The new Anaconda Snares Some More Starssssss

Last summer, we learned that Sony was looking to rustle up a new brand Anaconda film with Jack Black and Paul Rudd. With production underway, more actors have signed on to be potential snake chow for the upcoming film.

In order the Hollywood Reporter, Westworldis Thandiwe Newton and SiloSteve Zahn joins the new Anaconda. Also in the mix is ​​Brazilian actor Selton Mello (recently of I’m still here in his English-language debut) and La BreaIt’s Ione Skye. According to the outlet, Newton and Zahn are on hand as the now-adult childhood friends of Black and Rudd’s characters, who all came together to rebuke the movie that was obsessed with kids. Their journey takes them – and Black’s wife, played by Skye – to the rainforest, where Mello plays a fighting animal. Daniela Melchior, before Rapid X and street house, he has also been cast in an undisclosed role.

The previous one Anaconda The films, which featured notable names such as Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube and Robert Englund, were all horror films about large snakes that eat the humans they hope to catch or escape from. This new movie, directed by Tom Gormican with a script he co-wrote with Kevin Etten, was previously described as a “reimagined comedy,” but one that still has plenty of big snakes ready to bite some humans.

If that sounds like your kind of jam, you’ll be pleased to hear this news Anaconda is expected to sssslither in theaters on Christmas Day.

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