Stella Maeve, Hale Appleman and Arjun Gupta have been cast in key roles for the upcoming pilot The Magicians, an adaptation of Lev Grossman’s best-selling book series, which begins production in New Orleans this December. Another Earth’s Mike Cahill has signed on to direct. The Magicians, produced by Universal Cable Productions, follows 20-somethings who, while studying magic in New York, discover […]
The new Star Wars movie finally has an official subtitle: The Force Awakens. The announcement came with the end of principal photography on the movie. The film, which is still […]
The German legend of Faust – the man tempted by a deal with the Devil – is getting yet another modern update, this time from Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, the husband and wife team behind the recent TV version of The Bible. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is working with the pair on the adaptation, which is described as a faith-based medical […]
Syfy has announced that they have greenlit an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 3001: The Final Odyssey, to be executive produced by Ridley Scott. Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the […]
Gerry Anderson’s Firestorm, the new puppet series that has been seeking crowd funding via Kickstarter, is going ahead. The Kickstarter closed yesterday evening after 1,415 supporters gave their financial backing, and pre-production on the minisode will start in two weeks’ time. £88,931 was pledged, which allowed various extra stretch goals to be funded, which included a massive explosion from Mike Tucker […]
J.M. Barrie’s classic characters from Peter Pan are the latest literary figure to receive an update, courtesy of Fox who have given a script commitment to League of Pan from The […]
Horror franchise Scream is heading to the small screen, thanks to MTV. The music channel has ordered 10 episodes of the series, which will premiere in October 2015. A pilot was ordered way back in May 2013, but now the channel is confident that the show will be a hit with Harper’s Island’s Jill Blotevogel as showrunner. Scream creator Wes Craven […]
The Black Panther, The Inhumans and Captain Marvel are all part of the new line-up of Marvel films, announced at a special event on October 28. The third Captain America […]
According to a report at Deadline, Sherlock and Star Trek Into Darkness star Benedict Cumberbatch will be playing the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange, in the new Marvel movie. Joaquin Phoenix had been in the frame for the part, but negotiations didn’t progress; other names connected to the role include Jared Leto and Tom Hardy. Cumberbatch has not yet signed to […]
Frankenstein is coming to Fox, courtesy of former X-Files and Buffy producer Howard Gordon, and Crisis’ Rand Ravich. It’s not a proper retelling of Mary Shelley’s story, but yet another update. According to Deadline, this new Frankenstein focuses on on Adam Tremble, “a morally corrupt FBI agent who is given a second chance at life when he is brought back […]
A third generation of witchy Stephens is heading for the small screen with the news that NBC has picked up a reboot of the classic comedy Bewitched with a put pilot commitment. The original 1964-1972 series starred Samantha Montgomery as Samantha Stephens, a suburban housewife who was also a witch; a short-lived spin-off in 1977 focused on her daughter Tabitha. […]
Firefly, V and Homeland star Morena Baccarin has signed up for a stint in Fox’s Gotham Baccarin will play Dr. Leslie Thompkins, described as “a gifted and dedicated physician who was a friend of Bruce Wayne’s parents, Thomas and Martha”. Determined to use her skills to aid Gotham’s most in need, she gets work at the new Arkham Asylum’s Home […]
American Horror Story‘s Ryan Murphy is reuniting with his Glee creative partners to produce Scream Queens, a horror anthology series for Fox. The series is created by Murphy, Falchuk and Ian Brennan and received a 15 episode straight to series order from the network. The first season is based around a college campus which is rocked by a series of murders. […]
Actress Lynda Bellingham, best known to genre fans for her role as the Inquisitor in the season-long Doctor Who story The Trial of a Time Lord, has lost her battle […]
Mr Selfridge star Poppy Lee Friar has been cast as robot Eve in CBBC’s new 13 part series, airing next year. The series, which completed filming in Glasgow recently, follows […]
Constantine and Da Vinci’s Demons‘ David S. Goyer has another genre show on the way – an adaptation of Peter Straub’s Shadowland. The 1980 novel follows two young boys, Tom Flanagan […]
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