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The Walking Dead movie trilogy is still headed to theaters despite the uncertainty surrounding the future of the film industry.
Andrew Lincoln bowed out of the TV series back in 2018 in order to lead his own big screen spinoffs as Rick Grimes, but things haven’t gone as smooth as originally intended. Partially that’s because of COVID-19 slowing plans down. One way the pandemic hasn’t affected things, though, is that the pics are still intended to end up in cinemas.
TWD chief content officer Scott M. Gimple, who’s also writing the first film, confirmed this while speaking with The Hollywood Reporter. First of all, he gave an update on where the movie’s at right now. He explained that everyone’s busy trying to make it happen, touching on why it’s taking a lot longer to put together than a season of the show.
“We’re very much continuing forward. I’m working on it with Mr. Lincoln and [Walking Dead co-creator Robert Kirkman]. We have a whole bunch of people cranking away on it,” Gimple said. “It’s a movie. Movies are different. Movies go through a very different process than television. I’m confident at the end of the day, it’s going to be something special.”
Gimple was then quizzed over how the current state of theaters has impacted his plans, to which he stressed that he doesn’t think it has. “Not at all, but it certainly goes through my head that this is all about seeing [the film] at the movies,” he confirmed. He continued by discussing how he sees the TWD pics being part of a resurgence of projects appearing on the big screen over the next 12 months or so, saying:
“Independent of anything we’re doing, I’m just pulling for the industry. We’re about to go through a very tough time,” he said. “But as we move toward the spring, we’re talking about things potentially getting better in a permanent way. I would hope that come the end of next summer, people are piling into movie theaters again and laughing until they’re screaming together, eating popcorn together, and that we are once more enjoying each other’s company in front of a huge screen with awesome things happening on it. We hope to be a part of it.”
Rick was last seen being taken away from Virginia in a helicopter by Anne/Jadis, on behalf of the mysterious Civic Republic Military. We’ve learned a little more about the CRM over on The Walking Dead: World Beyond, while TWD season 10 revealed that Rick returns to watch over Michonne and Judith at some point during the six-year time jump. But we’re still waiting on the movies to tell the whole story.
At this point, however, we don’t know when the first one could be released. What we can say, though, is that The Walking Dead will return to AMC for new episodes in February.
Fans have been waiting 20 years for a sequel to Space Jam and now it’s finally almost here. Space Jam: A New Legacy sees LeBron James stepping into Michael Jordan’s shoes as the next basketball player to team up with the Looney Tunes gang, with the follow-up due out next summer. While various bits and pieces have leaked online over the last few months giving us a glimpse at the pic, not much in the way of official material has been shared by Warner Bros. Until now, that is.
As part of WarnerMedia’s virtual panel at CCXP, our first look at Bugs Bunny’s design for the sequel has been revealed, as the iconic wisecracking rabbit hosted a brief tour of the WB lot while hyping up Space Jam 2. Apart from that, nothing else was unveiled about the film, but hey, it’s something. And as you can see from the image below, they haven’t gone for a wild redesign of Bugs in the production and he’ll still be the traditional 2D character you know and love.
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Judging by the video linked in the Tweet, the design in the original Space Jam, released in 1996, actually gave him additional depth and tone. However, it’s possible that this will be more evident in the film itself. This is just a tie-in promo, after all. But either way, fans will be pleased that they don’t have to put up with a controversial CG Bugs for the sequel.
Of course, the appeal of Space Jam lied in its mash-up of sports stars and cartoon characters, but the new film looks to be massively expanding the crossover potential of the franchise. Judging by leaked images, all kinds of familiar faces from Warner Bros.’ back catalog will be showing up for cameos in Space Jam 2, many of which will totally blow the internet’s mind once it arrives at last next July. Assuming that date sticks, that is, which is uncertain given all the upheaval in the movie industry right now.