A cosmic marriage, a nightmare on the Powell Estate and another journey into Night City lead today’s Horror and Sci-Fi Brief. There are new faces for Mister Miracle, three trailers to watch, and a pair of much-discussed sequels that remain on the drawing board.
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Josh Hutcherson and Mackenzie Davis lead Mister Miracle
- Series: Mister Miracle
- Voices: Josh Hutcherson and Mackenzie Davis
- Showrunner: Tom King
- Format: Eight-part animated series
Even gods have to get through married life. DC’s animated Mister Miracle has found its central couple: Josh Hutcherson will voice Scott Free, the extraordinary escape artist, opposite Mackenzie Davis as Big Barda. DC Studios co-chief Peter Safran confirmed the casting, with Tom King writing all eight episodes and serving as showrunner.
The series draws on King and artist Mitch Gerads’ comic, which brings enormous cosmic conflict into contact with the pressures of a shared home. That contrast gives this adaptation something more intimate to work with than another battle for the universe. Hutcherson and Davis are confirmed for the animated roles; any eventual live-action appearances remain a separate question. For now, the appeal is seeing how this particular marriage survives a world of gods, war and impossible expectations.
The Doctor Who spin-off sequels that never reached the screen
- Universe: Doctor Who
- Creator: Russell T Davies
- Proposed follow-up: The War Between the Earth and the Moon
- Status: Unmade plans
A UNIT moonbase, a president staging a coup and something dreadful stirring beneath the lunar surface: Russell T Davies had much more in mind for The War Between the Land and the Sea. In his memoir, The Queerest of Folk: A Life in Television, he describes plans for a fresh conflict each year if the Disney partnership had succeeded.
The most developed follow-up, The War Between the Earth and the Moon, would have brought back Jemma Redgrave’s Kate Lethbridge-Stewart. Its premise put a rogue American president in control of a nuclear-armed moonbase while an uncanny discovery emerged nearby. These are abandoned development ideas, with no announced return for the spin-off. They offer a fascinating glimpse of the programme Davies wanted to make: political danger on one side of the airlock, something much stranger on the other.
The Rag Man brings a childhood fear back to the Powell Estate
- Format: Full-cast audio drama
- Release: December 2026
- Starring: Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper
- Writers: Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle
The Ninth Doctor and Rose are coming home to a nightmare. Big Finish’s new trailer for The Rag Man introduces an old-fashioned cart and its sinister owner in the middle of the Powell Estate. For Jackie Tyler, this is no stranger: he belongs to a warning passed down through her family, the sort of story meant to frighten children into behaving.
Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper return alongside Camille Coduri, with Lesley Joseph joining as estate resident Mrs Bickerton. Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle wrote the December audio adventure. The premise makes good use of a familiar Doctor Who strength: allowing something impossible to intrude on an ordinary street. Listen to the trailer below for a taste of the threat waiting outside Rose’s door.
Night City calls again in the new Edgerunners 2 trailer
- Streaming: Netflix
- Release: 20 October 2026
- Format: Ten-episode standalone story
- Director: Kai Ikarashi
Night City has another story to tell. Netflix’s full trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 has arrived ahead of the anime’s 20 October release, bringing the neon-lit world of Cyberpunk 2077 back to the screen. This is a new standalone, ten-episode story, so the return does not mean simply picking up the first series’ characters where we left them.
Animation studio TRIGGER and CD Projekt Red are collaborating again, with Kai Ikarashi directing and Bartosz Sztybor returning as showrunner. The new story centres on redemption and revenge in a city that rewards spectacle and violence. That gives the follow-up room to find its own emotional centre while retaining the setting’s punishing extremes. The official trailer is below; the full series follows on Tuesday.
Ron Perlman still wants Guillermo del Toro’s third Hellboy
- Actor: Ron Perlman
- Director he wants to return: Guillermo del Toro
- Project: A third film in their Hellboy series
- Status: No new production announced
Ron Perlman has not finished with Hellboy, at least in his imagination. The actor says he still wants to complete the trilogy he and Guillermo del Toro began, and that he has no interest in returning for a different version of the character. At 76, he remains enthusiastic enough to say he would take the call a decade from now.
It is an expression of commitment rather than a green light. Perlman declined to say whether he still discusses a third film with del Toro, and there is no new production announcement here. He has, however, recently been filming the horror project Seasons in Ireland for Amazon MGM and Blumhouse–Atomic Monster. For Hellboy fans, the distinction matters: the actor’s appetite is intact, but the long-awaited ending remains a wish rather than a date for the diary.
Crawlers offers a grisly glimpse before its US opening
- US cinemas: 16 October 2026
- Director: Ángel Gómez Hernández
- Lead: Matilda Lutz
- US rating: R
Anyone already uneasy about spiders may want to approach the new Crawlers clip cautiously. The preview puts Matilda Lutz’s building manager Serena in the middle of a particularly nasty discovery, ahead of the film’s US cinema release on Friday 16 October.
The larger predicament is simple and unpleasant: a deadly infestation traps Serena and her residents inside an apartment building under police quarantine. Her knowledge of the property could help them survive, if she can overcome her own fear. Ángel Gómez Hernández directs from Jayson Rothwell’s screenplay, with Roadside Attractions and Saban Films handling the US release. The film carries an R rating for violent content, bloody images, language and brief sexual material. This latest preview is a scene clip, with graphic injury imagery, rather than a new trailer.
Danny Trejo joins Together Until Death in the Canary Islands
- Film: Together Until Death
- Writer-director: Igna L. Vacas
- Cast: Danny Trejo, Sandra Escacena, Aria Bedmar and Stephanie Gil
- Production: Filming in the Canary Islands
A celebration, a disastrous prank and an increasingly desperate cover-up provide the trouble in Together Until Death. Danny Trejo has joined the Spanish horror-comedy, which began filming this month in the Canary Islands under writer-director Igna L. Vacas.
Sandra Escacena, Aria Bedmar and Stephanie Gil lead the ensemble. The story follows four friends whose celebration of a university admission ends in a fatal accident. Their decision to conceal it only makes matters worse, with Trejo playing Ossorio, the unconventional police commissioner investigating what happened. The combination suggests a film driven as much by the friends’ bad decisions as by the danger around them. There is no release date to mark yet; this is a production update, with the cast now taking shape.
ÒPI brings Kashubian folk horror to a new teaser
- Film: ÒPI
- Director: Marta Giec
- Lead: Wiktoria Kruszczyńska
- World sales: Raven Banner
Family secrets and inherited fears meet in ÒPI, the debut feature from Marta Giec. Raven Banner has acquired worldwide rights to the Polish folk horror and released a teaser ahead of its international premiere at Brooklyn Horror Film Festival.
Wiktoria Kruszczyńska plays Trina, an eighteen-year-old trying to escape a strained relationship with her mother. The arrival of her aunt and grandmother brings older family tensions into the open, while disturbing dreams and beliefs rooted in Kashubian folklore begin to crowd her everyday life. Giec co-wrote the screenplay with Dominika Kłoczewiak. The short teaser below offers a first look at this unsettling world; a wider commercial release has not been announced in the material accompanying the acquisition.
Movieversalfilm Takeaway
Mister Miracle’s casting makes its central relationship easier to picture, while Edgerunners 2 is close enough to move straight onto the watchlist. The Rag Man and ÒPI take a quieter route into horror, turning family history and familiar surroundings into threats. And although the unmade Doctor Who and Hellboy stories are tempting, the projects actually moving through production deserve just as much attention.
Which has your attention today: Mister Miracle, the return to Night City, or one of the new horror stories?