Fresh from his SAG Awards nomination earlier this week, This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown has signed on to star in The Fence, a drama in the works at Fox Searchlight. Variety reports that the film will tell the true story of Michael Cox, an African-American undercover police officer who is mistaken for a […]
Vin Diesel executive producing cop drama Conway for NBC
Vin Diesel is set to produce a new cop drama entitled Conway, which is being produced by One Race TV and Universal Television for NBC. Deadline reports that the show will follow Cal Conway, a St. Louis detective “who finds his world turned upside down when he wakes up from a coma with exceptional cognitive […]
NBC adapting graphic novel The Blacksmith for the small screen
NBC is developing a TV adaptation of Malik Evans and Richard Sparkman’s graphic novel series The Blacksmith, which is being scripted by Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2, Truth or Dare). The Blacksmith revolves around Alex Malloy, a man who builds high-tech weaponry for U.S. government agents. However, when he discovers some of the files containing his […]
Logan Lerman to hunt Nazis in Jordan Peele-produced The Hunt
Last year it was announced that Get Out helmer Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions is teaming with Sonar Entertainment to produce The Hunt, a ten-episode Nazi-hunting drama which was subsequently picked up by Amazon. Well, we now have our first piece of casting news, with Variety reporting that Logan Lerman (Fury, The Perks of Being a […]
Venom writer: Spider-Man could play “a significant role” in a future Venom movie
When Sony first announced that it would be moving ahead with an interconnected Marvel universe beginning with a Venom movie, there were conflicting comments coming out of Sony and Marvel Studios as to if and how these films would be linked to the Marvel Cinematic Universe incarnation of Spider-Man, played by Tom Holland. While Marvel’s […]
DC’s Birds of Prey adds two more to its cast
With filming set to get underway next month, DC’s girl gang movie Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) has made two more additions to its cast in comedian Ali Wong (Black Box) and Robert Catrini (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back). According to The Wrap, Wong will play an associate of Detective […]
Image and Skybound announce action-packed new series Assassin Nation
Image Comics and Skybound have announced the upcoming launch of the mega-violent action-comedy series Assassin Nation from two-time Eisner Award-winner Erica Henderson (The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl) and Eisner-nominated writer Kyle Sparks (Rick and Morty). The World’s (Former) Greatest Hitman has a hit out on him. What to do? Why, hire the 20 best assassins in […]
Big Little Lies’ Jean-Marc Vallee to direct Gorilla and the Bird for HBO
Having directed the first season of Big Little Lies for the cable network, filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee is set to reunite with HBO for the new limited series Gorilla and the Bird. Based on Zack McDermott’s book Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother’s Love, the drama is described as “an inspirational […]
Aquaman star Jason Momoa says Henry Cavill is “absolutely not” out as Superman
Just yesterday we brought you some comments from Aquaman star Jason Momoa who addressed the rumours suggesting that his Justice League co-stars Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck were both now finished with the DC Extended Universe. Momoa stressed that he had no knowledge of the situation, but could sympathise if the actors felt it was […]
Batman has to be stopped in Titans season finale trailer
DC Universe has unveiled a trailer for the season finale of its live-action Titans series, which sees Brenton Thwaites’ Dick Grayson returning to Gotham City in an effort to stop Batman, who has seemingly decided to embrace the darkness and plans to finally kill The Joker. Watch the trailer here… From executive producers Akiva Goldsman, […]
