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  • Channing Tatum Says His Gambit Will ‘Keep the Drama’ in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

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    Colin Farrell “doesn’t see” returning to the Penguin’s “trough,” Doug Liman is “excited” to take Tom Cruise to outer space, and Clayface gets smushed. Until the USA network agrees to green light Night Spoilers, we are here with another Morning Spoilers! 

    Avengers: Doomsday

    During a recent interview with Variety, Channing Tatum promised his portrayal of Gambit in Avengers: Doomsday will be more “serious” than last seen in Deadpool and Wolverine.

    I’m not gonna go full Cajun. [Directors Anthony and Joe Russo] want things to be funny, but they don’t want to go full Deadpool. They want to keep the drama and keep it tight. When Gambit gets serious — when he drops the Mardi Gras mask — things do matter.

    Clayface

    The latest set photo from Clayface appears to depict Matt Hagen post-surgery, if not just after his disfiguring accident.

    Tom Cruise Space Movie

    Speaking with Deadline, director Doug Liman said that he hopes people are still buzzed for his upcoming Tom Cruise action movie, which is set to be partially shot in space, although there’s still no update on when that might happen.

    I’m more excited about going to space, not less… but our goal is to make something great. A lot of people are trying to do gimmicky things like, ‘Oh, it’s in space.’ I’m not interested in doing something that’s a just promotional gimmick.

    I want to make a film that people watch in a hundred years when maybe there’s hundreds of movies shot in outer space and there’s nothing special about it being in outer space. That’s the goal of everything I do.

    With Swingers, it’s very meaningful to me that lots of people who watch it weren’t even born when it premiered here.

    If I ever shoot a movie in outer space, the question will be what could I do that you couldn’t do on Earth that makes for a great piece of entertainment, that’s better than if you didn’t do it it space.

    Again, it’s also about technology and storytelling… you can run a line from Swingers all the way through to this potential film in outer space.

    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

    According to Deadline, Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is now scheduled for a January 30, 2026 theatrical release date.

    Starring Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, and Juno Temple, the story is said to concern a “man from the future (Rockwell) who arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons (Richardson, Peña, Beetz, Temple) to join him on a one-night-six-block quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.”

    Untitled Jordan Peele Movie

    As noted by World of Reel, Universal has pulled Jordan Peele’s mysterious fourth movie from its 2026 release calendar.

    Him

    Meanwhile, Bloody-Disgusting has a new IMAX poster for Him.

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    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

    Sony has released its first trailer for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Read our story about the trailer here.

    The Penguin

    In conversation with Deadline, Colin Farrell stated he doesn’t know “the way you go back to the trough” for a second season of The Penguin.

    I have no idea if it’s happening. I know that I heard rumblings that they were thinking they’d like to do a second season, but I don’t know if it’s a good idea,” he said. “I don’t know the way you go back to the trough … And part of me wants to go, ‘Just let it go people. We got away with it. Leave it as it is.’

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Sarah Michelle Gellar shared several behind-the-scenes photos from the set of the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer pilot on Instagram.

    It: Welcome to Derry

    A new Welcome to Derry motion poster confirms the series is set to premiere this October 26 on HBO Max.

    Alien: Earth

    Finally, FX has released a trailer for “The Fly,” next week’s episode of Alien: Earth.

     

     

    Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

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  • Dolly Parton On Potential ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Revival: “They’re Still Working On That”

    Dolly Parton On Potential ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Revival: “They’re Still Working On That”

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    Dolly Parton gave a promising update on a potential Buffy the Vampire Slayer revival.

    In a recent interview, the country singer said producers were working on bringing back the series that starred Sarah Michelle Gellar.

    “They’re still working on that,” Parton told Business Insider in an interview posted Jan. 24. “They’re thinking about bringing it back and revamping it.”

    Parton didn’t delve into details about who was involved in rebooting the series. The “Jolene” singer is attached to the series that ran between 1997 and 2003 as a producer via her production company Sandollar Productions she co-founded with her former manager Sandy Gallin.

    Gellar talked about Parton’s involvement on the show in an interview last year noting that she never actually got to meet her in person.

    “Yes, little known fact, the legend Dolly Parton was a producer,” Gellar said during an interview on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon from Feb. 2023. “We never saw her [but] we’d get Christmas gifts in the beginning that would have our name, and I would think, ‘She doesn’t even know who I am.’ And then one day, someone asked her about it, and she complimented the show and my performance. I was like, ‘Oh, I can die now. Dolly Parton knows who I am and thinks I’m good.’”

    In Jan. 2023, Gellar said a revival “doesn’t need to be done.”

    “We wrapped that up,” she told SFX Magazine (via MovieWeb). “I am all for them continuing the story, because there’s the story of female empowerment. I love the way the show was left: ‘Every girl who has the power can have the power.’ It’s set up perfectly for someone else to have the power. But like I said, the metaphors of Buffy were the horrors of adolescence. I think I look young, but I am not an adolescent.”

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  • 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Actor Camden Toy Dead at 68

    'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Actor Camden Toy Dead at 68

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    Character actor Camden Toy has sadly passed away after a struggle with pancreatic cancer. Toy rose to fame as a creature actor and is best remembered for playing several iconic monsters on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

    Despite being buried in layers of make-up and prosthetics, Toy was able to convey menace and danger in every monster he embodied. Toy first played one of the iconic Gentlemen in the season 4 episode “Hush” alongside best friend and fellow actor Doug Jones. Toy returned to the series to play the demon Gnarl in season 7’s “Same Time, Same Place.” Toy also played a Turok-Han, or Ubervamp, in several season 7 episodes.

    Toy also appeared in the spinoff series Angel, where he played a vampire known as the Prince of Lies in the season five episode “Why We Fight”. Toy also had roles on The Mentalist, Goodnight Burbank, The Bay, and Into the Dark. He was also a popular mainstay at comic and pop culture conventions across the country.

    Jones posted on his Instagram, “To know Camden Toy was to Love Camden Toy. We may have met on the set of Buffy as two hideous looking “Gentlemen,” but that only sparked a dear friendship that would continue for twenty-four years. It’s rare to find a man so joyful, smiley, smart, talented, giggly, huggie, good at listening with his heart, and accessible always to anyone he knew, including his many fans.
    May he rest in God’s peace.”

    Juliet Landau, who played Drusilla on BtVS, told Entertainment Weekly, “Camden was a beautiful soul, a beautiful friend, and a beautiful talent … From the first moment we met, I knew he was special. Under the visage of the monster he was made-up to be, shined the kindest of spirits. He’s been a gift in our lives. We will miss him greatly.”

    Other colleagues and fans shared their condolences on social media:

    Screenshot of Sarah Michelle Gellar's Instagram Story remembering Camden Toy.
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  • ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Sequel Series Coming to Audible

    ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Sequel Series Coming to Audible

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    While it may not be the full audiovisual experience, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer audio drama is still way cool. It’s been a while since we got any proper new Buffy content, with the original series only running from 1997 to 2003. Even with that ending, there were still tons of character threads and occasional plot holes that could have been addressed to make a more complete story. Hopefully, this sequel audio series, which will be on Audible, does some work to deal with that.

    The new series is called Slayers: A Buffyverse Story. It was written by Amber Benson, known for playing Tara in the Buffy TV series. She’s partnered with Christopher Golden, who has written a number of novels taking place within the Buffy universe. The voice cast returning from the Buffy TV series includes James Marsters, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Head, Juliet Landau, Emma Caulfield Ford, Benson, James Charles Leary and Danny Strong. Sarah Michelle Gellar is not in the show but there’s a good reason for that: In the series, Spike winds up meeting with a Slayer from a reality where Buffy never existed.

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    The official synopsis is as follows:

    The upcoming scripted audio original picks up 10 years after the events of the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Since then, Spike has gone deep undercover in Los Angeles, convincing the forces of darkness that he’s back to his evil ways. When his cover is compromised by sixteen-year-old Indira Nunnally (Hayes), Spike finds himself on baby-slayer-sitting duty once more. While he attempts to track down a watcher for his eager new protégé, their paths collide with the veteran Slayer of a parallel reality where Buffy Summers never existed…a reality where Cordelia Chase is the one-and-only Slayer. She needs Spike’s help with a classic big bad terrorizing her world…his old flame, Drusilla.

    Slayers: A Buffyverse Story will premiere on Audible on October 12.

    The 13 Best Final Girls in Horror Movie History

    Witches and slasher villains and interdimensional beings from Hell have nothing on these expert survivors.

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  • ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Star James Marsters Explains Why He Would Have Killed Spike Off

    ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Star James Marsters Explains Why He Would Have Killed Spike Off

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    If James Marsters had it his way, his beloved blood-sucking character on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” would have been staked from the jump.

    The actor, who starred in the show as Spike, the slick-talking punk rock vampire from 1997 to 2003, recently kept it real about why he would have killed him off and the reason the show’s writers “never really knew what to do with” him.

    “I mean, the whole thing is, how do we get this guy on without having him ruin the theme? If it had been me producing that show, I would have killed Spike off in a heartbeat,” he told Radio Times in an interview to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the hit show’s finale.

    Marsters, who played Spike opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar, then added that he would have given him the boot after fans began loving the murderous, soulless villain a little too much.

    “As soon as the audience said, ‘Oh, we want him. Oh, have him with Buffy. Oh, we love that character.’ Like, uh-uh. He’s ruining the whole thing. I would have killed me off after probably three episodes,” the 60-year-old star confessed.

    Marsters first appeared on the horror drama series as the bleach-blonde fan-favorite during its second season alongside co-stars Gellar, Alyson Hannigan and Anthony Head.

    Though he started off as a feared bad guy, Spike wound up having the ultimate character arc, becoming Buffy’s reluctant ally and eventually a self-sacrificing hero. During the series finale, Spike gave up his life to destroy the Sunnydale Hellmouth.

    Later, he went on to reprise his role in the “Buffy” spin-off, “Angel.”

    On the other hand, Marsters admitted that he’s “very lucky” that the writers didn’t go the route he would have. “I’m kind of a bastard when I’m producing! I’m heartless! So I’m very lucky that they had more imagination and courage than I would have shown, frankly.”

    Elsewhere in the interview, he revealed that he thought “they never really knew what to do” with his character, who became a series regular in the show’s fourth season, or how to properly weave him into the complex storyline that was originally meant to keep a “horrific” tone.

    “Buffy” cast members Emma Caulfield, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, James Marsters, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Michelle Trachtenberg at the UPN sessions of the Television Critics Association summer press tour at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Pasadena, Ca in 2001. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images.)

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    “The original idea for Buffy was that vampires were just metaphors for the challenges of high school, or the challenges of life,” Marsters explained of the show’s underlying theme. “They were designed to be overcome; they were designed to die. Buffy is not an Anne Rice kind of thing, where you’re supposed to feel for the vampires. It’s why we’re hideously ugly when we bite someone. They did not want that to be a sensual kind of thing. It was supposed to be horrific.”

    He recalled, ”[The writers] were always, like, coming to me at the beginning of every season saying, ‘We don’t know what to do with you! We have a plan for the season, we have a plan for all the other characters, we have all the arcs of all the other characters, we just don’t know what to do with you again.’”

    Marsters said luckily, the writers were eventually “able to figure something out” amid all of Spike’s character changes, adding that he ultimately became “a kind of guinea pig hero by the end.”

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  • Sarah Michelle Gellar Playfully Interacts With Former Love Interest David Boreanaz On The 26th Anniversary Of ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’

    Sarah Michelle Gellar Playfully Interacts With Former Love Interest David Boreanaz On The 26th Anniversary Of ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’

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    Sarah Michelle Gellar is reminiscing about her former onscreen boyfriend, portrayed by David Boreanaz, in honour of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”‘s 26th anniversary.

    To celebrate the beloved supernatural drama, which premiered on March 10, 1997, Boreanaz, 53, shared a throwback photo of him and Gellar, 45, in character to his Instagram Story.


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    “TBT: This a grumpy moment or brooding moment,” the actor wrote of his character Angel, who became Buffy’s first love.

    Gellar reposted the photo to her own Story, replying: “Always brooding you were never grumpy.”

    Photo: Instagram/ SarahMGellar

    While the actress starred as Buffy throughout all seven seasons of the WB show, Boreanaz only appeared in the first three seasons as the centuries-old vampire before landing his character’s own spinoff series, which had a five-season run on the same network.


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    Sarah Michelle Gellar Has No Interest In ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ Revival: ‘We Wrapped That Up’

    Last week, Gellar took another trip down memory lane with fellow “Buffy” co-star, Pedro Pascal, who portrayed her college classmate Eddie in the season 4 premiere episode.

    Pascal, 47, has since reacted to Gellar’s post, in which she shared a photo of the two from the episode, telling Access Hollywood that he was “excited” to see her shoutout. He also recalled that it was “a super big deal” getting cast in the series.

    “Sarah Michelle Gellar remembers me and I want her to know that I remember every moment of shooting that episode, as brief as it was,” the “Last of Us” actor said. “She was such a kind scene partner and we had the best time.”

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  • Sarah Michelle Gellar Shares Throwback Pic From Pedro Pascal’s ‘Buffy’ Appearance

    Sarah Michelle Gellar Shares Throwback Pic From Pedro Pascal’s ‘Buffy’ Appearance

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    By Corey Atad.
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    Pedro Pascal really got around early in his career.

    In an Instagram post on Tuesday, Sarah Michelle Gellar shared a throwback photo to the time the “Last of Us” star appeared on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.


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    “When #Mother met #Father,” she wrote.

    Pascal, who was credited as Pedro Balmaceda at the time, appeared in just one episode, season 4’s “The Freshman”.

    In it, the actor memorably plays nervous freshman Eddie, who quickly befriends Buffy, but soon after is attacked by vampires and turned himself, forcing the slayer to kill him.

    Back in 2015, Pascal spoke about his “Buffy” gig with Vulture, recalling, “That was one of the first jobs I got after I graduated, being a vampire — albeit briefly.”


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    He continued, “It’s a funny thing because ‘Buffy’ is such a wonderful show, and it’s something that I got into kind of late in life now that it’s available for streaming. Now that I’m removed from having been on it, I got to really experience the show in all of its brilliant allegory.”

    Along with starring in “The Last of Us”, Pedro Pascal also leads “The Mandalorian”, which premiered Wednesday on Disney+.

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  • Sarah Michelle Gellar Shoots Down Fan Theory That Her ‘Wolf Pack’ Character Is Actually Buffy — Or Does She?

    Sarah Michelle Gellar Shoots Down Fan Theory That Her ‘Wolf Pack’ Character Is Actually Buffy — Or Does She?

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    Sarah Michelle Gellar has returned to her supernatural TV roots in “Wolf Pack”, the new Paramount+ series about teenagers caught up in a wildfire who become wounded by a strange creature, leading them to become werewolves.

    An intriguing fan theory has emerged about Gellar’s character, mysterious arson investigator Kristin Ramsey, positing that she’s actually Buffy Summers, who has taken on a new identity but will eventually be revealed as the Slayer.

    In an interview with Digital Spy, Gellar offered her response to the notion that her new role is actually an update of her “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” character.


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    “That’s really funny. I like it. I’m down for it,” Gellar said before shooting down the theory.

    “No, I can tell you that one is not the case,” she declared. “That is not what you will find out, but that’s funny.”

    However, after dismissing the idea, she added cryptically, “Wouldn’t it be funny if you just found out, [‘Wolf Pack’] season two is just Buffy?” she joked. “It’s all a ruse.”

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