Final 12 months, a brand new horror franchise took flight with Pooh: Blood & Honey. With the enduring bear now within the public domain, the movie turned Winnie and Piglet right into a pair of grim slasher villains carving up a post-grad Christopher Robin and a number of other college college students. It went over about in addition to anticipated, however did effectively sufficient financially to kick off each its personal sequel and a bigger universe—sorry, Poohniverse—for extra public area characters to get a horror remedy.
Blood & Honey 2 already dropped this 12 months, so now we’re getting our first have a look at the entire “expanded universe” a part of the factor. Per Selection, traditional characters Pinocchio and Peter Pan are set to headline their very own particular person movies, each of that are at the moment being offered at Cannes. Pinocchio: Unstrung takes the boy puppet will likely be welcomed into the Poohniverse “with a bang,” mentioned director Rhys Frake-Waterfield, who additionally helmed the 2 Pooh motion pictures. The movie’s being pitched as a subversion of Carlo Collodi’s traditional 1883 guide, and one which’ll rely extra on sensible gore—one scene, in accordance with Selection, will see the title character put on the pores and skin of one in every of his victims to “really feel like an actual boy.”
In the meantime, Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare places Martin Portlock (Scream of the Wolf) within the title function, who’s gone and kidnapped Michael (Peter DeSouza-Feighoney), the youthful brother of Wendy Darling (Megan Placito). She endeavors to avoid wasting him with Tinkerbell’s (Equipment Inexperienced) assist, who on this universe is a heroin junkie satisfied that it’s really pixie mud. When you’re performed rolling your eyeballs, the solid is additional crammed by Charity Kase as Captain Hook, and the likes of Kierston Wareing, Nicholas Woodeson, Olumide Olorunfemi, and Teresa Banham in at the moment undisclosed roles.
Just like the Marvel motion pictures that is attempting to emulate, Peter and Pin are getting solo motion pictures to arrange them for a much bigger future within the so-called Twisted Childhood Universe. Each characters will converge with Pooh and Piglet in Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble in 2025, which’ll additionally introduce the likes of Sleeping Magnificence and the Mad Hatter. The TCU goals to maintain on preserving on after the crossover, as a result of a 3rd Blood & Honey is locked in for 2026, whereas solo motion pictures for Sleeping Magnificence and Snow White are additionally mentioned to be within the works. Yay?
At time of writing, Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare is about to launch later this 12 months after manufacturing wraps, whereas Pinocchio: Unstrung will launch in 2025 forward of Monsters Assemble.
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