{"id":408345,"date":"2026-04-20T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408345\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:22:08","slug":"a-live-action-ferngully-remake-is-ready-for-the-post-avatar-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408345\/","title":{"rendered":"A Live-Action &#8216;FernGully&#8217; Remake Is Ready for the Post-&#8216;Avatar&#8217; World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brutalist director Brady Corbet is working on a new occult project. Evil Dead Burn is arriving a little sooner than expected. Plus, a\u00a0Sinners star joins\u00a0The Last of Us season 3. To me, my spoilers! <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2000663500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/io9-2025-spoiler.png\" alt=\"Io9 2025 Spoiler\" width=\"2625\" height=\"514\"  \/><\/p>\n<p> FernGully: The Last Rainforest <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/ferngully-live-action-film-amazon-mgm-marielle-heller-directs-1236864500\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> reports a live-action remake of FernGully: The Last Rainforest is now in development at Amazon MGM Studios with Marielle Heller (Nightbitch) attached to write and direct.<\/p>\n<p>  Avengers: Doomsday <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/kathryn-newton-mcu-avengers-doomsday-cassie-lang-1236864448\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>, Kathryn Newton will reprise her role as Cassie Lang in Avengers: Doomsday.<\/p>\n<p>  Hexed <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/hexed-first-look-disney-cinemacon-1236862614\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> also reports Hailee Steinfeld and Rashida Jones will lend their voices to Disney\u2019s new animated feature, Hexed. The story concerns \u201ca teenager (Steinfeld) and her Type-A mom (Jones) as they discover that what makes her unusual might just be magical powers that will turn their lives and a secret world of magic, upside down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  Sentinel <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/brigham-taylor-dave-hunter-ian-puente-tom-goodall-intension-1236864199\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> reports Steve Zahn will star in Sentinel, a \u201cdeep-space sci-fi thriller\u201d concerning \u201can engineer trapped in a drifting escape pod who must uncover who is sabotaging his chances of survival before his oxygen runs out.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0327072\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Gomez<\/a> (who played Endless Mike on The Adventures of Pete &amp; Pete) is attached to direct.<\/p>\n<p>  Untitled Brady Corbet Project <\/p>\n<p>Appearing as a guest at the Light House Cinema (via <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/brady-corbet-american-mysticism-occult-storyhouse-1236863168\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>), The Brutalist director Brady Corbet revealed his next project is a collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitch_Horowitz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch Horowitz<\/a> chronicling \u201cthe history of the occult in America\u201d with a script over 200 pages long.<\/p>\n<p>My new film is a film that is sort of about American mysticism and the history of the occult in America and I\u2019ve been reading tons and tons of material about the migration of the cultist belief systems and structures. I\u2019ve started working with this fascinating guy called Mitch Horowitz, who is an occultist historian of America.<\/p>\n<p>  Evil Dead Burn <\/p>\n<p>Evil Dead Burn will now release in theaters two weeks earlier than expected this July 10, 2026. [<a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3946815\/evil-dead-burn-gets-a-new-release-date-teaser-now-playing-in-theaters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloody-Disgusting<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>  Blood Witch <\/p>\n<p>Burnt at the stake centuries ago, a mother-daughter pair of witches are resurrected in the present to take revenge on the descendants of their tormentors in the trailer for Blood Witch.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> The Last of Us <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/awards\/li-jun-li-joins-the-last-of-us-season-3-1236724228\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a> also reports Li Jun Li (Sinners) has joined the third season of The Last of Us as <a href=\"https:\/\/thelastofus.fandom.com\/wiki\/Miriam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miriam<\/a>, \u201ca Seraphite and the mother of Lev (Michelle Mao) and Yara (Kyriana Kratter).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  American Horror Story <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/joey-pollari-cast-fx-american-horror-story-1236863333\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>, Joey Pollari (American Crime) has joined the cast of American Horror Story\u2018s thirteenth season in a currently undisclosed role.<\/p>\n<p>  Spiral <\/p>\n<p>Lee Cronin revealed to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/global\/lee-cronin-unique-the-mummy-jason-blum-name-in-title-horror-1236723457\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a> he\u2019s developing a folk-horror TV series called Spiral in addition to a found-footage movie and a slasher set in Aruba.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve got a television show that we are in full partnership with Blumhouse and Atomic Monster on, which I created with Glenn Montgomery. It\u2019s called Spiral and it\u2019s set in 1980s Ireland and dripping in folklore, repression and the strangeness of the Irish countryside. We\u2019ve also got a found-footage movie that we\u2019re producing, and a slasher movie with two brothers from Aruba, which is a really, really interesting and a different approach to the slasher genre. So we are looking at new talent and also established talent as well, and just looking for really interesting stories that can plant flags in exciting places within the genre.<\/p>\n<p>  The Boys <\/p>\n<p>Soldier Boy fields a few questions while A-Train is further memorialized in two new videos from Vought International.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Ghosts <\/p>\n<p>Finally, CBS has released a trailer for \u201cThe Investor,\u201d this week\u2019s new episode of Ghosts.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Want more io9 news? 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