DEREK THELER, JEREMY TARDY, CALUM WORTHY TO LEAD MARVEL'S 'NEW WARRIORS' TV SERIES! JANE FONDA, CANDICE BERGEN, DIANE KEATON JOIN THE 'BOOK CLUB'

'BOOK CLUB' SIGNS UP

CANDICE BERGEN, DIANE KEATON AND  JANE FONDA

Jane Fonda will be a member of Book Club

We had British actresses in their prime years yesterday in our news, now we're off to the American ones: as 'Deadline' reports Mary Steenburgen, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Diane Keaton will be the lead ladies in BOOK CLUB comedy movie!

Set in and around California, the film revolves around four lifelong friends who read 50 Shades of Grey in their monthly book club and have their lives changed forever. For these successful and intelligent women, this is not the type of book they typically read, but as they soon find out, inspiration can come in the most unlikely of places.

MARVEL'S 'NEW WARRIORS'

FINDS ITS QUIRKY SUPERHEROES

 There's also something for the youngsters today: trying to save its viewership after cancelling its most watched programmes this year, FreeForm is preparing NEW WARRIORS series based on Marvel comics which will follow six young people who are learning to cope with

Derek Theler starred in FreeForm's Baby Daddy

their special abilities in a world where bad guys can be as terrifying as bad dates.

Milana Vayntrub will play Doreen Green aka Squirrel Girl. Doreen is a totally empowered fangirl who has the incredible powers of a … squirrel. Her greatest quality is her optimism and her best friend is a pet squirrel, Tippy Toe. Derek Theler is Craig Hollis aka Mister Immortal. Craig can’t die … or so he says. Although Craig’s superpower seems amazing, he hasn’t made use of it at all – he figures if he has all the time in the world to learn how to do anything heroic, what’s the rush? Jeremy Tardy plays Dwayne Taylor aka Night Thrasher. Brilliant and noble, and maybe a bit full of himself, Dwayne is a shameless self promoter and

Jeremy Tardy and Calum Worthy will play superheroes!

entrepreneur who also deeply believes in justice. Calum Worthy will play Robbie Baldwin aka Speedball. Robbie is an impulsive people pleaser with a misplaced sense of confidence who throws kinetic balls of energy that are completely out of control. Matthew Moy is Zack Smith aka Microbe. Zack is a shy hypochondriac whose ability is that he can

Milana Vayntrub will be the Squirrel Girl

talk to germs that tell him where you’ve been, what you ate and with whom you’ve hung out. It’s impossible to keep secrets around him. Kate Comer will play Deborah Fields aka Debrii. Deborah is proud, funny and quick witted. A low-level telekinetic, very low like she can move a paper cup.