Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
RENEWAL AND RELOCATION
Evil will be moved to Paramount+ (just like SEAL Team and Clarice). (Variety)
The Resident has been renewed for a 5th season by FOX. (TV Line)
TV CASTING NEWS
Greg Germann has left the hospital. The actor who has been part of the cast of Grey’s Anatomy for four season is exiting the series, but he could pop up again as a guest star. (TV Line)
Rebecca Ferguson (The Greatest Showman and Mission: Impossible franchise) will star in the Apple TV series adaptation of Wool the dystopian novel by Hugh Howey. The story is set in a ruined and toxic future where a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Ferguson will star as Juliette, an independent and hardworking engineer. (Variety)
Jeremy Irvine is expected to join the cast in the role of Alan Scott in the HBO Max upcoming Green Lantern TV series, joining Finn Wittrock, who has the lead role. Scott was Earth’s first Green Lantern, who, true to the comics, is a gay man. (Variety)
You and Jane the Virgin actress Jenna Ortega has been cast in the role of Wednesday Addams in the upcoming Netflix live-action series entitled Wednesday. The 8-episode comedic “coming-of-age tale” charts Wednesday’s years as a student at Nevermore Academy, where she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore. (TV Line)
A TV adaptation of the Vampire Academy novels by Richelle Mead has been ordered to series at Peacock with Julie Plec, the executive producer of The Vampire Diaries, and The Vampire Diaries actress Marguerite MacIntyre attached to write. A failed box office movie was released in 2014 with 6 books from the franchise published between 2007 and 2010, focusing on two young women’s friendship, which transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter royal vampire society. (Variety)
Morris Chestnut (The Resident) will star opposite Yaya DaCosta (Chicago Med) in the upcoming FOX family drama Our Kind of People. Chestnut will return as a series regular on The Resident, but he will recur on the medical drama. (Deadline and TV Line)
Noah Mills (The Brave and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) has joined the cast of NCIS: Hawai’i, the new spin-off that will debut this fall. Mills will play Jesse, a former big city homicide detective who’s settled in a new life in Hawai‘i. An expert interrogator with a knack for good old fashioned police work, but he’s also a devoted family man who runs 4-H camping trips for his kid. He knows every nook and cranny of the island’s hiking trails. He’s worked with Jane Tennant, the lead character in the series (Vanessa Lachey), the longest and is her lieutenant and sometimes confidant. (Variety)
Arnold Schwarzenegger is finally coming to the small screen in an untitled global espionage adventure project, which has been ordered to series by Netflix. The show centers on a father and a daughter who learn that they’ve been secretly working as CIA Operatives for years. They realize that their entire relationship has been a lie and that they truly don’t know one another at all. (Variety)
CANCELLATION NEWS
The UK series Bulletproof that has been airing here in the States on The CW has been cancelled because of the multiple allegations of sexual harassment leveled against series star and co-creator Noel Clarke. (TV Line)
YOUR TIME IS UP
Glenn Gordon Caron, the showrunner for the CBS series Bull, is no longer in charge, following an internal investigation by CBS Studios after a number of writers quit the show when it wrapped production on Season 5, accusing Caron of “fostering a disrespectful work environment.” Also, series co-star Freddy Rodriguez is exiting the show, but no reason for his departure has been given. (The Hollywood Reporter and TV Line)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Hamilton alum Leslie Odom Jr. and actress Kate Hudson have joined the star studded cast of Knives Out 2. (Variety)
The long awaited movie adaptation of the popular BBC TV series Luther, which stars Idris Elba in the lead role is happening with production expected to start in September. (Variety)
Hocus Pocus 2 is going to happen with Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker all set to reprise their roles. Production will begin this fall with the sequel set to debut on Disney+ sometime in 2022. (Variety)
After playing Superman and the lead role in the Netflix sci-fi series The Witcher, Henry Cavill is set to take on another iconic role: Highlander. The 1986 fantasy adventure film spawned an entire pop-culture ecosystem, including sequels, TV series, tie-in novels, comics, and video games. It is being stated that Cavill’s role is unclear, however. (Variety)
Josh Duhamel will join Mel Gibson and Elisha Cuthbert in the box office film Bandit, an action thriller based on the best-selling novel by author Robert Knuckle and interviews by journalist Ed Arnold about Robert Whiteman (nee Gilbert Galvan Jr.) when he was dubbed the Flying Bandit for successfully pulling off 63 bank and jewelry heists during a notorious crime spree. The movie follows the career criminal (Duhamel) after he escapes from a U.S. prison and crosses the border into Canada, where he assumes a new identity. After falling in love and getting married, he claims to take a job as a traveling security consultant, but his daring crimes continue. After he turns to lifetime gangster Tommy (Gibson) for an investment, his career becomes more complicated and he gets embroiled in the biggest heist in Canadian history, one that puts him at the center of a cross-country manhunt. (Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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