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Rom-Com Moonshot Lands Lana Condor to Lead

Rom-com Moonshot lands Lana Condor to lead

After breaking out in Netflix’s hit To All The Boys franchise, Lana Condor is ready to continue making her footprint in the rom-com world as the 23-year-old star has signed on to lead the upcoming HBO Max film Moonshot, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film, which is being penned by Max Taxe, will be set in the future on Mars in which the red planet has been terraformed and colonized by humanity and sees two different college students joining forces to sneak aboard a space shuttle to the red planet in order to reunite with their significant others. The X-Men prequel alum will star as Sophie, a buttoned-up college student who had a plan for her life but finds it uprooted when her boyfriend moves to Mars and she decides to chase after him.

The sci-fi rom-com is being directed by Chris Winterbauer in his solo feature debut and will be produced by Greg Berlanti (Arrowverse, Love, Simon) and Sarah Schechter via Berlanti Productions alongside Jill McElroy and Jenna Sarkin for Entertainment 360, with Mike McGrath of Berlanti Productions executive producing.

Moonshot is one of four films Berlanti Productions currently has in development with WarnerMedia’s fresh streaming service, the first being the upcoming drama UnPregnant starring Haley Lu Richardson (Five Feet Apart) and Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria).

Condor has enjoyed a wave of success in the five years since making her acting debut in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse, following it up with Peter Berg’s Patriots Day before landing her breakout role in Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. She would go on to co-star in Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel and the short-lived Syfy dark comedy series Deadly Class, as well as the second installment in the To All the Boys franchise, with a third and potentially final installment currently in post-production.

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IFC Films Sets American Release of The Painted Bird

IFC Films sets American release of The Painted Bird

After garnering rave reviews from critics and audiences on the festival circuit for the past nine months, IFC Films has finally set a theatrical and VOD release date for the Czech black-and-white war drama The Painted Bird this July!

Based on the acclaimed Jerzy Kosiriski novel, The Painted Bird is a meticulous 35mm black and white evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II. The film follows the journey of The Boy, entrusted by his persecuted parents to an elderly foster mother. The old woman soon dies and the Boy is on his own, wandering through the countryside, from village to village, farmhouse to farmhouse. As he struggles for survival, The Boy suffers through extraordinary brutality meted out by the ignorant, superstitious peasants and he witnesses the terrifying violence of the efficient, ruthless soldiers, both Russian and German. In a defining scene, one of the peasants shows The Boy the flight of a captive bird, whom the man has painted and then released back into its own flock.

The bird is immediately ripped apart because it is different from its fellows. That lesson reinforces all The Boy already knows and will soon know better: difference is fatal. But there are rare moments of compassion: a German soldier spares The Boy, a priest intervenes on his behalf, and finally The Boy becomes the protégé of a Russian sniper, who is kind to the child, but ruthless with the enemy. And there are signs of love. The Boy is seduced by an older girl, finally re-discovering the comfort of intimacy, only to realize that he has been used. When he is miraculously reunited with his weakened father at the end of the war, The Boy is cold and impenetrable, hardened by his ordeal. Yet we can still glimpse something of the old, sensitive Boy behind the eyes of the new. Perhaps there is hope.

Written and directed by Václav Marhoul, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Stellan Skarsgård (Chernobyl), Harvey Keitel (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Barry Pepper (Crawl), Julian Sands (Banshee) and Udo Kier (Bacurau), as well as Petr Kotlár, Lech Dyblik, Jitka Cvancarová and Aleksey Kravchenko.

The Painted Bird is set to hit select theaters, drive-ins, digital platforms and VOD on July 17

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Henry Cavill Wants to Keep Playing Superman for a While

There might be some hope for the fans waiting for Henry Cavill to reprise his role as Clark Kent/Superman in a new DC movie. Recently, several reports indicated that the actor was in talks to return as Superman. Now, Cavill has expressed his enthusiasm for playing Clark Kent’s alter-ego, hoping he can reprise the role in the future while talking with fellow actor Patrick Stewart in an interview with Variety.

“I’ve always been a fan of Superman,” he said. “With a character like that, you carry the mantle with you off set. And it becomes part of your public representation. When you meet children, children don’t necessarily see me as Henry Cavill, but they might see Superman, and there’s a responsibility which comes with that. Because it’s such a wonderful character, it’s actually a responsibility I’m happy to have, and I hope that I get to play more of Superman in years to come.”

The actor went on to discuss his life-changing role, revealing that he tries to improve himself by taking example from the alien’s behavior.

“He’s so good, he’s so kind, and when you start to compare yourself to him, because you’re playing him, you start to really look inwards,” he added. “You say, ‘Am I a good person? Can I be a good enough person to play Superman?’ And if you ever hear a whisper in there which is like, ‘Hmm, hold on a second. Maybe not,’ then you adjust it, and you make sure you are a better person.”

Cavill’s interest in the character is a good sign for the fans hoping to see him again wearing the Man of Steel’s red cape. Yet, it seems that the negotiations for his return are complicated. Perhaps it may be too premature to celebrate.

Would you like to see Henry Cavill as Superman again? Let us know in the comments section below.

Recommended Reading: Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

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RZA’s Cut Throat City Lands New Theatrical Release Date

RZA's Cut Throat City Lands New Theatrical Release Date

RZA’s Cut Throat City Lands New Theatrical Release Date

Texas-based distributor Well Go USA and Patriot Pictures announced that they have set a July 17, 2020, theatrical release date for RZA’s anticipated crime thriller Cut Throat City. Originally slated to make its world premiere as an official selection at SXSW 2020, the feature will be one of the first films to open wide theatrically as theaters begin to reopen nationwide.

Well Go USA plans to release the film on 300 screens across the U.S. Directed by RZA and written by P.G. Cuschieri, Cut Throat City stars Demetrius Shipp Jr., Denzel Whitaker, Isaiah Washington, Kat Graham, Keean Johnson, Shameik Moore, and Tip T.I. Harris, with Eiza González, Ethan Hawke, Terrence Howard, and Wesley Snipes.

Cut Throat City is the story of four boyhood friends in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward who return after Hurricane Katrina to find their homes decimated, with no jobs and no help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Out of options, they reluctantly turn to a local gangster, who offers them one shot at turning their situations around – by pulling off a dangerous heist in the heart of the city. When the job goes bad, the friends find themselves on the run, hunted by two relentless detectives and a neighborhood warlord who thinks they stole the heist money.

“What happens in the black community when men are dreaming of getting out, whether they’re using their music, their artistic expression, or academics, and yet, based on the system and based on natural disasters, those dreams and those aspirations turn into desperation? Well, this takes place in Cut Throat City. I’m proud to see this film come to fruition and to tell a story about black men living in a poor community trying to figure it out,” said RZA.

“Coming up on the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, it’s more important than ever to amplify and celebrate black voices. We are proud to be working with RZA on this powerful film,” said Doris Pfardrescher, CEO of Well Go USA.

“RZA’s Zen and martial arts of the mind philosophy is inspiring. This story has attracted a cast that will show our audiences the aftermath of Katrina and its effects on the community of the lower ninth in New Orleans. We are proud to share the voices of the community and bring light to the problems they are still dealing with, even 15 years later,” added Michael Mendelsohn of Patriot Pictures.

Well Go USA and Patriot Pictures will be donating a portion of the film’s proceeds to lowernine.org, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the long-term recovery of New Orleans’ historic Lower Ninth Ward.

Cut Throat City is produced by Michael Mendelsohn, Sean Lydiard, Elliott Michael Smith, Will Clevinger, and Kyle Tekiela. The film is financed by Michael Mendelsohn’s Union Patriot Capital Management II, and produced by Patriot Pictures and Rumble Riot. XYZ Films serves as executive producers and worldwide sales.

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Black Water: Abyss Trailer: Face Your Deepest Fears

Black Water: Abyss Trailer: Face your deepest fears

Screen Media Films has debuted the first trailer for Black Water: Abyss, the long-awaited follow-up to the 2007 Australian underground hit combining the crocodile thrills of the first with the claustrophobic chills of The Descent. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!

Written by John Ridley and Sarah Smith and directed by Andrew Traucki (The Reef), the film follows a group of friends as they explore a remote cave system deep in the forests of Northern Australia when a tropical storm hits. As rising flood waters trap them deep below the surface, something even deadlier emerges from the darkness — killer crocodiles.

The cast for the follow-up includes Jessica McNamee (The Meg), Luke Mitchell (Agents of SHIELD), Amali Golden (Bloom), Benjamin Hoetjes (The Code) and Anthony J. Sharpe (Robert the Bruce). The horror thriller is produced by Neal Kingston, Michael Robertson and Pam Collis, with Robertson having been a producer on the original film.

Black Water: Abyss is set to hit select theaters and on demand on video on demand on August 7!

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Bruce Campbell Confirms New Evil Dead Film Title and Location

Bruce Campbell confirms new Evil Dead film title and location

Earlier this month, it was revealed that a brand new Evil Dead film is on its way with Lee Cronin attached to helm the new installment. In a recent interview with Diabolique, franchise star and producer Bruce Campbell shared new details about the upcoming film, revealing that it will not only become a standalone film but it will also feature a whole new setting far from the previous films’ famous cabin in the woods location. Although he previously stated that the film will be called Evil Dead Now, he now confirms that the fifth installment will officially be titled as Evil Dead Rise.

“The official name is Evil Dead Rise,” Campbell said. “We’re getting a new draft in. I don’t think anything will happen until 2021. Full bore ahead, we’re very excited about it. A whole, new ballgame. No more cabin in the woods.”

The next installment to the Evil Dead films will be written and directed by The Hole In The Ground filmmaker Lee Cronin, who was handpicked by franchise creator Sam Raimi. Campbell previously confirmed that the upcoming film won’t have any ties to the previous films and might again feature a female lead.

The Evil Dead franchise began with 1981’s The Evil Dead and was followed by 1987’s Evil Dead II and 1993’s Army of Darkness which were all written and directed by Sam Raimi and centered on Bruce Campbell’s Ash Williams. The original trilogy had amassed a massive cult following that spawn into video games, stage musicals, and a comedy horror series titled Ash vs. Evil Dead which ran on-air from 2015-2018. In 2013, the fourth installment to film franchise was introduced with Fede Alvarez’s 2013 soft reboot of Raimi’s 1981 film which now revolves around a female protagonist.

Lee Cronin is an Irish filmmaker who made his feature-length directorial debut last year with the supernatural horror film The Hole in the Ground. He also recently collaborated with Raimi as he directed an episode of Quibi’s horror anthology series 50 States of Fright.

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Exclusive Followed Clip From Antoine Le’s New Horror Thriller

Exclusive Followed Clip From Antoine Le's New Horror Thriller

Exclusive Followed Clip From Antoine Le’s New Horror Thriller

ComingSoon.net has an exclusive clip from director Antoine Le’s new horror-thriller Followed. The movie released this past weekend and is expanding to more drive-ins on Friday, June 26. You can check out the clip now in the player below!

When aspiring social media influencer “DropTheMike” is offered a lucrative sponsorship to grow his channel, he’s joined by his video crew on a visit to one of the most haunted hotels in America, where he’ll give his audience a horrific night of thrill-seeking the likes of which they have never seen before. What begins as a fun investigative challenge including the infamous Elevator Ritual quickly descends into a personal hell of true evil, begging the timely question: how far would you go to pursue internet fame?

The movie, written by Todd Klick, stars Matthew Solomon, John Savage, Sam Valentine, Tim Drier, Caitlin Grace, Kelsey Griswold, and Christopher Ross Martin.

Followed is produced by Matthew Ryan Brewbaker, Antoine Le, and Todd Klick. Executive producers include J. Todd Harris, Thomas Pettinelli, Greg Berlant, and Gregory Adkins, as well as Grant Cramer, Richard Barner, Chad Doher, Wendy Moore, Len Gibson, and Wayne Overstreet of Global View Entertainment. The movie is slated for digital release across all major TVOD platforms later this summer.

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New to Netflix July 2020: All Movies & Shows Coming and Going

New to Netflix July 2020: All movies & shows coming and going

The list for the new Netflix July 2020 movies and TV titles has been released, which you can now view below along with the titles that are set to leave from the streaming service next month. This includes the series debuts of new Netflix originals: executive producer Shawn Levy’s docuseries reboot of Unsolved Mysteries; Simon Barry’s fantasy series Warrior Nun; The Baby-Sitters Club reboot series; and the Katherine Langford-led series Cursed as well as the newest season of The Umbrella Academy.

Next month will also see the premiere of Gina Prince-Bythewood’s film adaptation of The Old Guard, starring Oscar winner Charlize Theron as she leads a group of immortal soldiers who have been working as mercenaries through the ages. But in the 21st century, the novelty of not dying is long gone as the group gets a jolt in their bones when they discover the existence of a new immortal, a black woman serving in the Marines, at the same time as a nefarious organization captures their undying actions on camera.

Available July 1

Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt: Season 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY

Deadwind: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Say I Do — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Under the Riccione Sun — NETFLIX FILM

Unsolved Mysteries — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Anne Frank – Parallel Stories

A Bridge Too Far

A Thousand Words

A Touch of Green: Season 1

A Walk to Remember

Abby Hatcher: Season 1

Airplane!

Ali

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Charlotte’s Web

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Cleo & Cuquin: Season 2

Cloud Atlas

David Foster: Off the Record

Definitely, Maybe

Delta Farce

Donnie Brasco

Double Jeopardy

Fiddler on the Roof

Frida

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

Killing Hasselhoff

Kingdom: Season 1-3

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

Mean Streets

Million Dollar Baby

Paranormal Activity

Patriots Day

Poltergeist

Quest for Camelot

Red Riding Hood (2011)

Schindler’s List

Sleepless in Seattle

Sleepy Hollow

Spaceballs

Splice

Stand and Deliver

Stardust

Starsky & Hutch

Sucker Punch

Swordfish

The Art of War

The Devil’s Advocate

The F**k-It List

The Firm

The Karate Kid

The Karate Kid Part II

The Karate Kid Part III

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

The Town

The Witches

This Christmas

Total Recall (1990)

Trotro

Winchester

Available July 2

Thiago Ventura: POKAS — NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL

Warrior Nun — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available July 3

The Baby-Sitters Club — NETFLIX FAMILY

Cable Girls: Final Season: Part 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Desperados — NETFLIX FILM

JU-ON: Origins — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Southern Survival — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available July 5

ONLY

Available July 6

A Kid from Coney Island

Available July 7

Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax

Available July 8

The Long Dumb Road

Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Stateless — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Was It Love? — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Yu-Gi-Oh!: Season 1

Available July 9

Japan Sinks: 2020 — NETFLIX ANIME

The Protector: Season 4 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available July 10

The Claudia Kishi Club — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Down to Earth with Zac Efron — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space — NETFLIX FAMILY

Hello Ninja: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY

The Old Guard — NETFLIX FILM

The Twelve — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available July 14

The Business of Drugs — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

On est ensemble (We Are One) — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Urzila Carlson: Overqualified Loser — NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL

Available July 15

Dark Desire — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Gli Infedeli (The Players) — NETFLIX FILM

Skin Decision: Before and After — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Sunny Bunnies: Season 1-2

Available July 16

Fatal Affair — NETFLIX FILM

Indian Matchmaking — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

MILF — NETFLIX FILM.

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Available July 17

Boca a Boca (Kissing Game) — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Cursed — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Funan

Available July 18

Gigantosaurus: Season 1

The Notebook

Available July 19

The Last Dance

Available July 20

Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love — NETFLIX FAMILY

Available July 21

How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast): Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Ip Man 4: The Finale

Jack Whitehall: I’m Only Joking — NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL

Street Food: Latin America — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Available July 22

Fear City: New York vs The Mafia — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Love on the Spectrum — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Norsemen: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Signs — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Spotlight

Available July 23

The Larva Island Movie — NETFLIX FAMILY

Available July 24

Animal Crackers — NETFLIX FILM

Dragons: Rescue Riders: Secrets of the Songwing — NETFLIX FAMILY

In the Dark: Season 2

The Kissing Booth 2 — NETFLIX FILM

Ofrenda a la tormenta — NETFLIX FILM

Available July 26

Banana Split

Shameless: Season 10

Available July 28

Jeopardy!: Collection 6

Last Chance U: Laney — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Available July 29

The Hater — NETFLIX FILM

Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons: Season 4 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Available July 30

Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie

Transformers: War For Cybertron Trilogy — NETFLIX ANIME

Available July 31

Get Even — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Latte and the Magic Waterstone — NETFLIX FAMILY

Seriously Single — NETFLIX FILM

The Speed Cubers — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Sugar Rush: Extra Sweet — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

The Umbrella Academy: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Vis a vis: El Oasis (Locked Up) — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Here’s what is leaving Netflix in July:

Leaving July 4

Blue Valentine

Leaving July 5

The Fosters: Season 1-5

The Iron Lady

Leaving July 8

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Leaving July 9

47 Meters Down

Leaving July 11

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

The Adderall Diaries

Enemy

Ginger & Rosa

Locke

The Spectacular Now

Under the Skin

Leaving July 12

Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain

Leaving July 15

Forks Over Knives

Leaving July 18

A Most Violent Year

Laggies

Life After Beth

Obvious Child

Room

Tusk

Leaving July 21

Bolt

Inglourious Basterds

Leaving July 25

Dark Places

Ex Machina

Mississippi Grind

Leaving July 26

Country Strong

Leaving July 28

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Her

Leaving July 29

The Incredibles 2

Leaving July 31

Back to the Future

Back to the Future Part II

Back to the Future Part III

Can’t Hardly Wait

Casper

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Chernobyl Diaries

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Freedom Writers

Godzilla

Guess Who

Hancock

Hitch

Jarhead

Jarhead 2: Field of Fire

Jarhead 3: The Siege

Open Season

QB1: Beyond the Lights: Season 1

Resident Evil: Extinction

Romeo Must Die

Salt

Scary Movie 2

Searching for Sugar Man

Sex and the City 2

Stuart Little

The Edge of Seventeen

The Interview

The Pianist

The Pursuit of Happyness

Twister

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

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Waiting for the Barbarians Trailer & Poster Featuring Rylance, Depp & Pattinson

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Waiting for the Barbarians Trailer & Poster Featuring Rylance, Depp & Pattinson

Samuel Goldwyn Films has released the first Waiting for the Barbarians trailer and poster, starring Academy Award winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies, Wolf Hall, Dunkirk), Oscar nominee Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd, Finding Neverland, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl), and Robert Pattinson (The Batman, Tenet, The Lighthouse). Based on Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee’s novel of the same name, you can check out the trailer for the drama in the player below as well as the full poster in the gallery!

The Magistrate (Mark Rylance) of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of Colonel Joll (Johnny Depp), whose task it is to report on the activities of the ‘barbarians’ and on the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations, which leads the Magistrate to question his loyalty to the empire.

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The movie will also star Greta Scacchi, David Dencik, Sam Reid, Harry Melling, Gana Bayarsaikhan, and Bill Milner.

Waiting for the Barbarians is directed by Ciro Guerra (Embrace of the Serpent) from a screenplay by author J.M. Coetzee, who adapted the script from his own novel. The film is produced by Iervolino Entertainment’s Michael Fitzgerald, Olga Segura, and Andrea Iervolino along with Monika Bacardi. It is also executive produced by Sir Martin Franklin, Cristina Gallego, Danielle Maloni, Deborah Dobson Bach, and Penelope Glass.

The film had its world premiere at the 2019 Venice Film Festival and will be released On Demand and on Digital platforms on August 7.

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Hans Zimmer Has Plenty of Ideas for Dune Score, Wants to ‘Do Justice to the Book’

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Hans Zimmer Has Plenty of Ideas for Dune Score, Wants to ‘Do Justice to the Book’

Hans Zimmer is hard at work on the Dune score. How do we know? Because he’s apparently driving people bananas with his ideas.

“Right now I’m in the middle of making these sounds,” Zimmer told Variety. “I just have these ideas, and it’s like this every day. I’m doing all these experiments, and I have no idea if any of them will ever really end up in the movie. But we are so dedicated, trying to do something different, to do solid and honorable work, and do justice to the book.”

The Academy Award-winning composer then revealed that the project has rekindled his enthusiasm for his job — almost a bit too much it seems.

“I’m driving everybody crazy on Dune because I’m so full of ideas. And it’s Denis, you know? He lets me be part of this world. It’s totally and utterly inspiring, and it’s great people I get to work with – scrap the word ‘work,’ it’s great people I get to play with.”

The star-studded cast includes Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name), Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible — Fallout) and Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) in leading roles. The film will also feature Zendaya (Spider-Man: Far From Home) Jason Momoa (Aquaman), Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men), Stellan Skarsgard (Thor: The Dark World), Charlotte Rampling (The Night Porter) and Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame).

Villeneuve is best known for directing Blade Runner 2049 as well as Sicario. Though Dune will likely resemble the former film more than the latter, both display the sort of experience directing arid, desolate locales that a fan would want in their Dune director, considering a sizable chunk of the story takes place on a desert planet.

Dune is currently set to be released in theaters on December 18, 2020.