One of the most anticipated weeks for Netflix fans, the Geeked week, has finally begun and we tell you everything that has been revealed so far. Find out all the details here!
The Geek Weekthe event in which Netflix advertise all the news about the next series and movies that will arrive on the platform, finally started. In Geek Culture we tell you everything that has been revealed so far and what new content we can enjoy.
merlin
The first images of the series directed by Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands) and starring Jenna Ortega (Scream) they were almost the first thing seen at the event. The creepy and wacky series from the renowned director focuses on the beloved daughter of the addams family as he navigates teenage life and investigates a mysterious crime involving his notorious clan. merlin It has no confirmed release date.
cabinet of curiosities
From the macabre to magical, gothic to grotesque or classically creepy, the eight sinister tales, including two original works by del Toro, will be brought to life by a team of writers and directors handpicked by The Shape of Water filmmaker. The list of directors is made up of Panos Cosmatos (Mandy), Jennifer Kent (Babadook), Vincenzo Natali (Cube), Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night), Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight), Guillermo Navarro (Pan’s Labyrinth), David Prior (The Empty Man ) Y Keith Thomas (The Vigil).
In the cast are Eric André (Sing 2), Sofia Boutella (Kingsman), Ismael Cruz Córdova (In The Blood), Kate Micucci (When in Rome), Charlyne Yi (This is 40), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter), Luke Roberts (Ransom), F. Murray Abraham (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Glynn Turman (Super 8), Ben Barnes (Shadow and Bone), Elpidia Carrillo (Predator), Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead), Crispin Glover (Back to the Future), Essie Davis (The Babadook) and Peter Weller (RoboCop), among others. The series is scheduled to premiere in 2022.
The Midnight Club
From the hand of the creator midnight mass and the Haunting of Hill House, Mike Flanaganand based on the works of Christopher Pikecomes a suspenseful mystery about a residence for terminally ill youth where things start to spiral out of control.
The official synopsis for the series reads: “A group of seven nearby terminally ill young adults live in the hospital Rotterdam Home, led by a mysterious doctor. Every midnight they meet to tell each other a horror story. One night, they agree that the first of them to die from the disease will be responsible for communicating with the others from the afterlife. After one of the young men dies, things get a little weird.”.
In the cast, they are Iman Benson (Suits), Adia, Igby Rigney (Fast and Furious 9), Ruth Codd (The Fall of the House of Usher), Aya Furukawa (The Cabin in the Woods), Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter (NYC Dreams) and Sauriyan Sapkota (The Fall of the House of Usher). the midnight club reaches the screen Netflix the October 7 this year.
the imperfect
At the event, it was revealed first trailer of the series that introduces us to three teenagers whose lives change completely. After a scientist has experimented on them and transformed them into something that looks nothing like a human, the three strangers join forces to catch the cause of their biggest problem. The series does not have a release date at the moment.
resident Evil
The Netflix series based on the universe of video games with Umbrella Corporation premiered another preview during the geeked. In this new preview we know a little more about our protagonists and how umbrella is once again the main villain of the story. resident Evil reaches the screen Netflix on July 14.
1899
One of the most anticipated series by fans of Dark it is 1899, that comes from the hand of the same creators. And at the event we finally got to see his first preview. In the series we will follow a group of immigrants of various nationalities who, crossing the ocean from the old to the new continent, live a nightmare aboard another drifting migrant ship. The series promises to be similar to Dark As for the mystery and has no official release date.
Sandman
The series based on the comics of DC and in the popular work of Neil Gaman finally released its first trailer. In it we will follow Morpheus, interpreted by Tom Sturridge (On The Road)who after the invocation that we saw in the first trailer a few months ago escapes from a kind of prison and reaches the world of soils.
The Sandman follow the adventures of Sleep, also know as Morpheus and Sandman. This is the lord of dreams and is part of a mysterious group of characters known as The Eternals: beings that are the anthropomorphic representation of concepts such as Death, Desire, Delirium or Despair, and that they have a much more dangerous game between them than it seems at first. And from what we saw in the preview, the series will be quite faithful to the comics. But to be able to confirm that we will have to wait until August 5.
new seasons
During the geeked the arrival of several new seasons were also announced. One of the first to be announced was the second installment of Alice in Borderlandwhere we will see Arisu Y Usagi once again in the game to stay alive, but we don’t know when it will hit the platform. Another series that announced its second season was We are deadwhere we will see the students of the Hyosan Institute.
The second season of barbarians was present with an official trailer announcing that the season will soon arrive on the platform. Another series that announced its return was Manifest, with a preview of its fourth season that at the moment does not have a release date either. One of the last series based on a series of books was Shadow and Bone, which announced its completion of the recordings of the second season. And finally, we have the official trailer for the third and final season of Locke & Keywhich reaches Netflix on August 10.
These were all the news that were announced during the first day of the event five days of Netflixweek geeked. Probably in the rest of the week, advances of long-awaited series or movies will continue to be revealed, as well as the announcement of new projects.