MediEvil: Modern Times, Modern Hijinks

MedieEvil: Modern Times Modern Hijinks is a 2025 fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton. Inspired by but not fully adapted from the video game series of the same name, this is an all new adventure.

After outcast British college student and bookworm Helen (Mia Wasikowska) is ostracised for her intellect and natural beauty by jealous bullies, she finds solace in the college library and chances upon a strange unmarked book she has never read or seen before, which is in fact the legendary Zarok Spellbook. Not realizing what it is and fascinated by it, she starts reading, as she's doing so various undead and mutant plants start appearing. While most are wreaking havoc around, one undead person, the equally outcast Timothy Fort (Johnny Depp) an army officer who died in WW1 and, descendent of the legendary zombie slayer Sir Daniel Fortesque, befriends Helen as the two of them along with Helen's friend Lily (Eleanor Tomlinson) and younger brother Shaun (Ansel Elgort) battle demons, zombies, skeleton gangsters led by the skeleton mobster Jake Skullcrack (Jason Statham) and other creatures to defeat the witch Diana the Vengeful (Geraldine James) the descendent of the deceased sorcerer Zarok who wants the legendary Zarok spell book back in order to resurrect him. Helen and her friends must save the world and learn to use the spell book for good before it can fall into the wrong hands.