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lundi 30 novembre 2020

Legendary Taps Peter Dinklage to Lead The Toxic Avenger Reboot

Legendary taps Peter Dinklage to lead The Toxic Avenger reboot

After announcing development of a reboot of the cult classic superhero dark comedy franchise in March 2019 with Macon Blair set to write and direct, Legendary has tapped Game of Thrones alum Peter Dinklage to lead The Toxic Avenger, according to Deadline.

Blair’s directorial debut, I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore, premiered in 2017 and won the Grand Jury Prize award at the Sundance Film Festival. Onscreen, Blair has starred in Blue Ruin, Green Room, Murder Party, Gold, Logan Lucky, American Woman, and Netflix’s horror drama Hold the Dark.

The original 1984 comedy, produced by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, is set in the fictional town of Tromaville, N.J., and centered on a mild-mannered janitor at a health club who’s chased out a second story window by bullies and lands in a drum of toxic waste. The chemicals cause him to transform into the Toxic Avenger, who has superhuman size and strength and stands up to bullies and corruption.

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The original film kick-started a franchise, including feature sequels, The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, as well as a strange musical production, a children’s cartoon TV series, and a Marvel comic.

Kaufman and Herz will serve as producers on the reboot for Troma Entertainment, with Alex Garcia and Jay Ashenfelter overseeing for Legendary. The studio acquired the rights to the film back in December 2018.

The Toxic Avenger becomes the latest upcoming feature project for Dinklage after recently signing on to star in the Searchlight Pictures psychological thriller Keith, as well as Blair’s other in-development comedy Brothers, in which he’ll star alongside Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame), and the action adventure Good Bad & Undead in which he’s in talks to star alongside fellow GoT alum Jason Momoa, the latter two of which are also set at Legendary Entertainment.

(Photo Credit: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)

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HBO Unveils Poster & Trailer for First Euphoria Special Episode

After announcing two pandemic special episodes for the Emmy-winning series earlier this fall, HBO has unveiled the poster and trailer for the first new Euphoria episode, entitled “Rue,” which is set to premiere on December 6! The trailer and poster can be viewed below!

part one: rue pic.twitter.com/5U9E4vfBzs

— euphoria (@euphoriaHBO) November 30, 2020

welcome back, rue. pic.twitter.com/JNmD2Pm1R1

— euphoria (@euphoriaHBO) November 30, 2020

Series creator Sam Levinson wrote and directed the first episode (under COVID-19 guidelines), previously titled “Trouble Don’t Last Always,” which will also feature Colman Domingo. The episode synopsis reads as follows:

“In the aftermath of being left by Jules at the train station and relapsing, the first special episode follows Rue (played by Emmy-winner Zendaya) as she celebrates Christmas.”

The drama ranks as HBO’s youngest skewing drama series on the network’s digital platforms. In addition to delivering a series high for its Sunday night 10 p.m. premiere telecast, Euphoria continued to grow every week on HBO’s digital platforms. The series premiere night delivered over 5.5 million viewers across HBO’s platforms.

Kicking off its eight-episode first season June 16 on HBO, the series stars Zendaya (Spider-Man: Far From Home) who heads the ensemble cast of the show, which follows a group of high school students as they navigate a minefield of drugs, sex, identity, trauma, social media, love and friendship. The series is created and written by Sam Levinson (HBO’s The Wizard of Lies), who also directs five episodes of the first season.

Euphoria puts a fresh spin on the coming-of-age narrative, exploring the teenage landscape of substance-enhanced parties and anxiety-ridden day-to-day life with empathy and candor. The series follows 17-year-old Rue Bennett (Zendaya), a drug addict fresh from rehab, who’s struggling to make sense of her future. Her life changes dramatically when she meets Jules Vaughn (Hunter Schafer), a girl who recently moved to town following her parents’ divorce, and like Rue is searching for where she belongs.

The cast for the first season of Euphoria includes Zendaya, Maude Apatow, Angus Cloud, Eric Dane, Alexa Demie, Jacob Elordi, Barbie Ferreira, Nika King, Storm Reid, Hunter Schafer, Algee Smith and Sydney Sweeney.

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Surface: Gugu Mbatha-Raw to Lead Apple TV+ Psychological Thriller Series

Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show, Loki, Misbehaviour) is set to star in Surface, Apple TV+’s new psychological thriller series from High Fidelity co-creator and executive producer Veronica West, according to Deadline. The project received a straight-to-series order from the streamer.

Surface is an eight-part series created and written by West, who will executive produce alongside Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter of Hello Sunshine. Mbatha-Raw will also co-executive produce the series.

Production is expected to begin next year. The series is produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and Apple Studios.

Besides co-starring alongside Witherspoon in Apple TV+’s drama The Morning Show as Hannah Shoenfeld, Mbatha-Raw’s credits also include Misbehaviour, Come Away, Motherless Brooklyn, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, A Wrinkle in Time, Beauty and the Beast, The Cloverfield Paradox, Free State of Jones, Miss Sloane, Concussion, and more. Mbatha-Raw’s upcoming projects include the drama feature Seacole and the Disney+ series Loki starring MCU star Tom Hiddleston.

(Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images)

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Rosario Dawson Reveals How She Was Cast As Ahsoka Tano in The Mandalorian

The long-awaited live-action debut of Ahsoka Tano finally happened in the latest episode of The Mandalorian. One of the most influential female characters in Star Wars is portrayed on the small screen by actress Rosario Dawson. In an extended interview with Vanity Fair, Dawson talked about the long process that brought her to portray Anakin Skywalker’s former Padawan in live-action (via SuperHeroHype).

“It first came from fans online,” she said. “Someone tweeted me and fancast me. I retweeted back and I was like, ‘Absolutely, yes please’ and ‘#AhsokaLives.’ And apparently that got the attention of someone who has been doing the Star Wars press for years. She forwarded it to Dave Filoni. That kind of started a whole thing. I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, did I just get fancast in something?’ And then nothing happened.”

It took a while before she got the call from Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, The Mandalorian producers. Given the importance of the Star Wars Universe character, the creative duo had to ponder the casting.

The producers called Dawson right before the series’ debut, showing the actress some concept art as Ahsoka. When it came to the moment, Filoni felt that the choice was the right one.

“When I was first exploring the possibility of directing live-action, I asked [Lucasfilm president] Kathleen Kennedy about casting and when you knew someone was right for a part,” Filoni said in the same interview. “She thought about it and said, ‘You just know.’ And she was right. When I met Rosario, I just knew she was right for Ahsoka. Yes there was the tweet, and her interest in the part, yes she has been in action movies and is a huge fan of sci-fi and fantasy stories, yes, she knew Hayden Christensen and pictures of them together look like Anakin and Ahsoka. But in the end, when I met her and we talked, I just knew.”

Hayden Christensen portrayed Anakin Skywalker in the prequel trilogy. He and Dawson went to the same acting school, Strasberg, and happened to have the same class. Apparently, they bonded, and fans are still dreaming of seeing them together on the screen as Ahsoka and Anakin. In the meantime, you can check the official photos from the latest episode of the show in the gallery below.

Did you like Rosario Dawson’s debut as Ahsoka Tano? Let us know in the comments section below.

Recommended Reading: The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian (Season One)

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Noah Hawley Talks Future of Alien TV Series and Star Trek 4

Well, fans will have to wait for a while before watching anything new from the Alien Universe. When Disney acquired 21st Century Fox, the rights of the franchise passed to the House of Mouse, which seemed potentially interested in a TV series with the famous xenomorph. But according to Legion showrunner Noah Hawley, the talks for a show have stalled, for the moment (via SuperHeroHype).

“I know that there’s an effort to reshuffle a lot of things post-Disney takeover and it was a conversation that I had a couple years back,” he said to Deadline. “And I have not in the last few weeks been having those conversations about it. But I know that like any studio that there’s a great desire to make the most of one’s library so I wouldn’t be surprised to see something like that.”

In the same interview, Hawley also talked about the future of the Star Trek movies. He was at one point attached to the fourth movie after the reboot. But like with the Alien show, it seems that things are on hold at Paramount right now.

“It doesn’t appear to be in my immediate future,” he added. “I think when Emma [Watts, President of Paramount Pictures] came in, she took a look at the franchise and wanted to go in a different direction with it. But you know, life is long, we were very close to production but in this business that doesn’t mean much. You got to get out of the gate to be in the race if you know what I mean.”

Do you think that we will get an Alien series? And what do you think about the future of Star Trek 4? Let us know in the comments section below.

Recommended Reading: The Making of Alien

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Exclusive Angie: Lost Girls Trailer Starring Olivia d’Abo, Dylan Sprayberry & Randall Batinkoff

Exclusive Angie: Lost Girls Trailer Starring Olivia d'Abo, Dylan Sprayberry & Randall Batinkoff

Exclusive Angie: Lost Girls Trailer Starring Olivia d’Abo, Dylan Sprayberry & Randall Batinkoff

ComingSoon.net is debuting the exclusive trailer for the upcoming drama Angie: Lost Girls, starring Olivia d’Abo (Conan The Destroyer), Dylan Sprayberry (Teen Wolf), and Randall Batinkoff (For Keeps?). Releasing on VOD on December 18 from Freestyle Digital Media, you can check out the trailer for the film in the player below!

Angie Morgan (Jane Widdop) is deep in her rebellious teen phase, acting out against her absent parents with her secret new boyfriend, Mario (Sprayberry). However, unbeknownst to her, Mario is a reluctant agent of a vast sex trafficking network, and he is forced to drag Angie into a horrifying world of rape and abuse. As the police and her heartbroken parents fight to find her, Angie and the other trafficked girls struggle to maintain hope and stay alive. When Angie finally escapes and is brought home, she is haunted by the atrocities done to her and by the shadowy figures still pursuing her. She must eventually confront the shame and fear instilled in her in order to save the girls she left behind. This story depicts the horrors of sex trafficking in a deeply visceral way, serving as a call to action for many who consider their lives untouched by this world. Beyond that, however, Lost Girls is also a story of family, of bravery, and of self-worth that cannot be dictated by the world around you.

Angie: Lost Girls also stars Jane Widdop (The Kicks), MC Lyte (Bad Hair), Amin Joseph (Snowfall), and Anthony Montgomery (Star Trek: Enterprise). The movie is directed by Julia Verdin who co–wrote the script along with Janet Odogwu Butters.

The drama is produced by Verdin, Jason Piette, Sean Acosta, Cady McClain, and Morris S. Levy.

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David Leitch’s Bullet Train Expands Cast With Hiroyuki Sanada

David Leitch’s Bullet Train expands cast with Hiroyuki Sanada

David Leitch (Hobbs & Shaw) is keeping the casting train rolling for his upcoming action thriller Bullet Train as The Last Samurai and The Wolverine star Hiroyuki Sanada has joined the ensemble roster led by Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), according to Deadline.

Bullet Train will mark the eighth collaboration between Leitch and Pitt, who first worked together in 1999 on Fight Club on which Leitch worked as an uncredited stunt double for Pitt, followed by 2001’s The Mexican, Ocean’s Eleven and Spy Game, the latter two in which he doubled again for Pitt and helped coordinate the martial arts stunts on the Tony Scott-helmed film. Leitch would once again double for Pitt in 2004’s Troy and 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith and would later reunite with the star in 2018’s Deadpool 2, in which Pitt cameoed as Vanisher and Leitch directed.

Plot details for the film are currently being kept under wraps, but it is based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by Isaka Kotaro. The cast for the film, led by Pitt, already includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass), Andrew Koji (Warrior), Joey King (The Lie), Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta), Zazie Beetz (Deadpool 2), Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water), Logan Lerman (Hunters) and Masi Oka (Spies in Disguise).

On top of directing, Leitch will supervise the script written by Zak Olkewicz (Fear Street). Leitch and Kelly McCormick will produce the project via their company 87North along with Antoine Fuqua (The Magnificent Seven, Training Day, The Equalizer) and Kat Samick (The Equalizer, Southpaw, Infinite). Ryosuke Saegusa and Yuma Terada are executive producing in behalf of Kotaro. Brittany Morrissey is the executive overseeing the film for Sony Pictures.

Leitch and McCormick recently signed a first-look deal at Universal and produced the action film Nobody, starring Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk, which is expected to release in February 2021. The duo is also developing a biopic of Jutta Kleinschmidt, the first and only woman to win the brutal off-road endurance race known as The Dakar Rally, as well as the rights to her book My Victory at Dakar.

(Photo Credit: Greg Doherty/Getty Images for Asian World Film Festival)

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Netflix Unveils Character Posters & Trailer for Ryan Murphy’s The Prom

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Netflix unveils character posters & trailer for Ryan Murphy’s The Prom

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Netflix surprised audiences with the first full trailer and character poster for Ryan Murphy’s upcoming screen adaptation of the acclaimed Broadway musical The Prom featuring an ensemble cast with Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, James Corden and more! The trailer and posters can be viewed below!

Surely you know who they are… Introducing the cast of #TheProm! Meryl Streep is Deedee Allen.

Get ready to CELEBRATE! pic.twitter.com/0IKHWOc0X4

— The Prom (@promnetflix) November 23, 2020

In The Prom, Dee Dee Allen (three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep) and Barry Glickman (Tony Award winner James Corden) are New York City stage stars with a crisis on their hands: their expensive new Broadway show is a major flop that has suddenly flatlined their careers. Meanwhile, in small-town Indiana, high school student Emma Nolan (newcomer Jo Ellen Pellman) is experiencing a very different kind of heartbreak: despite the support of the high school principal (Keegan-Michael Key), the head of the PTA (Kerry Washington) has banned her from attending the prom with her girlfriend, Alyssa (Ariana DeBose). When Dee Dee and Barry decide that Emma’s predicament is the perfect cause to help resurrect their public images, they hit the road with Angie (Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman) and Trent (Andrew Rannells), another pair of cynical actors looking for a professional lift. But when their self-absorbed celebrity activism unexpectedly backfires, the foursome find their own lives upended as they rally to give Emma a night where she can truly celebrate who she is.

The film adaptation stars newcomer Jo Ellen Pellman, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Kerry Washington, James Corden, Tracey Ullman, Ariana DeBose, Keegan-Michael Key, Andrew Rannells and Kevin Chamberlin. It is being produced by Bill Damaschke (Shrek the Musical) and Dori Berinstein (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest). Nicholaw, Sklar, Beguelin and Martin will also be joining Murphy for the film’s creative production.

Murphy is no stranger to the musical comedy genre as he previously created and produced Fox’s Golden Globe-winning musical series Glee which ran on air for six seasons from 2009-2015.

The Prom is set to hit select theaters and Netflix on December 11!

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BBC America’s Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks Trailer Released

Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks Trailer

BBC America’s Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks Trailer Released

BBC America has released the official Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks trailer for the upcoming holiday special that is set to air on Friday, January 1 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. You can check out the trailer now in the player below!

Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks will see a host of exciting guest stars including previously announced John Barrowman MBE, who will be reprising his role as Captain Jack Harkness, alongside Chris Noth (Sex and the City), who will be back as the disgraced Jack Robertson. Dame Harriet Walter (Killing Eve, Succession) will also be making her Doctor Who debut for the special, alongside television star Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (The Trial of Christine Keeler).

Viewers last saw the Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) at the end of Season 12, where her fate was left hanging in the balance as she was locked away in a high-security alien prison with no hope of escape. In the upcoming New Year’s Day special, Yaz, Ryan, and Graham are far away on Earth and having to carry on with their lives without her. However, they soon discover a disturbing plan forming. A plan which involves a Dalek. How can you fight a Dalek without the Doctor? Even with Captain Jack’s help, the gang are set to face one of their biggest and most frightening challenges yet.

“We’ve crammed this year’s Doctor Who special with an explosion of extraordinary acting talent. Where else would you get British acting royalty, a globally renowned US screen star, an (inter)national treasure of stage and screen and one of Britain’s hottest young actors — just in the guest cast! Put those together with Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill and Tosin Cole (and Daleks! Did I mention Daleks!) — and you get a cast to be exterminated for. And things will explode. Promise,” said executive producer Chris Chibnall (via Vital Thrills).

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December 2020 Free Games for PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold

Sony and Microsoft have both announced the slate of December 2020 free games that will be available to subscribing PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members.

PlayStation Plus members will receive three games including Worms Rumble, available on the PS4 and PS5, the open-world adventure Just Cause 4, and the 3v3 shooter Rocket Arena, both available on the PS4. All games will be available to play from Tuesday, December 1 until Monday, January 4.

Additionally, non-PlayStation Plus members who own PS4 or PS5 games with active online multiplayer modes or features will be able to try them out for a limited time next month. PlayStation is hosting a free online multiplayer weekend that will run from midnight (local time) Saturday, December 19, until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, December 20. You can subscribe to PlayStation Plus via this link.

Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members will receive four free games on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S as part of the Games with Gold Program. Starting December 1, Xbox Live Gold members can solve the mystery and catch the Raven in The Raven Remasted until December 31. Then on December 16, take out waves of enemies in the shooter platformer Bleed 2, available to download until January 15.

For the classic lineup via Backward Compatibility, shoot the Devil in the face in Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, available December 1 to December 15, and solve puzzles as a nesting doll in Stacking, available December 16 to December 31. You can subscribe to Xbox Live Gold via this link.

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lundi 30 novembre 2020

Legendary taps Peter Dinklage to lead The Toxic Avenger reboot

HBO Unveils Poster & Trailer for First Euphoria Special Episode

Surface: Gugu Mbatha-Raw to Lead Apple TV+ Psychological Thriller Series

Rosario Dawson Reveals How She Was Cast As Ahsoka Tano in The Mandalorian

Noah Hawley Talks Future of Alien TV Series and Star Trek 4

Exclusive Angie: Lost Girls Trailer Starring Olivia d’Abo, Dylan Sprayberry & Randall Batinkoff

David Leitch’s Bullet Train expands cast with Hiroyuki Sanada

Netflix unveils character posters & trailer for Ryan Murphy’s The Prom

BBC America’s Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks Trailer Released

December 2020 Free Games for PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold

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