While Marvel is planning to start their own streaming service sometime next year with their own series, there is a part of their superhero universe you'll be able to watch this Autumn: TV series THE GIFTED, based on their X-Men franchise, which starts its ten episode run on Fox October 2nd starring Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker as parents who take their children on the run after they discover their mutant abilities.
SUPER HEROES ON THE RUN The series from writer Matt Nix and X-Men director Bryan Singer
focuses on a suburban couple (Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker) whose ordinary
lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children
The Gifted starts this October on Fox
possess
mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the
family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to
survive.
THE GALLERY OF SUPERHEROES
The series will be executive produced by Underworld's Len Wiseman, who is also directing together with Bryan Singer, with
Stephen Moyer in the lead role of Reed Strucker: A father trying to balance his
Sean Teale is Eclipse, who manipulates photons
family responsibilities with his job as a district attorney.
Amy Acker is Caitlin Strucker:
A mother and nurse struggling with her split from Reed and increasingly challenging teenage children played by Natalie
Emma Dumont can control magnetism as Polaris
Alyn Lind and Percy Hynes White. Sean Teale is Marcos Diaz or Eclipse: A rebellious mutant who can absorb and manipulate photons.
Jamie Chung is Clarice Fong or Blink: A sarcastic, lively mutant with teleportation powers.
Coby Bell is Jace Turner: A man struggling with
Blair Redford is mutant leader Thunderbird
the cold-blooded requirements of his job.
Emma Dumont is Lorna Dane or Polaris: A brave and loyal mutant whose abilities include controlling magnetism.
Blair Redford is John Proudstar or Thunderbird: A
Jamie Chung is Blink, a teleporter
strong-willed mutant, leader of the underground community. Jermaine Rivers will guest star as Shatter: A mutant who can turn his skin into a hard, protective crystal. Elena Satine as Dreamer: A mutant that can add or subtract others' memories.
Earlier this year I've announced that British ITV will prepare a new TV series on queen Victoria titled simply VICTORIA and now it has been confirmed that Jenna Coleman is to take the crown and play the lead role of the infamous enslaver and invader. The actress will leave DR WHO for this gig. The eight part historical series will revolve around the early life of the British monarch, from her ascension to the throne to her marriage to Prince Albert. The first episode, directed by Tom Vaughan, will be 90 minutes long! Since the filming starts next month in Northern England, expect new cast names announced here as we get the info! The series comes from POLDARK team.
BRYAN SINGER TO HELM
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA Here's something for all of you fans of adventure movies: X-MEN's
Bryan Singer, who has, believe it or not, just turned 50 yesterday, has
announced that his next movie project will be the big screen adaptation
of Jules Verne's 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA! He has already finished
the script saying he has wanted to retell jt since childhood and
promising that it will be an epic and emotional adventure for all ages!
As you know, famous classic follows brave Captain Nemo and his mighty
submarine Nautilus on their underwater adventures. Singer's X MEN:
APOCALYPSE is ready to hit cinemas in May next year.
'TUTANKHAMUN' EPIC TV SERIES
MAX IRONS & SAM NEILL CAST
Speaking of ITV's historical series, another one I've recently announced, epic adventure TUTAN- KHAMUN has cast Max Irons and Sam Neill under Peter Webber's helm! Max Ironswill play Howard Carter who became an iconic figure and an unlikely hero. The story unfolds from 1905 when Carter, an eminent British archaeologist, is leading an expedition only to have his license to dig revoked by Cairo’s Antiquities Service. Carter spends years living rough and resorting to selling previously discovered archaeological relics. A chance meeting with British aristocrat eccentric Lord Carnarvon (Sam Neill), brings a change of fortunes as the enthusiastic amateur needs an experienced archaeologist to help him with a series of random excavations. Carter and Carnarvon begin the most unlikely friendship, in spite of their differences of background and character. After years of searching for the tomb, Carter and Carnarvon successfully discover the last resting place of the boy-king TUTANKHMAUN in 1921 against all odds and at great personal expense.
You already know that the sequel to one of the biggest movie hits in the history INDEPENDENCE DAY II is in works twenty years after the original movie and that it will be again directed by Roland Emmerich, but now it has been revealed that Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum and Jessie Usher (from Starz' SURVIVOR'S REMORSE series). Liam's role is unknown, but Goldblum will return to the role of computer expert David Levinson, while Usher will play the son of Will Smith's (who is not returning) character from the first movie. The movie should be out next June exactly 20 years after the first one broke all possible records in the cinemas.
NEW SF BOOK ADAPTATIONS!
MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS Two new sf adaptation's await us: Bryan Singer is to helm the movie
version of Robert A. Heinlein's THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS which won
leading sf book award Hugo and was also nominated for Nebula Award! To
be titled UPRISING the 20th Century Fox movie will be set in a Lunar
colony which is planning an uprising against Earth!
STARS MY DESTINATION Paramount,
meanwhile, wants to adapt sf classic THE STARS MY DESTINATION into a
movie as well! Written by Alfred Bester, this famous and legendary sf
book follows a man who is shipwrecked in space for years when one day a
rescue crew passes him by. Angered, he channels his energies into
seeking revenge and begins scheming. ISHIGURO'S 'BURIED GIANT' Deadline reports
of a third new fantasy adaptation: Scott Rudin has bought the rights on
Kazuo Ishiguro's epic novel THE BURIED GIANT which follows a couple in a
semi historical Medieval Britain as they venture forth across a war
ravaged landscape in search of a son they haven’t seen in years.
Ishiguro's first book in a decade has fantasy elements, including a
dragon, spectacular battle sequences and a panoramic backdrop.
'LAST KNIGHTS' POSTER
AND NEW TRAILER WITH CLIVE OWEN & MORGAN FREEMAN
New trailer has been released for medieval action LAST KNIGHTS along with the first poster! To open in cinemas next month, the feudal film has Clive Owen portraying the knight Raiden, who has a fierce loyalty to his master Bartok (Morgan Freeman). When Bartok is betrayed by a corrupt emperor (Peyman Moaadi), Raiden leads a group of knights into a battle of vengeance. Third Oscar nominee in the cast is Shohreh Aghdashloo!
