Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Rutina Wesley will be back as Tara on True Blood despite her character taking a bullet to the head in the season finale. But details on how exactly Tara will return are unclear at this time. (SciFiPulse)

WEB SERIES

TNT has announced there will be post-episode web shows for Falling Skies and the new Dallas reboot. The new 15-minute digital talk shows called 2nd Watch and Dallas Round-Up will feature discussions on each week’s episodes, interviews with special guests from the cast and crew, exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, fan questions, trivia and more. 2nd Watch will air here with actor Wil Wheaton as host. 2nd Watch will go live on June 17, at 11 PM (Eastern Time), running for nine weeks. Dallas Round-Up will air here with Cameron Mathison set as the host. Dallas Round-Up will go live on June 13, at 11 p.m. (Eastern Time), also running for nine weeks. (TV By the Numbers)

CONDOLENCES

Renowned author Ray Bradbury has passed away after a long illness. He wrote such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He was 91. (The Wrap)

ME: Rest in Peace, Mr. Bradbury. Deepest condolences to his family, friends and legends of fans.

MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE…

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Billy Campbell (The Killing) has taken over the lead role from Jason Patric in the Civil War-era film called Copperhead. He will play Amber Beech in the film, which is based on the Harold Frederic 1883 novel about a family feud during the Civil War. (Dominic Patten at Deadline)

Actors Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt and Paul Dano as well as actor Paul Giamatti and actress Sarah Paulson have joined the ever-growing cast of the upcoming film called Twelve Years A Slave that will star Chiwetel Ejiofor (Serenity) as Solomon Northrop, a black man captured and sold into slavery. Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) plays a plantation owner who buys Solomon and is ultimately won over by his engineering skills. There are no details, yet, on the roles all of these actors will play in the film. (Variety and First Showing)

Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) will play opposite Vera Farmiga (Source Code) in the upcoming film called Greenland Time, which is set on the icy Arctic landmass, following a woman out for revenge against the man who killed her daughter in a hit-and-run accident. (Screen Daily and Dark Horizons)

Actor Luke Evans (The Raven and Immortals) has, indeed, joined the cast of Fast Six, the next film in the Vin Diesel-Paul Walker franchise. (24 Frames and Dark Horizons)

That’s it. Enjoy!