Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights:
Attack the Block returns: Before he joined the Star Wars galaxy, John Boyega broke out in another sci-fi movie: 2011’s Attack the Block. A decade later, the actor is reportedly returning for a follow-up to the cult hit, which is about a young street gang (led by Boyega’s character) thwarting an alien invasion in their South London neighborhood. According to Deadline, filmmaker Joe Cornish is also back as writer and director of Attack the Block 2, which he will also produce alongside Boyega.
Cher, the movie: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony (EGOT)-winner Cher is both the next music icon and the next acting legend to receive a biopic. According to the singer and movie star, who shared the news herself on Twitter on her birthday, Universal Pictures will turn back time by depicting the multi-hyphenate talent’s life story, scripted by Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, A Star is Born) and produced by Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman, the duo behind the movie version of Mamma Mia! as well as its sequel, in which Cher co-stars.
Angela Robinson has a Hunger: Speaking of turning back time, Warner Bros. is going back to Tony Scott’s feature directorial debut for a remake of the 1983 vampire movie The Hunger. Deadline reports that the studio is in talks with filmmaker Angela Robinson (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women) to have her direct the new version, which will be scripted by Jessica Sharzer (A Simple Favor). Based on a novel by Whitley Streiber, Scott’s stylish original stars David Bowie, Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve as a cellist, a doctor and a millennia-old bloodsucker, respectively, involved in a love triangle.
Nathalie Emmanuel is The Bride: Speaking of vampires, another movie inspired by Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula is in the works. According to Deadline, Nathalie Emmanuel (Furious 7) and Garrett Hedlund (Pan) will star in The Bride, an original horror thriller written by Blair Butler (Polaroid) about a young woman who falls in love with a mysterious man and winds up mixed up in some sort of “gothic conspiracy.” Filmmaker Jessica M. Thompson (The Light of the Moon) will rewrite Butler’s script and direct the picture, which Screen Gems hopes will kick off a new franchise.
Mark Ruffalo finds Poor Things: Speaking of movies inspired by classic horror stories, the adaptation of Alasdair Grey’s Frankenstein-esque novel Poor Things has found another cast member. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mark Ruffalo will join Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe in the movie, which will be scripted and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite). The Victorian-set story of the book concerns a woman brought back from the dead — implanted with the brain of her unborn child — and the many men who fall in love with her.
