Amazon Studios has renewed its sci-fi The Peripheral for a second season. The series, which is led by Chloë Grace Mortez, is produced by Amazon, Warner Bros. Television and Kilter Films. The Peripheral sees Moretz as Flynne Fisher, a young woman trying to hold together the pieces of her broken family in a forgotten corner of […]
James Marsden speaks about Westworld cancellation: “We had plans to finish it the way we wanted to”
At the end of last year HBO announced that they would be closing the gates to Westworld forever and removing the show from their streaming services, leaving viewers who were hoping for a fifth and final season that would answer the multitude of questions posed by showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, extremely disappointed. Well, […]
Westworld creators turned down offer to do Season 5 with a smaller budget
Westworld is another casualty in the game David Zaslav is playing at Warner Bros. Discovery, though it seems like it’s not all on Zaslav on why Westworld is ending as it looks like the masterminds behind the series opted out of making a fifth season for a lot cheaper. THR reports that showrunners Lisa Joy […]
HBO cancels Westworld after four seasons
The park is closed for good as HBO has cancelled Westworld. The series, which premiered in 2016, ran for four seasons from creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Westworld, which was based on Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton’s 1973 film, followed a group of highly-intelligent androids called ‘Hosts’ as they catered to the needs of their human guests […]
Ella Purnell joins Amazon’s Fallout series
Amazon Prime’s Fallout series has added another actor to its cast. Per Deadline, Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) will star alongside Walton Goggins in the upcoming adaptation. Originally launching in 1997, Fallout is a post-apocalyptic RPG game taking place a couple of centuries after a catastrophic nuclear war left Earth a barren Wasteland, with the remnants of mankind living in […]
Fallout TV series coming to Amazon from Westworld’s Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy
Bethesda’s hit series Fallout will become the latest video game to be adapted for the small screen as Amazon has ordered a series from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy and their company Kilter Films. Fallout sees “the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077. […]
Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy producing horror anthology series Unknown for Amazon
Amazon Studios is teaming with Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films for the new horror anthology show Unknown. Developed by Craig Macneill and Clay Chapman (The Boy), Unknown is described as “a psychological horror anthology series that plunges into the corners of the American landscape, probing the intersection of folklore and our […]
Amazon’s The Peripheral adds Jack Reynor
Amazon’s upcoming sci-fi series The Peripheral has added Jack Reynor (Strange Angel) to the cast. He joins Chloë Grace Moretz (Suspiria) and Gary Carr (21 Bridges) in the series, which comes from writer Scott B. Smith (The Burnt Orange Heresy) and Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Reynor will play Burton, the brother to Moretz’s Flynne. He […]
Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal re-team for HBO’s The Son from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy
Jake Gyllenhaal will be re-teaming with his Prisoners and Enemy director Denis Villeneuve for The Son, an HBO limited series adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s novel from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. The Son is “a tale of vengeance set amid Oslo’s brutal hierarchy of corruption.” It focuses on Sonny Lofthus, “an escaped convict: an opioid […]
Chloe Gracë Moretz to star in sci-fi series The Peripheral
Chloë Grace Moretz (Suspiria) has just landed a leading role in a new sci-fi series from Amazon. According to Variety, she will star in The Peripheral which comes from writer Scott B. Smith (The Burnt Orange Heresy) and Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Based on the novel by William Gibson, The Peripheral follows Flynne Fisher […]