Anaconda, with Jack Black and Paul Rudd, is official and has a release date

A new movie Anaconda It is official, and will have Jack Black y Paul Rudd as protagonists. Both actors starred in a first promotional video in which they confirmed their participation in the project and revealed its release date.

Anaconda will hit the billboard December 25, 2025indicated the interpreters. Of course, for now not much more is known about it. According to The Hollywood Reporterthe film will be a reboot in comedy format from the remembered film of the same name from the nineties. However, no further details have been provided.

It is not yet known what roles Black and Rudd will have, although the same media indicated last August that the film follows a group of friends who decide to enter the jungle to make their own version of Anacondathe original 1997 film, his favorite feature film. Thus, they will be involved in a series of problems among which is a giant snake.

“There's going to be a giant fucking snake,” Jack Black says in the video, while Paul Rudd mentions that the new version of Anaconda It will have large doses of both laughter and fear. While it is still a mystery who will complete the cast, it is rumored that the Portuguese Daniela Melchior (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 4, Fast X) will also be part.

Columbia Pictures has confirmed that the director of the remake of Anaconda es Tom Gormicanwho already has experience with satire and comedy films. Among his most recent works stands out The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022), with Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal, where he directed and co-wrote the script. This year, meanwhile, he was one of those responsible for the script of Super detective and Hollywood: Axel F.con Eddie Murphy.

Gormican wrote the screenplay for Anaconda with Kevin Etten, one of his frequent collaborators. As the movie promises reimagine the 1997 feature filmit wouldn't be strange if there were cameos from some of its original protagonists.

Anaconda It was directed by Peruvian Luis Llosa and featured an ensemble cast made up of Jennifer Lopez, Jon Voight, Ice Cube, Owen Wilson, Eric Stoltz and Danny Trejo, among others. The film followed a group of documentary filmmakers who were trying to film a documentary about an aboriginal tribe in the Amazon, but whose plans were derailed when they ran into a snake catcher who was in pursuit of a gigantic green anaconda.

Yes ok Anaconda It was beaten by critics of the time, its performance at the box office was nothing to sneeze at. The production cost about 45 million dollars and ended up grossing almost $137 million. Furthermore, over the years it became one of the cult horror films of the nineties.

The commercial success of the first installment led to multiple class B sequels. These were Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004), Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008), Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009) and the crossover Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015). The last three were released directly on television.

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