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Stranger Things: Season Two Cast Reveal
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When I checked in on the Stranger Things gang at Spooky Empire early this month, every finger was crossed–every lower lip bitten. Would their mandibles stretch like the demogorgon’s, spewing gory details on the show’s sophomore season? But mum was the word. A protection spell had been cast around those sacred pages of script, and we were left in the dark–until now. Thanks to MoviePilot.com and the Stranger Things Wiki, the lights are strung up and ready to go! You’re invited to the Hawkins block party for this exclusive Stranger Things: season two cast reveal–the town Barb-eque, if you will. (Too soon?) Come meet the new neighbors–and revisit those we’ve missed dearly!
The Newcomers
Linnea Berthelsen
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First up is Linnea Berthelsen. Fairly new to the game, the fresh-faced performer isn’t quite an A-lister just yet. (IMDB tells us she’s only graced the screen in two shorts, Natskygge and Teenland, and one web series, titled The Desert.) But surely, her status will skyrocket, through her breakout role as season two’s Roman! Though not a Hawkins resident, dispirited Roman is linked to the curious goings-on at the lab nonetheless. Now in her thirties, she has yet to reconcile the loss she suffered at a young age–and she yearns for vengeance to fill that gaping void.
Sean Astin
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Looks like the Duffer Brothers nabbed an eighties icon! Astin will fit like a puzzle piece to the show’s nostalgic era–especially in that his resume boasts roles in at least two films referenced in season one: Lord of the Rings and The Goonies. Here, Astin arrives in the form of Bob Newby, an old classmate of Joyce Byers and Chief Hopper. He’s since grown into a good-natured RadioShack manager. Perhaps he specializes in the Christmas light department.
Paul Reiser
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Paul Reiser is making the natural progression from Aliens to Stranger Things. His Aliens character, Carter Burke, was employed at Weyland-Yutani (Space) Corp’s Special Services Division. His Stranger Things character, Dr. Owens, follows suit in the governmental investigation field: he now serves as part of the “clean-up crew” for the Department of Energy, sweeping last year’s events under the rug.
Sadie Sink
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A veteran of The Americans & The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Sadie Sink joins the gang as Max. Max is a thirteen-year-old misanthrope. Veering a bit toward the masculine side, she’d favor skateboards to teen magazines. (Were those a thing in the eighties?) In the sliver of time she’s existed, her history’s already tainted. Her ties to her step-brother, Billy, have also been rather strained.
Dacre Montgomery
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The above-mentioned (or below, if you’re reading from the Upside Down) Billy will be found in the likes of Dacre Montgomery. If you’re well-versed in Australian cinema, you may know Dacre from the outback thriller Safe Neighborhood. He’ll also serve to protect as the Red Ranger in the upcoming Power Rangers reboot! Billy, however, won’t be making Hawkins all too safe: he’s a violent male chauvinist.
Brett Gelmen
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Brett Gelmen of Adult Swim fame will be entering the kiddie pool to join Stranger Things–even if that means wading around in monster muck. Throw on some rubber boots, Brett, and prepare to plunge into the world of character Murray Bauman: a journalist who’s spiraled into the culture of conspiracy theory.
The Veterans
Now, when asked whether they should stay or go, the response was unanimous.
Welcome back the following alumni!
Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers
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David Harbour as Chief Jim Hopper
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Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven
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Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler
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Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers
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Joe Keery as Steve Harrington
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And, of course, the boys are back in town!
Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler
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Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson
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Caleb McLaughlin as Luke Sinclair
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Noah Schnapp as Will Byers
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Prepare your waffle irons, kids. It’s gonna be a hell of a ride!
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So how do you think Barb should get revived in season two? Let us know in the comments below!
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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