Phoebe Waller-Bridge Archives

HBO releases trailer for Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Run starring Merritt Weaver and Domhnall Gleeson

February 16, 2020 by Amie Cranswick Leave a Comment

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

January 4, 2020 by Ricky Church Leave a Comment

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

November 8, 2019 by Matt Rodgers Leave a Comment

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

June 7, 2019 by Amie Cranswick Leave a Comment

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

April 17, 2019 by Gary Collinson Leave a Comment

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

September 29, 2018 by Gary Collinson Leave a Comment

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)

September 23, 2018 by Brad Cook 1 Comment

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

September 21, 2018 by Samuel Brace Leave a Comment

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

August 16, 2018 by Ricky Church Leave a Comment

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 […]

Movie Review – Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

May 25, 2018 by Ricky Church Leave a Comment

Solo: A Star Wars Story, 2018. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Alden Ehrenreich, Emilia Clarke, Woody Harrelson, Donald Glover, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Paul Bettany, Thandie Newton and Joonas Suotamo. SYNOPSIS: After escaping from a poverty-stricken upbringing, Han Solo becomes embroiled in a criminal gang carrying out a major heist for a dangerous underworld boss. When it […]