At CCXP in São Paulo, Brazil, Anaconda director Tom Gormican showed four never-before-seen clips from the highly anticipated 2025 comedy reboot. The clips featured stars Jack Black and Paul Rudd in a meta take on the 1997 horror classic. The Sony Pictures movie, which comes out on Christmas Day, December 25, 2025, is about failed filmmakers Griff (Paul Rudd) and Doug (Jack Black) who go on a low-budget quest to remake their favorite movie, Anaconda, but end up in real jungle trouble with giant snakes.
Gormican and actor Selton Mello, who played a Brazilian snake handler, showed the footage on stage, and fans loved how funny it was. One clip shows Mello’s character telling a darkly funny story about an anaconda killing his grandmother. In another clip, the group comes up with baffling script ideas like a “double head-butt” scene, which Black calls “revolutionary.” Gormican called the tone a “grand adventure comedy” that honors the original while going way over the top.
Steve Zahn, Thandiwe Newton, Daniela Melchior, and Ione Skye are all in the cast. Principal photography ended in Australia earlier this year. Black and Rudd weren’t there, but they sent pre-recorded videos to Mello to congratulate him on his CCXP award. In one of the videos, Rudd jokingly asked to crash at Mello’s place. This new version makes fun of Hollywood reboots by mixing ’90s nostalgia with new things like a broken prop snake and real anaconda chases.
