{"id":554146,"date":"2026-04-28T00:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554146\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T00:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:06:15","slug":"v-scooper-universal-would-like-metroid-movie-to-lean-into-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554146\/","title":{"rendered":"V Scooper: Universal would like Metroid movie to lean into horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"930\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/metroid_prime_4.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"389689\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mynintendonews.com\/2025\/11\/28\/metroid-prime-4-launches-with-casual-and-normal-modes-with-hard-mode-unlockable\/metroid_prime_4-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mynintendonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/metroid_prime_4.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"metroid_prime_4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mynintendonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/metroid_prime_4.jpg?fit=930%2C523&amp;ssl=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Movie leaker V Scooper, who you will remember from earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/mynintendonews.com\/2026\/04\/27\/vscooper-nintendo-is-pitching-metroid-movie-with-sony-and-universal-in-close-race-for-the-rights\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who said<\/a> that both Universal Pictures and Sony are vying to get a Metroid movie under their belt, has commented a little more on what he has heard. He <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thevscooper\/status\/2048858782545969471\" rel=\"nofollow\">says<\/a> that Universal Pictures are leaning into horror for their bid for the Metroid movie, but clearly not to the extent that it would receive a R rating or an 18+ rating here in the UK. It has not been made clear what direction Sony Pictures are pursuing for the movie, which remains a rumour for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes Universal has ideas to make this leaning into horror <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tLike this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Movie leaker V Scooper, who you will remember from earlier who said that both Universal Pictures and Sony&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-554146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}