Week In Nerdom 05 - 01

Music

Metallica
Teasing the possibility of a new album, “if the quarantine lasts long enough.” Posted a semi-acoustic quarantine version of “Blackened” on their social medias.

Killswitch Engage
Atonement II: B-Sides released, 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the COVID-19 Relief Fund for the Center for Disaster Philanthropy. On sale May 8.

Jim Root
Slipknot’s guitar player is looking to take this mandatory down time and complete work on a solo record.

Marilyn Manson
New album is complete, according to Shooter Jennings who collaborated on the record. Also the first album with guitarist Paul Wiley and new drummer, Brandon Pertzborn (of BLACK FLAG, DOYLE and HO99O9).

BEHOLD! The Arctopus
NEW RECORD! And a new single “Forgotten Explanations.” Record (Hapeleptic Overtrove) out June 12th.

TV/Streaming

The Flash
Grant Gustin revealed on Michael Rosenbaum’s podcast that discussions had begun for season 8 and 9 renewal before the shut down.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grant-gustin/id1256754097?i=1000472879201

The Terror
Renewed for a third season. No reveal on the premise for the season yet though.
https://www.spoilertv.com/2020/04/the-terror-renewed-for-3rd-season-by-amc.html

The Boys
ALSO renewed for a third season. They are really confident in this show.
https://www.thecinemaspot.com/2020/04/29/exclusive-the-boys-lands-early-season-3-renewal-at-amazon-season-2-episode-titles-revealed/

Spawn
Sam and Twitch live action series in the works according to McFarlane. Kevin Smith wrote the spec script for the pilot, and it is being shopped out to networks and streamers now.
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/sam-twitch-todd-mcfarlane-major-update-spawn-spinoff-series/

Movies

Universal
AMC and now Cineworld (Parent Company of Regal Cinemas) have stated that they will not be showing any movies from Universal Studios. The announcement comes after Universal has made known their plans to continue same day VOD releases as the theatrical releases of all their movies going forward.

Spy VS Spy
Rawson Marshall Thurber (Red Notice) is in talks with Imagine Entertainment to direct a Spy VS Spy movie. Also set to have Ron Howard and Brian Glazer produce.
https://collider.com/spy-vs-spy-movie-rawson-marshall-thurber-directing/

Spider-Man 3
Charlie Cox is squashing rumors about Daredevil appearing in the movie. At least his version of the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen.
https://comicbook.com/movies/news/daredevil-charlie-cox-not-in-spider-man-3/

Transformers
Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4) is set to direct an animated theatrical prequel Transformers movie. Presumably, a prequel to the original cartoon story, NOT the Michael Bay-verse. The script for the movie was penned by Ant-Man and the Wasp writers Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari.
https://deadline.com/2020/04/transformers-animated-movie-paramount-hasbro-toy-story-4-director-josh-cooley-1202921100/

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Christy Hall, I Am Not Okay With This co-creator, has been brought in by Village Roadshow to pen the movie adaptation.
https://deadline.com/2020/04/village-roadshow-stampede-ventures-stephen-king-novel-the-girl-who-loved-tom-gordon-christy-hall-scripting-1202922057/

Keanu Reeves
Matrix 4 and John Wick 4 no longer have the same release date. Due to the corona shut-down, filming schedules have been all messed up, so Matrix’s filming schedule has forced John Wick’s schedule to be pushed too far back to maintain the same release date. Matrix is still, it seems, set for the May 21, 2021 date, with John Wick May 22, 2022.
https://cosmicbook.news/matrix-4-filming-year-john-wick-release-date

Spawn
90 minute animated movie in the works. McFarlane says the animation is in the works currently, then likely it is just a matter of finding a studio to distribute it.
https://comicbook.com/horror/news/spawn-new-animated-series-movie-todd-mcfarlane/