Jake Sisko Leads New Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Novel The Peacemakers

Morning News · Friday 13 November 2026

Jake Sisko is back. Una McCormack’s new Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel The Peacemakers sends Cirroc Lofton’s writer to Cardassia Prime and into a murder mystery, and it is out next week. Also this morning: New Line wins the remake rights to Italy’s Oscar entry The Spiral, Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie and The Beauty are reportedly finished at FX, Dark Sky picks up the AI thriller ANSWR, Predator director Dan Trachtenberg is reportedly in talks with Marvel, Brad Pitt and Apple team up on Connector, and David Mackenzie wraps a new Oregon thriller.

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Jake Sisko leads new Deep Space Nine novel The Peacemakers, out next week

• What’s new: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Peacemakers, a new novel by Una McCormack, is published on Tuesday 17 November, according to the Star Trek Book Club and CBR
• The story: Five years after the Dominion War, Jake Sisko is back on Earth after a long journey around the Gamma Quadrant, finishing his book about life there after the Dominion’s collapse. Starfleet Intelligence wants to question him about his trip through the wormhole, the Bajorans want to be close to the son of their Emissary, and rumours he heard about Starfleet and his father’s conduct in the war could shake his world
• Where it goes: Jake accepts an invitation to an arts festival on Cardassia Prime, then flees into the Cardassian desert on a tour of ancient archaeological sites. When the party is cut off from the rest of the world, the murders begin
• UK availability: UK date not yet confirmed. Out in the US on 17 November 2026

Jake was always the show’s storyteller in waiting, so a novel built around him finishing a book and turning detective feels a natural fit, and McCormack knows Cardassia better than almost any Trek author. For more from the final frontier, see our latest Star Trek News.

New Line wins the remake rights to Italian horror hit The Spiral

• What’s new: New Line Cinema has won a competitive bid for the English-language remake rights to The Spiral, Paolo Strippoli’s psychological horror film and Italy’s entry for Best International Feature at the Oscars, Deadline reports
• The original: Jasmine Trinca plays a mother whose family life is thrown into turmoil when a mysterious woman known as the Stranger, played by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, draws her into a Faustian pact. Romana Maggiora Vergano and Adriano Giannini co-star. It opened in Italy on 4 October and has taken around 4 million dollars
• What else: New Line also holds the distribution rights and plans a limited US cinema release of the original before the end of the year
• UK availability: UK date not yet confirmed

An Oscar entry that is also a horror film is rare, and New Line, home of The Conjuring and It, clearly sees a franchise-sized idea in it. The hope is that the original gets its own UK run before the remake arrives.

Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie and The Beauty reportedly cancelled at FX

• What’s new: Neither of Ryan Murphy’s FX horror series, Grotesquerie and The Beauty, will return for more seasons, according to a report from The Ankler, picked up by Bloody Disgusting and TVLine. FX has not confirmed the cancellations
• The shows: Grotesquerie, with Niecy Nash-Betts as a detective hunting a violent killer alongside a nun, launched in 2024 and has had no news of a second season since. The Beauty, based on the Image Comics series, starred Evan Peters and Rebecca Hall as agents chasing a beauty drug that turns into a deadly disease, and only debuted this year
• What else: The same report says no decision has been made yet on Murphy’s other new FX series, The Shards
• UK availability: Both first seasons stream on Disney+ in the UK. No new seasons are expected

Murphy’s horror slate is far from empty: American Horror Story has already been renewed, as we reported in our 21 October Morning News.

Dark Sky Films picks up AI thriller ANSWR, shot in Iceland

• What’s new: Dark Sky Films has acquired the US distribution rights to ANSWR, written and directed by Stephen Kay (Get Carter), at the American Film Market, Deadline reports. Dark Sky plans a cinema release
• The story: Colton Ray (Moises Arias), a grieving young man, isolates himself at a remote weather station. His solitude takes a disturbing turn when he starts experimenting with an advanced AI chatbot (Rain Spencer) built to offer endless empathy, and his growing dependence on it threatens his sense of reality
• Who’s in it: Moises Arias (Fallout), Rain Spencer, Piper Perabo and Simon Rex. Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs is among the producers
• What Kay said: “It’s a story about AI, sure. But it’s really a story about grief and loneliness and how hard it is sometimes to just be a person”
• UK availability: UK date not yet confirmed

A lonely weather station, an Icelandic winter and a chatbot that always knows what to say: it is a very current fear, told the old-fashioned way.

Report: Predator director Dan Trachtenberg in talks for a Marvel film

• What’s reported: The Cosmic Circus says its sources confirm Marvel Studios has been in talks with Dan Trachtenberg, director of Prey and Predator: Badlands, to direct one of the films on its slate after Secret Wars. Marvel has not commented
• The project: According to the same report, it is a cinema release rather than a Disney+ series, and it is built around a single character rather than an ensemble. The outlet could not confirm which film it is
• Status: This is a report, not an announcement. Nothing has been confirmed by Marvel Studios or Trachtenberg
• UK availability: No project or date has been confirmed

Trachtenberg turned a tired franchise into one of the most reliable in sci-fi, as our Predator: Badlands review found, so it is easy to see why Marvel would want him.

Brad Pitt and Apple team up again on Connector, from the director of Sound of Metal

• What’s new: Apple Original Films has come aboard Connector, a new film starring Brad Pitt, with Sound of Metal director Darius Marder directing, Deadline reports. It is in development
• The story: Written by Darius Marder and his sister Nina Marder, it is set in 1970s New York and centres on a working-class legend, a skywalking ironworker who takes on forces larger than himself
• Who’s making it: Pitt also produces with Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B, alongside Marder. According to Deadline, Pitt is keen to make it the next film he shoots in 2027. It is his next Apple project after F1
• UK availability: UK date not yet confirmed

Marder’s only feature so far earned six Oscar nominations, so this is a big swing. Pitt’s Cliff Booth is also back soon, as our Trailer Radar showed.

David Mackenzie wraps a new Oregon thriller with Zazie Beetz and Marin Ireland

• What’s new: David Mackenzie, director of Hell or High Water, has finished shooting a new psychological thriller set in the Pacific Northwest, currently known as the untitled Oregon project, Deadline reports
• The story: Riley Prior plays a young woman who grew up in isolation outside Portland, Oregon. She tries to navigate the city for the first time while confronting mysteries from her past
• Who’s in it: Zazie Beetz, Marin Ireland (reuniting with Mackenzie after Hell or High Water), Brendan Sexton III and Olivia Luccardi. Ewan Morrison wrote the script, and Mackenzie and Kyle Eaton produce
• UK availability: UK date not yet confirmed

If you want a reminder of what Mackenzie can do, Hell or High Water is free on BBC iPlayer and in tonight’s What to Watch.

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