The Random: Bloodshot, New Warriors, Glass, Shooter, Terminator, Halo, Hellboy and more

– Keith David (The Thing, They Live, Community) has joined Marvel’s New Warriors TV show. He’ll play a “caustic municipal employee” by the name of Ernest Vigman. Vigman’s personality is said to clash with “the hopeful energy of the new warriors”.

– Director and graphic artist Joann Sfar is embarking on his first English-language live-action drama with Monsters’ Shrink. Canal Plus has ordered the eight-part series that’s loosely based on Sfar’s book L’Eternel – Determined to discover the real story of his demise, Rebecka heads to Antibes and is confronted graveside by Ionas, a vicious and intellectual Eastern European Vampire — who is also a surprisingly good handyman — and is desperate to change. Ionas convinces the wary and scared Rebecka to give him therapy sessions, after she realizes he might be connected to her husband’s death. In order to access their knowledge and information, Rebecka agrees not just to analyze Ionas but to become a shrink for all monsters, discovering an entire underworld hidden in the dirty streets, shops and houses of France – Deadline

– The current second season of USA Network’s drama series Shooter will consist of eight episodes instead of the originally ordered ten. This is due to off-set injury suffered by series star Ryan Phillippe who broke his leg on July 16.

– Take a look at Rick and Morty Season 3. Learn more about the apocalyptic design and kinky fashions of “Rickmancing the Stone” S3E2. The new season also sees Thomas Middleditch, Susan Sarandon, Danny Trejo, Christian Slater, Peter Serafinowicz, Gillian Jacobs, Joel McHale, and Keith David guest starring.

– Sarah Paulson has signed on for M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller Glass. The American Horror Story actress joins James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, who already have boarded the Universal film. Written by Shyamalan, Glass is a sequel to the writer-director’s Unbreakable and Split – THR

– James Cameron is looking to bring us a new Terminator trilogy. He is in negotiations to oversee a new “three-film arc” if the ongoing issues with the rights to the franchise can be resolved and had this to say about it – “The question is — has the franchise run its course or can it be freshened up. Can it still have relevance now where so much of our world is catching up to what was science fiction in the first two films. We live in a world of predator drones and surveillance and big data and emergent AI (artificial intelligence). So I am in discussions with David Ellison, who is the current rights holder globally for the Terminator franchise and the rights in the US market revert to me under US copyright law in a year and a half so he and I are talking about what we can do. Right now we are leaning toward doing a three-film arc and reinventing it. We’ll put more meat on the bones if we get past the next couple of hurdles as and when we announce that.” – News

– Microsoft have confirmed they are still working on a live action Halo series – “Progress on the Halo Television Series continues,” a Microsoft Spokesperson and representative of 343 Industries confirmed to AR12Gaming. “We want to ensure we’re doing this the right way together with a team of creative partners (Steven Spielberg and Showtime) that can help us build the best Halo series that fans expect and deserve. We have no further details to share at this time”

– David Harbour has been talking about Hellboy, as he will be playing him in Hellboy: Rise Of The Blood Queen – “I really do think those Mike Mignola Hellboy comics are so beautiful and he’s such a hero for America that we live in today. I definitely think Hellboy is an antihero. He was kind of born into it. It wasn’t something like Batman where he chooses to go and fight crime. He was just born this weird half-demon spawned by Nazi occultists and saved by these dudes who tried to raise him right. For him, it’s a sense of discovery. His actual destiny as a ‘hero’ is to end the world. He is the beast of the apocalypse. So, in a way, his struggle to be a superhero is to just not do the thing that he’s destined to do.”

– Jared Leto is in talks to star in Sony’s Bloodshot which is based on indie comic book publisher Valiant Entertainment comic book series. Leto will see if a deal can be worked out to star as Bloodshot’s protagonist is Angelo Mortalli, a ruthless killer for the mob who is set up by the family and framed for a murder. He instead goes into Witness Protection, but is betrayed by an FBI agent guarding him, kidnapped and forcibly subjected to an experimental program in which his body is injected with microscopic computers called nanites. They erase his brain and rebuild it and his body to be a weapon with superhuman strength and healing powers – Deadline

– Warwick Davis will appear as an unspecified character in the Han Solo movie. Composer John Powell will score the film.

– This three-minute teaser for a full-length animated feature is based on Dutch artist Martin Lodewijk’s classic comics series Agent 327. The Blender Animation Studio is currently developing the story and seeks for funding to bring this adventurous comedy animation film to an international audience.