Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

Peacock has given Twisted Metal, the video game adaptation that stars Anthony Mackie, a second season renewal. (TV Line)

The revival series Leverage: Redemption has been renewed for a third season but will be moving from Amazon’s Freevee over to Prime video. (Variety)

The Apple TV+ sci-fi/fansasy series Foundation, which stars Lee Pace, has been given a third season renewal. (TV Line)

The ABC drama Station 19 will come to an end after its upcoming 7th season. (Deadline and TV Line)

The AMC Bob Odenkirk-led drama Lucky Hank has been cancelled after only one season. (TV Line)

Freeform has cancelled its last two remaining scripted shows: Good Trouble and Cruel Summer, leaving the future of cable network’s scripted slate up in the air. (TV Line)

TV SERIES DEPARTURE

Actress Heida Reed will be leaving FBI: International early in the show’s upcoming third season. (TV Line)

FILM NEWS

Russell Crow, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon will star in the historical drama Nuremberg, which will follow Malek as an American psychiatrist who is tasked to determine if Nazi prisoners are fit to stand trial for their war crimes. He finds himself in a battle of the wits with Hitler’s right-hand man (to be played by Crowe). Shannon will play Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, the chief prosecutor in the Nuremburg trials. (Variety)

Tom Blyth (Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Billy the Kid) will star in the new film adaptation of A Farewell to Arms, playing protagonist Frederic Henry, a young volunteer ambulance driver for the Italian Army during World War I who gets wounded and falls in love with his nurse. (Variety)

Devery Jacobs (Reservation Dogs) and Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld) will star in the sports drama Backspot about an ambitious cheerleader (Jacobs), who faces both new adversity and the increased drive for perfection and triumph when she and her girlfriend are selected for an all-star cheer squad with an overbearing head coach (Evan Rachel Wood). (Deadline)

Peter Facinelli (Twilight movie franchise) will star in the sci-fi action thriller Convergence, playing Sam Reilly, a Supervisory ICE Officer who comes to question his worldview as he’s forced into conflict with an alien threat, fighting to save the Earth from an invasion and rescue a young girl who lost her family in the chaos. When an alien satellite crash lands in the desert of New Mexico, it infects two geologists sent to investigate with a mysterious, terrifying, and deadly condition. As the contagion begins to spread and threatens all of humanity, Sam’s joined in his fight for the future of the planet by a CDC Doctor. (Deadline)

Charlize Theron and Daniel Craig will star in the Justin Lin-directed movie Two for the Money, a heist thriller. Specific details about the story are being kept under wraps. (The Hollywood Reporter)

TV SERIES ORDER

Netflix has given a 10-episode order to the drama Ransom Canyon, which will star Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly in a romance-fueled family drama and contemporary Western that will chart the intersecting lives of three ranching families, all set against the rugged expanse of Texas Hill Country. Duhamel will star as Staten Kirkland, the owner and sole occupant of the sprawling Double K Ranch while Kelly will play Quinn, who has often found herself in the shadow of others, but after a stint in New York pursuing her career as a concert pianist, she has returned to Ransom Canyon to carve out a new path for herself. (Variety)

The 8-episode TV series adaptation of the box office movie Cruel Intentions will officially air on Prime Video. The series is expected to take place at an elite Washington, D.C. college, where two ruthless step-siblings will do anything to stay on top of the cutthroat social hierarchy. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Judith Light and Billy Crystal will star in the Apple TV+ limited series Before, a 10-episode atmospheric, character-driven psychological thriller about Eli (Crystal), a child psychiatrist who, after recently losing his wife, Lynn (Light), encounters a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli’s past. Seductively enigmatic, Lynn (Light) is the love of Eli’s life, but her recent death may not be quite what it seems. As Eli digs deeper into the hidden life of the wife he thought he knew, he soon finds Lynn haunting him from beyond the grave. (Deadline)

Reina Hardesty (The Flash TV series) will star alongside Daniel Dae Kim in the upcoming Prime Video spy thriller Butterlfy, playing Rebecca, a deadly, sociopathic young agent assigned to kill David Jung (Kim) an enigmatic, highly unpredictable former U.S. intelligence operative living in South Korea, whose life is blown to pieces when the consequences of an impossible decision from his past come back to haunt him. (Variety)

Amanda Warren (East New York) has joined the cast of the second season of the Netflix hit series The Night Agent, playing Catherine Weaver, a veteran of the top-secret Night Action investigative program, who trains and oversees various Night Agents. The next 10-episode installment of the conspiracy action-thriller will be released sometime next year. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!