Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWAL

Amazon has renewed Outer Range for a second season. (TV Line)

COMING TO AN END

Netflix will bring Firefly Lane to a close after its upcoming second season. The first 9 episodes of season two will be released on December 2 while the final 7 episodes will air sometime in 2023. (TV Line)

TV CASTING NEWS

Michael Rady (Timeless and Chicago Med) will recur on Magnum P.I.on its new home on NBC. He will play Detective Chris Childs of the Honolulu PD. (TV Line)

Star Trek: Discovery has added new cast members to its upcoming season. Callum Keith Rennie (Battlestar Galactica, Due South and The Umbrella Academy) will play Rayner, a gruff, smart Starfleet Captain who holds a clear line between commander and crew and Eve Harlow (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) will play Moll, a former courier-turned-outlaw equipped with an impressive strategic mind and a sharp wit. (TV Line)

Tom Welling (Smallville and Lucifer) has joined the cast of The Winchesters, recurring as family patriarch Samuel Campbell (originally played by Mitch Pileggi in Supernatural), Mary Campbell’s father, and Dean and Sam’s maternal grandfather. (TV Line)

Keanu Reeves will no longer star in the Hulu series adaptation of The Devil in the White City. (Variety)

Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone and Red Sparrow) will star opposite Kate Winslet in the upcoming HBO limited series The Palace that tells the story of one year within the walls of the palace of an authoritarian regime as it begins to unravel. No character details have been released, though. (Variety)

Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why and Knives Out) will star in the upcoming Starz psychological thriller The Venery of Samantha Bird. The 8-episode series centers on the title character, who while visiting family in New England, reconnects with her childhood sweetheart and falls headlong into what seems like a storybook romance. Underneath their fever dream, however, lurks a more unsettling interpretation of this affair. (The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Jared Leto will star and produce a biopic about Karl Lagerfeld, the iconic fashion designer whose career spanned more than 50 years, who died in Feb. 2019. (Variety)

Sir Ben Kingsley will star in the film adaptation of Violent Cases, the first ever graphic novel from Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. The story journeys into the mind of Neil Gaiman, as a famous author recounts fragmented childhood memories and visits an osteopath, who once worked for Al Capone. It will weave a dark and twisting tale about stories, our memory, violence and the ways we can’t escape our past. (Variety)

That’s it. Enjoy!