Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

Cobra Kai has been given a fourth season renewal with the third season set to debut on Netflix on January 8, 2021. (Variety)

Billions has been renewed for a sixth season by Showtime and five new episodes of Season 5 will air in 2021. (Variety)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

A sequel movie to Enola Holmes, which debuted on Netflix last month, is being planned with lead actress Millie Bobby Brown very interested in reprising her role. Sources also report there is a spin-off being discussed that would focus on Sherlock himself, played by Henry Cavill. (We Got This Covered)

Actress Joey King (The Act) will executive produce and star in the Netflix film adaptation of the international best-selling dystopian fantasy novel Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, which is set in a world in which a compulsory operation at 16 makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. (The Futon Critic)

CASTING NEWS

Actor Aaron Ashmore and actress Hallea Jones have been promoted to series regulars for season two of the Netflix thriller Locke & Key. Ashmore played Duncan Locke, a family member with a history with the keys while Jones played Eden Hawkins, former high school mean girl now newly minted demon. Also actor Brendan Hines has joined as new series regular Josh Bennett, a charismatic and mysterious new history teacher with a secret agenda. (Deadline)

Newcomer Iman Vellani will play Ms. Marvel (aka Kamala Khan) in the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel, the 16-year-old Muslim teenager who lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, who has the Inhuman ability to alter shape and size. (Variety)

Actress Bex Taylor-Klaus (Arrow and Deputy) has joined the cast of the ABC medical drama pilot Triage that will star Parisa Fitz-Henley (Midnight, Texas) as pioneering surgeon Finley Briar. The series will follow Briar over three distinct decades at the same hospital. Taylor-Klaus will play Leonora/Leo, the gender-fluid youngest first-year intern at New York Trinity and mentee of Briar. (Deadline)

Actress Chelsea Field has been promoted to series regular on NCIS: New Orleans, where she has been recurring as Rita Devereaux since season 3. (Deadline)

Actress Erinn Westbrook (The Resident) has joined the cast of Riverdale as a new series regular for the show’s upcoming 5th season, playing Tabitha Tate, the ambitious, entrepreneurial granddaughter of Pop Tate, who has come to Riverdale to take over Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe in the hopes of franchising the iconic diner, even as the town around it struggles to survive. (Deadline)

Actor Russell Hornsby (Grimm and Lincoln Rhyme) will play a key recurring role in the upcoming third and final season of the Netflix sci-fi adventure series Lost in Space, but details on who he will be playing are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

Actress Audrey Corsa has been promoted to series regular on the CBS legal drama All Rise. She plays Samantha Powell, a young ambitious law clerk in the DDA’s office bullpen. (Deadline)

MOVIE NEWS

Recent Emmy winner Zendaya will star as Ronnie Spector, the frontwoman of the musical group The Ronettes, in a biopic of her life, which will pay particular emphasis on Spector’s early career, the formation of group and their subsequent signing to Phil Spector’s Philles Records. It will also look at her marriage to Phil Spector, their eventual divorce and her battle to gain back the rights to her music. (Variety)

Actor Zac Efron will star in a new adaptation of the Stephen King novel Firestarter, which centers on a young girl who develops pyrokinetic powers and the ability to see the future. She is abducted by a mysterious government agency that plans to weaponize her superhuman skills. (Variety)

Actor Tanner Buchanan (Cobra Kai and Designated Survivor) will star opposite newcomer Addison Rae in the gender-flipping box office He’s All That, a remake of the 1999 movie She’s All That. Rae will take over the Freddie Prinze, Jr. role while Buchanan will take over the Rachael Leigh Cook role. The film will follow an influencer who decides to avenge herself by accepting a challenge to turn the school’s biggest loser into prom king after her boyfriend turns her into a laughing stock. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!