Disney is making a live-action TV show based on Gargoyles, of all things

Disney has made a habit in the past several years of remaking some of its classic animated movies in live-action, including Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Little Mermaid. But it can also do that trick with animated TV shows from the ’90s that barely anyone remembers. So it will be with Gargoyles, about a group of creatures who turned to stone during the day but who fought crime at night.

Sorry, I probably shouldn’t be so dismissive of all the Gargoyles fans out there. The show gained a cult following of people who enjoyed its dark tone and detailed storyline; it drew comparisons to Batman: The Animated Series back when. But while Batman: TAS had a legacy that continues up to this day, Gargoyles pretty much faded from view. It’s an interesting pick to adapt as a live-action show.

We don’t know when the show might come out, but we know it’ll be on Disney+. Disney is also licensing new Gargoyles toys and rereleasing an old Gargoyles video game, according to The A.V. Club. Everything’s coming up Gargoyles!

A third Kick-Ass movie is coming

Speaking of reboots, while at New York Comic Con, director Matthew Vaughn said he’s working on a third movie in the Kick-Ass series, about a hapless teenager (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) who decides to become a superhero despite not having any skills to speak of.

“Big update: That [we’re going to] start filming ‘Kick-Ass The Reboot,’” Vaughn told Syfy Wire. “Which is like nothing that’s ever been done on film before.” He assured fans that the new movie would have “the spirit of the first Kick-Ass done in a modern way.” I assume that means it’ll be irreverently foul-mouthed and violent like it was in the old days, but now part of an expanding cinematic universe.

Vaughn is also the guy behind the action-comedy franchise The Kingsman, about a fictional spy organization. The most recent Kingsman movie was The King’s Man, which was set during World War I. Vaughn intends a sequel set during World War II, telling Collider that it will be about “the rise of Hitler” and how he was “basically” supported by the English aristocracy at first because everyone was more worried about stopping communism that they were about fascism. It’s called The Traitor King. Sounds pretty heavy for this series.

Watch the teaser trailer for the final season of The Crown

Vaughn also said that The King’s Man was originally supposed to be a TV series, “something like The Crown but with espionage.” And speaking of The Crown, Netflix’s glossy drama about the British royal family, we got a teaser trailer for the sixth and final season the other week:

This season will explore the death of Princess Diana, which remains one of the biggest events in the modern history of the royal family. Like a lot of recent Netflix releases, it will come out in two chunks: the first batch of episodes will drop on November 16 and the second on December 14.

Knives Out 3 is “coming along”

Finally (and I don’t have a fancy segue for this, we’re just changing subjects), director Rian Johnson talked to TheWrap about the next Knives Out movie, following up on the success of 2022’s Glass Onion. “It’s coming along,” he said. “I obviously couldn’t work during the strike, and now that it’s over, I’m diving in full force, and so it’s coming along. I’ve got the premise, I’ve got the setting, I’ve got what the movie is in my head. It’s just a matter of writing the damn thing.”

The first Knives Out movie was a hit in theaters in 2019. Then Netflix spent $450 million to buy the rights to two more movies in the murder mystery series.

So those are some of the new movies and shows on the horizon. There are a lot of reboots and sequels in the air.

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