Last month it was announced that Erin Moriarty (True Detective) had secured the role of Starlight in Amazon’s upcoming adaptation of the Garth Ennis / Darick Robertson comic book series The Boys, and now Deadline is reporting that the show has found the rest of its superhero team, The Seven. According to the site, Antony Starr (American Gothic) […]
Channel 4 rumoured to be developing V for Vendetta TV series
A new rumour is claiming that U.K. broadcast station Channel 4 is developing a TV adaptation of V for Vendetta. The report comes by the way of Bleeding Cool who claims to have confirmed with industry sources that the Alan Moore and David Lloyd comic book V for Vendetta is indeed in the process of […]
Vin Diesel developing boxing drama Crusher’s Club
Fast & Furious star Vin Diesel is teaming up with writer Virgil Williams (Mudbound, Criminal Minds) to develop a new drama series for NBC entitled Crusher’s Club, which will take place in a struggling boxing gym. Variety reports that the series, penned by Williams, will take place in a boxing gym that serves as a […]
Deadwood movie revival to shoot next year?
In an age in which we’ve had The X-Files, Gilmore Girls, and Twin Peaks revived, there’s one show that continues to threaten a comeback, that sadly never materialises, and arguably none are more deserving than HBO’s spittle and swear word drama, Deadwood. Cancelled in 2006 without closure, and when grown up TV shows fell foul […]
Jack Reynor to engage in sex magick in CBS’ Strange Angel
CBS has announced that Jack Reynor (Transformers: Age of Extinction) is set to lead its CBS All Access original drama series Strange Angel, which is based upon George Pendle’s 2006 book and has David Lowery (A Ghost Story) attached to direct the pilot. The series will follow the mysterious-yet-brilliant double life of Jack Parsons in […]
Tyler Hoechlin won’t compare his Superman to Henry Cavill’s Man of Steel
Last week it was announced that Tyler Hoechlin is set to take on the role of Superman for the second season of Supergirl, with the Teen Wolf star subsequently stating that he’s “honored and humbled” to play the Man of Steel. Attending the Sydney Film Festival premiere of his new film Everybody Wants Some!!, The […]
The Simpsons to air first ever hour long episode in January
The upcoming 28th season of The Simpsons will not only see the long-running animated sitcom reaching its landmark 600th episode, but it will also deliver the first hour-long episode in the series’ history, Entertainment Weekly has revealed. Entitled ‘The Great Phatsby’, the episode will deliver a riff on F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great […]
The Purge TV series in development, fourth movie will likely be a prequel
Fresh from the box office success of the third instalment, The Purge: Election Day, writer-director James DeMonaco has revealed to CinemaBlend that he plans on bringing the franchise to the small screen for “an interwoven anthology” series. “My idea is that you do six or seven storylines and I would kind of intercut them, use […]
Sandman adaptation loses its screenwriter as “it needs to go to TV” rather than a movie
Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema’s planned adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comic book series has hit another stumbling block, with screenwriter Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Thing) exiting the project after coming to the conclusion that it is better suited as a TV series rather than a movie. “I had many […]
Sherlock Series 4: Moriarty’s Return Theory
Liam Hoofe with a theory on the Moriarty mystery in Sherlock… The Russian playwright Anton Chekhov once gave some simple advice about the construction of a narrative: if it is not essential, then do not put it there in the first place. This idea has become known as Chekhov’s Gun – simply put, if you […]
