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Netflix Officially Announces a Sequel to ‘Bright’
David Ayer’s Bright (read our review), Netflix’s most expensive original film to date, premiered on December 22, quickly becoming the highest viewed Netflix film ever on the service in its first week of release and one of the biggest originals (including sequels/additional seasons) Netflix has ever launched.
During its first three days, an estimated 11 million Netflix users watched Bright.
Today, Netflix has officially confirmed recent reports that a sequel to Bright is in the works, with David Ayer returning to write and direct.
Stars Will Smith and Joel Edgerton are also expected to return.
Personally speaking, I had a whole lot of fun with Bright, which merely teases a fantasy-meets-reality universe that the sequel will hopefully be delving much further into. The film offers passing glimpses of creatures – including fairies, centaurs and a big ass dragon – that are mostly kept in background, so there’s needless to say lots of room for expansion. There’s also TONS of franchise potential in this one.
Eric Newman and Bryan Unkeless will produce the sequel.
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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