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The Mandela Catalogue <\/p>\nJason Reitman reveals The Real Ghostbusters\u2018 relation to Night Shift. Katharine Isabelle battles a cosmic horror from beyond the stars. Hugh Jackman confirms he\u2019s still the MCU\u2019s one-and-only Wolverine\u2026 but for how long? Don\u2019t be what they made you\u2014it\u2019s Morning Spoilers!\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mandela Catalogue <\/p>\n
According to Deadline<\/a>, Steven Spielberg is teaming with\u00a0United Artists\u2018\u00a0Scott Stuber and\u00a0Amazon MGM Studios on a feature film based on the popular YouTube horror series, The Mandela Catalogue<\/a>. Directed by series creator Alex Kister<\/a> from a script co-written with Tyler Clifton, the film will expound on the show\u2019s premise: the fictional Mandela County, Wisconsin, has been \u201cinvaded by shape-shifting, nearly immortal creatures called \u201cAlternates\u201d that plan to bully mankind into eliminating itself.<\/p>\n Untitled Dario Argento Project <\/p>\n In a recent interview with the Italian news outlet Adnkronos<\/a> (via World of Reel<\/a>), Dario Argento stated his upcoming film starring Isabelle Huppert will be \u201cthe bloodiest of his career.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s a very strong, very bloody film. Isabelle Huppert is gorgeous. An actress of unheard-of class. I\u2019ve seen everything she\u2019s done, cinema, television, and theater. It\u2019s a spectacle to see her.<\/p>\n The Gunfighter <\/p>\n Deadline<\/a> also reports Patrick Perez Vidauri is attached to direct The Gunfighter, an action film about a masked vigilante starring Vannessa Vasquez. Written by Tom Jenkins, the story follows Johnny Bandit, \u201ca philosophy student by day and a mysterious masked vigilante by night. As his relentless pursuit of justice ignites fear, admiration, and controversy throughout the city, law enforcement races to uncover the man behind the mask while the public becomes divided over whether he is a dangerous outlaw or the hero the system has failed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n Wolverine and The X-Men <\/p>\n In a recent interview with PBS<\/a>, Hugh Jackman reiterated once again he is committed to continue playing Wolverine until Marvel decides to recast the character.<\/p>\n I\u2019m 57. I\u2019m doing it till I\u2019m 90. So, you know\u2026 I\u2019ll do a little time capsule for them.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not going to say anything to whoever plays him, \u2019cause no one said anything to me, which I really am thrilled about. And I had not read the comics, so I was just coming to it fresh. And I learned a lot over the years. Of course I\u2019ve got my own take, but it must be melding in with me in some way. I hope someone just comes in and does whatever the f*** they want and makes it their own.<\/p>\n Freaks Part II <\/p>\n Fantasia has our first look at Freaks Part II, the sequel to Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein\u2019s 2018 film, Freaks. Set \u201cseveral years after\u201d their traumatic escape in the first film, the sequel sees Mary (Amanda Crew) and her daughter Chloe (Lorelei Olivia Mote) as they \u201clive on the road, hiding their powers and identities. They are hunted by the Abnormal Defense Force, paramilitary police that specialize in ruthlessly exterminating \u2018freaks\u2018 like them. Mary is fueled by revenge, determined to find the ADF officer (Lili Taylor) who killed her first child.\u201c<\/p>\n Junction Row <\/p>\n Katharine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps, Hannibal) plays a recovering addict who must rescue Natalie Brown (The Strain) from a Lovecraftian monster, its spider-like brood, and a gang of drug dealers in the trailer for Junction Row.<\/p>\n Nightborn <\/p>\n Saga (Seidi Haarla) and her British husband Jon (Rupert Grint) struggle to raise their bloodsucking baby in the trailer for Nightborn, the latest film from Hatching director Hanna Bergholm.<\/p>\n Ghostbusters: Night Shift <\/p>\n Speaking with THR<\/a>, Jason Reitman compared Ghostbusters: Night Shift to the Clone Wars animated series in terms of working lock-step with the timeline of the previous films.<\/p>\n It\u2019s only important if you\u2019re concerned about space and time. Night Shift\u00a0is very specifically set within the larger context of the\u00a0Ghostbusters stories. You\u2019ll be able to watch the movies, come into the show, watch more movies and never miss a beat. It all links up.<\/p>\n We gave ourselves a mystery to solve. We thought of this young girl who found a proton pack in a barn, and we were trying to figure out who she was, how\u2019d she wind up there, how did this proton pack get there. That naturally led to another question: Wait a second, what about that whole decade in between? What happened in the \u201990s? That was the birth of this show.<\/p>\n Later in the the same interview, Reitman confirmed the show will be heavily influenced by The Real Ghostbusters, though he suggests that neither that series nor the Extreme Ghostbusters of the \u201990s will be viewed as \u201ccanon.\u201d<\/p>\n We started to watch [the 1980s\/90s cartoon] The Real Ghostbusters. It actually became more than just inspiration for those films. It made us see the extraordinary possibility that Ghostbusters stories have when you stretch your elbows out a little bit. A series allows you to tell a character story, or character stories, with more space.<\/p>\n Anyone who\u2019s coming into this animated series thinking they\u2019re about to watch the series from the \u201980s, oh, are they in for a surprise. It is funnier, it is scarier. The visuals are incredibly dynamic, and it does the thing that that first film in \u201984 did, which is you come in thinking, \u2018okay, maybe I\u2019ll have a laugh,\u2019 and then it spooks the shit out of you.<\/p>\n I think we all loved it in maybe different ways. It is so inventive, it\u2019s so different, it has such a great identity. Maybe we are reining it in a little bit because this series is canon, and we\u2019re trying to stay within the realm of maybe the movies. But at the same time it\u2019s animation, so we\u2019re still able to really expand and explore.<\/p>\n Rick and Morty <\/p>\n Finally, Rick and Morty are \u201creformed\u201d by a living tree in an extended clip from this Sunday\u2019s new episode.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n