Upcoming TV shows/Movies: A Post-Strike World

[AncalagonTheBlack]

Amazon Prime Video Orders Series Adaptation of Ed Brubaker Graphic Novel ‘Criminal’

Amazon‘s Prime Video has ordered a series adaptation of the Ed Brubaker graphic novel “Criminal,” Variety has confirmed.

Brubaker created the graphic novel along with Sean Phillips. Both serve as executive producers. Brubaker also wrote the pilot script and will serve as co-showrunner alongside executive producer Jordan Harper.

“’Criminal’ is a beloved graphic novel created by the most iconic team in the history of comics,” said Nick Pepper, head of U.S. SVOD wholly owned development at Amazon MGM Studios. “I know our global Prime Video customers will immediately embrace this story, and I look forward to working with Ed, Jordan, and the team to bring it to the screen.”

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/amazon-prime-video-ed-brubaker-criminal-1235865375/

[Ran]

Brubaker's awesome, love his noir and hardboiled crime stuff, this could hopefully be pretty good.

[Martell Spy]

Theo James Embraces the "High" Life in First 'The Gentlemen' Trailer
Guy Ritchie's series also stars Kaya Scodelario and Ray Winstone.

 The Gentlemen is a Netflix drama sequel to Guy Ritchie's movie that showcases the glitz, glamor, and dirty dealings of the British criminal underworld.
 Ray Winstone joins the cast as a career criminal and influential figure in the cannabis empire, adding to the star-studded ensemble.
 Guy Ritchie has a busy 2024 ahead with multiple projects, including The Gentlemen, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and Fountain of Youth.

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A new member of the British aristocracy is entering the fray in Netflix's new drama The Gentlemen. The streamer shared the first teaser for Guy Ritchie's sequel series which shows the glitz, glamor, and dirty dealings of the "original gangsters." Amidst the action, two-time BAFTA nominee Ray Winstone was unveiled in a starring role, joining Theo James and Kaya Scodelario in the British criminal underworld. Helmed by Ritchie, the series is confirmed to arrive in March.

The Gentlemen takes place in the world of Ritchie's 2019 film starring Matthew McConaughey, though it introduces a host of new players in the cannabis business. At the center of the sequel series is Eddie Horniman (James), The Duke of Halstead who gets sucked into criminal dealings when he discovers the estate he inherited from his father was a cannabis empire. He now has to deal with a cavalcade of gangsters and other shady characters who look to game him and take a piece of that empire for themselves. The brief teaser shows Eddie's arrival on the property and embrace of both the high life and the responsibilities of running an illegal operation. That includes tense dealings with rival criminals, attending lavish parties, taking part in boxing matches, and using force when necessary to keep the culture in order.

 

 

[Deadlines? What Deadlines?]

I would have liked a Guy Ritchie Man From Uncle series over a The Gentlemen series. 

[AncalagonTheBlack]

John Wick Director Is Officially Tackling Highlander Next, With Henry Cavill On Board

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Stahelski has been developing a Highlander movie since 2016, and Henry Cavill has been attached to the reboot since 2021. 

Highlander’s green light is part of a sweeping new deal Stahelski and Lionsgate announced Tuesday. The pact will give Stahelski oversight of two franchises: Highlander and John Wick

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/highlander-movie-will-be-john-wick-chad-stahelski-next-feature-1235789573/

[AncalagonTheBlack]

Noah Hawley (and FX) Wants Their Alien Series to Span Several Seasons

The much anticipated Alien series in the works at FX is set to start filming this year in Thailand, and showrunner Noah Hawley, who has worked on other FX shows such as Legion and Fargo, has plans for the series to go beyond one season.

In a recent interview with Collider, Hawley shared that FX wanted his Alien prequel, which takes place on Earth at the same time as the events in Prometheus, to be a show with multiple seasons rather than a limited series stint. The network’s desire aligned with Hawley’s, who said that his idea for Alien had a three-part structure.

“I knew that [FX’s] desire was for a recurring series, not a limited series [for Alien], and I had an idea that I was excited about, that I could see the escalation of it from one year to another,” Hawley said. “That’s where we ended up not pitching them having a bible or pitching them blow-by-blow, but saying, ‘Big picture: this is the first movement, this is the second movement, and we’re ultimately going here.’”

https://collider.com/alien-series-multiple-seasons/

Edited January 18 by AncalagonTheBlack

[AncalagonTheBlack]

‘Harry Potter’ TV Series Zeroes In On Premise As Selected Writers Pitch Their Ideas To Max

https://deadline.com/2024/01/harry-potter-tv-series-premise-writers-set-max-1235798159/

EXCLUSIVE: The Harry Potter television series is moving closer to fruition.

Deadline understands that things in Potterworld are now heating up with a marathon of pitches underway from writers vying for the right to adapt J.K. Rowling’s seven books.

Martha Hillier, Kathleen Jordan, Tom Moran and Michael Lesslie are among those who are presenting their visions to the streaming service and Warner Bros Television, sources said. It’s an interesting mix of Brits and Americans. We’ve heard that the group of writers were commissioned by Max to create pitches for a series reflecting their take on the IP.

 

‘Swan Song’ Based On Robert McCammon Novel In Works For Television

https://deadline.com/2024/01/swan-song-robert-mccammon-novel-television-greg-nicotero-1235798342/

 

EXCLUSIVE: Swan Song, Robert McCammon‘s bestselling post-apocalyptic novel, is getting the small-screen treatment. Monarch Media and Greg Nicotero and Brian Witten’s Monster Agency Productions are teaming on an action/genre series based on the horror novel.

In Swan Song, following the U.S. government’s nuclear showdown with an unprecedented malevolent enemy, America as it was is gone forever. Now the remaining citizens must fight to stay alive in a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies.

[Calibandar]

Highlander very much looking forward to that.

 

Swan Song also, that could be great.

[AncalagonTheBlack]

New Jurassic World Movie in the Works at Universal

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/new-jurassic-world-movie-in-the-works-1235792506/

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that a new Jurassic World feature was in the works, with a script written by David Keopp, who wrote 1993’s Jurassic Park as well as 1997’s Jurassic Park: The Lost World.  The story will reportedly launch a “new Jurassic era” at Universal Pictures, which suggests that neither the stars from the recent films—Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard—as well as the OG cast members—Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum—will be making any appearances.

[Heartofice]

3 hours ago, AncalagonTheBlack said:

New Jurassic World Movie in the Works at Universal

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/new-jurassic-world-movie-in-the-works-1235792506/

The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that a new Jurassic World feature was in the works, with a script written by David Keopp, who wrote 1993’s Jurassic Park as well as 1997’s Jurassic Park: The Lost World.  The story will reportedly launch a “new Jurassic era” at Universal Pictures, which suggests that neither the stars from the recent films—Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard—as well as the OG cast members—Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum—will be making any appearances.

 

Phew, I was worried I'd have to wait a few years for them to reboot Jurassic park!

[Argonath Diver]

It says "Jurassic World" in the release though so I assume they aren't touching the original Park film, just ditching the soulless but profitable Pratt ones? 

 

[Heartofice]

15 minutes ago, Argonath Diver said:

It says "Jurassic World" in the release though so I assume they aren't touching the original Park film, just ditching the soulless but profitable Pratt ones? 

 

Right now I'm assuming 'Jurassic World' is just their name for the Jurassic universe, so that they can just keep pumping out Dinosaur shaped turds and asking for cash.

[SpaceChampion]

Jon Stewart returns as host of the Daily Show on Monday nights, overseeing the whole week as EP.

 

[AncalagonTheBlack]

Oscar Nominee Lily Gladstone Will Star in The Memory Police

The adaptation of Yoko Ogawa's novel is written by Charlie Kaufman.

https://reactormag.com/oscar-nominee-lily-gladstone-will-star-in-the-memory-police/

 

Newly minted Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) has a new project all lined up—and it’s kind of a doozy. According to The Hollywood Reporter, she is set to star in a long-gestating adaptation of Yōko Ogawa’s novel The Memory Police. Reed Morano (an Emmy winner for The Handmaid’s Tale) is directing the project, which is written by Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).The adaptation reteams Gladstone with her Killers of the Flower Moon director, Martin Scorsese, who is an executive producer on the project. 

The Memory Police was originally published in 1994, and arrived in the U.S. in 2019. The English-language edition was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature and the World Fantasy Award. The novel’s synopsis says:

On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss.

[AncalagonTheBlack]

Aneurin Barnard, Hayley Atwell, Jack Lowden Join Duncan Jones’ Science Fiction Movie ‘Rogue Trooper’ (EXCLUSIVE)

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/aneurin-barnard-hayley-atwell-jack-lowden-duncan-jones-rogue-trooper-1235889907/

Aneurin Barnard, Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden lead the cast of science fiction movie “Rogue Trooper,” written and directed by Duncan Jones, whose credits include “Moon,” “Source Code,” “Warcraft” and “Mute.”

The animated film, which is being created with Epic’s 3D tool Unreal Engine 5, was adapted by Jones from the comic book published by 2000 AD, home to “Judge Dredd,” “Halo Jones” and “Sláine.” “Rogue Trooper,” produced by Rebellion and Liberty Films, has wrapped principal photography at Rebellion Film Studios in the U.K. The film is set to be finished next year.

Barnard (“The Goldfinch,” “Dunkirk”) stars as the eponymous Rogue Trooper. Cast alongside him are Atwell (“Captain America: The First Avenger,” “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”), Lowden (“Slow Horses,” “Dunkirk”), Daryl McCormack (“Bad Sisters,” “Good Luck to You Leo Grande”) and Reece Shearsmith (“Inside No. 9,” “Saltburn”).

Others in the cast include Jemaine Clement (“Avatar 2: The Way of Water”), Matt Berry (“What We Do in the Shadows”), Diane Morgan (“Cunk on Earth”), Alice Lowe (“Black Mirror”), Asa Butterfield (“Sex Education,” “Hugo”) and Sean Bean (“Game of Thrones,” “The Lord of the Rings”).

“Rogue Trooper” tells the story of 19, a “Genetic Infantryman,” who finds himself the sole-survivor of an invasion force. Desperate to track down the traitor who sold him and his comrades out, the super soldier is accompanied by three killed-in-action squad mates, whose personalities have been stored in his gun, helmet and rucksack.

The “Rogue Trooper” comic book was created by artist Dave Gibbons (“Watchmen,” “Kingsman”) and writer Gerry Finley-Day (“Dan Dare”).

[Zorral]

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Michael Shannon is to play assassinated President Garfield with Matthew Macfadyen as his killer Charles Guiteau in a new series for Netflix.

Death By Lightning comes from Bad Education screenwriter Mike Makowsky, who created the series, and directed by Matt Ross (Captain Fantastic) with Game of Thrones duo David Benioff and D.B. Weiss exec producing via their overall deal with Netflix.

It is based on the book Destiny Of The Republic by Candice Millard.  [which I've read -- it's good. ]

 

https://deadline.com/2024/02/michael-shannon-matthew-macfadyen-death-by-lightning-netflix-1235810651/

Not much of what is supposedly coming along interests my Watch sensibilities, but this does -- it's quite an astonishing/weird event and time in US history, and not least since it was Arthur who took Garfield's position after his death from assassination attempt (1881).

Then, in 1899, McKinley was assassinated, and Theodore Roosevelt stepped in.

Yes, our history is one of peaceful transfer of power and 'merely' lone deranged killers . . . .

TR didn't run, as he could have, and was wanted to do, for a second term, since Roosevelt thought he'd really had a first term already since McKinley died, so had already served two terms.  He regretted his decision after not too short a time!  Imagine what history of the period might have been like if not Taft, then, we had Roosevelt . . . .

 

Edited February 1 by Zorral

[Martell Spy]

First look at Squid Game season 2 teases a deadly game of cat and mouse
Player 456 is in danger... again.

https://ew.com/squid-game-season-2-first-look-player-456-8557166

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Footage within a new Netflix sizzle reel provides our first look at the upcoming season, set to premiere later this year, with Gi-hun answering a mysterious call.

“You’re going to regret the choice you made,” says the voice on the other end, while the unsettling theme plays in the background. Gi-hun freezes, but does not back down.

“I will find you,” he says. “No matter what it takes.”

Evidently, the upcoming season will pick up exactly where the first left off — airport, hair dye, and all.

 

 

[JGP]

On 1/23/2024 at 1:59 PM, Calibandar said:

Swan Song also, that could be great.

Growing up McCammon was like, my second goto after King. Swan Song could be good. Could also really suck. 

Me, with the special operative, WWII setting -if directed by a romantically stylized aesthetic like del Toro's, say-  as a limited series The Wolf's Hour would be the absolute shit. I'd watch the hell out of that. 

[Calibandar]

That could be a great series too, yes.

4 hours ago, Zorral said:

https://deadline.com/2024/02/michael-shannon-matthew-macfadyen-death-by-lightning-netflix-1235810651/

Not much of what is supposedly coming along interests my Watch sensibilities, but this does -- it's quite an astonishing/weird event and time in US history, and not least since it was Arthur who took Garfield's position after his death from assassination attempt (1881).

Then, in 1899, McKinley was assassinated, and Theodore Roosevelt stepped in.

Yes, our history is one of peaceful transfer of power and 'merely' lone deranged killers . . . .

TR didn't run, as he could have, and was wanted to do, for a second term, since Roosevelt thought he'd really had a first term already since McKinley died, so had already served two terms.  He regretted his decision after not too short a time!  Imagine what history of the period might have been like if not Taft, then, we had Roosevelt . . . .

 

Thats also an interesting series.

[Consigliere]

 

Please don't be shit!