Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATION

Audible has pulled the plug on the podcast Slayers: A Buffyverse Story. (TV Line)

HBO, on the other hand, has given a 5th season renewal to True Detective. (TV Line)

PBS has given All Creatures Great and Small a two-season renewal, extending it to seasons 5 and 6. (TV Line)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Colin Hanks and Mark O’Brien will star in the box office movie Nuremberg alongside Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, Richard E. Grant, Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Wrenn Schmidt and Lotte Verbeek [among others]. The film will chronicle the eponymous trials held between 1945 and 1946 by the Allies against the defeated Nazi regime. (Variety)

Director Sam Mendes has plans to make four separate movies about The Beatles, one movie for each band member: John, Paul, George and Ringo, telling the astonishing story of the greatest band in history, leading up to their 1970 breakup. (Variety)

America Ferrera will star in the upcoming drama The Lost Bus that will also star Matthew McConaughey. The film is based on the Lizzie Johnson book “Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire” about the devastating 2018 California wildfires that resulted in over 100 deaths and destroyed the majority of the town of Paradise. The fires were the deadliest in the state’s history. The movie centers on Kevin McKay (McConaughey) and Mary Ludwig (Ferrera), a bus driver and teacher who lead a school bus full of young students through the Camp Fire. (Variety)

Natasha Lyonne and Simon Baker will star opposite Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams in the box office film Klara and the Sun, which is to be directed by Taika Waititi. The film is based on the Kazuo Ishiguro best-selling novel that tells the story of Klara (Ortega), an Artificial Friend designed to prevent loneliness. Klara is purchased by a mother (Adams) and a bright teen named Josie who adores her new robot companion, but suffers from a mysterious illness. This is the story of Klara’s quest to save Josie and those who love her from heartbreak and how, in the process, Klara learns the power of human love. (Deadline)

TV CASTING NEWS

Oscar-winner Troy Kotsur has joined the upcoming 3rd season of Foundation, playing Preem Palver, the leader of a planet of psychics in the sci-fi epic, which is based on the Issac Asimov novels. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Josh McDermitt (The Walking Dead) will star opposite Stephen Amell Arrow) in the spin-off drama Suits L.A., which will center on Ted Black (Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York, who has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives. All of this is going on while events from years ago slowly unravel that led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved. Fifteen years ago, Ted Black (Amell) joined forces with his old buddy, Stuart Lane (McDermitt), to build an L.A. law firm, Black Lane Law, that specializes in criminal and entertainment law. (Deadline)

Eva Longoria has joined the 4th season of the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building in a recurring role that has yet to be announced. (Variety)

Piper Perabo (Yellowstone and Covert Affairs) has joined the cast of the Amazon Prime series Butterfly that will star Daniel Dae Kim and is based on the BOOM! Studios graphic novel, which is centered on David Jung (Kim), an enigmatic, highly unpredictable former US 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, and he finds himself pursued by Rebecca, a deadly, sociopathic young agent assigned to kill him. Perabo will star as Juno, a brilliant, formidable, Machiavellian woman, who was once an idealistic lawyer, but has since come to the conclusion that she needs power and money to get anything done in this world. (Variety)

The Flash alum Rick Cosnett will have a key recurring role in 9-1-1 when it premieres on its new home – ABC – on March 14. He will play the charismatic cruise director Julian Enes. (Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Netflix is in prequel mode with plans to develop a Virgin River preqel that could explore the origin story between Mel’s (series lead Alexandra Breckenridge) late mom, Sarah, and Everett Reid, who was recently revealed to be Mel’s biological father. (TV Line and Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!