Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Happy Friday everyone!! Hope you have some great plans for the weekend! But first, let’s see what today’s entertainment news has in store for us, shall we?:

TELEVISION

Actor Mark Deklin (from the short-lived FOX series Lone Star) will guest star on Hawaii Five-0, playing Stan, the current husband of Danny’s ex-wife Rachel. He will appear in the February 7 episode. (E! Entertainment Online)

Actor Callum Blue will be back on Smallville as Zod, Clark’s sworn enemy who tried to take over the world last season. He was last seen being sucked into a one-sided portal that leads to New Krypton. He’ll appear in one of the final five episodes of the series. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Actress Lucy Lawless (Spartacus: Blood and Sand and its prequel Gods of the Arena) will appear in five episodes of No Ordinary Family. She will play a potential adversary for the Powells. Her agenda might put the Powell family in danger. (Chris Harnick at TV Squad and TV Line)

Actor Geoff Stults (7th Heaven, October Road and Happy Town) will play Walter Sherman (aka “the Locator), a former military policeman who can find anything, on the upcoming Bones spinoff, which is based on The Locator series of two books written by Richard Greener. He joins Michael Clarke Duncan, who will appear as Walter’s partner, Leo, a tough cowboy philosopher. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Legendary actor John Lithgow will play Barney Stinson’s (Neil Patrick Harris) dad on How I Met Your Mother. (The Hollywood Reporter)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

ABC has picked up a new summer show called Missing, which centers on a worried mom who, after her son disappears in Italy while overseas for a summer internship, takes it upon herself to travel to Europe and track him down. It soon becomes clear that this isn’t any ordinary woman, but a former CIA agent who will stop at nothing to bring her son home alive. This summer Missing will join two Canadian scripted series, the recently picked up untitled medical drama set in Afghanistan and Rookie Blue, which will be returning for a second season. (Deadline)

Actor Jack McGee (Rescue Me) has landed a role on the USA drama pilot Common Law, which is about two mismatched cops: Michael Ealy as the jeans-wearing, unshaven Travis Marks and Warren Kole as the tailored suit-wearing, clean-cut Wes Mitchell. These copes are sent to therapy by their boss. McGee will play said man, Phil Sutton, an ex-Marine turned captain at the L.A.P.D.’s Southern Bureau. Amy Acker also stars as Dr. Elyse Ryan, their attractive therapist. (The Futon Critic)

Looks like zombies are becoming even more the rage. Case in point: The CW is developing a script for the hour-long drama Awakening, about two sisters who face off against one another just as a zombie uprising begins. And not to be outdone, NBC is developing a show called Zombies vs. Vampires. (Michael Schneider at TV Guide)

NBC has given a green light to a pilot called Grimm, which is a dark but fantastical cop drama about a world in which characters inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales exist. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Young actress Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones) has joined the cast of The Hobbit, but here part is still unknown. (Coming Soon)

Broadway actor Benjamin Walker has scored the title role in the supernatural action thriller Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which is a film adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith comedic horror novel that exposes Abe’s secret diaries recounting his mission to eradicate the world of the undead bloodsuckers. The film is expected to hit theatres n June 22, 2012. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Carey Mulligan and Jodie Foster are now out and Mia Wasikowska is in for upcoming film Stoker, which tells the story of a moody teenager whose mysterious uncle comes back into her family’s lives after the death of her father. The script for this movie comes from Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller. (Deadline and First Showing)

Orlando Bloom and Imogen Poots are set to star in the biopic called The Laureate, which follows the life of the young British war poet Robert Graves (Bloom), his wife Nancy Nicholson (Kerry Condon) and the passionate young American writer Laura Riding (Poots). The focus will cover the open love triangle between them as they lived in London and Cairo and will explore the notion of intense relationships. (Screen Daily and Dark Horizons)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

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Q&A SECTION (with Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

Question: Thank you for the great Castle interview. Best one I’ve read! Did you maybe ask them if Laura Prepon might be coming back as Nikki Heat? — Nora

Answer: Great minds think alike. I did ask, and creator Andrew Marlowe says, “You know, that’s a question of availability. We are planning an episode where there’s an opportunity toward the end of the season, so hopefully everybody’s schedule will match up.”

Question: Supernatural!!!!!!! — Laura

Answer: Okay!!!!!!! The first episode back, now airing Feb. 4, will focus quite a bit on the Sam-almost-killed-Bobby thing. In fact, Bobby finds himself uneasy around the youngest Winchester even though he was recently re-souled. We already know Dean’s his favorite, but Bobby’s reaction will leave you wanting to hug Sam (erm, more than you already want to hug Sam on a normal day). Bonus dish: You will rewind a hotel scene where Dean reads a girl’s diary about 10 times.

That’s it. Enjoy!

Have a great weekend!!