Here’s all the movie and TV news you need to know from the past week, it’s the News Shotgun.
FUBAR canceled after 2 seasons: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Netflix comedy series FUBAR will not return for a third season, as the streamer has canceled it after two seasons. Season 2 debuted in June and experienced a significant decline in viewership compared to the first season. It barely made it onto Netflix’s top 10 most watched shows at #10 the week it debuted and quickly fell off.
John Krasinski is back to write and direct A Quiet Place Part III: After director Michael Sarnoski went back to the beginning for A Quiet Place: Day One, John Krasinski is back to write, produce, and direct the third main entry in the franchise, A Quiet Place: Part III. There are no casting or story details yet, but the movie has a release date of July 9, 2027.
Lee Isaac Chung to direct new Ocean’s movie: Coming off the success of Twisters last summer, director Lee Isaac Chung has signed on to direct a new entry in the Ocean’s heist franchise. The latest film is a prequel to the Steven Soderbergh series of heist movies, themselves based on the 1960 Rat Pack movie, but other details are unknown. Margot Robbie’s production company, LuckyChap, is producing the film.
Callback announces cast: The upcoming directorial debut from writer/director Blaise Beyhan, Callback, has assembled an impressive cast with Asa Germann, Aaron Moten, Dennis Quaid, Jai Courtney, Willa Fitzgerald, Carla Gugino, and Giovanni Ribisi. The movie is based on a short film written and directed by Beyhan, and actor Paul Fitzgerald will reprise his role from the short. Plot details are currently being kept under wraps.
New Bond movie finds a writer: With Denis Villeneuve announced as the director of the next Bond movie, Amazon MGM has found an equally impressive writer for the film with Steven Knight. Knight created Peaky Blinders and wrote Eastern Promises and Dirty Pretty Things. He also executive-produced and created the shows Taboo, See, SAS Rogue Heroes, and A Thousand Blows.
Hostel TV series coming to Peacock: Eli Roth is bringing his Hostel series to Peacock with a TV series. Paul Giamatti has signed on to star, and Roth will write, direct, and executive produce the series. Plot details were not revealed, so it’s not clear how and if this will fit into the movie series. The series follows tourists in Eastern Europe who are kidnapped and tortured by wealthy clients of the Elite Hunting Club.
The Social Network Part II casting is underway: Aaron Sorkin is developing a follow-up to the 2011 film, The Social Network, based on The Wall Street Journal article “The Facebook Files” by Jeff Horwitz, which delved into its harmful effects on teenagers and its role in spreading misinformation. Sorkin will write and direct the new movie, and casting is underway with Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and Jeremy Strong in talks. Strong is the top choice to play Mark Zuckerberg, who Jesse Eisenberg played in the first movie. No official offers have been made yet.
Stay Tuned reboot coming to Hulu: Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells are starring in and executive producing a reboot of the 1992 cult classic, Stay Tuned. The original movie starred John Ritter and Pam Dawber as a married couple who are sucked into a hellish dimension of TV show parodies and have to survive and find a way out. Gad and Rannells will be the ones sucked into the TV, and, one assumes, will face parodies of newer TV and movie properties. It will also be a TV series, not a film.
Jack Reynor joins Presumed Innocent Season 2: Jack Reynor will co-star opposite Rachel Brosnahan in the second season of AppleTV+’s Presumed Innocent. The first season was Scott Turow’s novel of the same name, which was also adapted into a 1990 legal thriller with Harrison Ford. The second season is based on the book “Dissection of Murder” by Jo Murray, which is scheduled for release next year. Brosnahan will play Leila Reynolds, who takes on her first murder case, which turns out to be the high-profile killing of a respected and well-liked judge.
Untamed renewed for Season 2: Eric Bana’s Kyle Turner will be back for a new mystery as Untamed was renewed for a second season. The first season follows a murder investigation in Yosemite National Park, with Bana’s Turner being a National Park Service special agent assigned to the case. Sam Neill, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lily Santiago, Wilson Bethel, Raoul Max Trujillo, William Smillie, Joe Holt, and Josh Randall co-starred in the first season. The show was the #1 series on Netflix the week it debuted, by a large margin, and received critical acclaim with an 80% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Lizzie Borden cast for Monsters season 4: The upcoming fourth season of Ryan Murphy’s true-crime Netflix series, Monsters, has found its Lizzie Borden. Ella Beatty, the daughter of Warren Beatty and Annette Benning, will play Borden, who was tried and acquitted for the ax murders of her father and stepmother in 1892. Rebecca Hall will play Borden’s stepmother, and Vicky Krieps will also co-star. Beatty previously appeared in Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans on Hulu.
