Earlier this month we got a closer look at some of the lead Elves that we will watch in LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER epic TV series that starts on Prime Video September 2nd, and today we get acloser look at legendary island kingdom of Numenor thanks to EntertainmentWeekly! The show itself will also appear at Comic Con at the end of the month probably
Kemen, Miriel, Pharazon, Elendil, Earien and Isildur
with some brand new exclusives. You can also see Entertainment Weekly's Comic Con edition cover featuring the Numenorian part of the cast.
WELCOME TO NUMENOR
The
opulent human kingdom of Numenor has not been depicted in previous
movies and the production of the new series has built the entire seaside
city from the ground up, stone
by stone. In Tolkien's books Númenor is the
Cynthia Addai Robinson is queen Miriel
greatest human civilization
in Middle-earth's history, a beacon of knowledge and culture that
influenced the rest of the
world. The most expensive series ever is inspired by the extensive
notes that Tolkien has left behind him. The
Pharazon is played by Trystan Gravelle
island of Númenor is ruled by
the queen regent Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), and this seemingly idyllic paradise
is facing tensions of its own. Númenórean royals are human but have
elvish blood, and for years, they've
Galadriel and Elendil riding at the beach
been friends with their immortal
counterparts. Míriel is aided by her close counsel Pharazôn (TrystanGravelle), with his son Kemen played by Leon Wadham. Númenor also has hopeful allies, like the sea-faring Elendil
Miriel and Isildur leading the Numenorean army
(Lloyd Owen) and his son Isildur (Maxim Baldry).
The young Isildur is Aragorn's direct ancestor who will grow up to face
off against Sauron, but in the series he's just a young sailor trying
to find his place in Middle-earth.
Maxim Baldry plays Isildur in the series
Emma Horvath
plays Isildur's sister Eärien who wants to become an architect. You can
also check out the magnificent full first trailer below released an hour ago to the delight of fans around the world:
UNCOUPLED TRAILER
NEIL P. HARRIS IS NEWLY SINGLE, WHO FORGOT HOW TO MINGLE
Netflix has sent us the trailer for their new eight episode comedy series UNCOUPLED which will stream July 29th with Neil Patrick Harris in the lead with Darren
Uncoupled starts July 29th!
Star as the producer. The dating pool is a difficult place to be in the best of circumstances, but it’s even harder when you’ve been shoved in the deep end with no warning. That’s the lesson thriving New York City real estate broker Michael Lawson (Neil Patrick Harris) learns in the new sitcom UNCOUPLED.
When his loving boyfriend of 17 years moves out, Michael’s steady life is turned upside down — and to make matters even worse, he’s now a 50-year-old man who needs to learn how to use Grindr without accidentally calling an Uber. Peter Porte and Marcia Gay Harden also star.
While you are enjoying his hot self in Bridgerton, hotness personified Jonathan Bailey will star in MARIA, a young woman (Felicity Jones) with a history of running from reality. Struggling to accept her age, her boyfriend’s (Bailey) love and her father’s (Jason Isaacs) indifference, Maria spots an opportunity to feel young, free and desirable at her father’s wedding, where she meets Raffy, her new stepbrother. Their obvious, if inconvenient, sexual chemistry is made worse by the news that her father has been diagnosed with a terminal illness.
UNCOUPLED TRAILER
WITH NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
Netflix has released a funny trailer for their new comedy series UNCOUPLED starting July 29h! This eight part comedy follows Neil Patrick Harris as newly single Michael, who thought his life was perfect until his husband, hedge-fund manager Colin, blindsides him by walking out the door after 17 years. Overnight, Michael has to confront two nightmares: losing what he thought was his soulmate and suddenly finding himself a single gay man in his mid-forties in New York City. Check out the trailer below:
NEW OBI-WAN KENOBI TRAILER
AND A STUNNING POSTER
Obi Wan Kenobi arrives later this month
Disney Plus has, meanwhile, released a new trailer and poster for Ewan McGregor's OBI-WAN KENOBI sf series which hits the streamer May 27th with six episodes. The story in the series begins 10 years after the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith where Obi-Wan Kenobi faced his greatest defeat — the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, who turned to the dark side as evil Sith Lord Darth Vader. With Ewan McGregor reprising his role as the Jedi Master, Hayden Christensen returns in the role of Darth Vader. Joel Edgerton and Rupert Friend are also in the cast.
It will be a new sitcom over at Netflix and they have set Neil Patrick Harris to lead UNCOU- PLED created by Darren Star! The story in this delightful new comedy series centers on Michael (Neil Patrick Harris), who thought his life was perfect until his husband blindsides him by walking out the door after 17 years. Overnight, Michael has to confront two nightmares — losing what he thought was his soulmate and suddenly finding himself a single gay man in his mid-40s in New York City.
MOTHERING SUNDAY CLIP
FROM PERIOD SET DRAMA WITH JOSH O'CONNOR, COLIN FIRTH
After the world premiere over at Cannes, British romantic drama MOTHERING SUNDAY will be released by Sony Classics in USA in November! Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Glenda Jackson and Odessa
Mothering Sunday will hit US cinemas in November
Young lead the cast of the film which stars on a warm spring day in 1924, when house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother’s Day. Her employer, Mr. Niven (Colin Firth), is out
Colin Firth also stars in the rather melancholic drama
and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul (Josh O’Connor) is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane’s long-term love despite the fact that he’s engaged to be married to another woman, a
The movie premiered at Cannes Film Festival this year
childhood friend and daughter of his parents’ friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever. The story is based on a Graham Swift novella.
We don't know when exactly it will air but Channel 4's new 80's set series IT'S A SIN has just got a trailer! Years and Years singer Olly Alexander leads the cast alongside Stephen Fry, Keeley Hawes, Neil Patrick Harris. The five part drama centres on the AIDS crisis in the 1980s following
It's A Sin will air sometime early next year on Channel 4
three friends who move to London as the epidemic unfolds. Heartwarming and heartbreaking in equal measure, the series (previously known as just Boys) will cover the entire decade, and will follow the protagonists' friendships and love lives as they deal with the AIDS crisis.
PALMER MOVIE TRAILER
WITH JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Speaking of LGBT, the first trailer for Justin Timberlake's new movie shot for Apple TV PALMER also belongs to that genre. Airing January
Palmer streams on Apple January 29th
29th, it sees Timberlake playing Eddie Palmer, a former college football star, who saw his professional career shattered after he was imprisoned. Twelve years later he returns to his hometown and his grandmother (June Squibb) after spending time in prison only to find trouble hounding him from his past. He then forms an unlikely friendship with a gender non conforming little boy Sam from the neighbourhood who was abandoned by his mother (Juno Temple). While caring for him, Eddie also meets and starts a relationship with Maggie (Alisha Wainwright), Sam's teacher. Check out the trailer below and then tell us what you think:
Well, this is quite a cast, indeed! British Channel 4 has rounded up actors for their new five part series BOYS from Russell T. Davies. The series that charts the joy and heartbreak of four friends during a decade in which
Singer Olly Alexander will take the lead role
everything changed including the rise of AIDs, will star Neil Patrick Harris, Keeley Hawes, Stephen Fry, alongside Years and Years singer Olly Alexander, Shaun Dooley, Omari Douglas, Callum Scott Howells and Lydia West.
Boys follows the story of the 1980s, the story of AIDS, and the story
of three boys, Ritchie, (Olly Alexander), Roscoe and Colin, across the
decade. The young trio, strangers at first, leave home at 18 and head
off to London in 1981 with hope and ambition and joy. However, they’re
walking straight into a plague that most of the world ignores. Year by
year, episode by episode, their lives change, as the mystery of a new
virus starts as a rumour, then a threat,
Neil Patrick Harris and Keeley Hawes will also star in the new series
then a terror, and then
something that binds them together in the fight. It’s the story of their
friends, lovers and families too, especially Jill, the girl who loves
them and helps them, and galvanises them in the battles to come.
Together they will endure the horror of the epidemic, the pain of
rejection and the prejudices that gay men faced throughout the decade.
I know that most of you weren't overly happy when Alden Ehrenreichwas cast as the lead star in HAN SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY spin off movie, but you might be happy to hear that Me Before You and Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke has just been cast by Disney as the female lead in the movie which should fly into cinemas May 2018 on the Millennium Falcon.
As you know the movie will describe the young days of captain Han
Solo and his trusted fury friend Chewbacca following their early
adventures ten years before the story of the Star Wars movies started.
Donald Glover has previously been cast as young Lando Calrissian, one of
the smugglers from the galactic underworld who will later on become an
important politician! It has been revealed that Han and Chewy will meet a
dynamic cast of characters during their adventures! The Lego Movie's
Phil Lord and Chris Miller are directing the film!
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS TRAILER
FOR 'A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS' MINI SERIES
Meanwhile, Netflix has dropped the full trailer and poster for their A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS mini series which will be released around the world on January 13th! A small screen adaptation of
Lemony Snicket book's it brings the tragic tale of the Baudelaire
orphans, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, whose evil guardian Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris)
will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance. The
siblings must outsmart Olaf at every turn, foiling his many devious
plans and disguises, in order to discover clues to their parents’ mysterious death. The eight episode series also stars Patrick Warburton, Joan Cusack, Malina Weissman and Louis Hynes.
Fantasy treats for you today, starting with some sf with the new poster and TV spot for PASSENGERS sf thriller which is out this Christmas week!
On a routine journey through space to a new home, two passengers,
sleeping in suspended animation, are awakened 90 years too early when
their ship malfunctions. As Jim (Chris Pratt) and Aurora (Jennifer
Lawrence) face living the rest of their lives on board, with every
luxury they could ever ask for, they begin to fall for each other,
unable to deny their intense attraction... until they discover the ship
is in grave danger. With the lives of 5000 sleeping passengers at stake,
only Jim and Aurora can save them all!
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS TRAILER
FOR 'A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS' MINI SERIES
Meanwhile, Netflix has dropped the first trailer and photos for their A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS mini series which will be released around the world on January 13th! A small screen adaptation of Lemony Snicket book's it brings the tragic tale of the Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, whose evil guardian Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris) will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance. The siblings must outsmart Olaf at every turn, foiling his many devious plans and disguises, in order to discover clues to their parents’ mysterious death. The eight episode series also stars Patrick Warburton, Joan Cusack, Malina Weissman and Louis Hynes.
If you're one of the few who enjoy mediaeval comedy musical series GALAVANT (which probably won't be renewed for third season anyway), you might be sad to hear that its lead star, also known as Kylie Minogue's decades younger boyfriend, Joshua Sasse has taken the lead male role in CW's pilot for NO TOMORROW series! As 'Deadline' reports it centres on a risk averse, straight arrow, female procurement manager (ToriAnderson) at an Amazon like distribution centre. She falls in love with a free wheeling man (Joshua Sasse), who lives life to the fullest because he believes the apocalypse is imminent, leading to comedic and poignant results as they embark on a quest together to fulfil their individual bucket lists!
'THE SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS' ADVENTURE SERIES
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS AND PATRICK WARBURTON LEAD THE CAST In other TV news, something we announced earlier has been confirmed:
Neil Patrick Harris will lead the cast of A SERIES OF UNFORTU- NATE EVENTS
TV series at Netflix, as Count Olaf with Patrick Warburton playing
Lemony Snicket! The eight episode series, to be directed by Barry
Sonnenfeld, tells the tale of the orphaned children Violet (Malina
Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes) and Sunny Baudelaire at the hands of the
villainous Count Olaf (Harris), as they face trials and tribulations,
misfortunes and an evil uncle in search of their fortune, all in their
quest to uncover the secret of their parents’ deaths. You can watch
Patrick Warburton this Sunday in his new NBC sitcom CROWDED too!
'THE WILD LIFE' TRAILER
NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE!
A really beautiful and truly gorgeous US trailer has been released for English version of ROBINSON CRUSOE animated movie titled THE WILD LIFE. In the English version the focus seems to entirely be on the wonderful little animals on the islands. Out in US cinemas this September it will be brought through the eyes of the hero’s quirky companions, from the over-exuberant parrot Tuesday to the snack-obsessed tapir Rosie, from the persnickety echidna Epi to the acrobatic pangolin Pango, from the ditzy goat Scrubby to the commonsensical kingfisher Kiki and the always-cool chameleon Carmello!
COUNT OLAF IN NETFLIX' NEW 'LEMONY SNICKET' SERIES?
Well, isn't this an absolute bliss? Everybody's favourite Neil Patrick Harris is in talks to take the role of crazy Count Olaf in Netflix new series adaptation of A SERIES OF UNFOR- TUNATE EVENTS after they find a new show runner since Mark Hudis has left the project. Famous LEMONY SNICKET children books follow the lives of orphaned siblings Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire as they try to find a guardian and stay out of the clutches of their evil Uncle Olaf, who wants to get his hands on their fortune. The 13 episode series could be directed by Brad Silberling who already helmed the same movie with Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep!
'WONDER WOMAN' MOVIE
FINDS ITS QUEEN OF AMAZONIANS Meanwhile, beside the World War One setting being officially
confirmed for WONDER WOMAN movie, Gal Gadot's Diana of Themyscira's has
found her mother, Hippolyta the Queen of Amazonians in GLADIATOR's
Connie Nielsen (who is, by the way, 50, not that the photo shows it). It has been revealed before that the movie, set in
today's world, in WW1 and WONDER WOMAN's homeland, will see ChrisPine
playing her love interest Steve Trevor! Ewen Bremner, Robin Wright,
David Thewlis, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya also star in Patty Jenkins
helmed movie. There are also some gossips saying that Sean Bean could
play the main villain Ares. The movie is out June next year.
