Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWAL/CANCELLATION

Apple TV+ has given the sci-fi series Foundation a second season renewal. (TV Line)

Dash & Lily has been cancelled after only one season by Netflix. (TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

HBO Max is developing a series adaptation of the upcoming novel “A Flicker in the Dark” by Stacy Willingham that is slated for publication in January 2022. The production will hail from Emma Stone’s production company Fruit Tree and the independent production company A24. The novel follows Chloe Davis, who was shocked to discover at 12 years old that her own father confessed to the murder of six teenage girls in their small Louisiana town. Twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge whose life begins to unravel when local teens start to go missing. (Variety)

BROADWAY NEWS

James D. Stern, the veteran producer and director, who won best musical Tonys for The Producers and Hairspray, has acquired the rights to develop the 2012 motion picture Silver Linings Playbook for the Broadway stage. The film told the story of two fragile people coming together. Pat Solatano, Jr. loses his job and his wife, spending eight months in a mental facility and then moves back in with his parents. While trying to win back his wife, he meets Tiffany, a widow who offers to help him in his effort if he will be her partner in a dance competition. Along the way, they find silver linings in their troubles and new ways of looking at their lives. (The Hollywood Reporter)

MUSIC NEWS

Adele, the 15-time Grammy-winning singer will have a new single out this coming Friday (October 15); her first single since 2016. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Another Outlander cast member will appear in the Game of Thrones spin-off called House of Dragons. Former cast member Graham McTavish and Bill Paterson were announced earlier, and now it’s been seen in the show’s trailer that Wil Johnson, who played Joe Abernathy, is part of the cast. He will play Ser Vaemond Valaryon, the younger brother to Coryls Velaryon and commander in the Valaryon navy. (Daily Record)

Newcomer Bailey Bass, who will appear in the upcoming THREE Avatar films, has landed the key role of Claudia in the upcoming AMC small screen adaptation of Interview With the Vampire that will star Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones) and Sam Reid (The Astronaut Wives Club), who will play Louis and Lestat respectively. (Variety)

Wentworth Miller will reprise his role of Leonard Snart aka Captain Cold in the October 27 episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, which will mark the show’s 100th episode on The CW, which will also be directed by leading lady Caity Lotz. (TV Line)

Claire Foy (The Crown) will play Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook in a scripted series adaptation of the best-selling book “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination. The series, which doesn’t have a designated home network yet, will be called Doomsday Machine, and will lift the veil on the relationship between Mark Zuckerberg and Sandberg and the obstacles Facebook has faced on its relentless quest for growth. Several journalists will serve as consultants to ensure the plot’s accuracy. (Variety)

Damian Lewis (Homeland and Billions) and Guy Pearce (Mare of Easttown) will appear in A Spy Among Friends, the upcoming limited series for BritBox U.K and Spectrum based on the 2014 best-selling book by Ben Macintyre that will dramatize the true story of spies and lifelong friends Nicholas Elliott (Lewis) and Kim Philby (Pearce), one of whom was betraying the other all along. (Variety)

Kiernan Shipka, who starred on Netflix’s Riverdale spinoff Chilling Adventures of Sabrina from 2018 through to its 2020 series finale, is bringing her titular character to Riverdale in Season 6. (TV Line)

STREAMING SERVICE NEWS

Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us) will star in and executive produce the Hulu series adaptation of the novel Washington Black that will follow the 19th-century adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black – an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. Brown will play the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Washington Black, his young protégé. (Variety)

Jessica Biel (The Sinner) will replace Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) in the upcoming Hulu scripted true crime series about Candy Montgomery, a Texas housewife who infamously murdered her friend Betty Gore with an ax in 1980. (Variety)

Kathryn Hahn will return as Agatha Harkness in the proposed WandaVision spin-off at Disney+ that will focus on her Agatha persona who was trapped inside the town of Westview by Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen). (TV Line and Variety)

Luke Grimes (Yellowstone) will appear in the Netflix rom-com Happiness for Beginners, which is based on the Katherine Center novel that tells the story of Helen, a recently divorced woman who’s struggling with her new reality and reluctantly agrees to sign up for a wilderness survival course. Three weeks in the mountains of Wyoming spent battling swarms of mosquitos, one annoying male companion (expected to be played by Grimes), and her own inner demons. In the end, Helen figures out how to survive plenty more than just a surprise snowstorm or an insect bite. (Yahoo Entertainment)

That’s it. Enjoy!