‘Spaceballs 2’ Adds an Unlikely Legacy Character

Dan Trachtenberg has ideas for another Predator film after Badlands. A familiar face will return for American Horror Story‘s next season. Plus, get a look at Shea Couleé’s Ironheart character. Spoilers get!

Spaceballs 2

Star Trek: Voyager‘s Tim Russ seemingly confirmed on Twitter he’s set to return as the trooper who “ain’t found shit†while combing the desert in Spaceballs 2.

I may be ….. combing the desert again..!!! https://t.co/DjtBWKpznG

— tim russ (@timruss2) June 13, 2025

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Untitled Predator Project

During a recent interview with SFX Magazine (via Games Radar), Dan Trachtenberg stated he has a third idea for a Predator movie he’d “love to get to when Badlands is finished.â€

After Prey came out, and I started thinking about sequel stuff, there were three ideas that I had. Killers is one, Badlands is two and the third one is something else. The reason why I felt possessed to make them and sort of why I rushed – I did two at once because I could multitask with animation – was because I was so eager to get to the third thing. There’s a lot of cool ideas out there and none of them are just like, ‘Oh, we have to say the next part of this story because it was successful.’ All of it is like, ‘Whoa, no one has done that in sci-fi. No one has done that in Predator. No one’s done that with the creature,’ all of those ideas are generated from that instinct. So, yeah, there is definitely a third thing that I’d love to get to when Badlands is finished.

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Predator: Badlands

And speaking of Badlands, a new poster has emerged featuring the Predator carrying the half-destroyed android body of Elle Fanning’s Thia.

DUDE pic.twitter.com/9MYBWZDumP

— Dylan Emery (Happy Pride Month!) ðŸ³ï¸â€ðŸŒˆ (@timAcatsoftpaws) June 16, 2025

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps

H.E.R.B.I.E. gets its own hype trailer in a new TV spot for Fantastic Four: First Steps. 

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M3GAN 2.0

Meanwhile, the cast and crew of M3GAN 2.0 discuss the “bigger,†“badder,†and “bloodier†sequel in a new featurette.

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Osiris

Special Forces commandos find themselves being hunted for sport aboard an alien spaceship in the trailer for Osiris, starring Linda Hamilton and Brianna Hildebrand.

 

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American Horror Story

Ryan Murphy confirmed Sarah Paulson will return for the 13th season of American Horror Story in the comments of a recent Instagram post (via Bloody-Disgusting).

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Carrie

Production has officially begun on Mike Flanagan’s Carrie TV series.

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Ironheart

Finally, Entertainment Weekly has our first look at Shea Couleé as the “really fierce hacker†named Slug in Ironheart.

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