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Beloved Icon Roddy Piper Dead At 61
I hate to have to write these stories, and this one in particular is really pulling on my heart as I’m writing this in legit tears. According to TMZ and other accredible media outlets, it has been confirmed that the man, the legend, Roddy Piper has died from cardiac arrest at the age of 61 in his sleep at his home in Hollywood, California.
Hot Rod was born Roderick George Toombs April 17, 1954 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and took an early interest in the wrestling sport at the tender age of 15. Although born canadian, Roddy took his scottish heritage and incorporated it into his wrestling persona; playing the bagpipes toward the ring became a regular schtick of his and after years of paying his dues, caught the eye of the big guns in the industry. The WWF, or now the WWE where he currently holds a spot in the Hall of Fame. Piper is considered one of the greatest talkers and so called “heels” of all time in the industry. But let’s face facts: Piper holds that title outside of the wrestling genre easily as well.
Roddy soon ventured into other media territories, such as starring in the beautiful 1987 John Carpenter classic, They Live. The completely underrated horror movie that dares to touch on the corruption and enslavement of America. Among many other television and movie cameos, Piper plays himself as the protagonist in the 2013 film Pro Wrestlers vs. Zombies.
On November 27, 2006, it was announced on WWE.com that Piper had Hodgekins Lymphoma and as of last year claimed to be cancer free.
Toombs is survived by his wife Kitty and their four children Anastacia Shea, Ariel Teal, Falon Danika, and son Colton Baird who is pursuing a wrestling career and has been under Roddy’s training and supervision.
Upon hearing the news today John Carpenter himself released a statement via his twitter page:
“Devastated to hear the news of my friend Roddy Piper’s passing today. He was a great wrestler, a masterful entertainer and a good friend.”
I honestly cannot fathom a world without Hot Rod.. But I suppose this is a reality that has come to light and all I can say is thank you Roddy. Thank you for giving us years beyond years of entertainment with your witty, feisty and honorable attitude. You were truly one of a kind and will be sorely missed.
RIP.
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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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