Damien Leone teases Terrifier 4‘s take on the secret origins of Art the Clown. Cast and crew discuss football horrors in a new look at Him. Plus get a tense new look at a brutal clip from The Long Walk. Spoilers get!
Terrifier 4
During a recent interview with Collider, director Damien Leone stated Terrifier 4 will reveal the secret origin of Art the Clown in a “Lynchian” manner.
Once I wrote Part 2, I decided to really start telling the story. I wanted to tell it almost in a Lynchian way. I could never be on the same level as David Lynch. He’s one of my heroes. But I love the way he tells stories, and they’re very abstract. He doesn’t give you answers. If he ever tried to articulate, it would trivialize and diminish the beauty of what he’s done as an artist. His voice is his work. He’s not supposed to just tell you what he did.
You’re still going to have that Lynchian vibe with the next one, for sure.
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Meanwhile, director Mike P. Nelson told Screen Rant his Silent Night, Deadly Night remake contains “a lot of heart in it.”
I don’t want to just do a rehash of the original, because that doesn’t serve anyone. As much as people want to see like, “What is his version of the original?” that’s not what’s interesting to me.
But for Silent Night, it was finding that balance of, “How can I bring enough nods, winks, and feeling of what that original movie did, but give it my own twist?” I have to give it my own story, and that’s what excited the producers.
It’s something fresh, it’s something fun and new, and there’s a lot of heart in it, and a lot of axe murder, which is, you know, what we’re all hoping to see. So, yeah, I think it was just finding that balance of what the original made me feel, but “How do I tell a story [of] my own that kind of embodies that?”
Him
The cast and crew of Him discuss football-horror in a new featurette.
The Long Walk
Elsewhere, a charley horse leads to a grim revelation for the walkers in a new clip from Stephen King’s dystopian walkathon movie, The Long Walk.
Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi
During his recent appearance at Fan Expo Canada (via Daily Cosmic Marvel), Ewan McGregor stated he’s “sure” a second season of Obi-Wan Kenobi will get off the ground “at some point.”
Star Trek
Finally, during a recent interview with TV Insider, Paul Wesley stated he’d “love nothing more” than to follow up Strange New Worlds with his own, dedicated Captain Kirk series.
It’s not up to me, but I have expressed my desire, probably all too often, to the showrunners and whomever else asks. I would love nothing more than to do a Kirk series along with our beloved characters in TOS and introduce the characters that we have yet to introduce in TOS, Chekov and Sulu, and, I mean, you name it. And I think it would be fantastic.
Speaking as a little kid who wants to play in a series, I think there’s so much room to explore, and I think you can go into the TOS sort of time. You can explore time between episodes, you can explore time before the first episode. There’s just so much story to be mined here, and I would love nothing more than to play in that series.
Ethan Peck echoed his statements, adding:
I think it would be really wonderful. I will stay playing this character for as long as I’m invited, for the most part, because I just think it’s such an amazing thing to be a part of. The messaging is so incredible, and this character has so much integrity. He’s such a noble person, so I love portraying him.
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