Shawn Levy’s Star Wars Movie Might Have Found Its Writer

Lena Dunham’s Polly Pocket movie is no more. The new Possession remake may already have its star. Laika’s next movie sends the studio into the world of live-action. Plus, the final Conjuring movie has its release date, and Amazon’s Spider-Man Noir show gets a new cast member (and a new title). Spoilers get!

Polly Pocket

In conversation with the New Yorker, Lena Dunham confirmed she’s no longer attached to the Polly Pocket movie for Mattel.

I’m not going to make the Polly Pocket movie. I wrote a script, and I was working on it for three years. But I remember someone once said to me about Nancy Meyers: the thing that’s the most amazing about her is that the movie she makes or the movie she would be making with or without a studio, with or without notes — that somehow her taste manages to intersect perfectly with what the world wants. What a f-cking gift that is. And Nora Ephron, too, who was such a mentor to me, but always said, ‘Go be weird. Don’t kowtow to anyone.’”

I think Greta [Gerwig] managed this incredible feat [with Barbie], which was to make this thing that was literally candy to so many different kinds of people and was perfectly and divinely Greta. And I just — I felt like, unless I can do it that way, I’m not going to do it. I don’t think I have that in me. I feel like the next movie I make needs to feel like a movie that I absolutely have to make. No one but me could make it. And I did think other people could make Polly Pocket.

Possession

According to THR, Paramount is only now just “closing a deal” with Robert Pattinson to star in a remake of Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession from director Parker Finn.

Crumble

Variety reports Laika studios, Phil Lord and Chris Miller are attached to produce Crumble, an original live-action project based on a script by Brian Duffield. The story is only said to concern “a married couple who embark on a world-traveling adventure to find a cure for an ancient curse.”

Send Help

Deadline reports Sam Raimi is also”closing a deal” to produce and direct Send Help — a “two-hander horror thriller set on an island” — at 20th Century Studios. According to the outlet, the story “is said to “fall somewhere between Misery and Robert Zemeckis’ Castaway.”

Shawn Levy’s Star Wars

According to the latest edition of the InSneider newsletter, Shawn Levy will reunite with screenwriter Jonathan Tropper (The Adam Project) on his new Star Wars movie at LucasFilm.

The Conjuring 4

Bloody-Disgusting reports the fourth direct film in The Conjuring franchise is now slated for a September 5, 2025 theatrical release.

Wolverine & Deadpool

Deadpool and Wolverine explain why their new movie has crossover appeal for fans of The Bachelorette in its latest TV spot.

Can I steal HUGH for a second? #TheBachelorette #DeadpoolAndWolverine ❤️💛 pic.twitter.com/dmiIsHbGjO

— Deadpool Movie (@deadpoolmovie) July 9, 2024

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie

We also have a new trailer for the Spongebob Squarepants spinoff, Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie. 

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

TV Line has word Bella Shepard, Kerrice Brooks and George Hawkins have joined the cast of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy in currently undisclosed roles.

Spider-Noir

Variety reports Brendan Gleeson has joined the cast of the Spider-Man Noir series–now titled Spider-Noir–as an undisclosed villain.

Relatedly, Nicolas Cage revealed the upcoming series will consist of eight 45-minute long episodes to The New Yorker.

Forty-five minutes. I mean, it’s eight episodes. So it’s the equivalent of four movies in five months. And I’ve got another movie I’ve gotta prepare for, and then a movie right after it.

Untitled Star Wars Animated Series

According to Star Wars Holocron, Lucasfilm is now hiring a “Shot Production Coordinator” for an undisclosed new Star Wars animated series.

My Adventures With Superman

Finally, Lois is help captive by Kryptonians (inside Clark’s mind while under the influence of the Black Mercy) in a new clip from this week’s episode of My Adventures With Superman.

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