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Keanu Reeves and Jim Carrey Are ‘The Bad Batch’
Ana Lily Amirpour is blowing up since her A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night premiered at Sundance.
Next up is The Bad Batch, a post-apocalyptic story that will star, get this, Keanu Reeves, pictured in John Wick, Jim Carrey, Jason Momoa, Diego Luna and Suki Waterhouse. Holy shit.
Heat Vision says details were not forthcoming, but it appears that Waterhouse is the lead of the movie, which is described as a dystopian love story set in a Texas wasteland.
Production on the film begins in April around Los Angeles.
Annapurna furnished the following character information in making its cast announcement: Suki Waterhouse will play Arlen, Jason Momoa will play Miami Man, Diego Luna will play Jimmy, Keanu Reeves will play the Dream and Jim Carrey will play the Hermit.
Annapurna’s Megan Ellison will produce alongside Vice’s Danny Gabai and Sina Sayyah. Annapurna’s Samantha Scher will be the executive overseeing the day-to-day development and production of the project. Vice’s Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti are executive producing.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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