Hey All,
Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:
RENEWAL
AMC has given The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon a third season renewal. (TV Line)
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Looks like there will be another spin-off series to The Boys. Vought Rising will star Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash as Soldier Boy and Stormfront respectively. This series will be a twisted murder mystery about the origins of Vought in the 1950s. (TV Line)
The Doctor Who world is expanding with a five-part spin-off series called The War Between the Land and the Sea that will star Russell Tovey (the original Being Human) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Loki) as well as franchise vets Jemma Redgrave and Alexander Devrient. The premise for the new offshoot is thus: When a fearsome and ancient species emerges from the ocean, dramatically revealing themselves to humanity, an international crisis is triggered. With the entire population at risk, UNIT steps into action as the land and sea wage war.” (TV Line)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Sony is planning on rebooting the movie franchise I Know What You Did Last Summer with cast members Camila Mendes (Riverdale) and Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid) [among others]. Original stars Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt are in talks to return. (Variety)
Chris Hemsworth will star in the feature film The Corsair Code, a high-octane, sci-fi mystery adventure, but that’s all the details there are about the film. (Deadline)
Looks like Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson could be starring in the thriller film Die, My Love that will be set in a remote forgotten rural area, following a mother who struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis. It is unknown who Pattinson would play, though. (Deadline)
Rebecca Ferguson (Silo and The Greatest Showman) has joined the cast of the as-yet-untitled Peaky Blinders feature film, but no other details have been revealed. (TV Line)
Oscar winner Brendan Fraser will play American General Dwight Eisenhower in the D-Day movie Pressure that finds Andrew Scott playing James Stagg, the Chief Meteorological Officer of Britain. It was his responsibility to closely monitor the weather forecast for the beaches of Normandy, as inclement weather could spell disaster for the operation. With a small window to launch the invasion, and delays meaning that Germany’s network of spies would have more time to uncover the Allies’ secret plans, Stagg was under an enormous amount of pressure. (Collider)
Robert Downey Jr. is returning to the Marvel Universe, but this time he will be play Victor von Doom/Doctor Doom in the Avengers: Doomsday. (Variety)
Lessons in Chemistry star Lewis Pullman has joined the cast of the upcoming flick Thunderbolts, but it is unclear exactly who he will be playing. (Deadline and Empire Online)
TV CASTING NEWS
Violett Beane (The Flash and Death and Other Details) and Elliot Knight (The Boys) have joined the cast of the Amazon Prime crime drama Countdown that will star Jensen Ackles, Jessica Camacho and Eric Dane. The series centers on LAPD officer Mark Meachum (Ackles), who — after a broad-daylight murder — is brought into a secret task force with agents from a host of law enforcement agencies. A more sinister plot then comes into focus as the task force must put aside competing agendas to save an entire city. Beane will play Evan Shepherd, a tech-savvy recent graduate of the FBI Academy who’s eager to learn how to operate inside the task force and Knight will play Keyonte Bell, a third-generation FBI agent who is well-versed in terrorist threats. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Maura Tierney has joined the cast of the upcoming 24th season of Law & Order, but character details are being kept under wraps. (TV Line)
The 3rd season of the AMC series The Terror has added more cast members, including Judith Light, CCH Pounder, Stephen Root and Marin Ireland, who will join series lead Dan Stevens, who will play Pepper, a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. (Variety)
Josh Charles has joined the cast of The Handmaid’s Tale for the show’s 6th and final season. Details on who he will be playing are being kept under wraps. (Deadline)
Tessa Thompson will star in the Netflix psychological thriller limited series His & Hers, based on the novel by Alice Feeney that will be set in the sweltering heat of Atlanta where Anna (Thompson) lives in haunting reclusivity, fading away from her friends and career as a journalist. But when she overhears about a murder in Dahlonega – the sleepy town where she grew up – she is snapped back to life, pouncing on the case and searching for answers. (Variety)
William Jackson Harper (The Good Place) has joined the cast The Morning Show for its 4th season. He will play Ben, the network’s self-assured and innovative Head of Sports. (Variety)
Dermot Mulroney has joined the cast of Chicago Fire for its 13th season in the series regular role of Chief Dom Pascal. (TV Line)
Patrick J. Adams (Suits) and Jerrika Hinton (Grey’s Anatomy) have joined the cast of the FOX anthology series Accused for the show’s 2nd season. They will both appear in the installment entitled “Marcus’ Story,” in which a tech entrepreneur creates software that when used takes a dark turn. Hinton will play Lycia and Adams will play Pete. (TV Line)
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
Miranda Cosgrove and Pierson Fode will star in the new Netflix rom-com The Wrong Paris, which will center on Dawn (Cosgrove), who is desperate to get to France for a once-in-a-lifetime art opportunity. Thus, she talks her way onto a Bachelor-type dating show set in Paris — only to discover the show is actually set in Paris, Texas as part of a ratings stunt by the producers. Now in jeopardy of losing out on her dreams, Dawn must find a way to get kicked off the show, until a real romance begins to blossom with Trey (Fode), the show’s handsome and charming bachelor. (Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
