It has been announced today by A24 studio that Kit Connor will lead the epic movie adaptation of ELDEN RING popular video game. Set for March 2028 release it will also star Ben Whishaw, Tom Burke, Jonathan Pryce with Alex Garland as director. The action packed dark fantasy game follows the Tarnished warrior in the Lands Between, which has been shattered after the destruction of the Elden Ring. The Tarnished goes on a quest to repair the Elden Ring and become the Elden Lord, encountering incredibly powerful enemies along the way.
And they are not the only stars in it, beside Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett, who play legendary intelligence agent George Woodhouse and his beloved wife Kathryn, BLACK BAG film also has Pierce Brosnan, Tom Burke, Rene Jean Page and Naomie Harris in the cast. When his wife is suspected
of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test – loyalty to
his marriage or his country. The thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh will be released March 14th in the cinemas and you can check out the trailer too below and tell us what you think, will you be watching when it comes out or will you give it a skipity skip?
And they are not the only stars in it, beside Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett, who play legendary intelligence agent George Woodhouse and his beloved wife Kathryn, BLACK BAG film also has Pierce Brosnan, Tom Burke, Rene Jean Page and Naomie Harris in the cast. When his wife is suspected of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or his country. The thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh will be released March 14th in the cinemas.
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:
With the start of production, BBC and director Shane Meadows have also announced the lead cast for their new six part historical series THE GALLOWS POLE which will have a psychedelic soundtrack! Based on the novel of the same name by Benjamin Myers, it fictionalises the remarkable
Tom Burke, George Mackay, Michael Socha, Thomas Turgoose
true story of the rise and fall of David Hartley and the Cragg Vale Coiners. Set against the backdrop of the coming industrial revolution in 18th century Yorkshire, the compelling drama follows the enigmatic David Hartley, played by Michael Socha, as he assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to
Anthony Welsh, Cara Theobold, Samuel Edward Cook
embark upon a revolutionary criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. The cast will also include Thomas Turgoose, George MacKay,
Tom Burke,
Sophie McShera, Cara Theobold, Eve Burley, Nicole Barber Lane,
Samuel Edward-Cook,
Anthony Welsh,
Joe Sproulle, Adam Fogerty and
Fine Time Fontayne!
THE MOST RELUCTANT CONVERT
TRAILER WITH NICHOLAS RALPH
Speaking of period set projects, check out the trailer for a movie which will air only one day November 3rd in selected USA venues chronicling
The movie will be a one night cinema event
the life of The Chronicles of Narnia author C. S. Lewis. Directed by Norman Stone, it stars Max McLean, Nicholas Ralph and Eddie Ray Martin as the adult Lewis, young man Lewis, and childhood Lewis respectively. Spanning C.S. Lewis' bitter childhood, WWI and his life changing friendships at Oxford, THE MOST RELUCTANT CONVERT depicts the events that shaped Lewis' early life and journey from hard boiled atheism to prolific Christianity.. Also starring in the film are Tom Glenister as J. R. R. Tolkien, David Shields as Hugo Dyson, and Hubert Barton as Owen Barfield.
Are you ready for the highlight of all epic television programmes this winter, the latest small screen adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's glorious novel WAR AND PEACE which will bring sweeping saga of the 19th century heroic imperial Russia to BBC One in six one hour episodes from Sunday January 3rd, produced by the Weinstein Company as BBC's most ambitious drama project to date? Lifetime, A&E Network and History will simultaneously broadcast the miniseries as four two hour episodes later from January 18th for the viewers in the United States of America. It will also air in Australia and many European countries.
SWEEPING 19TH CENTURY SAGA Based on one of the best, most influential, longest and most popular
novels in history which has been sold in almost 40 million copies to
date, WAR AND PEACE from famous Russian writing genius Leo Tolstoy the
mini series details Napoleon’s bloodthirsty and aggressive attack on
Eastern Europe and the impact the war has on five Russian aristocratic
families in the 1800s whose personal entanglements threaten to disrupt
their privileged world! Tolstoy’s expansive novel is also set against
the backdrop of the reign of Tzar Alexander I, the lingering effects of
his grandmother Catherine The Great’s rule and the events surrounding
Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812.
STARSTUDDED ENSEMBLE CAST!
Adapted by Andrew Davies, the man who reimagined 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Bleak House' and penned 'Mr Selfridge', and directed by Tom Harper, WAR AND PEACE will boast the mind blowingly star studded cast led by 'Cinderella' and 'Downton Abbey' star LilyJames as the romantic and impulsive Natasha Rostova, magnetic James Norton ('Grantchester', 'Life in Squares', 'Belle') as handsome and brave prince Andrei Bolkonsky, while Paul Dano ('12 Years a Slave', 'Little Miss Sunshine') will take the role of the socially awkward but noble Pierre Bezukhov. Prince Vassily Kuragin will be portrayed by StephenRea ('The Honourable Woman', 'The Crying Game'), Count Rostov is played by AdeEdmondson ('The Young Ones', 'Holby City') while Countess Rostov is played by GretaScacchi ('The Odyssey', 'Emma')! Charismatic star Jack Lowden ('Passing Bells') will appear as Nikolai Rostov Natasha's brave Hussar brother, while 'The Musketeers' star TomBurke will be psychopathic Dolokhov! Prince Bolkonsky will be portrayed by legendary 'Moulin Rouge' and 'Harry Potter' star Jim Broadbent!
Anna Pavlovna will be played by 'The X Files' star Gillian Anderson! 'White Queen' star Aneurin Barnard is social climber Boris Drubetskoy Nikolai's best friend, while Brian Cox will appear as General Kutuzov!
follows the Tarnished warrior in the Lands Between, which has been shattered after the destruction of the Elden Ring. The Tarnished goes on a quest to repair the Elden Ring and become the Elden Lord, encountering incredibly powerful enemies along the way. 
follows the Tarnished warrior in the Lands Between, which has been shattered after the destruction of the Elden Ring. The Tarnished goes on a quest to repair the Elden Ring and become the Elden Lord, encountering incredibly powerful enemies along the way. 
