Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Bridget Regan (Legend of the Seeker) will guest star on Person of Interest, playing Wendy, a charming/funny/sexy/sassy hairstylist from Brooklyn who learns that one should always look a gift horse in the mouth. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actor Mark Moses (Desperate Housewives and Mad Men) will guest star on Fairly Legal, playing a powerful, savvy trial attorney looking to expand his legal empire. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress Summer Glau (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and actor Daryl Mitchell (Brothers) have joined the cast of the TNT drama pilot Scent Of The Missing. Glau will play a new member of the K-9 Search and Rescue team who is beautiful and very wealthy but much tougher than she looks. Meanwhile, Mitchell will play a wheelchair-bound former military sergeant who serves as the communications technician for the team. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

With their Nashville pilot Outlaw Country heating up for a series pickup at FX, Josh Goldin and Rachel Abramowitz have sold a second drama project to NBC. The legal drama entitled Major Crimes is set in the world of young ADAs in a Los Angeles downtown court building. Moving at a bullet pace, the show focuses on an ensemble cast of young, massively overworked ADAs falling in love, battling their own demons and ambitions, while seeking out justice on the run. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Eddie Redmayne (My Week With Marilyn) has joined the cast of Les Miserables as Marius, which will star Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Russell Crowe as Inspector Javert and Anne Hathaway as Fantine. (Mike Fleming at Deadline)

Actor Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) and actresses Leslie Bibb (Iron Man) and Amy Smart (Road Trip) have joined the cast of the upcoming thriller film called 7500, that follows a group of passengers who encounter what appears to be a supernatural force while on Vista Pacific Flight 7500, a transpacific flight to Japan. Kwanten and Smart will play a married couple traveling with their two longtime friends for a trip to Japan. Bibb plays a flight attendant involved in a complicated and secret relationship. (Dark Horizons)

Actor Shiloh Fernandez (Red Riding Hood) has joined the cast of the eco-terrorism thriller called The East that follows a contract worker (Brit Marling) who is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group, only to find herself falling for its leader (Alexander Skarsgard). Fernandez will play the sexually adventurous and free-spirited member of Skarsgard’s group. (Skarsgard Fans and Dark Horizons)

Actress Rashida Jones (Parks & Recreation) and Corey Stoll (Midnight in Paris) have joined the cast of the indie dramedy called Decoding Annie Parker that is based on a true story. The film follows geneticist Mary Claire King (Helen Hunt) who discovered a gene linked to breast cancer. There are no details right now on the roles Jones or Stoll will play, though. Meanwhile, Samantha Morton plays Annie Parker, a woman who resolves to fight her cancer diagnosis and Aaron Paul and Maggie Grace co-star. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)

Actor Bill Paxton (Big Love) is in talks to direct the film version of the classic 1972 TV series Kung Fu. The original series followed a Shaolin monk (David Carradine) as he wanders the American West. The monk wants peace but usually winds up using his martial arts skills against bad guys. John McLaughlin will write the script and shooting will kick off next Summer in China. Paxton previously helmed “Frailty” and “The Greatest Game Ever Played”. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

That’s it. Enjoy!