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 […]
Westworld’s showrunners discuss the big Delores twist in the latest episode
The showrunner for Westworld has broken down the big Dolores twist in the latest episode of season three. In the most recent episode of Westworld, it was revealed that the hosts who were working with Dolores in the real world were not exactly what they seemed. It turns out that Dolores had copied herself and […]
Westworld adds Vincent Cassel for third season
The third season of HBO’s hit sci-fi series Westworld will see the addition of another new face. According to Deadline, Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) has joined the series in a series regular role for the upcoming season. While his exact role is being kept under wraps, Cassel is expected to be the season’s new villain. “We’re incredibly […]
Warner Bros. acquires Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson sci-fi thriller Reminiscence
After gaining The Greatest Showman‘s Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson last month, Lisa Joy’s (Westworld) directorial debut Reminiscence has now found a studio, with Deadline revealing that Warner Bros. will distribute the sci-fi action thriller worldwide after a bidding war among several studios. Reminiscence will see Jackman as Nicolas Bannister, “a rugged and solitary veteran living in a […]
The Dark Knight screenwriter says even Warner Bros. “didn’t get” Heath Ledger’s casting as The Joker
It’s hard to imagine now given how iconic his performance was, but the news that Heath Ledger has been cast as The Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight was met with the same kind of backlash and outcry usually reserved for the unveiling of a new Batman actor. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Nolan’s […]
HBO renews Westworld for third season
Just two episodes into its second season and the future of Westworld is official. It should hardly come as a surprise to anyone who watches the show, but HBO has renewed the sci-fi series for a third season. The series was created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy based on the 1973 film of the same name […]
Westworld season 3 may not arrive until 2020
Westworld returns to HBO tonight for its season two premiere, with the cable network having made us wait almost seventeen months since our last visit to the immersive theme park. Well, it seems we may face a similar if not longer wait for season three, with co-showrunner Jonathan Nolan telling Entertainment Weekly that he and […]
Blu-ray Review – Westworld Season One: The Maze
Ricky Church reviews Westworld Season One: The Maze… Last year HBO had a breakout series with Westworld, a loose remake of the 1973 Michael Crichton film, about a Western immersion park where androids, otherwise known as hosts, take guests on a narrative journey through the Wild West, but there is more going on with the hosts […]
