lugosi from Ed Wood and Dolemite Is My Name screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski is now in development at Appian Way Productions.
Elsewhere, Mia Goth confirmed she’s still attached to Marvel’s long-awaited Blade reboot in a new interview with Elle.
It’s for the best that it’s taken the time that it has. They want to do it right.
The tables turn when Rachel McAdams becomes stranded on a deserted island with her “asshole boss” in the trailer for Sam Raimi’s return to horror, Send Help.
Krysten Ritter leaked roughly 20 seconds of the Daredevil: Born Again season two trailer shown at New York Comic Con in a since-deleted Instagram story re-introducing Jessica Jones to the MCU—which, of course, has now made its way online, if you want to take a look.
Finally, Charlie and Pim are kidnapped in the trailer for next week’s episode of Smiling Friends.
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