According to Deadline, Jeff Bridges and Diane Lane have signed on to star in an untitled drama for director Reed Morano (The Handmaid’s Tale, Meadowland), which was previously known as First Chair and has been scripted by Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right). The film will follow “a regimented, self-obsessed virtuoso violinist (Bridges) who […]
House of Cards creator Beau Willimon joins with Hulu for Mars series The First
The creator of the US Netflix adaptation of House of Cards, Beau Willimon, is taking his latest series over to Hulu. Having departed House of Cards after season 4, Willimon is now working on a new project entitled The First which is a drama about the first human mission to Mars. Hulu have given the […]
BBC Studios developing Ken Follett and Frederick Forsyth adaptations
Variety is reporting that BBC Studios is working on small screen adaptations of Ken Follett’s World War II novel Jackdaws and Federick Forsyth’s terrorist thriller The Kill List. Jackdaws follows a team of female insurgents in Occupied France in World War II, and was originally developed as a four-part series for the BBC, who ultimately passed […]
The Crow reboot is eyeing an R-rating
The long planned reboot of The Crow is looking to garner an R-rating, according its executive producer. While there have been plenty of false starts for the project, Rings director F. Javier Gutierrez is still attached to the movie, albeit as executive producer, having vacated the director’s chair back in 2014. The reboot of the […]
IDW announces The Princess Bride: As You Wish: Memorable Quotes To Color
IDW has announced that it is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the beloved cult classic The Princess Bride with the release of a second adult coloring book, entitled The Princess Bride: As You Wish: Memorable Quotes To Color. “With the overwhelming success of The Princess Bride: A Storybook to Color, we wanted to follow it up with […]
Johnny Depp to headline Richard Says Goodbye
Johnny Depp has signed on for the lead in Richard Says Goodbye, a comedy-drama from writer-director Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye), Deadline has revealed. The film will see Depp as Richard, “a world-weary college professor who is given a life-changing diagnosis and then decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live […]
NBC gives series orders to Rise and For God & Country
NBC has added to new shows to its slate for next season, with Deadline reporting that the network has granted series orders to Rise and For God & Country. Rise comes from former Friday Night Lights showrunner Jason Katims and Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller and is based upon the book Drama High, which chronicles the […]
Garret Dillahunt joins Steve McQueen’s Widows
Deadline is reporting that Garret Dillahunt is set to reunite with his 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen for the British filmmaker’s latest project Widows. The big screen adaptation of the 1983 Lynda La Plante crime series has been scripted by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn and focuses on a group of women who […]
Jerry O’Connell and Sydney Poitier to headline police procedural Carter
Variety is reporting that Jerry O’Connell and Sydney Poitier have signed on to headline Carter, a new police procedural series from Sony Pictures Television Networks. The series will see O’Connell starring as “a detective on a hit American TV show who is forced to return to his hometown after an embarrassing public meltdown in Hollywood. […]
TriStar developing TV series on Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential bid
Deadline is reporting that Hillary Clinton’s failed bid to become the first female President of the United States could be heading to the small screen, as TriStar Television has optioned the rights to the book Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign to develop as a limited series. The official description for the book reads: “It was […]
