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Sources tell Nexus Point News that Elizabeth Olsen is set to star in Peaked with Molly Gordon.  Gordon will direct based off a script written by her and Allie Levitan ( Adults , Saturday Night Live ). Gordon will produce with David Hinojosa and Zach Nutman of 2AM for A24. Peaked  will be Gordon’s second film as a director and first as a solo director. The film follows two women in their late-twenties, Bobby (Gordon) and Millie (Olsen), who were once the most popular girls in their high school, but have now amounted to nothing. When they don’t receive an invite to their 10 year high school reunion, they plan to crash the reunion. Olsen will next be seen starring in A24’s Eternity alongside Callum Turner and Miles Teller and Sam Esmail’s Panic Carefully . She’s best known for her role as Wanda Maximoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe which she has appeared in several projects across film and TV since 2014. Her other credits include Martha Marcy May Marlene , Godzilla , Oldboy , and Love & Death. Olsen is repped by CAA, Brillstein and Sloane, Offer. Gordon made her directorial debut with Theater Camp  which she also starred in. This past year she co-wrote and starred in Sophie Brook’s Oh, Hi!  She’s best known for her roles in Life of the Party , Good Boys , Booksmart , Shiva Baby , Animal Kingdom , and The Bear . Peaked begins production in January in New Jersey for A24. We have reached out to A24 for comment and we'll update the story as details come in.

Sources tell Nexus Point News that Benicio del Toro is in talks to join the cast of the upcoming Ocean’s Eleven prequel. Details surrounding his character are currently under wraps but he would potentially be portraying the antagonist. Del Toro would join Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper who are set to star as the film’s leads in 1960s Europe. Lee Isaac Chung ( Twisters , Minari ) is set to helm the film with a script written by Carrie Solomon ( A Family Affair ). The project has been in development at Warner Bros. since May 2022. Originally Ryan Gosling was attached to star opposite Robbie with Jay Roach set to direct.  Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven  released in 2001 and starred George Clooney as the titular Danny Ocean. The film spawned two sequels, Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen  and a spin-off, Ocean’s 8  starring Sandra Bullock as Debbie Ocean, the sister of Danny. The franchise was originally conceived as a remake of the 1960 film, Ocean’s 11  starring Frank Sinatra as Danny Ocean, along with the rest of the Rat Pack. Del Toro most recently starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another  which has put him in the conversation for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He’s best known for his roles in Traffic , 21 Grams , Sicario , Sin City , and The Phoenician Scheme . Del Toro will next be seen in Jamie Foxx’s All-Star Weekend alongside Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Ken Jeong, Gerard Butler, Eva Longoria, and Jeremy Piven. Del Toro is repped by LBI Entertainment, Range Media Partners and Hansen Jacobson Teller. The Ocean’s prequel is set to begin production next year in 2026.

Nexus Point News can exclusively report that Rachna Fruchbom is set to write Champions , a TV series

Sources tell Nexus Point News that Danielle Deadwyler is in talks to join Ryan Coogler’s The   X-Files series as one of the leads. Deadwyler would play one of the lead investigators, whose character is partnered with a male investigator. The series has been in development since 2023 with Coogler attached to write the pilot, executive produce, and potentially direct. The X-Files creator, Chris Carter, has met with Coogler and is developing the project with him. The original series premiered in 1993 and ran until 2002 and returned in 2016 for an additional two seasons for a total of 218 episodes. Additionally, two feature films spun out of the original series, The X-Files (1998) and The X-Files: I Want To Believe (2008). The series starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully respectively. Coogler mentioned that he specifically has met with Anderson regarding his upcoming reboot. Coogler is coming off his last feature film, Sinners ,   which released this past year to universal acclaim. Coogler is also known for directing Black Panther  and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever , with a third film in development. His additional credits include the Creed  films and Fruitvale Station . Danielle Deadwyler is best known for roles in The Harder They Fall , Till , and The Piano Lesson . Deadwyler will next be seen starring as Zelma Redding in Otis & Zelma . She is repped by Paradigm Talent Agency, Play Management, Shelter PR and Ziffren Brittenham The X-Files reboot is currently in development for 20th Century Television.

As announced in June, Tom King ( Lanterns ) will be showrunning an upcoming adult animated Mister Miracle series for DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation. The series will consist of eight episodes and is set to feature Scott Free/Mister Miracle, and his wife and partner Big Barda as the leads. DC Studios heads, James Gunn and Peter Safran will serve as executive producers alongside King. It is currently unknown if the series will be set in the DC Universe or if it will be an Elseworlds project.  Sources tell Nexus Point News that casting is currently underway and character descriptions have revealed the supporting cast. The series is set to feature Darkseid as the series’ antagonist, Highfather, Lightray, Orion, and Funky Flashman. The series will adapt King’s 12-issue Eisner award winning Mister Miracle . Confirmed plot points include Scott being infected by the Anti-Life Equation and most importantly, his suicide attempt. Darkseid is described as the physical manifestation of all evil in the universe. He speaks in a silly, over-the-top manner which is balanced with his calm, but confident demeanor. Funky Flashman serves as a narrator in certain scenes and his Stan Lee inspiration is very prevalent in this adaptation of the character. Described as a “snake oil salesman,” he’s very articulate with his words and knows how to sell a product. Lightray was raised alongside Orion and is very loyal to Highfather and Orion. He considers himself superior to Scott and Barda and sees himself as too good for the missions assigned to him by Highfather. Highfather is the all-knowing leader of New Genesis who has trouble connecting with the other New Gods due to his status and power, especially Scott who has resented him childhood for his decision to give him up to Darkseid. Orion, the son of Darkseid, carries his father’s anger, sins, and ambition, but has repressed it since childhood since being raised by Highfather. Orion will serve as a mentor to Scott in the series.  King, a former CIA officer, made his writing debut with A Once Crowded Sky . He went on to write The Sheriff of Babylon , Grayson , Batman , Vision , and several DC Black Label series such as Jenny Sparks , Human Target , and Strange Adventures , which is also in development at DC Studios. King’s Eisner award winning series  Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow  is being adapted into DC Studios’ next feature film, Supergirl  starring Milly Alcock. King co-created and co-wrote the pilot to DC Studios’ Lanterns  which is set to premiere next year on HBO. King also serves as one of the architects to Gunn and Safran’s DCU. King is currently penning the script to Universal’s Archie comics film, which is set to be produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Mister Miracle  is currently in development by DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation and although a streamer or network has not been set, it’ll likely premiere on HBO Max.

Sources tell Nexus Point News that Rupert Friend is in talks to star in The Boy in the Iron Box , based on the series of books from Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. Friend will star as Liev, the leader of a Russian Special Forces crew who crash lands in a mountain range in China with his crew. They take shelter and discover an iron box housing the corpse of a mummified entity who terrorizes them. Del Toro will produce for Netflix with his longtime collaborator J. Miles Dale. David Prior ( The Empty Man ) is set to adapt the series and direct. Prior previously collaborated with del Toro on “The Autopsy” segment of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities , del Toro’s Netflix horror anthology. Del Toro is collaborating once again with Netflix, with Frankenstein set to release later this year, starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac.  Friend is best known for his roles in Pride & Prejudice , The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas , and his 5-season long run on Homeland which earned him an Emmy nomination. Friend most recently starred in the latest entry in the Jurassic Park  franchise, Jurassic World Rebirth . Friend is repped by UTA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Production is set to begin in October in Toronto.

Amazon’s God of War series finally has a filming date. The series will begin filming in March 2026 in Vancouver, sources tell Nexus Point News. The casting for the series is currently underway. Ronald D. Moore will serve as the showrunner for God of War . The writers' room also includes: Matthew Graham ( Electric Dreams and Spanish Princess) Stephanie Shannon ( For All Mankind and Outlander) Narendra K. Shankar ( The Expanse and For All Mankind) Joe Menosky ( For All Mankind and Star Trek: Discovery) Marc D. Bernardin ( The Continental and Star Trek: Picard) Tania Lotia ( The Witcher and The Mighty Nein) Given Moore’s history as showrunner on For All Mankind , Electric Dreams , and Outlander , it’s no surprise that several familiar collaborators are joining him on this project. Moore also offered an update on the series at San Diego Comic-Con in an interview with IGN : “We’re in the scripts phase. We’re still working on scripts. It’s going very well. We’ve got a good team. It’s been a fascinating thing to sink my teeth into. I’ve never done an adaptation of a video game, and the deeper I got into it, the more impressed I was with the breadth and the depth of the mythology that’s involved in this video game.” In the same interview, Moore also revealed that they were adapting the 2018 God of War game, which follows an older Kratos, the Olympian God of War. After completing his quest for revenge against Zeus, Kratos settles with his wife and son. Following his wife’s death, Kratos embarks on a new journey with his son. To honor her final wish, Kratos and his son Atreus set out on a perilous journey to scatter her ashes from the highest peak of the Nine Realms. Along the way, they encounter many figures from Norse mythology, one of them being the Æsir god Baldur. God of War series is produced by Amazon MGM Studios, Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions, and Santa Monica Studio.

As reported by Nexus Point News, Ryan Murphy’s Monster  is set to adapt the Lizzie Borden murders. Sources tell Nexus Point News that Charlie Hunnam has joined the cast of the series. Hunnam is set to portray Andrew Borden, the father of Lizzie Borden (Ella Beatty). This marks Hunnam’s second role in the Monster  series, following his leading role as Ed Gein in the upcoming season 3 of Monster . Hunnam is best known for his role as “Jax Teller” in FX’s Sons of Anarchy . Other notable credits include his roles in The Lost City of Z , King Arthur: Legend of the Sword , and Triple Frontier . Hunnam is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, CAA, and Sloan Offer. Borden was the suspected killer of her father and stepmother, Andrew and Abby Borden’s murders. The murders occurred on August 4, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts. Borden was tried for the crimes and later acquitted. She went on to live the rest of her life free until her death in 1927.  Monster  first aired in 2022 and followed Jeffrey Dahmer. Season 1 of Monster  titled, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story , starred Evan Peters in the titular role and Niecy Nash as Glenda Cleveland, Dahmer’s neighbor. Season 2 titled, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story , starred Cooper Koch as Erik and Nicholas Alexander Chavez as Lyle. Javier Bardem and Chloe Sevigny portray their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez. Season 3 which is titled, Monster: The Original Monster  is set to follow Ed Gein. Charlie Hunnam portrays Gein and will be joined by Laurie Metcalf as Augusta Gein, Tom Hollander as Alfred Hitchcock, Olivia Williams as Alma Reville, and Suzanna Son in an undisclosed role. Production on Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is set to begin in October in Los Angeles.

The next installments of the Avengers franchise continue to remain in flux as Marvel Studios’ Avengers 5 has once again lost a writer. As we have learned from our sources, Michael Waldron has departed from the project, leaving it without a director, writer, and official title now. Since the film’s announcement in July 2022, what was originally known as Avengers: The Kang Dynasty , the project has lost Destin Daniel-Cretton ( Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ) as its director, Jeff Loveness ( Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ) as a writer, Jonathan Majors as the titular antagonist, and now Waldron.  Following Majors’ departure from the project and the title change, it’s currently unknown how much of a presence Kang the Conqueror will have in the film, if any at all. It’s possible that a new writer can bring with them a new plot and primary antagonist to the film. Many fans have speculated that since the subtitle has been dropped from the film’s title, it could possibly set up potential antagonists like Doctor Doom, the Beyonder, or more. As we reported earlier this month, the film is looking to start shooting in late-March of 2025 through August of that year. With eight months left until production commences, it’s likely that Waldron’s replacement will only come aboard to revise and touch up Waldron’s script. On the other hand, this would not be the first time Marvel Studios has hired a writer to rewrite a script under a time constraint. In 2020, Waldron himself was hired to rewrite Scott Derrickson and Jade Halley Bartlett’s script for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness  three weeks prior to shooting. Waldron is still attached to Avenegers Secret Wars which is expected to hit theaters in 2027. Avengers 5 is currently slated to release on May 1, 2026 as part of the Marvel Studios’ Phase Six of the Multiverse Saga, the current saga of the long-spanning Marvel Cinematic Universe. This story is still developing.

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Following last weekend’s Star Wars Celebration, more casting news has emerged for the next Star Wars  feature. Dacre Montgomery is being eyed to join the cast of Star Wars: Starfighter in an undisclosed role, Nexus Point News has learned. Montgomery would portray one of the male leads of the film. It was announced in 2022 by Deadline that Shawn Levy ( Stranger Things , Deadpool & Wolverine ) was set to direct an untitled Star Wars  film. Levy co-wrote the script with Jonathan Tropper ( Banshee , Warrior ). Kathleen Kennedy announced on February 27th of this year in an interview with Deadline that she will be producing the film following The Mandalorian and Grogu . The project was officially confirmed on April 18, 2025 during Star Wars Celebration with the title Star   Wars: Starfighter  and confirming Ryan Gosling’s involvement in the film as the lead. The InSneider had reported prior to this announcement that Mikey Madison was offered a role in the film, but it was later confirmed that she had passed. The film plans to begin shooting this Fall in September and continue through December in London. Star Wars: Starfighter  is set 5-6 years after the events of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker  and it’s been reported that characters from the Sequel Trilogy will return in this film. Lucasfilm’s next film in the Star Wars franchise will be The Mandalorian and Grogu,  set to be released on May 22, 2026. Other projects confirmed to be in development are another sequel to the Sequel Trilogy, with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy directing, a prequel set before the events of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace  with James Mangold directing, and two more films set to be directed by Taika Waiti and Dave Filoni, respectively. Several other films are also in very early development such as Simon Kinberg’s planned trilogy and Donald and Stephen Glover’s Lando . Star Wars: Starfighter is set to be released on May 28, 2027. Update 4/28: A LucasFilm spokesperson has denied this reporting.