Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Congrats to the folks over at Pretty Little Liars, The Vampire Diaries, Teen Wolf and Awkward for the wins at the Teen Choice Awards this weekend.

Now for today’s news:

TELEVISION

Actor Adam Baldwin (Chuck and Firefly) will play Capt. Steven Harris, the new interim captain, on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, taking over the duties of Capt. Donald Cragen (Dann Florek), who was suspected of murder in the season finale. He will appear in the first three episodes of the new season while Cragen’s fate is being determined. The series returns for its 14th season with a two-hour premiere on September 26 on NBC. (TV Guide)

Actor Jack Coleman (Heroes and The Vampire Diaries) will guest star on Castle this fall, playing a popular U.S. senator who becomes an antagonist to Beckett (Stana Katic). (TV Line and TV Guide)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor James Marsden (The Notebook) will replace Matthew McConaughey as former U.S. President John F. Kennedy in the historical drama flick called The Butler, which will chronicle the life of Eugene Allen, who served as a White House butler under an incredible eight presidents and through the years 1952 to 1986. Forest Whitaker and Aml Ameen will play Allen at different ages. The cast of this upcoming film will include Oprah Winfrey, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda, John Cusack, Robin Williams, Liam Neeson, Minka Kelly, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard, Lenny Kravitz, Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Redgrave [among others]. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actor Jackie Earle Haley has joined the cast of the upcoming remake of the film Robocop. He will play Maddox, the man who dispenses the military training to Robocop (Joel Kinnaman). Gary Oldman, Hugh Laurie, Samuel L. Jackson and Abbie Cornish are also set. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

Actor Emilie Hirsch has joined the cast of the upcoming military film Lone Survivor, which is based on the book of the same name by real life Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell. The story follows a Navy SEAL team which fought to stay alive after being ambushed in Afghanistan in 2005 by Taliban forces during a covert mission in the Hindu Kush mountain region, where the team went to kill a terrorist leader. Mark Wahlberg will star as the author and Taylor Kitsch and Ben Foster will play two of the other team members. There are no details yet on what role Hirsch will play. (Variety and First Showing)

Q&A SECTION (with Matt Roush at TV Guide)

Question: Since Eureka was left wide open for a new and improved show, when will Syfy be stepping through the portal and giving us back our show? Can we expect a fall offering or will we have to wait a year until next summer? My eldest thinks they are going to drop the ball on this. I hope he’s wrong. — Debbie

Matt Roush: Your eldest is right. What you saw as “wide open” the rest of us saw as closure. This was Eureka’s swan song, unmistakably billed as a series finale, and giving the town and its characters a happy open ending is probably as much as we could have hoped for given the circumstances. I found the finale to be very satisfying, although as a fan of course I would have liked there to be more. But that’s not going to happen. It’s over. Job well done.

That’s it. Enjoy!