Is Ryan Reynolds Trolling Everyone About Deadpool’s Next MCU Appearance?

Zach Cregger wants Resident Evil to be his Evil Dead 2. Osgood Perkins and Tatiana Maslany tease the patriarchal horrors of Keeper. Plus, the cast of Clayface expands. Spoilers, assemble!

Avengers: Doomsday/Avengers: Secret Wars

Ryan Reynolds cryptically shared an image of a graffitied-over Avengers logo to Instagram last night (essentially a version of the logo actually already seen in Deadpool & Wolverine as the emblem of the Resistance), leading to rampant speculation that Deadpool will appear in either one of the upcoming Avengers films.

Clayface

According to Deadline, Mike Minghella is currently “in talks” to join the cast of Clayface in a currently undisclosed role.

Resident Evil

During a recent interview with Ringer Movies, Zach Cregger described his Resident Evil movie as a “rock ’em, sock ’em” horror film in the vein of Evil Dead 2.

It’s gonna be not at all like Barbarian and Weapons. It’s going to be a rock ’em, sock ’em… it’s for me to play. And turn my brain off and just make an… Evil Dead 2… get crazy with the camera. Austin Abrams is gonna be my guy. It’s a weird, fun, wild story.

This movie follows a person from point A to point B. It’s like a real time journey, where you just go deeper and deeper into the depths of Hell. And it’s really a love letter to the games. Because I love those games. This is a story that I would’ve wanted to write whether I got the IP or not. I just happen to be able to have these Resident Evil people be down. So I get to play in that sandbox. I’m doing it because I think this movie is going to be fucking awesome.

I consider Resident Evil an original thing. And I think you will too when you see it.

The Undertone

Following an intense bidding war, Deadline reports A24 has acquired the rights to The Undertone, the upcoming film starring Nina Kiri as Evy, “a paranormal podcast host who returns home to care for her dying mother.” Thereafter, she begins receiving recordings from a married couple plagued by strange noises in their house, pulling her into a spiral of fear and paranoia.”

Keeper

Speaking with Comic Book, Osgood Perkins stated his latest film, Keeper, explores “the worst part of being male.”

It’s the worst part of being male […] It’s a look at disgusting maleness. If you wanna call it the patriarchy, you wanna call it misogyny, you wanna call it toxic masculinity, whatever you wanna call it. It’s a depiction of our worst selves as men. That’s my answer to you. Sometimes we have to look and be like, ‘ew, gross.’ And I think that Keeper is a look at men, ‘gross.’

In the same interview, star Tatiana Maslany added:

I would say, in some ways, it’s also a look at women, gross, if we’re gonna get super binary about it […] But I do think it is the instincts that you ignore, or the ways you know something but have gaslit yourself. Which is obviously, I guess, patriarchy. That’s patriarchy. Never mind, it’s all about men. Men suck.

Human

A woman alone in a bedroom/film set uses a sawed-off double-barrel shotgun against supernatural intruders in the trailer for Human.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Deadline reports Chase Sui Wonders has joined the cast of the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer pilot as Shirley, a character previously reported to be a vampire and stated here as a “one-off guest role.” The outlet also reports Merrin Dungey has been cast as Ms. LaDuca, “the college counselor at New Sunnydale Academy,” while Audrey Grace Marshall and Audrey Hsieh will play Keiko and Jessica, respectively, a pair of “high school students and members of the academy’s Evangelical Christian group.”

In related news, E! Online has our first look at Sarah Michelle Gellar back on set as Buffy Summers. Click through to have a look.

Crystal Lake

Crystal Lake showrunner Brad Caleb Kane shared a behind-the-scenes photo of Blairstown, New Jersey, once again redecorated to be Crystal Lake, New Jersey, on Instagram.

Haunted Hotel

Finally, a single mother runs a haunted hotel with the ghost of her estranged brother in the trailer for Haunted Hotel, starring the voices of Will Forte, Eliza Coupe, Skyler Gisondo, Natalie Palamides, Jimmi Simpson, and Keith David.

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