The upcoming Resident Evil reboot will reportedly stick much closer to the video games than the previous franchise did, incorporating several fan-favorite characters that have appeared in the original installments of the classic horror game series. One of them will be Jill Valentine, and The Illuminderdi reports that Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and The Wasp, The Stranger) has been offered the role.

This new interpretation of Valentine is described as “a small town girl that enjoys hunting with the guys. She is gorgeous yet tough, and she knows how to have a good time.” That sounds more like a dating app profile than a character breakdown, but okay.

Should John-Kamen decline the offer, Screen Gems is said to be leaving the casting open to all ethnicities, but will be “focusing on casting an African-American with mixed heritage for the role.”

This report also confirms that The Maze Runner actress Kaya Scodelario has offered the role of Claire Redfield, but negotiations are ongoing. Chris Redfield, Leon Kennedy, and Albert Wesker will also appear, but we have no word on which actors may be in line for those parts.

Resident Evil will be directed by Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down), who is also co-writing alongside Greg Russo. Production was scheduled to begin this June, but that has very likely been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Late last year, a rumor did the rounds online that Warner Bros. was in early development on a Wonder Woman spinoff which would focus on Diana’s fellow Amazons of Themyscira, and Patty Jenkins has now confirmed the studio’s plans.

The Wonder Woman 1984 director says she has a story arc in mind that wound encompass the first two movies, followed by Amazons (not the official title) and then a fourth installment, but doesn’t intend to step behind the camera for the spinoff.

“I’m not going to nail down a fresh thought about it until this movie comes out, because I kind of want to give myself a palette cleanser, and be fresh of mind,” Jenkins explained to Total Film when asked about the Amazon film. “But yeah, there’s an arc that I have in mind for the first movie, and then the second movie, and then the Amazon movie, and then the third movie.”

“I’m not going to direct it, hopefully,” she added. “I’m going to try really hard not to. It’s not going to be easy. But Geoff Johns and I came up with the story, and we sold the pitch, and we’re going to get it going. I’ll produce it, for sure.”

The first Wonder Woman movie was a huge success so it’s hardly surprising the WB is planning spinoffs, but whether the Amazon movie ultimately sees production may well depend on how WW84 performs when it (hopefully) hits theaters on August 14.

Would you be interested in a movie focusing on the warriors of Themyscira? Let us know in the comments.

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A “rumor” recently did the rounds online that Charlie Cox was set to reprise the role of Matt Murdock for the upcoming Spider-Man: Far From Home sequel, but the actor has now set things straight during an interview with ComicBook.com ahead of their Daredevil watch party tomorrow night.

“I hadn’t heard those rumors, but it’s certainly not with my Daredevil. I’m not involved in it,” Cox revealed. “If that’s true, it’s not with me. It’s with another actor.”

Of course, it’s not true. We know this because the original story was posted by notorious bullshit merchants We Got This Covered.

Most know better than to believe a word that comes out of that site at this stage, but because a few people will always buy anything they read on the internet, their nonsense still circulates. This particular fabrication gained traction because Kevin Smith mentioned it on his YouTube show.

So, Daredevil is not going to be in the next Spider-Man movie – but that doesn’t mean Cox has no interest in returning as The Man Without Fear in The MCU.

“As a fan of the Marvel movies, I’ve loved the little stuff where they pop up here and there but because we were on Netflix, we weren’t able to do as much for legal reasons, I don’t know why,” Cox added. “But I love the idea of Jessica and Matt showing up in the background or Matt as a lawyer advising Peter Parker. That’d be really, really cool.”

For more, be sure to tune in to the Daredevil quarantine watch party at 9pm Eastern with showrunner Erik Oleson and most of the Season Three cast.

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During Avengers: Endgame, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes travelled back to 2012 to retrieve the Mind and Space Stones. Unfortunately, things went wrong, and Loki managed to get his hands back on the Tesseract, using it to make his escape. With that, the stage was set for a Disney+ TV series which is currently expected to premiere next year. 

That will deal with the villainous God of Mischief travelling through time, only to run afoul of the TVA (Time Variance Authority). However, while you might think this was deliberate planning on Marvel Studios’ part, it turns out that it was a happy accident courtesy of the movie’s writers! 

During a recent live commentary, Christhoper Markus and Stephen McFeely revealed that they only had Loki escape with the Tesseract because it was a “juicy way to upset the heist.” That makes sense as it obviously forced Captain America and Iron Man to travel back to the 1970s, but Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige clearly used that moment as a launching platform for Loki.

It’s unclear whether Loki will still arrive as planned next year due to COVID-19, but here’s hoping, because it sounds like it’s going to be a fun ride – even if the premise came about by chance! 
 

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A new behind-the-scenes photo from the set of one of James Cameron’s Avatar sequels has been shared by the movie’s official Twitter account, and it gives us a first look at the returning Sigourney Weaver as Dr. Grace Augustine.

The Academy Award-nominated actress is pictures alongside Producer Jon Landau and costar Joel David Moore, who will also reprise his role as Dr. Norm Spellman.

Grace was actually killed off in the first movie, and Weaver has already confirmed that she will play a completely different character in the sequels, so this image would appear to confirm that we’ll be seeing flashbacks of some description.

Landau recently confirmed that production on the Avatar sequels was forced to halt because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and we’ve had no word on when filming is expected to resume.

The first Avatar sequel is set to be released on December 17th, 2021, with three more installments following in 2023, 2025, and 2027, but these delays will likely result in the first film, at least, being pushed back.

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