Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Alexa Vega (Spy Kids and Machete Kills) will guest star in an upcoming episode of The Tomorrow People as a new ULTRA agent named Hillary Cole, who will become a rival to Stephen (series lead Robbie Amell), which could be a problem, because the company plans to strip the powers of whichever agent doesn’t come out ahead during training. (Trent Moore at Blastr and Zap2It)

Actress Alexandra Chando (The Lying Game) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Castle, playing a Lindsay Lohan/Miley Cyrus type who has had a big public meltdown. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Matt Passmore (The Glades) has landed the lead role in an untitled USA Network drama project that centers on Neil Truman (Passmore), an investment banker who attempts to satisfy his married mid-life crisis by quitting his job and redefining himself and his relationships. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

The CW is working on a possible drama project based on the comic series The Avenger (not to be confused with the Marvel Universe The Avengers). This story focuses on Alice Benson, a young woman who, in the wake of her parents’ murder, discovers she possesses a superpower as a result of genetic bio-hacking which allows her to transform her appearance at will. Alice will use her face-altering talents to investigate the mystery of her parents’ deaths and uncover the origins of her strange ability. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC is developing a drama project based on the Alexandra Robbins non-fiction book “The Secrets Of The Tomb: Skull And Bones, The Ivy League And The Hidden Paths Of Power” that would follow two timelines: a young woman at Yale, 10 years ago, who is tapped as a member of an ultra-prestigious secret society, and the same woman in present day as a respected FBI agent in the midst of the biggest case of her life, which she discovers is linked to her past in the secret society. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Nico Tortorella (The Following) will co-star opposite actress Victoria Justice (Victorious) in the MTV cyber thriller pilot called Eye Candy that is about Lindy (Justice), a reclusive hacker whose blog exposes everything from terrorist plots to suspected killers. She is targeted by a dangerous cyber stalker and teams up with the city’s cyber-crime unit to catch him. Tortorella will play Tommy, the cyber-crime unit’s formidable and flirtatious head whose fascination with Lindy may be more than professional. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

A&E is working on a drama project with Jerry Bruckheimer Television that is being called Harvest. The project will center on a mild-mannered cemetery caretaker who finds his small-town life in jeopardy when his estranged criminal father forces him into the body-trade business. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor-Director Ed Burns (who is a regular on the new upcoming TNT drama Mob City) is working with the cabler on another period crime drama project called Public Morals. The project is set in 1967 in New York City’s Public Morals Division, where cops walk the line between morality and criminality as the temptations that comes from dealing with all kinds of vice can get the better of them. It centers on cop Terry Muldoon (Burns), who knows the line between the good guys and bad guys is thin, and he is determined to raise his sons to be honest and hardworking as he deals with the dark underbelly of the vice world. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

The CW is working on another hour-long project called Badlands that is being billed as a supernatural Western about a ruthless family cursed by vengeful ghost. While ABC is working on a project called Entrapment that will tell the story of a star prosecutor accused of murder and the journey she takes when she turns to her former adversary, a streetwise defense attorney, for help with her defense. These two projects come from producer David Wilcox (Fringe). (Lacey Rose at The Hollywood Reporter)

ONLINE SERIES NEWS

Amazon Studios has officially given a green light to the two new drama pilots Bosch and The After. Bosch is based on the best-selling book series by Michael Connelly that tells the story of a relentless LAPD homicide detective (Titus Welliver from Lost and The Good Wife), who pursues the killer of a 13-year-old boy. But Bosch is also standing trial in federal court on accusations that he murdered a suspected serial killer in cold blood. Actress Annie Wersching (24) and Amy Price-Francis (King) co-star. The After comes from Chris Carter (the creator of The X-Files) that features eight strangers who are thrown together by mysterious forces and must help each other survive in a violent world that defies explanation. Among the cast is Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue and Drop Dead Diva), Arielle Kebbel (The Vampire Diaries), Adrian Pasdar (Heroes and The Lying Game) and Aldis Hodge (Leverage). Viewers will be able to watch the pilots for free on Amazon Instant Video. (Robyn Ross at TV Guide)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass) will star as Quicksilver (aka Pietro Maximoff) in the upcoming box office film Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron, which will be directed by Joss Whedon and is expected in the box office in May 2015. (The Deadline Team)

That’s it. Enjoy!