Hey All,
Here are the news items from this past week:
MOVIE CASTING NEWS
Actress Yvonne Strahovksi (The Handmaid’s Tale and Chuck) is expected to join Chris Pratt in the upcoming sci-fi movie Ghost Draft, which will be about a man drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront his past. Strahovski will play a character Pratt meets in the future who has a connection to his past. (Variety)
Actor Austin Butler (The Shannara Chronicles and Switched at Birth) is set to play the one and only Elvis Presley in the upcoming Baz Luhrmann biopic about the king of rock-n-roll. Tom Hanks will play Col. Tom Parker. (Variety)
TV CASTING NEWS
Actress Jaskia Nicole has been promoted to a series regular on the ABC medical drama The Good Doctor. (TV Line)
Actress Andrea Brooks has been promoted to series regular on Supergirl, and it was announced that former co-star Jeremy Jordan will be back to reprise his role of Winn Schott in season 5. (TV Line)
Actor Paul Adelstein (Prison Break) will have a recurring role on Chicago P.D., playing Interim Superintendent Jason Crawford, filling the void left by John C. McGinley’s Brian Kelton, who was murdered in the Season 6 finale. (TV Line)
Actor Josh Charles (The Good Wife) will play the good husband opposite Oscar winner Hilary Swank in the upcoming Netflix drama Away, which centers on Emma Logan (Swank), an American astronaut who must leave her NASA engineer husband (Charles) and teenage daughter behind to command an international space crew embarking upon a treacherous mission to Mars. Away‘s 10-episode first season is slated to bow in 2020. (TV Line)
RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS
Fear the Walking Dead has been renewed for season 6 by AMC. The network has also renewed NOS4A2 for a second season. (Variety)
Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD will end after the 7th season, which will air sometime next year on ABC. (Deadline and TV Line)
DC Universe has renewed Doom Patrol for a second season. (Variety)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Amazon has won the rights to develop a series based on Jack Reacher, the protagonist from Lee Child’s novels. (Variety)
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
Actress-singer Lea Michele (Glee) will appear in the upcoming ABC holiday film Same Time, Next Christmas. Michele will play the lead role of Olivia Henderson, a young woman who met her childhood sweetheart during her family’s annual Christmas visit to Hawaii. After being separated by distance and years, the two reunite at the same Hawaii resort years later and the old chemistry between them flares up anew – but circumstances conspire to keep them apart. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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