Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

TV CASTING NEWS

Actors Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon a Time), Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica and Murder in a Small Town) and David Hewlett (Stargate: Atlantis) will have recurring roles in the prequel series Vought Rising opposite Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash, but details on the characters they will play are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)

SNL alum Kate McKinnon will have a recurring guest starring role in season 3 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, playing Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, who can alter her appearance depending on the beholder. (Variety)

The Bosch TV universe is expanding from Amazon over to MGM+ with the prequel series Bosch: Start of Watch that will star Cameron Monaghan from Shameless and Omari Hardwick from Power. Monaghan will play rookie cop Harry Bosch (played by Titus Welliver in the original series) and Hardwick playing Eli Bridges, Bosch’s training officer. The series will be set in 1991 in Los Angeles, following 26-year-old Harry Bosch during his earliest days as a rookie cop. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

George Clooney and Annette Bening will star in the upcoming book adaptation of Amy Bloom’s best-sellilng memoir In Love that is an illuminating, modern love story about two people who make an impossible decision together that honors their enduring commitment to each other. (Deadline)

Young actress Chloe Coleman (Marry Me and the My Spy franchise) will star in the upcoming Taylor Sheridan-written action feature film F.A.S.T. that will star 1923 alum Brandon Sklenar as a former special forces commando, down on his luck after he returns Stateside, who is tapped by the DEA to lead a black op strike team against CIA-protected drug dealers in his town. Coleman will play his daughter while LaKeith Stanfield, Jason Clarke and Sam Claflin round out the cast. (The Hollywood Reporter)

James Norton will play longtime manager Brian Epstein in the upcoming Sam Mendes anthology film The Beatle. (Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Amazon Prime has a new YA series in development, which will be inspired by the best-selling novel by Krystal Marquis. The Davenports, the Bridgerton-esque romance series, set in 1910 America, will center on one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status thanks to the entrepreneurship of formerly enslaved patriarch William Davenport. Surrounded by servants, crystal chandeliers, and endless parties, his daughters Olivia and Helen, and their friends, are finding their way and finding love—even where they’re not supposed to. (Deadline)

Stranger Things and Enola Holmes star Millie Bobby Brown will star in and executive produce the upcoming new series Prism that is in development at Netflix. She will play Cassie, a woman with the unique ability to communicate with apparitions, who must uncover the cause of a newly discovered phenomenon that causes “visitors” (ghosts) to appear all over the world before it’s too late. Superman star Rachel Brosnahan will also executive produce. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!