It appears that one of the best things to emerge from the fallout of Solo: A Star Wars Story is the fact that Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge have formed a working relationship that has led to their decision to get married for Amazon’s reboot of the Mr. & Mrs. Smith franchise. Announced in suitably […]
HBO releases trailer for Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Run starring Merritt Weaver and Domhnall Gleeson
HBO has released a teaser trailer for Run, the upcoming comedy thriller from the Fleabag team Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Vicky Jones. The series stars Merritt Weaver as Ruby, a woman who receives a text from her college sweetheart Billy (Domhnall Gleeson) inviting her to fulfil a pact they made 17 years ago; watch it here… […]
Killing Eve renewed for fourth season
Ahead of its third season premiere in the spring, Killing Eve has already been renewed for a fourth season from BBC America. Based on the Codename Villanelle novellas by Luke Jennings, Killing Eve revolves around Eve (Sandra Oh), an MI6 operative, and psychopath assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) in this story of two women, bound by a mutual obsession […]
Phoebe Waller-Bridge explains how she tweaked No Time to Die
Fleabag creator and all-round genius Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been telling BBC News about her involvement in bringing James Bond’s 25th installment, No Time to Die into the #metoo era, by performing what she calls “tweaks” to the script. With Daniel Craig coming out last week and rightfully clarifying that Waller-Bridge was hired for her writing […]
Phoebe Waller-Bridge discusses her work on Bond 25’s script
It’s fair to say that Eon isn’t having the smoothest of rides with Bond 25, the latest chapter in the long-running spy series having suffered director and screenwriter shake-ups, production delays and on-set accidents, leading to what the crew are reportedly referring to as a “well-polished shit show”. Back in April, Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge […]
Phoebe Waller-Bridge to “liven up” Bond 25 script
The Guardian is reporting thatPhoebe Waller-Bridge has been brought in to work on the script for Bond 25, with 007 himself Daniel Craig reportedly requesting the Fleabag creator to help “polish” the script with more humour and her offbeat writing style. Bond 25 was originally written by 007 veterans Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, although […]
Domhnall Gleeson to star in HBO comedy pilot Run
The ever-busy Domhnall Gleeson has signed on to star in a lead role in Run, a new comedy pilot from Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge and script editor Vicky Jones, which is set up at HBO. Variety reports that the potential series is described as “a romantic-comedic-thriller that follows Ruby, a woman living a humdrum existence, […]
Blu-ray Review – Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Solo: A Star Wars Story, 2018. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Alden Ehrenreich, Joonas Suotamo, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Paul Bettany, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jon Favreau, Linda Hunt, Ian Kenny, John Tui, and Warwick Davis. SYNOPSIS: The second (and last?) standalone Star Wars movie serves up the origin story of everyone’s favorite […]
Solo: A Star Wars Story’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge would happily return as L3-37 in the future
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the actress behind the droid L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars Story, says that she would happily play the character “forever”. There were plenty of memorable components in this year’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, from Maul’s cameo to the Kessel Run, but another of these was certainly the antics of L3-37, Lando’s […]
Killing Eve adds Nina Sosanya, Edward Bluemel, Julian Barratt for season 2
BBC America’s new hit series Killing Eve is gaining some more cast members for its second season. The espionage-thriller led by former Grey’s Anatomy star Sandra Oh will see Nina Sosanya (Good Omens), Edward Bluemel (A Discovery of Witches) and Julian Barratt (Mindhorn) join the series. Sosanya and Bluemel have been cast in series regular roles while Barratt will […]