{"id":30815,"date":"2025-09-19T03:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/30815\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T03:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:57:07","slug":"slime-john-boyega-willow-smith-more-join-scott-mescudi-in-animated-monster-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/30815\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Slime&#8217; &#8211; John Boyega, Willow Smith &#038; More Join Scott Mescudi in Animated Monster Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeron Braxton makes his feature debut with the previously announced animated monster movie Slime, which first enlisted Scott \u201cKid Cudi\u201d Mescudi (X) to star. <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/willow-smith-teyana-taylor-anna-sawai-john-cho-john-boyega-join-slime-1236548292\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Deadline<\/a> brings us further casting news on the project this week, reporting that Willow Smith (I Am Legend), Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another), Anna Sawai (Sh\u014dgun), John Cho (Tempest) and John Boyega (The Woman King) will star alongside the singer\/actor.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline details, \u201cSet in a too-near future,\u00a0Slime\u00a0follows Muna (Smith), an optimistic but broke young woman who signs up for a paid clinical trial, only to be injected with a mysterious creature\u2019s slime that unleashes destructive powers she can\u2019t control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the run, she kidnaps Glenn (Mescudi), the lab worker who injected her, and the two set out on a perilous odyssey through a crumbling dystopian world in search of refuge and a cure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut as the clock runs out, is Muna transforming into humanity\u2019s worst nightmare or its last, unlikely savior?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming Slime is described as \u201can anime-inspired pre-apocalyptic sci-fi monster flick with retro video-game aesthetics.\u201d The movie will feature an original score by Mescudi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeron Braxton makes his feature debut with the previously announced animated monster movie Slime, which first enlisted Scott&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,29674,29675,409,111,139,69,29676,29677,29678],"class_list":{"0":"post-30815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-john-boyega","10":"tag-john-cho","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-scott-mescudi","16":"tag-slime","17":"tag-willow-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}