Hello, everyone, and welcome to Slash Film Weekly. It's Wednesday, April 8th, 2026. And on today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about the latest film and TV news. And then we'll talk a little about the Super Mario Galaxy movie and A24's The Drama. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slashfilm.com. Let's get into the news. Last week, I excitedly mentioned that Ryan Gosling was teaming up with Daniels for

their next movie. Unfortunately, that deal was not finalized and Gosling has since dropped out,

which is a real bummer. Speaking of people leaving projects, Supriya Ganesh, who plays Dr. Mohan

on The Pit, will not be coming back for season three. That makes sense, given what her character has gone through in the show and the nature of doctors revolving in and out of this teaching hospital on the series.

But I'll still be sad to see her go because I like that character and I like that actress.

I got a little bit worried because I also saw that Catherine Lanasa, who plays Dana, was cast in another show, a Hulu series called Count My Lies.

And I assumed that might mean that she was leaving the pit.

But the casting announcement specifically said that she'll just be recurring on this new show.

So that should not conflict with her work on the pit, thankfully.

Count My Lies is about a

compulsive liar played by Shailene Woodley, who lies her way into a nanny job for a beautiful

charismatic couple, but she has just entered a household brimming with secrets that are about

to explode. That sounds an awful lot like the housemaid to me, but who knows? Anyway, I hope to have a longer conversation about the pit once season two wraps up in a couple weeks here on the podcast.

So in the meantime, I encourage you to read a really great article that Chris Evangelista wrote

that went viral earlier this week about how some people are watching that show incorrectly.

I will link to that in the show notes.

The prequel to weapons sounds like it might actually happen. Zach Kregor, who wrote and directed

the first movie, is writing the prequel script, which I believe is called Gladys, alongside

somebody named Zach Shields, who has previously worked on several of the Monsterverse movies

over a legendary. I'm still not sure it's a good idea to delve into the backstory of Aunt Gladys for a movie like this, but I'm hoping that Craigor will surprise me. It'll be really interesting to see if he comes back to direct this or if he ends up handing it off to somebody else. We've heard really, really good things about his Resident Evil movie, which is coming out

later this year. Apparently, that had like a really phenomenal test screening recently,

and we wrote about that at Slash Film, so I'm excited about that. Let's see, what else here?

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