Deadline is reporting that Captain America: Civil War directors Joe and Anthony Russo are teaming up with comic book creator Rick Remender and Sony Pictures TV for an adaptation of Remender and artist Wes Craig’s Image Comics series Deadly Class. Written by Remender and Miles Feldsott, with Adam Targum (Banshee) serving as showrunner, the TV […]
Rumoured character breakdowns may reveal new characters for Jessica Jones season 2
With filming now underway, MCU Exchange has revealed four character breakdowns for potential new characters in the second series of Netflix’s hit Marvel TV series Jessica Jones, which reportedly come by way of a casting call for the new season: [DR. KIRBY] 60s, male, open ethnicity, scientist & freethinker SERIES REGULAR – ONE YEAR DEAL [PRESLEY] Late 30s, Male, […]
Luke Cage season 2 casting breakdown reveals two new characters
With the second season of Marvel’s Luke Cage readying itself to go into production, MCU Exchange has got its hands on casting breakdowns for two new series regulars set to join Mike Colter’s Power Man in the Netflix series. [BYRON] 30 – 45, 6’0 or taller, Jamaican, but open to Black Caribbean or African Descent. […]
Batman, X-Men and TMNT voice actors teaming for The Gang’s All Here
THR is reporting that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles voice actor Rob Paulsen has enlisted Kevin Conroy (Batman: The Animated Series), Cal Dodd (X-Men: The Animated Series) and director Andrea Romano (Batman: The Animated Series) for the new animated project The Gang’s All Here. According to the site, the project has been conceived as a comedic […]
Alice Eve cast in Marvel’s Iron Fist season 2
When Marvel’s Iron Fist returns to Netflix for its second season, it will have Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness) among its ranks. Eve will star as a regular role throughout the season, but Marvel is staying mum right now on who exactly her character is and whether she’s an ally or enemy of the immortal Iron […]
Good Concept, Bad Delivery
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at when good concepts are badly executed… Occasionally you’ll see a film or a TV show and you wonder why they bothered at all. Everything goes wrong. Sometimes it starts from the very concept. In the case of remakes for example, you know right off the bat that some films […]
Arrow showrunner suggests Deathstroke is no longer appearing in The Batman
Ever since the departure of Ben Affleck from the director’s chair on The Batman, and the subsequent appointment of War for the Planet of the Apes helmer Matt Reeeves (who is overseeing a page-one rewrite), there’s been a lot of speculation as to whether the previously announced Deathstroke will remain part of the project. Former […]
Jim Broadbent reveals his Game of Thrones role
Back in August of last year it was revealed that Jim Broadbent will be appearing in a “significant role” in the upcoming seventh season of Game of Thrones, although his role was being kept tightly under wraps. Despite all of the secrecy surrounding the show, Broadbent has been taking a leaf out of Ian McShane’s […]
Robert Downey Jr.’s Perry Mason reboot gets new writers
In August of last year, it was announced that Robert Downey Jr. was teaming with True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto for a reboot of the classic legal drama Perry Mason, with Downey set to take on the role made famous by Raymond Burr. However, with Pizzolatto’s focus now on a third season of True Detective, Deadline […]
Is TV Now More Effective Than Film?
Samuel Brace on whether TV is now more effective than film… Television is fun but it could never compete with the power of cinema. That is a statement that was once true and now isn’t. The landscape has changed and we have changed with it. Television for the longest time was a means to bring […]
