KIT CONNOR, MANU RIOS, WILL POULTER TO PLAY MONKS FIGHTING THE UNDEAD IN 14TH CENTURY SET ZOMBIE HORROR MOVIE RAPTURE

  KIT CONNOR TO LEAD  

MEDIEVAL ZOMBIE HORROR RAPTURE WITH  MANU RIOS AND WILL POULTER

Well, I cannot imagine a hotter tandem than Kit Connor and Manu Rios, and they will be joined by Will Poulter in medieval zombie horror movie RAPTURE. Set in Medieval England in the year 1348, the story alights on Lansley Abbey, a remote stone monastery in Yorkshire, which houses ten monks bound by a life of strict routine and devotion. Their fragile peace is disrupted by the arrival of a messenger, a man with haunting news from the outside world who rapidly shows symptoms of a mystery illness. A virulent plague is spreading through the land: marked initially by a hemorrhagic fever, it turns its victims into “revenants”, restless, undead beings. As the contagion closes in, Lansley Abbey becomes a battleground: desperate outsiders beg for refuge while the infected threaten to overrun its walls. The monks are torn apart by a moral rift, between those who believe they must care for the sick and those who want to protect the centuries of knowledge safe-guarded by the monastery. As death is fully unleashed, so too is the brothers’ capacity for extraordinary acts of altruism and ruthless betrayal, forcing them to confront the ultimate question: what does it mean to be human?

KIT CONNOR, COSMO JARVIS, JOSEPH QUINN, WILL POULTER TO LEAD WARFARE MOVIE, ALAN RITCHSON TO LEAD NETFLIX SF MOVIE WAR MACHINE

 LATEST MOVIE BULLETINS 

WARFARE AND WAR MACHINE MOVIES

Just two short movie bulletins for you today with latest castings news from Hollywood. First up, a rather stellar ensemble is being assembled for WARFARE movie to be directed by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland! Not much is known about the story as the plot is being kept under tight wraps (Deadline says it will be about Naval Special Warfare Task Unit) but the cast gathered for it is very impressive: Heartstopper's cutie Kit Connor and Shogun's Cosmo Jarvis alongside Will Poulter, Charles Melton, our dear Joseph Quinn and Finn Bennett are the latest to join! Meanwhile, Alan Ritchson is set to lead sf movie WAR MACHINE for Netflix. Patrick Hughes directs the film set in the final 24 Hours of the world’s toughest selection process, when a team of Army Rangers encounter a threat beyond their imagination.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON BRITBOX AGATHA CHRISTIE MINI SERIES WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS? WITH WILL POULTER, JIM BROADBENT, EMMA THOMPSON, HUGH LAURIE!

 WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS?

BRITBOX SERIES TRAILER

New series will stream April 12th

After MagPie Murders last month, BBC's and ITV's joined streamer Britbox is bringing us another new original mini mystery series WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS? and today we have a trailer and character posters for you for this delightful mystery based on Agatha Christie's works. The three parter, in which a dying man's enigmatic last words send vicar's son, Bobby Jones, and his socialite friend, Lady Frankie Derwent, on a crime solving adventure, will stream April 12th directed and written by Hugh Laurie who also stars in it next to Will Poulter, Lucy Boynton, Emma Thompson, Daniel Ings, Conleth Hill and legendary Jim Broadbent who, together with Emma, makes a cameo appearance as Frankie's parents. The series comes from Mammoth Screen who brought us Poldark previously.

BASED ON THE ICONIC

1934 Agatha Christie novel, the limited-run (three episode) mystery follows the local Vicar’s son, Bobby Jones (Will Poulter), and his whip-smart friend, socialite Lady Frances “Frankie” Derwent (Lucy Boynton) on their crime-solving adventure after they discover the crumpled body of a dying man who, with his last breath, gasps the cryptic question of the title. Armed only with a photograph of a young woman found in the dead man’s pocket, these amateur detectives pursue, and are pursued by, the answer to the mystery.

SANDITON IS BACK WITH A 2ND SEASON TRAILER WITH TOM WESTON JONES, BEN LLOYD HUGHES & ALEXANDER VLAHOS! 1ST LOOK AT AMC'S INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE WITH SAM REID, MOONHAVEN SF DRAMA WITH JOE MANGANIELLO, DOMINIC MONAGHAN! WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS? MINI SERIES CLIP WITH JIM BROADBENT, EMMA THOMPSON, WILL POULTER

  SANDITON SEASON 2 

TRAILER HAS ARRIVED!

Ladies will really have a rich spring, with new seasons of Outlander and Bridgerton arriving in March, plus the hunks from Vikings: Valhalla in late February and then the second season of SANDITON landing at Britbox March 21st and a day before on PBS Masterpiece for the viewers in USA,

Sanditon season two arrives this March

and all that seasoned with last night's news that HBO's Gilded Age costume saga has been renewed for a second season. Based on Jane Austen’s final

Britbox will air it in Europe, PBS Masterpiece in USA

and incomplete novel, written only months before her death in 1817, it tells the story of impulsive, brash and ungratefully impolite Charlotte Heywood (Rose

Rose Williams takes the lead role again

Williams) and her quest to use rich people for her own gain. The series will also air on ITV for Brits and the third season has also been ordered.

 

THE NEW SEA SON PICKS UP

 the action nine months later, as the town grows in popularity, and features characters familiar and new. Charlotte (Rose Williams) taking up the role of governess to Augusta Wilson (Eloise Webb), Alexander Colbourne’s ward and niece,

Our boo Tom Weston Jones is the main hunk of the new season

who at the age of 17 pushes against authority and soon gives Charlotte a run for her money. Charlotte’s spirited younger sister, Alison Heywood (Rosie Graham) comes to Sanditon to pursue her own romantic dream, and joined

Colonel Lennox will charm even the snobbish lady Denham

by The Parkers, the second series promises new romances, friendships and challenges for the residents as the Army makes Sanditon their new base. The Parkers are back, as Tom Parker (Kris Marshall) strives to rebuild Sanditon.

Dashing Jack Fox is back as the arrogant sir Denham

But there are many unforeseen issues awaiting him, while the secrets and lies of the dysfunctional Denhams continue to rock the foundations of the sunny seaside town. And, in her last summer season before turning 21, Georgiana

Alexander Vlahos arrives to Sanditon to paint the rich people

Lambe (Crystal Clarke), keen to forge her own identity, gets up to mischief in the name of love… but will she run the risk of being lonelier than ever before? When it comes to the new hunks in town, we have Alexander

The second season will probably have eight episodes

Colbourne (Ben Lloyd Hughes), a mysterious resident with a complex past, and also the self-assured war hero Colonel Francis Lennox (Tom Weston Jones). Charlotte’s spirited younger sister, Alison, will quickly find romance

Charlotte will fly up in the sky with dashing Lennox

in the shape of charming Captain William Carter (Maxim Ays). There is also the courageous Captain Declan Fraser (Frank Blake) and the flamboyant Charles Lockhart (Alexander Vlahos), who plans to paint the fashionable

Ben Lloyd Hughes is another hunky addition to the cast

residents. Anne Reid returns as Lady Denham, Jack Fox as Sir Edward Denham and Charlotte Spencer as Esther Denham! Check out the new trailer below and tell us what you think?

 

 WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS? 

WATCH THE FIRST CLIP

Britbox has also released the first clip from their three part mini series WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS? Hugh Laurie’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel, which will launch exclusively on BritBox this Spring!

The three part series will air on Britbox sometime this spring

Starring Will Poulter as Bobby Jones, a young naval officer, and Lucy Boynton as Frankie Derwent, a prototype It Girl with a taste for adventure and good hats, the series also has cameo appearances by Jim Broadbent and Emma Thompson. 

 

 AMC SHOWREEL 1ST LOOK AT 

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

AMC has released a showreel showing clips from some of their upcoming shows including INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE a seven part

Sam Reid plays Lestat in the new series

adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel about the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) as he relates the story of his life to a reporter, in

Jacob Anderson is Louis in the new series

particular how he was turned into a vampire and then mentored by Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid). The show is currently in production in New Orleans.

MOONHAVEN SF SERIES

AMC has also showed first glimpses of their expensive sf show MOONHAVEN starring Emma McDonald, Dominic Monaghan and

Joe Manganiello is one of the leads in Moonhaven

Joe Manganiello which follows Bella Sway, a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on

Dominic Monaghan also stars in the new series

Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth.

Iconic characters. Epic new worlds. Legendary series.

It’s all here. pic.twitter.com/VFBHn9zPgu

— AMC+ (@AMCPlus) February 14, 2022

SAM NEILL TO LEAD AUSTRALIAN JURY TV SERIES THE TWELVE! HEAR JOHNNY FLYNN AND WILL POULTER SING IN HEIST MUSICAL MOVIE THE SCORE!

  SAM NEILL TO LEAD  

THE TWELVE TV SERIES

I tuned into Australian ABC upfronts earlier this week and their shows announced for next year really, and sadly, do not deserve any mention here, and

Sam Neill will be a lawyer in The Twelve

they said it is still too early to decide whether Sam Reid's The Newsreader, which was an absolute breakout hit of the season, will be getting a new season. But their rival Foxtell did announce new THE TWELVE ten part series following 12 jurors – ordinary Australians with struggles of their own – who are tasked with deciding the case of a woman (Kate Mulvaney) accused of killing a child. Sam Neill will play a lawyer involved in the case, while Brooke Satchwell and Hazem Shammas will play jury members.

  THE SCORE TRAILER  

A MUSICAL CRIME ROMANCE

The Score does not have a release date yet

Meanwhile, over in Britain, we have an interesting trailer for THE SCORE an unusual musical heist movie with Will Poulter and Johnny Flynn. The story of the movie revolves around small time crooks Mike (singer and actor Johnny Flynn who also wrote the songs for the movie) and Troy (Will Poulter), who are off on a new gig that will presumably change their lives. As they wait for a rendezvous hand-over at a secluded roadside cafe, Troy ends up smitten by the waitress Gloria (Naomi Ackie). As his feeling for her grow stronger and more sure, he starts questioning his life choices so far, while his real threat inches closer by the minute. 

BEN LAWSON, LOGAN SHROYER TO LEAD CW'S PERIOD SET TV MOVIE REMAKE WALTONS: HOMECOMING! WILL POULTER, HUGH LAURIE TO LEAD AGATHA CHRISTIE SERIES WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS AT BRITBOX

  THE WALTONS: HOMECOMING  

CASTS BEN LAWSON AS LEAD

I am guessing that the TV film CW is preparing will air during holidays marking the 50th anniversary of the original classic: Ben Lawson

Ben Lawson will be the father of the family

will play the patriarch of the family John Walton! THE WALTONS: HOME COMING is set in the 1933 Depression Era and told through the eyes of John Boy (Logan Shroyer), the 17 year old eldest child of John and Olivia Walton (Bellamy Young). His mother expects John Boy to help her raise his sisters and brothers, and his father expects him to follow in his footsteps to help support the family, but secretly, John Boy wants to be a writer. Times are hard enough in 1933, but to make matters worse, it looked to be the Waltons’ first Christmas without John Sr. When Olivia receives a letter that John Sr. is planning to make it home for Christmas after all, the family is thrilled and races to prepare for his homecoming. But when a storm threatens his arrival on Christmas Eve, and John Sr. is nowhere to be found, Olivia sends John Boy out into the night

Logan Shroyer will lead the new movie at CW as John Boy

to find his daddy – a journey that will change John Boy’s life forever. Richard Thomas, who originally played John Boy Walton in The Waltons series, will be “The Narrator.”

  WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS?  

AGATHA CHRISTIE ADAPTATION SETS MAIN CAST AT BRITBOX

Speaking of the 30s, Britbox has set cast for their three part adaptation of Agatha Christie's murder mystery WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS? Directed by Hugh Laurie, it will see Will Poulter playing

Alistair Petrie will play Bobby's father

Vicar’s son, Bobby Jones, who, together with his whip smart friend, socialite Lady Frances “Frankie” Derwent (Lucy Boynton) goes on a crime solving adventure after they discover the crumpled body of a dying man who, with his last breath, gasps the cryptic question of the title. Armed only with a photograph of a beautiful young woman found in the dead man’s pocket, these amateur detectives pursue, and are pursued by, the answer to the mystery. The cast also includes Maeve Dermody as Moira, the troubled wife of psychiatrist Dr. James Nicholson (Hugh Laurie) and Conleth Hill as Bobby’s genial mentor, Dr. Alwyn Thomas, who is at Bobby’s side when he discovers the body. Daniel Ings will star as Roger Bassington, the beguiling early target of the crime solving duo and Jonathan Jules as Ralph “Knocker” Beadon, a trusted shipmate of Bobby’s who finds himself conscripted into the

Will Poulter and Lucy Boulton will lead the cast

duo’s caper. Miles Jupp is Roger’s brother Henry, a wealthy Englishman with a secret burden; Amy Nuttall is Sylvia, his wife and castaway chatelaine of the family seat, Merroway Court; Alistair Petrie is Bobby’s father, Rev.

Hugh Laurie will also star in the series he is directing

Richard Jones, constantly fretting over the path his son has chosen. Paul Whitehouse is the landlord of a country inn; Morwenna Banks is Mrs. Cayman, the deceased man’s sister; and Joshua James is Frankie’s long-suffering ally, Dr. George Arbuthnot.

LEE PACE TO PLAY EMPEROR OF GALAXY IN APPLE'S SF TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF ASIMOV'S FOUNDATION! JOSEPH MAWLE, MAXIM BALDRY JOIN AMAZON'S LORD OF THE RINGS EPIC TV SERIES

  'LORD OF THE RINGS' 

TV SERIES CASTS NEW ACTORS

I haven't given you any updates on Amazon's upcoming new epic TV series based on famous LORD OF THE RINGS, but now we have more casting announcements: two actors whom we've watched recently on BBC,

Maxim Baldry will take one of the roles

Joseph Mawle from Troy Fall of the City (as the villain called Oren) and Years and Years Maxim Baldry have joined Will Poulter (who will play a hero called Beldor) and Markella Kavenagh (as Tyra) in the series which will begin shooting soon at New Zealand. Set in Middle Earth the series will bring new stories dating from the time before Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring during the Second Age which was the time in which the Rings of Power, including Sauron’s One Ring, were created. J.A. Bayona has been set as the director of the series which is expected to have five seasons with the first two (with costs estimated to be close to $500 million) already ordered ahead of the shooting. The first season will have an unusually big number of twenty episodes! The producers will have to stick to

Joseph Mawle will take the role of the lead villain Oren

Tolkien's mythology faithfully as Tolkien's Estate, according to contract, can veto all the ideas that are not in keeping with it. The pilot episode should air sometime in 2021, so you will have to be very, very patient.

  LEE PACE TO LEAD 

ASIMOV'S FOUNDATION SAGA!

Speaking of massive fantasy sagas, Apple has just found lead stars for its TV series adaptation of Isaac Asimov's famous sf classic FOUNDATION

Lee Place will rule the Galaxy in the new series

The ten episode series will be toplined by Lee Pace and Jared Harris in a story about a band of exiles who discover that the only way to save the Galactic Empire from destruction is to defy it. As Deadline reports, Lee Pace will portray Brother Day, the current Emperor of the Galaxy, while Jared Harris will play Hari Seldon, a mathematical genius who predicts the demise of the empire. David Goyer (Da Vinci's Demons) is serving as the show runner and executive producer as well. This comes after rumours that Apple has already invested close to $250 million into their sf series SEE which launches their streaming service next week and has the second season already ordered!

1ST 'LOOK AWAY' POSTER WITH AIDAN TURNER, BENJAMIN WALKER, MATTHEW BRODERICK, CHLOE SEVIGNY! NEW 'LITTLE STRANGER' POSTER WITH DOMHNALL GLEESON, CHARLOTTE RAMPLING, RUTH WILSON

  'LOOK AWAY' POSTER

FOR MATTHEW BRODERICK, AIDAN TURNER, CHLOE SEVIGNY MOVIE

Look Away doesn't yet have a release date

Not much to show you today, spylings, just two new posters. The first one has been published for LOOK AWAY drama starring Poldark's Aidan Turner, Benjamin Walker, Matthew Broderick, Chloe Sevigny, which should be out sometime this year.

LOOK AWAY is a funny and irresistible story of a young girl who literally cannot see or hear her mother, even though she is living with her under the same roof. With the help of an eccentric psychiatrist, and a local, accidental hero, our heroine has to grow up, but falls in love and eventually takes hold of her future - despite not being able to see what's right in front of her.

  'LITTLE STRANGER' POSTER

FOR DOMHNALL GLEESON AND CHARLOTE RAMPLING DRAMA

Two weeks ago I showed you the first poster and trailer, and now we have the second poster for  THE LITTLE STRANGER which is out in cinemas this

The movie is out at the end of summer

August and September starring Domhnall Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Will Poulter and Ruth Wilson. 

THE LITTLE STRANGER tells the story of Dr Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1947, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants - mother, son and daughter - are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how terrifyingly, the family's story is about to become entwined with his own.

PERIOD SET MONDAY: 'THE LITTLE STRANGER' TRAILER WITH DOMHNALL GLEESON, CHARLOTTE RAMPLING! 'MARY SHELLEY' NEW POSTER WITH ELLE FANNING, DOUGLAS BOOTH

  'THE LITTLE STRANGER' 

TRAILER WITH DOMHNALL GLEESON, CHARLOTTE RAMPLING 

First stop in our Period Set Monday is the first trailer for 1940's thriller THE LITTLE STRANGER which is out in cinemas this August and September

The Little Stranger arrives to cinemas this August

starring Domhnall Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Will Poulter and Ruth Wilson. 

THE LITTLE STRANGER tells the story of Dr Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1947, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants - mother, son and daughter - are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how terrifyingly, the family's story is about to become entwined with his own.

  'MARY SHELLEY' POSTER

HER GREATEST LOVE INSPIRED HER DARKEST CREATION

Meanwhile, a new poster (below) has been released for July costume drama MARY SHELLEY in which Elle Fanning plays the famous writer who is

The movie is out in USA, July the rest of the world

remembered as the writer of Frankenstein. But the real life story of Mary Shelley, and the creation of her immortal monster, is nearly as fantastical as her fiction.

Raised by a renowned philosopher father (Stephen Dillane) in 18th century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Elle Fanning) is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth). So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary and fuel the writing of her Gothic work. Imbued with the imaginative spirit of its heroine, Mary Shelley brings to life

Mary Shelley is considered to be the mother of modern science fiction

the world of a trailblazing woman who defied convention and channelled her innermost demons into a legend for the ages. Ben Hardy, Tom Sturridge, Hugh O'Connor, Jack Hickey play other famous poets and writers of that time.