Here are today’s Nerd News! headlines:
Marvel and The Simpsons are teaming up on Disney+ for a Loki/Simpsons crossover short. The streaming platform will air “The Good, The Bart, and the Loki,” next Wednesday, with Tom Hiddleston (of course) voicing the part of Loki.
The same people who made the 2018 Halloween sequel, are working on a sequel to The Exorcist. The Blumhouse production will have David Gordon Green in the director’s chair. While Linda Blair and Ellyn Burstyn of the original Exorcist are still alive and working, no word on whether they’ll come back for this late sequel.
Adam Sandler is looking for some basketball players who have a little game for a new movie he’s making called Hustle. They are looking for males 18-30 who don’t already play in the NCAA or higher to audition their skills on the court. Those auditions will take place in mid-July in Delaware .The movie has Adam playing an American basketball scout who is unjustly fired after discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player abroad. He then brings the player to the U.S. to prove that they BOTH have what it takes to make it in the NBA.