This just in: The STW Daily featuring all the streaming news that’s fit to (digitally) print for Friday, June 10th, 2022. Munsters, A League Of Their Own, and more.
Rob Zombie’s Munsters Movie Scares Up Fun at Peacock
Get ready to return to 1313 Mockingbird Lane with a new trailer for Rob Zombie’s Munsters movie. The rocker-director has been a lifelong fan of all things Munster from the 1960’s show to the 1980-90’s era shows and TV movies. So it has also been a lifelong dream for Zombie to adapt the spooky family sitcom for the modern era, and achieve that dream he has.
It’s not the director’s first foray into updating old horror favorites. In 2007, Zombie revamped the 1979 classic Halloween for a take on the perennial favorite that was all his own, though perhaps less beloved than the canonical original.
And he’s no stranger to the horror genre outside of updates and remakes, writing and directing originals like The Devil’s Rejects and Lords of Salem. And though his previous horror fare was heavy on gore and disturbing plot lines that easily garnered R-ratings, his Munsters update will hit theaters and Peacock with a family-friendly PG rating.
No official release date has been announced though Zombie has assured fans it will be this year. Hopefully everything can be wrapped up by October for a fitting Halloween release.
A League of Their Own Series On Deck at Amazon Prime
Broad City‘s Abbi Jacobson shoots for a home run with a new series for Amazon Prime Video based on the Penny Marshall classic from 1992 that starred Geena Davis and Tom Hanks. Amazon dropped a trailer for the update this week, delightfully soundtracked by the Stevie Nicks classic “Edge of Seventeen.”
The trailer doesn’t give away much, but the official logline reads “A League of Their Own evokes the joyful spirit of Penny Marshall’s beloved classic, while widening the lens to tell the story of an entire generation of women who dreamed of playing professional baseball. The show takes a deeper look at race and sexuality, following the journey of a whole new ensemble of characters as they carve their own paths towards the field, both in the League and outside of it.”
The update will focus on a team other than the Rockford Peaches with new characters played by Jacobson (who co-created and produces), Nick Offerman, Chanté Adams, D’Arcy Carden, and Melanie Field. The entire first season hits Prime on August 12th.
Rian Johnson has a Poker Face Like None Other
Knives Out auteur Rian Johnson heads to the small screen with his first foray into television in the form of the star-studded Poker Face. The mystery-of-the-week thriller will star Russian Doll Natasha Lyonne and forever cool girl Chloë Sevigny.
Johnson et al are tightlipped on details inlcuding a premiere date, but what is certain is that it will be a ten-episode series streaming on Peacock. Also certain is that the cast is red-hot with supporting players including Emmy winner Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Everything Everywhere All at Once star Stephanie Hsu, Oscar winner Adrien Brody, Orange Is the New Black’s, Dascha Polanco, Get Out’s Lil Rey Howery, Emmy nominee Benjamin Bratt, and The Umbrella Academy’s David Castañeda.
Dark Times: 1899 Heads to Netflix
Fans of the globally beloved time travel mystery thriller Dark are about to have a new puzzle to ponder over. Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, the creators of the smash hit German series Dark, are heading back to Netflix with an English-language follow-up that promises to be just as mysterious and twisted.
Netflix has dropped the trailer for 1899 and an official logline that reads, “Multinational immigrants traveling from the old continent to the new encounter a nightmarish riddle aboard a second ship adrift on the open sea.”
The teaser only hints at what this “nightmarish riddle” might entail, but it definitely seems to be small and pyramid shaped, judging by the trailer’s opening image and recurring triangular typography. With no official release date, viewers will have to wait until roughly Fall/Winter 2022 to begin to wrap their heads around this one.