Netflix has released teaser for the epic finale of their sf series LOST IN SPACE which arrives December 1st! In the third and final season of the series the stakes are higher than ever and the Robinson family's survival instincts will be put to the ultimate test. After a year of being trapped on a mysterious planet, Judy, Penny (Mina Sundwall), Will (Maxwell Jenkins) and the Robot must lead the 97 young Colonists in a harrowing evacuation, but not before secrets are unearthed that will change their lives forever. Meanwhile John (Toby
Little Will has grown up and is now a teenager in space
Stephens) and Maureen (Molly Parker), with Don (Ignacio Serricchio) at their side, must battle overwhelming odds as they try to reunite with their
Ignacio Serricchio is back as everybody's fave Don
kids. The Robinsons will have to grapple with the emotional challenge of not just being lost, but being separated from the ones they love... as they face the greatest alien threat yet.
The only thing I have to offer you before I send you off to your Thanksgiving celebrations tomorrow are glitzy new character posters for LOST IN SPACE science fiction series season two which starts streaming over at Netflix on Christmas Eve, December 24th! The reboot of the 1960's popular sf show follows a small colonist family that crash lands on a remote world after the spacecraft they were travelling in is attacked by alien robots. After a crash landing on the foreign but habitable world, they learn to survive the hostile environment and
Molly Parker plays the mother of the family
find their way back to their mothership.
In Season Two
there’s more danger — and adventure — ahead for the Robinson family!
With the Jupiter 2 stranded on a mysterious ocean planet without their
beloved Robot, the Robinsons must work together, alongside the
mischievous and manipulative Dr. Smith (Parker Posey) and the always
charming Don West (Ignacio Serricchio), to make it back to the Resolute
and reunite with the other colonists. But they quickly find all is not
as it seems. A series of incredible new threats and unexpected
Season two hits Netflix December 24th!
discoveries emerge as they look for the key to finding Robot and safe
passage to Alpha Centauri. They will stop at nothing to keep their
family safe... survival is a Robinson specialty after all.
Who's Aboard the Mission?
If you watched the first season you know that the whole Robinson family survived it led by their parents Maureen and John, played by Molly Parker and Toby Stephens who return to their roles. Their kids Judy, Will and
The second season will also have ten episodes like the first one
Penny will again be played by Taylor Russell, Maxwell Jenkins and Mina Sundwall! JJ Feild joins the cast as Ben Adler chief of advances systems and artificial intelligence! New characters also include Ava (the supervisor of
The second season will be larger in scale than the first one as seen in the trailer
the mechanics, firm, hardworking, and serious, she shuts down Don's nonsense but respects his skill) and Commander Jiang, the Captain of the Resolute, who is described as capable, stalwart, and unsentimental.
CBS All Access and Amazon Prime have released a new trailer for STAR TREK: PICARD sf series which will launch its ten episode run January 23rd! The series brings back old friends of Picard along with some new dangers.
The new series will have Number One, Deanna Troi, Data and Seven of Nine guest starring in recurring roles
Beside Patrick Stewart in the title role, the cast also includes Santiago Cabrera as the pilot of Picard's new ship and Harry Treadaway as a Romulan.
'LOST IN SPACE'
SEASON TWO TRAILER IS HERE
Lost in Space returns this Christmas Eve!
Rival Netflix has, meanwhile, revealed a trailer for the second season of their sf series LOST IN SPACE which arrives December 24th starring Molly Parker and Toby Stephens as parents who are stranded in space with their kids! In season 2 the Robinsons and Jupiter 2 are stranded on a mysterious ocean planet without their beloved Robot, and must work alongside the mischievous and manipulative Dr. Smith (Parker Posey) and the always charming Don West (Ignacio Serricchio), to make it back to the Resolute and reunite with the other colonists. But they quickly find all is not as
JJ Feild joins as Ben Adler chief of advances systems and artificial intelligence
it seems as they look for the key to finding Robot and safe passage to Alpha Centauri. Check out the superrich trailer below:
For the end of our fantasy weekend here is something for you that begins as soon as next week! Feast your eyes on the photos from LOST IN SPACE remake sf series which begins at Netflix April 13th!
LOST IN SPACE
is set 30 years in the future - colonization in space is now a reality,
and the Robinson family is among those tested and selected to make a new
life for themselves in a better world. But when the new colonists find
themselves abruptly torn off course en route to their new home they must
forge new alliances and work together to survive in
The remake of Lost in Space will have a ten episode first season
a dangerous alien
environment, light years from their original destination. Stranded along
with the Robinsons are two outsiders who find themselves
Now beardless Ignacio Serricchio is Don West. He wears a wig due to a hairclipper accident
thrown
together by circumstance and a mutual knack for deception. The
charismatic Dr. Smith (Parker Posey) is a master manipulator with an
The series also features a robot who becomes little Will's servant
inscrutable end game. And the roguish, but charming Don West (Ignacio
Serricchio) is a highly skilled, blue collar contractor, who had no
intention of joining the colony, let alone crash landing on a lost
planet.
Toby Stephens is John Robinson
JOHN ROBINSON played by Toby Stephens, is the dad and seasoned combat veteran with the strength of a born leader. When the family's spaceship crash-lands on an unknown planet, he maintains a goal oriented attitude. He and his wife are estranged.
John insisted that he come along to protect his family from the unknown dangers they might face. This is a chance to make up for the mistakes he’s made in the past, and earn a place back in the family. Faced with difficult decisions that test even him, John must face one potential disaster after another (most of them involve trying to find the lesser evil).
Molly Parker is Maureen Robinson
MAUREEN ROBINSON played by Molly Parker, is the mom and an aerospace engineer with a fearsome intellect. A driven and demanding woman both in and outside her home, it's Maureen who makes the decision to bring her family into space. She wants her children (Maxwell Jenkins, Taylor Russell and Mina Sundwall) to have a chance at a new life on a better world. Her endless determination is infectious. She’s convinced there is no problem that can’t be solved if you apply your mind to it. But there are things she can’t just fix like they were
The show is based on the popular 1960's sf series but won't be that campy
some engineering problem. It will be up to her to figure out a way off this planet, but as big a challenge will be to forgive her husband and rekindle the love they once had.
Continuing with family friendly programme this week, here's the first trailer for CHRISTOPHER ROBIN movie for you! It is a heart warming adventure in which Ewan McGregor plays an adult Christopher Robin, who is now focused on his new life, work, and family, when he suddenly meets his old friend Winnie the Pooh, who returns to his unforgotten childhood past to help him return to the Hundred Acre Wood and help find Pooh's lost friends.In the process he will find the boy he once were and who is still inside his heart. Directed by Marc Forster it is out in cinemas this August! Hayley Atwell plays his wife.
'LOST IN SPACE' TRAILER
TOBY STEPHENS LEADS THE ROBINSON FAMILY SF SERIES
The series starts airing April 13th worldwide
Netflix has released the full trailer for their remake of LOST IN SPACE TV series after that teaser two weeks ago! It will start airing worldwide April 13th!
Set 30 years in the future, it follows the Robinson family (Toby Stephens is the father) who is among those tested and selected to make a new life for themselves in a better world. But when the new colonists find themselves abruptly torn off course en route to their new home they must forge new alliances and work together to survive in a dangerous alien environment, light years from their original destination. Stranded along with the Robinsons are two outsiders who find themselves thrown together by circumstance and a mutual
Toby Stephens leads the cast as the father of the Robinson family
knack for deception. The charismatic Dr. Smith is a master manipulator with an inscrutable end game. And the roguish, but charming Don West is a highly-skilled, blue collar contractor, who had no intention of joining the colony, let alone crash landing on a lost planet.
AMAZON TO TURN IAIN BANKS' SF SAGA INTO A TV SERIES
Amazon is working on a number of sf series
Amazon is planning to turn sf classic saga Culture into a TV series starting with the first book CONSIDER PHLEBAS from Iain Banks set in an interstellar utopian society, the Culture, which has humanoids, aliens, and advanced artificial intelligences living in Socialist habitats spread across the Milky Way galaxy until a war starts with the Idirans, a deeply religious, warlike race intent on dominating the entire galaxy. The series will follow Horza, a rogue agent tasked by the Idirans with the impossible mission of recovering a missing Culture ‘Mind,’ an artificial intelligence many thousands of times smarter than any human, something that could hold the key to wiping out the Culture altogether.
'LOST IN SPACE' REMAKE
FIRST TEASER AND PHOTOS FOR NETFLIX NEW SF SERIES
Netflix has revealed the first teaser and April 13th as the launch date for new LOST IN SPACE sf series starring Toby Stephens! Set 30 years in the future, colonization in space is now a reality, and the Robinson family is
Tobey Stephens leads the cast as the head of the Robinson family
among those tested and selected to make a new life for themselves in a better world. But when the new colonists find themselves abruptly torn off course en
The first season starting this April will have ten episodes
route to their new home they must forge new alliances and work together to survive in a dangerous alien environment, light-years from their original destination. Stranded along with the Robinsons are two outsiders who find
Ignacio Serricchio is a charming contractor lost in space!
themselves thrown together by circumstance and a mutual knack for deception. The unsettlingly charismatic Dr. Smith (Parker Posey) is a master manipulator with an inscrutable end game. And the roguish, but
Molly Parker plays mother of the Robinson family!
inadvertently charming Don West (Ignacio Serricchio) is a highly-skilled, blue collar contractor, who had no intention of joining the colony, let alone crash landing on a lost planet.
Just some sf news for you, beginning with the new cast addition for the TV series remake of LOST IN SPACE: Ignacio Serricchio has joined Toby Stephens who plays the father of the Robinson family, which is forced to come together in a time of crisis. Stranded light years from their intended destination, they find themselves battling a strange new alien environment and also their own personal demons. Ignacio will be Don West, a roughneck smuggling luxury goods on the side who finds in the Robinsons the family he never thought he would find.
'METRO POLIS' TO BECOME MINI TV SERIES Meanwhile, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail will turn Fritz Lang's
1927 sf classic METROPOLIS into a mini series! With $10 million per
episode, it will follow a future society where wealthy industrialists
rule the vast city from high rise complexes, while a lower class of
underground dwelling workers toil to operate the machines that provide
its power. Risking everything they know, two star crossed lovers from
opposite sides of the divide must find a way to bring down the whole
system.
'THE LOST PROPERTY OFFICE'
SELLS MOVIE RIGHTS TO SONY
Sony has bought the movie rights on fantasy YA novel from James R. Hannibal THE LOST PROPERTY OFFICEpublished last month which follows a teen named Jack Buckles, who, uncanny at locating missing things, tests his mettle and searches for his father, who disappeared in London without a trace. He ultimately uncovers that the old man wasn’t who he claimed to be. He was a member of The “Lost Property Office”, a secret magical society of gifted detective “Trackers,” who’ve served the Crown for centuries. Jack’s own membership is his inheritance. He will uncover the great mysteries of London and calamities to come as he tries to bring his father home. To do that he must find what the nefarious Clockmaker is after: the Ember, which holds a secret kept since the Great Fire of London.
A week ago I reported that Maggie Smith's son Toby Stephens is to play the lead role in the TV series remake of LOST IN SPACE and now he has a wife: Molly Parker will play the female lead in the Netflix sf series about the Robinson family, who is stranded in space light years from their intended destination, battling a strange new alien environment and their own personal demons. She will play Maureen Robinson a fearless and brilliant aerospace engineer who makes the decision to bring her family to space for a chance at a new life on a better world. Stephens is her husband, astrophysicist and the expedition commander. Maxwell Jenkins and Taylor Russell play their kids.
'THE LUNCH WITCH' YA NOVEL
GETS MOVIE ADAPTATION! When it comes to adaptations, Clay Kaytis will turn Deb Lucke's YA
novel THE LUNCH WITCH into a movie. For many generations, the women of
Grunhilda’s family have stirred up trouble in a big, black pot.
Grunhilda inherits her famous ancestors’ recipes and cauldron, but no
one believes in magic anymore. Despite the fact that her only useful
skill is cooking up potfuls of foul brew, she finds a job listing that
might suit her: lunch lady. Grunhilda delights in scaring the kids until
she meets a timid little girl named Madison with a big set of glasses
who becomes an unlikely friend. Madison needs help at school and at
home, but helping people goes against everything Grunhilda’s believes in
as a witch. Will this girl be able to thaw the Lunch Witch’s icy heart?
Or will Grunhilda turn her back on a kindred spirit?
'DARK ANGEL' TRAILER
FOR VICTORIAN TV SERIES
Only two weeks ago I've shown you two new trailers with Downton Abbey star Joanne Froggatt and now here's another one: for ITV's two part period set thriller DARK ANGEL, the extraordinary true story of the Victorian poisoner Mary Ann Cotton!
FEMALE SERIAL KILLER At first a loving wife and mother, faced with abject poverty and an
ailing husband, she becomes ruthlessly determined female serial killer, a
poisoner whose methods leave no visible scars, allowing her tally of
victims to mount unsuspected by a Victorian society unable to conceive
of a womancapable of such terrible crimes. Travelling around the North
East, she insinuates herself into unsuspecting families, marrying and
creating new families of her own - before killing them, taking their
money and moving on.
Through adultery, bigamy, fraud and murder, Mary Ann betters herself
socially and financially. But the more she kills, the greater the risk
her crimes will finally be exposed. Also starring Jonas Armstrong and
Sam Hoare, it will air on PBS in USA too!
Here's a new period set series for us: USA is preparing a pilot episode for DAMNATION TV series, an epic saga of the secret history of the 1930s American heartland, chronicling the mythic conflict and bloody struggle between big money and the downtrodden, God and greed, charlatans and prophets.
The pilot centres on Seth Davenport (Aden Young), a man masquerading
as a small town Iowa preacher in the hopes of starting a full blown
insurrection against the status quo. Focused on his mission, he is
unaware that an industrialist tycoon has hired a professional
strikebreaker named Creeley Turner (Logan Marshall Green) to stop the
uprising by any means necessary. But unbeknownst to those around them,
these two men already share a secret bloody past. Also in the cast are
Sarah Jones as the preacher's wife, Chasten Harmon as a Machiavellian
prostitute, Christopher Heyerdahl as the local sheriff, and Melinda
Page Hamilton as one of the strikebreakers.
TOBY STEPHENS TO LEAD
'LOST IN SPACE' REMAKE
Another delicious piece of news comes from the upcoming remake of famous LOST IN SPACE sf TV series which will be toplined by Toby Stephens!
The ten episode series to air at Netflix in 2018 follows the Robinson
family, who is forced to come together in a time of crisis. Stranded in
space light years from their intended destination, they find themselves
battling a strange new alien environment and also their own personal
demons. Toby Stephens will play the father, astrophysicist John
Robinson, the expedition commander, little Maxwell Jenkins will play his
youngest child with Taylor Russell as his eldest daughter! Dracula
Untold scribes have written the scripts for the new show!
'SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE'
TRAILER IS HERE!
Holy Smurf! The first trailer for the latest fully animated adventure SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE has been released into the woods! Smurfing its way into theatres next April, it will see a mysterious map setting Smurfette (Demi Lovato) and her best friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty (Joe Manganiello) on an exciting and thrilling race through the Forbidden Forest filled with magical creatures to find a mysterious lost village before the evil wizard Gargamel does. Embarking on a roller coaster journey full of action and danger, the Smurfs are on a course that leads to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history!
TV updates for you today, people, starting with the news on BBC One's and FX's epic series TABOO starring Tom Hardy which has just revealed its cast! In the story created by himself, Tom Hardy plays James Keziah Delaney who returns to 1814 London after 10 years in Africa to discover that he has been left a mysterious legacy by his father. Driven to wage war on those who have wronged him, Delaney finds himself in a face-off against the East India Company, whilst playing a dangerous game between two warring nations – Britain and America. Michael Kelly will be American doctor Dumbarton, Jonathan Pryce is Sir Stuart Strange, the head of the East India Company and Delaney’s nemesis, OonaChaplin is Delaney’s half-sister while David Hayman will be his trusted man-servant.
NEW SF SERIES ANNOUNCED
'MERC CITY' FROM VIN DIESEL'S 'RIDDICK' EPIC SAGA Meanwhile, besides announcing the fourth movie in famous sf epic saga
RIDDICK, VinDiesel has revealed that it will be turned into TV series
as well titled MERC CITY! It will follow the Mercs and Bounty
Hunters of the Riddick Universe. The fourth movie in the saga, will be
called CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK: FURIA! 'LOST IN SPACE' REBOOT At the same time, Netflix is
planning to reboot LOST IN SPACE TV series, this time a more grounded sf
saga about a young family of space explorers who get lost in the galaxy
and encounter strange alien lifeforms while trying to overcome
insurmountable odds. Dracula Untold writers Matt Sazama and Burk
Sharpless are penning it!
