The cycle of “Is this Marvel actor in the next Avengers movie?” has begun once more. Netflix wants Greta Gerwig’s Narnia adaptation in 2026. Plus, what’s next on Outlander and Mayfair Witches. Welcome to the final spoilers of 2024!
Avengers: Doomsday/The MCU
According to a new Instagram post from Perth gym DFRNT, Charlie Cox is “currently training for his role in the upcoming Marvel Avengers movie where he will play Daredevil.”
The Hunger Games: Sunrise On the Reaping
In conversation with Comic Book, director Francis Lawrence discussed his difficulty in finding a young actor “who is believably going to become” Woody Harrelson’s Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games: Sunrise On the Reaping.
Honestly, I think the best way to answer that question is to say, if you look at The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, we had to cast a young version of Donald Sutherland, right? It’s the same challenge. It’s different characteristics of Donald and Woody, very different people. But you’re like, ‘How am I going to cast a young person who is believably going to become Donald Sutherland? Who’s going to have that sort of intelligence, sophistication, a little irreverence, gravitas, all of that. Who is going to embody and be believable in the fact that he’s going to turn into that guy and become the president of Panem? And it’s the same thing [with Haymitch].
It’s a search and you have to dig down and figure out what are the elements that make Woody so interesting, right? And some of it is humor. Some of it is intelligence. Some of it is quirk. Some of it is, there’s a darkness in him that gives him and edge. There’s a mischievousness, right? So there’s all these aspects that make Woody so great, so appealing, so watchable, and such a great actor and so interesting,” the director continued. “And we’re going to have to find somebody that has all of that. It’s not somebody that just looks like him, or is going to study Woody Harrelson and just act like him. When Tom Blythe played Donald Sutherland, he wasn’t doing an impersonation. We had to find somebody that was believable that you could be like, ‘Oh, okay, I see how this guy over 70 years could turn into Donald.’
The Chronicles of Narnia
Bloomberg reports Netflix is now “targeting a December 2026 release” for Greta Gerwig’s The Chronicles of Narnia.
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
When asked how her character, Eve Macarro, differentiates herself from John Wick, Ana de Armas underlined her character is a ballerina and John Wick is not during a recent interview with Collider.
I think there are some trademarks in the style of the fights in John Wick, and things that he does that are very particular to him. But because in this movie we’re seeing through Eve’s eyes the background of that training that John had, and how these assassins and ballerinas, how these people become these assassins, there are some little details that are the same, but Eve Macarro is Eve Macarro. She’s not John Wick.
Outlander
The Battle of Monmouth unfolds in the trailer for “A Heavy Price for Freedon,” next week’s episode of Outlander.
The Mayfair Witches
The cast and crew of The Mayfair Witches discuss season two in a new featurette.
Common Side Effects
Finally, Adult Swim has released another trailer for Common Side Effects premiering February 2 on Adult Swim.
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