'VOYAGE OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE'
EMMA THOMPSON, BANDERAS, MICHAEL SHEEN, RALPH FIENNES
Universal Pictures is gathering a rather stellar cast for their live action adaptation of
THE VOYAGE OF DOCTOR DOLLITLE which will see
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Doctor DoLittle is set for April 2019 release! |
Robert Downey Jr playing the famous doctor who can speak to animals.
Antonio Banderas will apparently play his enemy, a pirate named Rassouli while
Michael Sheen is set to play Mudfly! Meanwhile, British thespians
Emma Thompson and
Ralph Fiennes will lend their voices to some of the talking animals alongside young
Tom Holland! An adaptation of
Hugh Lofting's classic book from the 1920's the movie is viewed as the potential opening for a whole franchise.
NEW EPIC SERIES CASTINGS
JOSEPH QUINN JOINS 'LES MISERABLES' AT BBC
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Les Miserables will air sometime next year! |
Casting news from the period set TV series world today, starting with
our lovely chap
Joseph Quinn, whom we'd discovered in
Dickensian and
continued to love in that horrid borefest of
Howards End. He has now
joined another BBC production, the six part series on
LES MISERAB- LES
which already has
Dominic West as Jean Valjean,
Lily Collins as Fantine
and
David Oyelowo as Javert and
Olivia Colman as Madame Thenardier.
Quinn will play Enjorlas, a revolutionary who dies for his beliefs in
the June Rebellion.
MICHAEL EMERSON JOINS 'THE NAME OF THE ROSE'
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Italian Rai is preparing the new epic series |
I've already
told you
that Italian RAI is preparing $30 million epic series based on
Umberto
Eco's
THE NAME OF THE ROSE and that
John Turturro (As William of
Baskerville) and
Rupert Everett (as Inquisitor Gui) will lead the cast,
and now they're joined by
Michael Emerson who will play The Abbot, an
ambiguous, greedy, over sensitive and irritable prince of the Abbey! To
start airing its eight episodes at the beginning of next year, it
follows William of Baskerville, a 14th century
Franciscan monk, as he investigates a series of unusual deaths at a
remote monastery!
Damian Hardung
will be William's apprentice, Benedictine novice Adso.