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Taika Waititi says to expect his Kazuo Ishiguro adaptation, Klara and the Sun, to release this year. A new look at The Odyssey reveals a surprising new face. Plus, what’s coming on Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Spoilers get!
During a recent interview with MovieWeb, Sam Raimi confirmed there are plans for a fourth Darkman movie—one that could see Liam Neeson return as Dr. Peyton Westlake after two sequels with Arnold Vosloo in the role.
Yes, Ghost House Pictures, the company I work with, is trying to make the sequel right now. We’ve got a screenplay and two great directors, but we’re still having a little difficulty with the financing. It’s always the same in the movie business.
Speaking with Screen, Taika Waititi stated his film, Klara and the Sun, will see release sometime “this year, for sure.” Starring Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, Steve Buscemi, and Natasha Lyonne, the film is an adaptation of a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro about a solar-powered AF (Artificial Friend) named Klara who is chosen by a sickly child to be her companion.
Deadline also has word that novelist Daniel Kraus (Whalefall, The Shape of Water) is now writing a feature adaptation of his World War I-set supernatural thriller, Angel Down. The story concerns Private Cyril Bagger, “who has managed to survive the unspeakable horrors of WWI through his wits and deception, swindling fellow soldiers at every opportunity. But his survival instincts are put to the ultimate test when he and four other grunts are given a deadly mission: venture into the perilous No Man’s Land to euthanize a wounded comrade. What they find amid the ruined battlefield, however, is not a man in need of mercy but a fallen angel, seemingly struck down by artillery fire. This celestial being may hold the key to ending the brutal conflict, but only if the soldiers can suppress their individual desires and work together. As jealousy, greed, and paranoia take hold, the group is torn apart by their inner demons, threatening to turn their angelic encounter into a descent into hell.”
According to a new rumor from insider Daniel Richtman (via The Direct), Avengers: Secret Wars will introduce a third Black Panther to the MCU.
Filming has wrapped on Robert Eggers’s Werwulf according to Ralph Ineson on Twitter.
That was fun #werwulf pic.twitter.com/yjgaeK3HNu
— Ralph Ineson (@ralphineson) January 25, 2026
A new TV spot for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey reveals Travis Scott’s surprise role in the film.
Fiona Dourif plays “a young woman enabled by a mysterious futuristic machine [who] dives inside the mind of her dying girlfriend to find the essential memory that could save her life, all the while being hunted by a man they presumed to be dead” in the trailer for Psychonaut.
Finally, HBO has released a trailer for next week’s episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
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