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Billed as a Twins Peak-esque “event series” for FOX, Matt Dillon is joining the small-town mystery drama Wayward Pines from director M. Night Shyamalan. The news comes from the ongoing chaotic week in Network Television known as Upfronts, a period which the big 5 networks cancel, greenlight, schedule and sell advertising for their upcoming television season.
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The cast of Fox’s drama Rake has all been raked together with the addition of Ringer actress Tara Summers.
Greg Kinnear stars as criminal defense lawyer Keegan Joye. Joye is smart, charming and says whatever he thinks. His lack of judgment and ability to self-censor help him land the cases that no one else wants. Under the surface, however, lies a sense of optimism and belief in justice that fire up his determination to defend clients deemed beyond saving.
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Formerly titled Inhuman, this J.J. Abrams and J. H. Wyman futuristic drama is still in pilot contention but it’s pedigree seems like an almost sure thing. The duo were behind Fox’s recently concluded sci-fi series, Fringe, and are teaming up once again for an ”action-packed buddy cop show, from Warner Bros TV and Bad Robot, is set in the near future when all LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids.” Karl Urban, Minka Kelly, Lili Taylor and Michael Ealy have been cast to lead the series.
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One of the splendid things about TV actors is that their series usually break from production around the same time. It’s why you see a lot of TV comedy actors doing a cameo or two in some big-budget films or even star in one of their own. Damon Wayans Jr. (Happy Endings) and Jake Johnson (New Girl) have gotten the greenlight from Fox for a buddy cop comedy Let’s Be Cops.
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Josh Hamilton has scored the male lead alongside Breaking Bad‘s Anna Gunn’s character in Bravo’s family drama pilot, Rita. The show will be produced by Fox TV Studios and is based on a Danish television series.
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Fresh from a recurring role on NBC’s Parenthood, actor Jason Ritter, son of the late John Ritter, will now play the lead in Friends & Family, a new Fox pilot. Ritter will play the role of Gavin, a neurotic but comical Woody Allen-ish character who starts dating a co-worker, whom he began a relationship in a very millenium kind of way, via Skype and Facebook.
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There just isn’t anything like Fringe, it’s an ever uplifting look at the ties that bind family; one that’s gone through science experiments gone wrong, breaking the fabric of universes to save a dying child, erased timelines, doppelgangers and futuristic invaders set to occupy our world. We’ve written about Fringe before, as well as John Noble’s performance as Walter Bishop, but with the series coming to an end sooner than we could prepare ourselves for, we thought to do a retrospective on the series focusing on why the series means so much, as well as reminisce incredible moments that defied the sci-fi genre and its tropes. Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD.
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Head on down to see some Todd Philips-approved photos of The Hangover Part III, Tom Cruise in sci-fi All You Need Is Kill, some photos from Thor 2, a teaser poster for Season 3 of HBO’s Game of Thrones, as well as first looks for Hogan’s Mental and the FOX serial-killer TV series, The Following.
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[UPDATE] In what seems like a cruel tease towards bloggers everywhere or an unintentional oversight by the film’s producers, it looks like Daniel Craig, John Goodman and Hugh Bonneville have joined George Clooney’s Monument Men. I guess this cast has reinforced its superb acting talent with a 007 agent (not that the Bond character will be appearing in the film) and the always reliable Goodman.
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Its been a while since X-men Origins: Wolverine butchered the first film appearance of the popular Marvel Comics character, Deadpool (created by serial tweeter, Rob Liefeld). What should have been a launchpad to the promising “Merc with a mouth” franchise starring Ryan Reynolds, has since been lost in production hell over at Fox, who still owns the film rights to all things X.
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[UPDATE #18] It’s weirdly exciting to get the promo art for the final season of Fringe, a poster for Scandal and the first trailer for Steel Magnolias (even though its not our cup of tea).
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[UPDATE #2] Check out some new photos and a poster from The Walking Dead. See them after the jump.
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[UPDATE #9] Looks like Eddie Murphy and Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes) are returning to TV sometime soon. William Fichtner, Donald Sutherland and Marc Lavoine lead a series in tandem. Read more after the jump.
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[UPDATE #2] Adam Ray has been added to the cast of The Heat, who will play Lesoire, a drug lord in the film.
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[UPDATE #3] jake Lacy (Better With You) has joined the cast of The Office as a series regular role during the upcoming ninth season. Not much is known besides that “he’ll play a new hire named Pete who’s also a potential love interest for Erin (Ellie Kemper). In describing his new gig to a cute barista in a rough-draft scene, Pete quips, “Not only am I the new guy who has to do the coffee runs, but it’s a paper company, so pretty much a non-stop adrenaline rush.”” Lacy was previously cast in FOX’s midseason comedy The Goodwin Games, but was replaced by T.J. Miller.
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Hollywood is playing mum on casting announcements, but they’re chock-full of announcement on projects that attract the fanboy crowd from Comic-Con by hiring slepper-hit directors and well established genre creators. Josh Tank (Chronicle) is directing the Fantastic Four reboot, Joe Cornish (Attack the Block) is set to helm Rust graphic novel adaptation, Alex Proyas (I, Robot, Knowing) will write and direct Joe Golem and The Drowning City from Hellboy creator. While on the TV side Steven S. DeKnight (Spartacus) is developing alien-war series, Incursion, and the Smallville EP is making Alice in Wonderland, based on the graphic novels. Not to mention that David Slade has left Daredevil and Mads Mikkelsen has dropped out of Thor 2.
