DELIGHTFUL THE DUKE TRAILER WITH JIM BROADBENT, HELEN MIRREN, MATTHEW GOODE! JEREMY IRVINE, FINN WITTROCK TO LEAD HBO'S GREEN LANTERN TV SERIES

    HBO MAX GREEN LANTERN   

CASTS JEREMY IRVINE AS LEAD

HBO Max is preparing a DC Universe series based on beloved hero GREEN LANTERN and they have set Jeremy Irvine and Finn Wittrock as leads. Coming from Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Seth Grahame Smith, it will reinvent the classic DC property through a story

Jeremy Irvine and Finn Wittrock will take the lead roles

spanning decades and galaxies, beginning on Earth in 1941 with the very first Green Lantern, secretly gay FBI agent Alan Scott (Jeremy Irvine), and 1984, with cocky alpha male Guy Gardner (Finn Wittrock) and half-alien Bree Jarta. They’ll be joined by a multitude of other Lanterns, from comic book favorites to never-before-seen heroes.

 

  THE DUKE TRAILER IS HERE  

WITH JIM BROADBENT, HELEN MIRREN AND MATTHEW GOODE

This one was delayed for a long time due to corona, but Roger Michell's movie THE DUKE is finally arriving to UK cinemas this September with Jim Broadbent leading the true story of Kempton Bunton, a 60-year old taxi

The Duke finally hits cinemas this September in UK

driver, who stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting

Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren play the lead roles

on condition that the government invested more in care for the elderly - he had long campaigned for pensioners to receive free television. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full story emerge -

Matthew Goode plays a lawyer in the new movie

Kempton had spun a web of lies. The only truth was that he was a good man, determined to change the world and save his marriage - how and why he used the Duke to achieve that is a wonderfully uplifting tale. Helen Mirren plays his wife, Matthew Goode his lawyer. 

1ST PRISONERS OF PARADISE EPIC DRAMA PHOTO WITH ELLIE BAMBER! HBO MAX GREENLIGHTS GREEN LANTERN TV SERIES! ALEXANDER DREYMON HAS TO FLY OR DIE IN HORIZON LINE TRAILER

 PRISONERS OF PARADISE

1ST PHOTO FROM MAURITIUS

Your photo treat for today is the first set picture from period set drama PRISONERS OF PARADISE with Ellie Bamber and Mehdi Dehbi. Set on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in 1925, it sees Bamber playing a 17-year-old orphan, Lucy, who is sent from England to live under the guardianship of her uncle and aunt (Rupert Penry Jones and Rhona

Ellie Bamber and Mehdi Dehbi are taking a dip in Prisoners of Paradise

Mitra). Once there, she finds herself as odds with the ways of his world and his plans of an arranged marriage for her. When Lucy meets Krishna, a passionate young man working as a labourer on a nearby plantation with dreams of one day owning his own land, they both fall deeply and dangerously in love. Mitch Jenkins is directing for AMG International Film.

 

GREEN LANTERN TO GET

 TV SERIES ON HBO MAX

And it will be written by Seth Grahame Smith and Marc Guggenheim, with Smith also a show runner for the ten episode show. GREEN LANTERN will depict the adventures of a multitude of Lanterns, including Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz and Alan Scott, Earth’s first

The series is supposed to have a massive scale

Green Lantern, who, true to the comics, is a gay man, and many more. The series will also include fan favourites such as Sinestro and Kilowog, and will also introduce new heroes to the ranks of the Green Lantern Corps. The producers are planning a series of the scope that TV has never seen before.

HORIZON LINE TRAILER

WITH ALEXANDER DREYMON

The movie is out soon!

Yes, Uhtred from Last Kingdom! But this time in modern setting. HORIZON LINE centres on Sara (Allison Williams) and Jackson (Alexander Dreymon), who were supposed to be a routine and casual 99-minute flight to their friend's tropical island wedding. But within minutes after take-off, their pilot suffers a fatal heart attack, leaving Sara and Jackson with no idea where they are, no comms, and no clue how to land the plane. With nothing but miles of ocean and sky in every direction, and a terrifying storm that's about to envelop them, Sara and Jackson have only one shot, and there's no going back. The movie is coming out soon!