SAM HEUGHAN, ELEANOR TOMLINSON, ALFRED ENOCH TO LEAD COUPLE NEXT DOOR THRILLER SERIES! LENA HEADEY TO LEAD 19TH CENTURY WILD WEST NETFLIX TV SERIES THE ABANDONS!

  THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR  

TO STAR SAM HEUGHAN AND ELEANOR TOMLINSON

Starz and British Channel 4 have set a cast for their six part thriller series THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR giving the leads to Sam Heughan and Eleanor Tomlinson. It follows Tomlinson’s Evie and Pete (Alfred Enoch), who move into an upscale neighborhood and find themselves in a world of curtain twitching and status anxiety. They find friendship in the shape of the couple next door, traffic cop Danny (Heughan) and his wife, glamorous yoga instructor Becka (Jessica De Gouw), but after Danny and Evie share a passionate night together there is trouble ahead. 

  LENA HEADEY TO LEAD  

THE ABANDONS EPIC SERIES

Lena Headey will play Fiona

News coming from Netflix is that Lena Headey has been set as lead in Kurt Sutter's new Western series THE ABANDONS set in the 1850s. It follows a group of diverse, outlier families pursuing their Manifest Destiny in 1850s Oregon when a corrupt force of wealth and power, coveting their land, tries to force them out. These abandoned souls, the kind of lost souls living on the fringe of society, unite their tribes to form a family and fight back. In this bloody process, “justice” is stretched beyond the boundaries of the law. THE ABANDONS will explore that fine line between survival and law, the consequences of violence, and the corrosive power of secrets, as this family fights to keep their land. Headey will play Fiona, a strong, devout matriarch who, unable to have her own children, took in four orphans to create her own family. Driven by a higher purpose, and a strong-willed Irish temper, her faith and love for her family trump all. Sutter is also preparing historical horror movie THIS BEAST, about a trapper’s battle with an elusive beast ravaging an 18th-century English village. That one was inspired by real life French village from the 1700s.

JAKE GYLLENHAAL TO LEAD OBLIVION APOCALYPTIC SF MOVIE ADAPTATION! BENJAMIN BRATT JOINS CHRISTOPH WALTZ, WILLEM DEFOE IN DEAD FOR A DOLLAR WESTERN ADVENTURE

   JAKE GYLLENHAAL TO LEAD  

OBLIVION MOVIE ADAPTATION

Two movies set in wastelands, but in totally different timelines. First up, today, the word around the net is that Jake Gyllenhaal has taken up

Jake Gyllenhaal will also produce the movie

the lead role in the long awaited big screen adaptation of OBLIVION Song by The Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman. He will also produce the film based on the graphic novel from 2018 that brings an apocalyptic science fiction story of protagonist Nathan Cole, a man who makes daily trips to try and rescue those still living in the apocalyptic hellscape of Oblivion, a part of Philadelphia lost a decade ago along with 300,000 of its citizens. The movie, which has a potential to become a possible franchise, poses a question: When faced with a cataclysmic event that permanently alters our lives, what would we choose to save?

 

   BENJAMIN BRATT JOINS   

DEAD FOR A DOLLAR WESTERN

Benjamin Bratt will play a villain in the movie

If you're in the mood for some Western (a number of those are currently shooting in Hollyweird for some reason), you'll be happy to hear that Benjamin Bratt has joined Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe in DEAD FOR A DOLLAR. Currently shooting in New Mexico, the Walter Hill directed movie follows a famed bounty hunter (Waltz) who runs into his sworn enemy (Dafoe), a professional gambler and outlaw that he had sent to prison years before, while on a mission to find and return the wife (Rachel Brosnahan) of a successful businessman who is being held hostage in Mexico. Standing in the way is an infamous gangster (Bratt) who gets a piece of any action that happens along the Mexican border. Brandon Scott and Warren Burke also star.