Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

First of all, let’s all take a moment to remember the people who were senselessly murdered in Aurora, Colorado last night while trying to see The Dark Knight Rises. Such sad news to wake up to this morning…

MOMENT OF SILENCE

Now, on to the news for today (with a heavy heart):

TELEVISION

Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh (Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Single White Female) will play mom to Emily Thorne (aka Amanda Clarke) on Revenge this fall. (Kristin at E! Online)

Actress Clean Duvall (Carnivale) will appear in multiple episodes of American Horror Story. Details are scarce on the character she will be playing but she will appear in scenes with returning co-star Sarah Paulson. (TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Lifetime has ordered the drama pilots The Secret Lives of Wives, which is the working title and Witches of East End. Both pilots are slated for next year. The Secret Lives of Wives, inspired by the book by Iris Krasnow, will explore the unvarnished truth behind the marriages of four different women, breaking down the creative ways each close friend nurtures, maintains and endures what many see as an impossible convention of modern life. Meanwhile, Witches of East End, based on Melissa de la Cruz best-selling novel, centers on the adventures of a mother and her two adult daughters — both of whom unknowingly are their family’s next generation of witches — who lead seemingly quiet, uneventful modern day lives in Long Island’s secluded seaside town of North Hampton. When one of the daughters becomes engaged to a young, wealthy newcomer, a series of events forces her mother to admit to her daughters they are, in fact, powerful and immortal witches. (Deadline)

Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (the men behind the Star Trek reboot) and director Len Wiseman (Underworld) are working on a drama project based on the tale of Sleepy Hollow. This version would be a modern–day supernatural thriller that would follow Ichabod Crane as he partners with Sleepy Hollow’s local female sheriff to solve the mysteries of a town ravaged by the battle between good and evil. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) and Jared Harris (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) have joined the cast of the upcoming film The Mortal Instruments (written by Cassandra Clare), the latest young adult fantasy book series being adapted to film. They join Lily Collins (Mirror Mirror), Jamie Campbell Bower (Twilight saga) and Kevin Durand (Lost and I Am Number Four) who were cast earlier). The books follow NYC teen named Clary Fray (Collins), who finds out she is the latest in a line of “Shadowhunters,” a secret society of half-angel warriors caught up in an ancient battle against demons. The first film is set to release on August 23, 2013. (Hit Fix)

Actress Abigail Breslin will star as the daughter of Julia Roberts in the upcoming film called August: Osage County. She will play Jean Fordham, the 14-year old angry and acerbic pot smoking child of Barbara (Roberts). The film is based on the Tracy Letts Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play, which chronicles several summer weeks in the life of a severely dysfunctional Oklahoma family and the crisis that gathers them back together. Meryl Streep and Juliette Lewis are also set to star in the film. (Deadline)

Actor/Director Kenneth Branagh may be appearing in the upcoming Jack Ryan reboot. He is in negotiations to play the Russian villain in the franchise based on the famous Tom Clancy literary hero. In this version, Chris Pine will play Ryan, an ex-Marine who now works as a successful financial analyst in Moscow. He discovers a plot by his employer to finance a terrorist attack designed to collapse the U.S. economy. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actor Josh Holloway (Lost) has joined the cast of the upcoming film Paranoia, which is an adaptation of the Joseph Finder thriller that finds Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games) playing a blue-collar guy who is blackmailed by his boss into spying on a rival company. Holloway will play the investigating FBI agent keeping a close eye on Hemsworth. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

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

Question: Supernatural scoop please!! — Remy

Sandra: Want a follow-up to the hyper-meta episode “The French Mistake”? Ben Edlund told reporters after the show’s panel at Comic-Con that he has an idea that could produce a part 2 — but he’s not sure if it’ll work. He’s also into dinosaurs, but “I’ve never been able to get them on.”

Question: So Jim Beaver was at the SPN panel at Comic-Con. Does that mean he’s coming back? I love him, but… — Sarah

Sandra: Everyone I chatted with after the panel was hesitant to confirm or deny a return, but Beaver would certainly be up for it. And, he added, he doesn’t think it’d be one too many trips back to the land of the living. “Dramatically speaking, you’ve hit on one of the dilemmas of the show and I think they’ve managed very well to walk the line without crossing over too much into making death less meaningful,” he says. “It’s dangerous if your show is about threatening people with destruction every week but destruction doesn’t matter because you get to come back. You don’t always get to come back and you don’t always get to come back well. What the show has done really well is creating characters that fans love so much that any step over that line gets attenuated by the fact that the audience is so happy to see the character back.”

Question: Is there anything new on the upcoming season of Supernatural? I’m hoping that we get a few episodes centered on Purgatory. — Annabelle

Sandra: As I’m sure you heard, it’ll be more than a few. And these flashbacks will be intense, I hear. Especially episode 2, which is when we see Castiel again. That’s when we’ll find out whether he left Dean seemingly fending for himself in Purgatory for a good reason (to find help/provisions)…or a bad one.

Question: You know what sucks? Waiting for Hart of Dixie to come back! So any and all scoop is appreciated! — Lucy

Sandra: The show is currently looking for a musically talented gal to play Wade’s ex-bandmade — and former flame!

That’s it. Enjoy!

Have a great weekend!

And, again, deepest condolences to those affected by the shooting in Colorado. No words can make the pain dissipate; but time will heal the wounds. Sympathies extended to all!