Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWAL
MGM+ has given the latest drama adaptation of Robin Hood for a second season. (Variety)
HBO has renewed the drama Industry for a 5th season, which will be the show’s final season. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Winona Ryder has joined the cast of season three of Wednesday, but her guest starring role is being kept under wraps. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Ed Skrein (Jurassic World Rebirth) has joined the cast of the Amazon Prime upcoming series God of War based on the mythology-themed PlayStation game that will star Ryan Hurst in the role of Kratos. Skrein will play Baldur, the youngest son of Odin. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Moon Blood good (Falling Skies) and Kekoa Kekumano (Hi-Surf) have joined the second season of the Netflix series Untamed, the mystery-thriller that follows Kyle Turner (Eric Bana), a special agent for the National Parks Service who works to enforce human law in nature’s vast wilderness. The investigation of a brutal death sends Turner on a collision course with the dark secrets within the park and in his own past. In its second season, the series follows Turner as he’s called to investigate a mysterious death in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, where local tensions and the volatile, living landscape become an unpredictable force. (Deadline)
The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood is set to lead a series adaptation of Jane Eyre. (Variety)
Matt Dillion executive produce and star in the upcoming MGM+ 8-episode drama The Magnificent Seven, playing Chris Adams, who becomes the leader of seven gunslingers determined to protect a group of innocent villagers from a mercenary land baron hellbent on stealing their land. (Deadline)
Busy Philipps has joined the cast of the upcoming CBS drama Cupertino that will include among its cast Mike Colter and Renee Elise Goldsberry. The legal drama will follow a lawyer (Colter) who is being cheated out of his stock-options by his former employer, a tech start-up. Refusing to back down, he joins forces with another recently fired attorney to represent those taken advantage of by the tech elite, and help them fight back in a high-stakes battle against the Goliaths controlling Silicon Valley. Philipps will star as Natalia, the beautiful and delightfully blunt first wife of an AI Billionaire, who divorced her when she turned forty. Now Natalia wants revenge and agrees to finance Michael and Olivia’s start-up law firm in order to go after his and other AI businesses. (Variety)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Emily in Paris star Lily Collins will play Audrey Hepburn in a film about the screen icon and the making of her 1961 classic flick Breakfast at Tiffany’s. (Deadline)
Tom Hanks is set to play Abraham Lincoln in the upcoming live-action/stop-motion animation hybrid film Lincoln in the Bardo. (Deadline)
Andrew Scott and Emily Blunt will star in the upcoming flick Walk the Blue Fields that follows a woman on her wedding day being confronted with a heart-wrenching decision as a love triangle from her past threatens to be revealed. (Deadline)
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (Never Have I Ever) will appear in the second season of the Legally Blonde prequel series Elle that focuses on young Elle Woods (Lexi Minetree) during her high school years. Ramakrishnan will play Sam, Elle’s foil – possessing all our hero’s ambition and none of her optimism. She’s the founder, editor-in-chief, and lord baron of the school newspaper, the commissioner of the grammar police, and the enemy of joy. If Cosmo is Elle’s bible, The AP Stylebook is Sam’s holy grail. (Variety)
Michael McManus (Memory of a Killer and SEAL Team) will reunite with David Boreanaz in the planned NBC reboot of The Rockford Files. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!