Movie News & Trailers: Coming Attractions

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Uncle Retrospective

Maybe even more fun was the in-universe Johnny Cage trailer from yesterday:

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Heh. Okay, now I kinda want to see this Mortal Kombat movie, which is not something I thought could happen.

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Taika Waititi Tackling ‘Judge Dredd’ Movie in Hot Package Hitting Hollywood (Exclusive) – Hollywood Reporter

Drew Pearce, whose screenwriting credits include ‘Fall Guy’ and ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,’ is attached to write the script.

Judge Dredd Taika Waititi.

Those two names have studio heads and executives sitting up this week as one of the hottest packages of the year hits the Hollywood marketplace.

Waititi, the Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit filmmaker, is attached to direct a new feature film take on Dredd, the popular and violent British comic book character.

Drew Pearce, the scribe known for his action movie-filled resume thanks to titles such as Fall Guy and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, is attached to write the script.

Producers include Dredd rights holders Chris Kingsley, Jason Kingsley and Ben Smith of Rebellion Developments, Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment, Jeremy Platt, Natalie Viscuso and Pearce.

Sources say Pearce and Waititi both grew up with the books and are friends who have been trying to find a project to work on together for years.

Created in the late 1970s by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra, Dredd debuted in the pages of weekly British anthology 2000 AD. He is a police officer in the bleak future metropolis of Mega-City One, part of a law enforcement corps that empowers officers to be judge, jury, and executioner. The character and his stories were a satire on a judicial system taken to the extreme. Dredd proved hugely popular, engendering several more comics and comics strips, video and board games, books, and even postage stamps in the United Kingdom. It is said that over 100,000,000 comics and graphic novels have been sold.

The character was given the glossy Hollywood treatment in 1995 with a big-budget adaptation that starred Sylvester Stallone. It was poorly received. More warmly was the reception for Dredd, a 2012 adaptation that starred Karl Urban with a script by Alex Garland, the writer behind 28 Days Later, who also wrote and directed Civil War.

The logline is being kept under the visor, but the pitch is said to take inspiration more from the comics than the previous screen iterations, leaning into the world-building and dark humor. It is also meant to be a fun sci-fi blockbuster that nonetheless speaks to this moment in culture. The desire is to see the movie launch a Dredd universe that could be explored with additional movies and shows across various platforms.

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The logline is being kept under the visor, but the pitch is said to take inspiration more from the comics than the previous screen iterations, leaning into the world-building and dark humor. It is also meant to be a fun sci-fi blockbuster that nonetheless speaks to this moment in culture. The desire is to see the movie launch a Dredd universe that could be explored with additional movies and shows across various platforms.

Cool. I liked the Alex Garland Dredd, but I like Pearce’s writing a lot, and I Waititi would be a great fit for the more satirical, funnier sides of Dredd. I really hope this happens, it could be awesome.

But, you know. Waititi is at the same time in pre-production for a Star Wars movie, the Incal movie, a revisionist Huck Finn movie, and a Kazuo Ishiguro robot movie adaptation. Plus, he’s producing like twenty TV shows.

So… we’ll see how far this goes. Fingers crossed.

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But, you know. Waititi is at the same time in pre-production for a Star Wars movie, the Incal movie, a revisionist Huck Finn movie, and a Kazuo Ishiguro robot movie adaptation. Plus, he’s producing like twenty TV shows.

So he’s not doing Akira any more? Thank fuck.

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Dave wrote:

Christian wrote:

But, you know. Waititi is at the same time in pre-production for a Star Wars movie, the Incal movie, a revisionist Huck Finn movie, and a Kazuo Ishiguro robot movie adaptation. Plus, he’s producing like twenty TV shows.

So he’s not doing Akira any more? Thank fuck.

The Akira rights finally expired a few weeks ago, so nobody’s working on it now, until another studio pays up.

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Bradley Cooper has a new movie coming out, in which Will Arnett plays… John Bishop??

https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2025/daily/bradley-coopers-is-this-thing-on-will-make-world-premiere-as-closing-night-of-the-63rd-new-york-film-festival/

Will Arnett and Laura Dern play Alex and Tess Novak, whose marriage has reached an impasse. With amicable sorrow, the couple—parents of two young boys—mutually agree to split up. Yet in director Bradley Cooper’s keenly observed comic drama, their separation leads to unpredictable midlife self-reckonings, most dramatically in Alex’s wild career pivot to become a confessional stand-up comedian in New York City’s West Village, where he finds new direction and camaraderie. This seemingly outlandish scenario—in a script by Cooper, Arnett, and Mark Chappell inspired by the true story of British comedian John Bishop—is never played for easy laughs

‘Highlander’: Dave Bautista to Play Villain Opposite Henry Cavill in Amazon MGM’s Remake – Hollywood Reporter

Dave Bautista in final negotiations to play the villain in Amazon MGM’s remake of the 1980s cult classic Highlander.

The actor will join Henry Cavill and Russell Crowe in the action fantasy, which hails from Amazon MGM’s United Artists banner and is slated to get a theatrical release.

Chad Stahelski is directing the feature that is due to begin principal photography at the end of the September and shoot in locales in the UK as well as Hong Kong.

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New ‘Archie’ Movie Set at Universal Pictures – Hollywood Reporter

‘Spider-Verse’ producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are behind the studio pic based on the Archie comic books about Archie, Veronica, Betty and their friends, with Archie Comics producing.

A feature adaptation of the Archie comic books is in the works at Universal Pictures, with Spider-Verse franchise producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller at the helm.

Tom King, the Eisner-winning comic book author (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow) making a push into screenwriting, will pen the script for the untitled Archie movie, with plot details for the film remaining under wraps.

“We are longtime fans of Archie, Veronica, Betty and the gang in all of their iterations. When we heard Tom King’s take on the classic material, we instantly thought it made sense as an event movie for all audiences — both lifelong fans and a whole new generation. We’re so excited to bring these beloved characters to the big screen,” said Lord and Miller in a statement on Wednesday.

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That looks fucking awesome! I hope I can see this one in a theatre. The rate at which Lanthimos is putting out movies is insane, though, I haven’t even seen Kinds of Kindness.

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Kinds of Kindness is great fun. That trailer almost looks like it could be a fourth story strand from that movie.

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Speaking of terrible trailers with Grogu and the fucking Mandalorian, the first trailer for The Bride! is fucking amazing. I knew nothing about this movie and now I desperately want to watch it.

Kudos, Miss Gyllenhall!

Edited to add the “!” to “The Bride!”, because that makes the title of the movie so much cooler.

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The single-movie version of Kill Bill is finally getting a wide release in December.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/kill-bill-the-whole-bloody-affair-sets-theatrical-release-1236536800/

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