Updates From Alien: Romulus, and More

Ludi Lin teases Karl Urban’s arrival Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat 2. Solar Opposites teases what’s next for the shrunk-down denizens of its tiny wall civilization. Plus, what’s coming on Snowpiercer‘s final season. Spoilers, away!

Damned If You Do

According to Deadline, Harvey Guillén, Ginger Gonzaga, Paulo Costanzo, Beth Dover, Ed Weeks, Molly Bernard, Jillian Gottlieb, Matthew Stephen Smith, Liza Treyger and Ashley Austin Morris have joined the cast of Damned If You Do, a dark comedy starring Kate Siegel. The story is said to follow, “a group of teenage friends who have sold their souls to the devil. Subsequently, life takes them down different paths, as a rock star, a tech mogul, and a high-profile activist. Years later, they must rely on an old classmate to try and escape Hell’s grasp before the contract’s deadline of their 25th high school reunion.”

Mortal Kombat 2

In conversation with Screen Rant, Liu Kang actor Ludi Lin hyped Karl Urban’s portrayal of Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat 2.

I hope you guys are ready for the next one. We’ve been shooting this one forever, I’m back in Australia still shooting MK 2. I was here for almost a year last time. Yeah, it’s gonna be pretty immense, everything is going to be bigger. The story’s going to be great. Karl Urban as Johnny Cage, I hope you guys are ready, because he’s going to blow your socks off. Just from the experience that actors like Karl, actors like Nicholas [Hammond, his co-star in Art of Eight Limbs] brings on set… He mentioned that, in The Art of Eight Limbs, they really changed the script – started tweaking it – after they found out that they’d nailed an actor like him to play the role. You can tell, as soon as he comes on it really fills out the entire movie, he fills out the role, just like Karl does with Johnny Cage. There’s just a level of expertise, there’s some toolbox, the essence that they bring to the role just adds another dimension to it. In both cases I really look up to actors like this that can really bring a movie to the next level.

Alien: Romulus

Cailee Spaeny introduces her character, Rain, in a new Alien: Romulus featurette.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice performs “Right Here Waiting” by Richard Marx and makes a pun straight out of his animated series in a new trailer for Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.

Paradox Effect

Olga Kurylenko must rescue her daughter from Harvey Keitel in the trailer for Paradox Effect, a new action movie coming to VOD this September 24.

Winter Island

Elsewhere, a teenager with psychic visions investigates his sister’s “potentially supernatural” murder in the trailer for Winter Island.

Snowpiercer

Layton senses a trap in the synopsis for “North Star,” the fourth episode of Snowpiercer‘s final season.

Big Alice catches up to Snowpiercer; Milius radios them, inviting Layton over; sensing a trap, Layton and Josie sneak onto Snowpiercer; Nima is worried Layton will be gassed and attempts to disarm the Greenhouse Car.

Solar Opposites

Finally, a new trailer for the fifth season of Solar Opposites focuses on the inhabitants of The Wall.

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