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Posted: 062719

John Krasinski will write A Quiet Place 2. He wasn’t planning on doing it but came up with an idea that he thought worked…John Carpenter is teasing a sequel to They Live. He is working on a TV series take on Prince of Darkness for horror streaming service Shudder but says it is a slow process…Dave Bautista is in negotiations to join the cast of a big-screen version of Fantasy Island that currently stars Michael Pena as Mister Roarke…Idris Elba says that season five of Luther will not be the last one…Paramount Pictures has signed a multi-picture deal with Netflix…Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios are teaming to produce eight movies to run worldwide on the streaming service…J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot production banner has acquired six new projects from rising filmmakers…Hulu is developing multiple series based on the Wild Cards book series which is edited by Game of Thrones’ George R.R. Martin. The books explored the aftermath of an alien Wild Card virus which was released over Manhattan in 1946 and killed 90% of those it infected. Survivors became freaks or developed powers.

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