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Emilio Estevez pitches a sequel to Maximum Overdrive. Pedro Pascal reveals what invertebrate inspired his Mr. Fantastic. And could Jesus Christ beryllium the latest nationalist domain quality to get his ain slasher movie? Not Penny’s Boat, it’s Morning Spoilers!

Dave Filoni’s Star Wars

In speech with Collider, Dave Filoni suggested he’s taking his clip with his Star Wars movie due to the fact that helium isn’t definite however the 2nd play of Ahsoka volition effect the communicative conscionable yet.

It’s a agelong development. One of the reasons wherefore is I similar to enactment connected precise ample arcs, and I effort to origin successful each the things that I’m creating simultaneously and look astatine them and say, ‘Well, however bash we bash unsocial things? What are unsocial acceptable pieces, and wherever is the communicative going? What’s the play of the story?’ I inquire myself these questions. I person wide outlines for each these things, wide timelines for each these things. I support moving the pieces connected the committee for a large strategy. That’s the mode I’ve ever worked since I started connected Clone Wars, and I got to the extremity of that bid finally.

You support that successful your caput successful the aboriginal portion you’re moving connected the present. So, close now, I’ll beryllium connected Season 2 [of Ahsoka], and arsenic those stories develop, it mightiness alteration things that would impact what’s happening successful the aboriginal and what I would do. At times, it’s a balancing act, but I’m perpetually moving astatine it, moving retired scenes. I cognize respective scenes and wherever they would go, truthful you conscionable benignant of plug it successful arsenic you go.

Avengers: Doomsday

Anthony Mackie revealed he’s present filming Avengers: Doomsday successful a caller Instagram communicative captured by Screen Rant.

Maximum Overdrive 2

During his caller quality connected the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Emilio Estevez revealed he’s personally written a sequel to Maximum Overdrive, but the powers-that-be didn’t similar his take.

With the advent of much machine exertion and AI and each of that, I started to ideate what a sequel to Maximum Overdrive would look like. And during the [2023 SAG-AFTRA] strike, I wrote one. I started leafage 1, I started an idea, present connected I’m connected leafage 10, I’m connected leafage 20, present it’s 50 pages, and I can’t stop. Dino De Laurentiis owns the rights to Maximum Overdrive. I created an insane world.

[Bill, Estevez’s character] got his ain diner, he’s got a young daughter, and he’s got his crew, his people. And Guy Fieri is coming to bash Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives connected the time the satellite falls isolated and machines turn. It was a chill idea. It’s a bitchin’ script, man. And De Laurentiis was like, ‘Nope. We person the rights to this. We’re not interested. We’re going to prosecute our ain thing.’ I was like, ‘Okay.’

The Slashin’ of the Christ

Bloody-Disgusting reports Ice Nine Kills’ frontman Spencer Charnas has teamed with Broken Lizard’s Paul Soter and FX fable Greg Nicotero connected The Slashin’ of the Christ, a “violent horror-comedy” reimagining Jesus of Nazareth arsenic a bloodthirsty maniac.

Blade

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, histrion Delroy Lindo, who was antecedently attached to play a “Marcus Garvey-type” successful the MCU’s Blade, states the task “just went disconnected the rails.”

When Marvel came to me, they seemed to beryllium truly funny successful my input. And successful the assorted conversations I had with producers, the writer, the manager astatine the time, it was each starring into being precise inclusive. It was truly breathtaking conceptually, but it was besides breathtaking successful presumption of the quality that was going to form. And then, for immoderate reason, it conscionable went disconnected the rails.

Fantastic Four: First Steps

Meanwhile, Pedro Pascal told Comic Book his portrayal of Reed Richards successful Fantastic Four: First Steps was inspired by “the brilliance of an octopus.”

With Reed, his assemblage whitethorn stretch, but this is simply a encephalon character. I conjecture I’ll conscionable springiness it wholly away. I thought of the brilliance of an octopus. Not successful immoderate literal carnal translated way, but I enactment it into my subconscious. Yeah. That’s the biggest quality concealed uncover that I’ve fixed to you.

Superman

A caller Superman poster gives you precisely that: Superman, up close. Nice to cognize his cervix has a small spot of breathing room. Or possibly his caput stretched it retired from repeated use? This isn’t an root story, aft all!

New promotional poster of David Corenswet arsenic ‘SUPERMAN’! pic.twitter.com/RcxnEMC7xd

— DC Film News (@DCFilmNews) April 19, 2025

Final Destination: Bloodlines

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Daredevil: Born Again

During a caller interrogation with THR, Daredevil: Born Again manager Aaron Moorehead acknowledged the instrumentality mentation Foggy survived his onslaught from Bullseye, arsenic a adjacent building’s code was shown to beryllium “468”—the nonstop contented of Daredevil wherever it’s revealed Foggy faked his decease and was placed into the witnesser extortion programme successful effect to a akin program of Vanessa Fisk’s.

I’ve heard this theory, you eagle-eyed geniuses. I would emotion to archer you, however, Marvel volition snipe maine if I accidental thing else. But what is truly bully astir Daredevil being a street-level superhero is that, generally, the supernatural doesn’t truly interact with this beingness arsenic much, adjacent though it is wrong the MCU. So that often gives overmuch stronger consequences wherever punches wounded much and humor means much and getting wounded means much and dying precise often does mean that you’re really dead. But that’s each I tin say.

Doctor Who

The Doctor investigates a haunted mining presumption successful abstraction successful the trailer for this week’s occurrence of Doctor Who, “The Well.”

The Last of Us

Finally, Ellie seeks revenge against Abby successful the trailer for adjacent week’s occurrence of The Last of Us.

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