‘The Grandmaster’ Chinese Martial Artist Max Zhang to Join ‘Highlander’ Reboot

• Highlander
• Bob: The Musical
• Fury
• The Evil Dead/Evil Dead Burn
• What’s Wrong, Wendy?
• The Ice Tower
• Star Wars: Ahsoka

Bruce Campbell steps back from Evil Dead, Marion Cotillard plays a Snow Queen, and Eman Esfandi promises a lightsaber move that we’ve never seen before is coming in the second season of Ahsoka. Spoilers are go!

Highlander

Deadline reports that Chinese martial artist and actor Max Zhang (Pacific Rim: Uprising, The Grandmaster, Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy) has joined the cast of Chad Stahelski’s Highlander in a currently undisclosed role.

Bob: The Musical

Deadline also reports Randy Mancuso (Musica) is attached to direct Bob: The Musical, a project that’s “been in the works for over a decade” at Disney. The story follows Bob, “an ordinary man whose worst nightmare becomes reality when he wakes up to discover that he’s trapped in a full-blown musical.”

Fury

Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival, Guillermo del Toro stated he’s writing a new film for Oscar Isaac that the auteur described as “My Dinner With Andre but [with] killing people.”

I’m writing a project to do with Oscar. I’m writing it right now, and it’s called Fury, and essentially it’s going back to [the] sort of thriller aspects of Nightmare Alley — very cruel, very violent. Like My Dinner with Andre but [with] killing people after each course.

[Deadline]

The Evil Dead/Evil Dead Burn

During a recent interview with The Horror Zine, Bruce Campbell confirmed he “won’t be as involved in the next two” Evil Dead movies.

I was very involved in 2013 and Evil Dead Rise. Currently, I’m on a multi-year odyssey to complete and sell my next flick Ernie & Emma around the world, so I won’t be as involved in the next two that come down the pike.

What’s Wrong, Wendy?

A pizza delivery girl is sad to learn she doesn’t like being a vampire in the latest trailer for What’s Wrong, Wendy?

The Ice Tower

A teenage runaway learns her favorite actress may be drawing inspiration for her latest character, the Snow Queen, from real life, in the trailer for The Ice Tower, starring Marion Cotillard. 

Star Wars: Ahsoka

And finally, in a recent Instagram reel captured by Screen Rant, Eman Esfandi revealed he’s training to catch a lightsaber backhanded in an apparently “radical” move never seen before in any Star Wars ever.

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