OLIVIA WILLIAMS, JODHI MAY JOIN EMILY WATSON, MARK STRONG, TRAVIS FIMMEL IN DUNE: THE SISTERHOOD SF SERIES AT MAX

  DUNE: SISTERHOOD SERIES  

JODHI MAY AND OLIVIA WILLIAMS JOIN THE CAST AT MAX

Max is continuing the casting process for upcoming TV series adaptation of DUNE: THE SISTERHOOD with Olivia Williams taking over the role of Tula Harkonnen from Shirley Henderson, while Jodhi May is replacing Indira Varma in the role of Natalya! Set within the mystical world of Dune and 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, the story follows the Harkonnen Sisters as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind, and establish the fabled sect known as the Bene Gesserit. Mark Strong (as emperor Javicco Corrino), Travis Fimmel have previously been added to the cast with Emily Watson leading as Valya Harkonnen! Chris Mason will be Keiran Atreides.

MARK STRONG IS EMPEROR CORRINO IN DUNE: THE SISTERHOOD EPIC TV SERIES WITH EMILY WATSON! CHRIS MASON ALSO JOINS CAST! TERRAFORMING MARS TO BECOME SF TV SERIES

 DUNE: THE SISTERHOOD 

MARK STRONG IS EMPEROR CORRINO IN THE PREQUEL SERIES

HBO Max sf series that already has Emily Watson, Shirley Henderson, Indira Varma and Travis Fimmel in the cast has just added Mark Strong and Chris Mason to the cast. DUNE: THE SISTERHOOD, based on Frank Herbert’s novel, is set 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides and follows the Harkonnen Sisters (Watson and Henderson) as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind, and establish the fabled sect known as the Bene Gesserit. Mark Strong will be Emperor Javicco Corrino, a man from a great line of war-time Emperors, who is called upon to govern the Imperium and manage a fragile peace. Chris Mason will be Keiran Atreides, a Swordmaster to a Great House whose ambition to live up to his family name is disrupted when he forms an unexpected connection to a member of the royal family. 

  TERRAFORMING MARS  

TO BECOME A SF TV SERIES

The board game might become a TV series

Speaking of sf series, Deadline reports that board game TERRA- FORMING MARS will be turned into a sf TV series. Production company Cobal Knight is leaning towards a series but is also open for a feature take on the strategy game, which sees players compete to use resources and innovative technology to make the red planet inhabitable. Sold in over 1,5 million copies, the game highlights existential tropes like class struggle, colonialism, and ecological collapse. The adaptation will explore the unique human drama that inherently comes along with running a company tasked with creating oceans, building prosperous cities, and balancing the ecology of plant and animal life.

INDIRA VARMA JOINS DUNE: SISTERHOOD SF TV SERIES AS EMPRESS NATALYA! LANA HARPER'S PAYBACK'S A WITCH NOVEL TO BE TURNED INTO WITCHES OF THISTLE GROW TV SERIES!

    WITCHES OF THISTLE GROW    

TO BECOME A TV SERIES

As Variety reports Village Roadshow has bought TV series rights on Lana Harper's Payback's a Witch and will develop it into WITCHES OF THISTLE GROW series which is also the name of the whole book series.

Sequel From Bad to Cursed came out this May

Chris Alberghini and Mike Chessler will executive produce.

WITCHES OF THISTLE GROW will be a show about Emmy Harlow, a young woman with big dreams who abandoned her charming but podunk hometown to prove herself in the big city. When she’s suddenly called home nine years later to fulfill a family obligation, which, okay, happens to be arbitrating a centuries-old gauntlet, she’s forced to confront family rifts, broken friendships, and Gareth Blackmoore — a detestable but Hot AF ex who broke her heart and, it turns out, also screwed her friends: Her childhood bestie Linden Thorn, and the sexy, dangerous Talia Avramov, a bad-ass that Emmy always crushed on from afar. Reframing old friendships, reconciling with family, and enacting revenge are things Emmy used to hide from. But if she can face her fears, she can take her power back. And that’s critical. Because Emmy Harlow is a witch!

 

 INDIRA VARMA IS EMPRESS 

IN DUNE: SISTERHOOD SERIES

After Emily Watson and Shirley Henderson, new cast member to join HBO Max sf TV series DUNE: SISTER HOOD is Indira Varma who will play empress

Indira Varma will be Empress Natalya

Natalya, described as “a formidable royal who united thousands of worlds in her marriage to Emperor Corrino”. Set 10,000 years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, the new series will follow the Harkonnen sisters as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind, and establish the famous female intergalactic sect known as the Bene Gesserit. The series is based on the book Sisterhood of Dune written by Frank Herbert's son Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

EMILY WATSON TO RULE BENE GESSERIT IN DUNE: THE SISTERHOOD HBO MAX SF TV SERIES! SEE FLORENCE PUGH, CIARAN HINDS, TOM BURKE IN THE WONDER PERIOD SET DRAMA! PARAMOUNT ORDERS FRASIER RETURN WITH KELSEY GRAMMER

  EMILY WATSON TO LEAD  

DUNE: SISTERHOOD TV SERIES

Just when we thought this project was dead as dodo, Variety reports that Emily Watson has been cast in DUNE: SISTERHOOD series at HBO Max, which, based on Frank Herbert novels, will follow the Bene Gesserit, a mysterious order of women. Watson will play Valya Harkonnen, while

Emily Watson and Shirley Henderson are the first to be cast

Shirley Henderson will be Tula Harkonnen, two sisters who have risen to power in the Sisterhood, a secret organization of women who will go on to become the Bene Gesserit. Sadly, Denis Villeneuve, who atrociously helmed the lifeless and dull borefest of the recent Dune movie is executive producing this one too. 

 

  RETURN OF FRASIER  

OFFICIAL AT PARAMOUNT PLUS

Paramount Plus has officially ordered a ten episode return of classic multicam sitcom FRASIER with Kelsey Grammer as psychiatrist and radio host Frasier Crane. After starting in Boston within Cheers and moving to Seattle in Frasier, he will now move to a new city and will be surrounded by new characters, with original Frasier cast members not appearing as series regulars but making guest appearances. The show won 37 Emmys in 11 seasons.

  THE WONDER TRAILER  

SENDS FLORENCE PUGH TO EIRE

The film is out November 16th

Speaking of things lifeless and overrated, check out Florence Pugh in the first trailer for THE WONDER period set thriller movie which will stream on Netflix November 6th. Ciaran Hinds, Tom Burke, Toby Jones also star in the film set in 1862 just after the Great Famine, with Pugh playing English Nightingale Nurse Lib Wright, who is called to a devout community in the Irish Midlands to examine 11-year-old Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy), who claims to have not eaten for four months, surviving on “manna from heaven.” Lib is determined to find out what’s really going on as Anna’s health deteriorates. Check out the trailer below:

WARNER MEDIA STREAMING SERVICE ORDERS DUNE: THE SISTERHOOD BENE GESSERIT SF SERIES! BBC TO TURN AGATHA CHRISTIE'S THE PALE HORSE INTO MINI SERIES! OBLIVION SONG MOVIE ADAPTATION

'DUNE: THE SISTERHOOD' SERIES

THE BENE GESSERIT TV SAGA

Bene Gesserit will be the stars of the series

Two book adaptations for you today! While we've lost all interest in the new DUNE movie adaptation due to the rather uninspired casting, the good news is that Warner Media's new streaming service will make TV series out of Frank Herbert's famous sf saga!

Denis Villeneuve (who is also helming the above mentioned movie) is set to direct DUNE: THE SISTERHOOD, which will be set in the same universe, but will be told through the eyes of a mysterious order of women known as the Bene Gesserit. Given extraordinary abilities by their mastery of the body and the mind, the Bene Gesserit expertly weave through the feudal politics and intrigue of The Imperium, pursuing plans of their own that will ultimately lead them to the enigmatic planet Arrakis, known to its inhabitants as Dune. Herbert wrote six novels about the intergalactic Imperium ruled by Padishah Emperor.

'THE PALE HORSE' SET AS

BBC'S NEW AGATHA CHRISTIE MINI

The Pale Horse is one of Christie's strangest stories

Across the pond, BBC has announced their latest Agatha Christie adaptation: her THE PALE HORSE will be turned into a two part series by BBC and Mammoth Screen. The foreboding novel was written in 1961. When a mysterious list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of those named, Mark Easterbrook, begins an investigation into how and why his name came to be there. He is drawn to THE PALE HORSE, the home of a trio of rumoured witches in the tiny village of Much Deeping. Word has it that the witches can do away with wealthy relatives using the dark arts alone, but as the bodies mount up Mark is certain there has to be a rational explanation. And who could possibly want him dead? Amazon Prime will have worldwide rights.

'OBLIVION SONG' GETS

BIG SCREEN SF ADAPTATION

Oblivion Song will be turned into a movie

Universal Pictures will, meanwhile, turn Robert Kirkman's comic book OBLIVION SONG into a science fiction movie. Written by The Walking Dead writer and illustrated by Lorenzo De Felici, it takes place one decade after 300,000 residents of Philadelphia suddenly were trapped in Oblivion. Frantic recovery efforts were launched by the government, but, after a few futile years, they were abandoned. Nathan Cole, however, hasn’t given up. He risks his life again and again trying to save those lost souls in Oblivion’s apocalyptic hellscape – but is that the real reason he can’t resist the siren call of the Oblivion Song?