ORLANDO BLOOM TO LEAD AMAZON'S VICTORIAN FANTASY SERIES 'CARNIVAL ROW'! OLIVER JACKSON COHEN JOINS 'HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE' TV SERIES

OLIVER JACKSON COHEN

JOINS 'HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE' TELEVISION SERIES

Casting news from television field, today! Our dearest Oliver Jackson Cohen, who redeemed himself for that flop of a series Emerald City with his outstanding performance earlier this month in utterly brilliant

Oliver will probably play the son of the family

Man in An Orange Shirt mini series, has joined Timothy Hutton, Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, Henry Thomas in HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE Netflix ten episode series.

The series will be a modern re-imagining of Shirley Jackson's classic 1959 novel of the same name. The story revolves around four people living in an 80 year old mansion. Michiel Huisman will take on the role of Steven Crane, the oldest Crane sibling and a published writer of supernatural books — including a memoir about his family's time living at Hill House. Hutton will probably be the father of the family.

ORLANDO BLOOM TO LEAD

'CARNIVAL ROW' VICTORIAN FANTASY TELEVISION SERIES

We haven't seen him much on film in recent years, but he is now moving onto the small screens: as 'Deadline' reports, Orlando Bloom

Orlando will be a police inspector

will lead Amazon's fantasy series CARNI- VAL ROW an eight part drama set in a neo Victorian city. Mythical creatures fleeing their war torn homeland have gathered in the city, and tensions are simmering between citizens and the growing immigrant population.

In the series that follows the investi- gation of a string of unsolved murders that are eating away at whatever uneasy peace still exists, Orlando Bloom will play the man in the centre of it, Rycroft Philostrate, a police inspector investigating the murder of a faerie showgirl on CARNIVAL ROW. Rycroft is not supposed to care about the death of another faerish refugee, but he does, and getting to the bottom of what happened to her will come at a big cost.

FANTASY SATURDAY: TOM HOLLAND, DAISY RIDLEY TO LEAD 'CHAOS WALKING' SF SAGA! VICTORIAN FANTASY SERIES 'CARNIVAL ROW' AND 'JUDGE DREDD: MEGA CITY' TV SERIES! 'KILL SWITCH' DAN STEVENS SF FILM TRAILER

 'CHAOS WALKING' SAGA CASTS

TOM HOLLAND & DAISY RIDLEY

Fantasy news today, people, starting with the big screen adaptation of Patrick Ness saga CHAOS WALKING which will, helmed by Doug Liman, star Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley! It is set on the distant planet of New World wheren an infection called the Noise suddenly makes all thought audible, privacy vanishes, chaos ensues and a corrupt autocrat threatens to take control of the human settlements and wage war with the indigenous alien race. Only young Todd (Holland) holds the key to stop him. As he flees, he stumbles upon a silent girl, Viola (Ridley). They set off on an adventure into the depths of unexplored New World to find a way for Viola to contact her people on a distant spaceship!

'CARNIVAL ROW' VICTORIAN FANTASY
Amazon is to make a fantasy TV series from Star Trek's Rene Echevarria CARNIVAL ROW! The 8 part series is set in a neo Victorian city. Mythical creatures fleeing their war-torn homeland have gathered in the city, and tensions are simmering between citizens and the growing immigrant population. The series follows the investigation of a string of unsolved murders that are eating away at whatever uneasy peace still exists.

 'JUDGE DREDD: MEGA CITY' 

NEW SF TELEVISION SERIES

Meanwhile, IM Global Television is set to produce sf television series JUDGE DREDD: MEGA CITY in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the British comic book. It is envisioned as an ensemble drama that follows a team of Judges, futuristic cops invested with the power to be judge, jury, and executioner, as they encounter the myriad challenges of a world in which east coast cities have merged into a giant megalopolis. Despite its 22nd century setting, many of the issues they encounter will have echoes of those today – from the dangers of domestic terrorism to the tensions between the ultra-rich and the disenfranchised.

'KILL SWITCH' TRAILER

FOR A DAN STEVENS SF MOVIE

Earlier this spring I showed you the first poster and teaser for this one and today you can check out the first super exciting trailer for sf action adventure KILL SWITCH which will see Beauty and the Beast star Dan Stevens playing  a pilot who battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong. Also known as REDIVIDER, this science fiction action adventure movie will also have Berenice Marlohe in its cast and is supposed to be out this June.