The New Anaconda Snares Some Extra Starsssssss

Final summer season, we discovered Sony was seeking to rustle up a model new Anaconda film starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd. With manufacturing underway, extra actors have signed as much as be potential snake chow for the upcoming movie.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, Westworld‘s Thandiwe Newton and Silo‘s Steve Zahn are becoming a member of the brand new Anaconda. Additionally within the combine is Brazilian actor Selton Mello (not too long ago of I’m Nonetheless Right here, in his English-language debut) and La Brea‘s Ione Skye. Based on the outlet, Newton and Zahn are available because the now grownup childhood buddies of Black and Rudd’s characters, who’ve all gathered collectively to remake the film they had been obsessive about as youngsters. Their journey takes them—and Black’s spouse, performed by Skye—to the rainforest, the place Mello performs an animal wrangler. Daniela Melchior, beforehand of Quick X and Street Home, has additionally been solid in an undisclosed position.

The earlier Anaconda films, which have featured notable names like Jennifer Lopez, Ice Dice, and Robert Englund, had been all horror movies about big-ass snakes consuming people hoping to seize or escape from them. This new movie, directed by Tom Gormican with a script he co-wrote with Kevin Etten, has been beforehand described as a “reimagined comedy,” however one which’s nonetheless received loads of big-ass snakes able to chow down on some people.

If that feels like your sort of jam, you’ll be happy to listen to this new Anaconda is slated to sssslither into theaters on Christmas Day.

Need extra io9 information? Try when to count on the most recent Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s subsequent for the DC Universe on film and TV, and every little thing you want to find out about the way forward for Doctor Who.