Hey All,
Happy Over the Hump Day! I hope everyone is having a good week. Let’s get into the news for today, shall we?:
TELEVISION
Actor Scott Foley (Felicity and The Unit0 will have a major recurring role in True Blood that will kick off in the Season 4 finale and, assuming the show gets renewed, will continue into Season 5. He will play Patrick, a tough old army buddy of Terry’s (Todd Lowe) who pays him a visit. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Actress Valerie Cruz (Off The Map) is joining the new Syfy series Alphas as a recurring guest star. She will play the mysterious Department of Defense Special Agent Kathy Sullivan. (E! Online)
Actor Pruitt Taylor Vince (Monster, Identity and L.A. Confidential) will appear in the new season of The Walking Dead this fall, playing Otis, the foreman at Hershel’s farm. (AMC)
Soap actress Brianna Brown (General Hospital) will guest star in the new Showtime drama Homeland. The new series will star Claire Danes as an agent investigating the circumstances involving the rescue of a U.S. soldier (Damian Lewis) missing in Iraq and presumed dead. Mandy Patinkin co-stars as a veteran CIA division chief and her superior officer. Brown will play Lynne Reed, a statuesque blonde, crowned Miss Ohio in 2009, who spent two years in the harem of Prince Farid Bin Abbud and who now works as his procurer, using her looks and smarts as commerce. Her character does not view herself as a prostitute but as someone who is setting herself up for a secure life. The role could potentially be recurring. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
French actress/model Roxane Mesquida (Kaboom) is joining the cast of Gossip Girl as the meddling sister of Blair’s fiancé, Prince Louis. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
David S. Goyer (one of the men behind FlashForward and the new Batman franchise) is looking to bring Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso’s comic book of the same name to the small screen. The project would be written and executive produced by Goyer and will follow the mysterious Agent Graves as he offers his clients a gun and immunity from prosecution, enabling them to get revenge against those who ruined their lives. (The Futon Critic)
Actor Jason Patric (The Losers and Lost Boys) has landed the male lead in the FX drama pilot called Powers, which is based on the graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. The project is a police procedural set in a world where superpowers are relatively common. It centers on two detectives, Christian Walker (Patric) and Deena Pilgrim (Lucy Punch), in a Homicide department that deals with cases involving “powers” (people with superpowers). (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
It is looking like UK actors Eddie Izzard, Bob Hoskins, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan and Steven Graham might be appear in the upcoming box office movie Snow White and the Huntsman that includes actor Ian McShane as one of the seven dwarves. The film is about, of course, Snow White (Kristen Stewart), a princess who escapes her evil stepmother (Charlize Theron) with the help of a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) who was to have killed her but now trains the princess to survive and fight back. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)
Actor Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones, Stargate Atlantis and the upcoming Conan the Barbarian) has reportedly been cast in the as-yet titled Sylvester Stallone- action thriller based on the comic Bullet to the Head. Stallone plays a New Orleans hit man who teams up with a Gotham cop to take down the killers of their respective partners. Momoa would play the ‘bad guy’. (Latino Review and Dark Horizons)
Actor Douglas Booth (Pillars of the Earth) will star alongside Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) as Romeo in the latest adaptation of the William Shakespeare classic Romeo and Juliet. (Variety and First Showing)
Actor Idris Elba (Luthor and Thor) will star in the sci-fi monster epic called Pacific Rim, playing the lead role of Sensi. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)
BOX OFFICE TRAILER
Watch: First Official Trailer for Craig Brewer’s New ‘Footloose’ Remake
Q&A SECTION (with Natalie Abrams and Adam Bryant from TV Guide)
Question: I’m so impressed with Falling Skies. Finally, an alien-invasion show that works! What’s up with those kids in harnesses though? — Hank
NATALIE: We’ll learn more about them in this week’s episode, when Tom, Hal and a few other resistance fighters go in search of Ben, who’s next in line to be a guinea pig for Dr. Harris (Steven Weber). The new doc is testing different ways of removing the harness. This may not be good news for Tom, though, since he and Harris have a bit of a past.
Question: Have we really seen the last of Mike Franks on NCIS? How will Gibbs function without his mentor? — Julie
ADAM: Don’t you worry about Leroy Jethro Gibbs. “Gibbs is a big boy, and even though his friend is gone, the memories and recognition of what Franks provided him with won’t be gone,” executive producer Gary Glasberg tells us. So does that also mean no more Franks? “We can still revisit some of those memories, honestly, and that will probably happen,” he says.
Question: I love White Collar, and I would love some scoop! — Emily
ADAM: It sounds like somebody might be keeping tabs on Peter. I hear the show is looking for a big-name guest star to play Peter’s mysterious new neighbor later this season. He’s a good-looking bad boy who just spent four years in Rikers for possession of stolen property. Watch your back, Peter.
Question: Will we see Hoyt again on Rizzoli & Isles? — Michael
NATALIE: Jane will come face-to-face with serial killer Charles Hoyt (Michael Massee) again this season, but first she’ll have to deal with the physical and emotional scars of the hostage situation we saw in the Season 1 finale. Complicating her convalescence will be a bomb that detonates at a ceremony being held in her honor.
Question: What else can you tell me about Leverage? — Mindy
ADAM: A case later this season will deal with a secret society at Harvard that serves as a proving ground for those who want to go on to work in intelligence. But what the group doesn’t know is that its leader (we’re thinking an Armie Hammer-in-Social-Network-type) is actually using the pledges to conduct experiments on coercion.
Question: Got any scoop on Covert Affairs? — Vanessa
NATALIE: Remember Annie’s professor, Dr. Mark Ramsay (Treme’s Clarke Peters), from who she sought help way back in the pilot episode? His one piece of advice was to steer clear of the CIA, but we’ll learn this season that he didn’t exactly practice what he preached.
That’s it. Enjoy!
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