Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today few though they may be:

TELEVISION

Actor Chris Zylka (The Secret Circle and The Amazing Spider-Man) will have a guest role in the new ABC Family drama Twisted that is set to debut on June 11. (Danielle Turchiano)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus) has landed the lead role in the drama project called Quarry based on the novels by Max Allan Collins. The project is set in the 1970s, centering on a Marine sniper who, upon his return home from Vietnam in 1973, finds himself shunned by those he loves and demonized by the public. Combat-hardened and disillusioned, he’s recruited into a network of contract killers and corruption spanning the length of the Mississippi River. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Legendary director Steven Soderbergh is in talks to team with actor Clive Owen for the a 10-episode project that is up for consideration at Cinemax. The project is called The Knick and will be set in New York in 1900. The basic set-up for the project is this: It’s downtown New York in 1900, a tumultuous time of massive change and great progress; it will center around the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff at Knickerbocker Hospital, who are pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actors Diego Boneta (Rock of Ages) and Jackson Rathbone (the Twilight franchise) will star in the box office thriller called The Dead Men that centers on an American running from his past who is brought into a group of young underground radicals called The Dead Men, only to discover a centuries-old spiritual battle. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)

That’s it. Enjoy!