The Shrek spinoff Donkey gets a release date. Brad Bird says “no” to Ratatouille 2. Willa Fitzgerald and Ione Skye join Brie Larson in Skeletons. Robert Englund’s Jiminy Cricket lives inside Pinocchio’s head in Pinocchio: Unstrung. Let your conscience be your guide, it’s Morning Spoilers! Skeletons Deadline reports Willa Fitzgerald, Ione Skye, and Daithí Ó Haragáin have joined the cast of Skeletons. Directed by J.T. Mollner and starring Kyle Gallner and Brie Larson, the story is (so far) only said to be told “from the perspective of a young boy who slowly begins to discover that his beloved parents are hiding a disturbing secret about his mother’s true nature.” Specimen Deadline also has word John Herzfeld (Tales from the Crypt) is attached to direct Specimen, a film with a remarkably similar premise to the recently cancelled NBC series The Killing Party. Based on a script by Chase Vergari, “an elite team is hired to deliver the world’s worst serial killers to a secret research facility run by a visionary neuroscientist obsessed with curing evil. When his groundbreaking experiment succeeds, he unleashes something far more dangerous than the killers he has imprisoned.”
Donkey Deadline also reports Donkey, the Shrek spinoff starring Eddie Murphy’s eponymous character, is now slated for a summer 2028 release. Ratatouille 2 However, Brad Bird recently told Collider there are no plans for a sequel to Ratatouille despite mild pressuring from Disney.
