Here’s all the movie and TV news you need to know from the past week, it’s the News Shotgun.
God of War TV series adds cast members: The upcoming adaptation of God of War on Prime Video is rounding out its cast of Norse gods. Mandy Patinkin will play Odin, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson will play Thor, and Max Parker will play Heimdall. Ryan Hurst was previously announced as Kratos, and Teresa Palmer is playing Sif. Alastair Duncan was also announced to be reprising his role from the games as Mimir.
Will Poulter and Odessa Young join Rabbit, Rabbit: The upcoming Netflix thriller series Rabbit, Rabbit has added two new cast members with Will Poulter and Odessa Young. Adam Driver is starring in the series as escaped convict J-Will, who gets cornered by law enforcement and takes hostages at a truck stop. Regina Hall plays the FBI negotiator working to resolve the situation.
Netflix is in talks for live-action Gundam movie: Netflix is apparently on board to distribute Legendary’s live-action Gundam movie, the first live-action entry in the long-running franchise. Noah Centineo and Sydney Sweeney star in the film, which is directed by Jim Mickle, who also served as showrunner on Sweet Tooth for Netflix.
Diane Lane joins The Exorcist: Diane Lane is joining Scarlett Johansson and Jacboi Jupe in Mike Flanagan’s new spin on The Exorcist. The latest movie is set in the Exorcist universe but is an original story, not a sequel to the critically panned The Exorcist: Believer. There’s no word on what the plot will be or who the leading actors will be. Along with directing, Flanagan also wrote the script.
Halle Berry sets a slate of new projects: Halle Berry has set several new projects under her HalleHolly production company with her production partner, Holly Jeter. Berry will star in an adapation of The President is Missing, the thriller novel co-authored by Bill Clinton and James Patterson, the action comedy Bad Cop, Bad Cop with Fortune Feimster and Jillian Bell, a Peacock TV series, Zero F***s, The Patient, a psychological horror series for HBO, Family Swap, a body-swap comedy film and Sunburn, a psychological thriller movie. HalleHolly is also producing an FX series called Mother Doom, which Berry could also star in as a former Special Forces soldier who seeks revenge for the death of her son.
Final Fast & Furious movie gets a date: The franchise’s final entry, Fast Forever, is set for release on March 17th, 2028. The previous film, Fast X, was released in 2023 and ended on a major cliffhanger. It was initially planned for 2025, but several behind-the-scenes delays prevented the project from entering production. Louis Letterier will return to direct Fast Forever after directing Fast X.
RIP Catherine O’Hara: Comedy legend Catherine O’Hara died this past week at age 71 after a brief illness. O’Hara was a two-time Emmy winner and had a career that spanned over five decades, including memorable roles in movies like Home Alone, Waiting for Guffman, Beetlejuice, and Best in Show, and TV shows like Schitt’s Creek, The Last of Us, and The Studio, and she was one of the original cast members on SCTV. Her final voice appearance may be in Henry Selick’s upcoming stop-motion movie The Shadow King, but the film is listed as in pre-production, so it’s unclear whether O’Hara was able to record her part.
Sex Criminals series coming to Prime Video: Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s comic series Sex Criminals is being adapted as a TV series, with Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon producing. Nanjiani will also appear in the series. The comic follows Suze, who can stop time when she has sex. She meets Jon, who shares her ability, and the pair decide to become bank robbers. The show got an eight-episode series order.
John Rambo adds several cast members: The Rambo prequel, John Rambo, has gone into production and announced several cast members joining Noah Centineo, who is playing the younger Rambo. Yao, Jason Tobin, Quincy Isaiah, Jefferson White, and Tayme Thapthimthong will co-star, and the movie follows Rambo years before First Blood as he fought in Vietnam and became the one-man army audiences know.
National Film Registry adds new class of entries: The National Film Registry at the Library of Congress announced its annual list of films selected for preservation for their “cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to the nation’s film heritage. 25 films were added, including Inception, The Karate Kid, Clueless, The Truman Show, The Thing, The Incredibles, Glory, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Philadelphia, White Christmas, and more.
