American Horror Story Season 8 Scoop: Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Adina Porter to Return
American Horror Story series co-creator Ryan Murphy revealed late Friday that the anthology’s eighth installment will be set “18 months from today”. He also revealed that viewers can expect a more “heightened” season than Cult, more in line with previous chapters Asylum (Season 2) and Coven (Season 3).
Murphy also gave the first details on the characters (and the actors playing them) that will be featured in Season 8. Returning cast member Evan Peters will play a “comedic hairstylist.” The recently cast Joan Collins will portray the character’s grandmother.
Murphy teased that Season 8 will feature three minority leads, in addition to series headliners Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates.
THR reported that Billy Eichner, Cheyenne Jackson, Adina Porter and Leslie Grossman will also be back. Eichner and Grossman announced their returns on social media.
Well I'm insanely excited to let you know I'll be joining Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Evan Peters, Adina Porter, Leslie Grossman, Cheyenne Jackson and JOAN COLLINS on the next season of @AHSFX! https://t.co/FyiHxA9E3m
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) April 9, 2018
Production on Season 8 is set to begin in mid-June.
H/T: Deadline
American Gods Casting Sam Black Crow Character
New Media won’t be the only new character on Season 2 of Starz’s American Gods.
According to TVLine, the Starz drama is looking for a young, Native American actress to play Sam Black Crow in Season 2.
In Neil Gaiman’s novel, Shadow Moon meets Sam Black Crow while she’s hitchhiking. She’s described as a forthright half-Cherokee/half white college student. Sam becomes entwined in Shadow’s journey in an unexpected way.
H/T: TVLine
American Gods Announces New Media Role
TVLine reports that the Starz series American Gods will add the role of New Media in the upcoming second season.
The show is looking for a 20-something, Asian woman to play the new series regular, which symbolizes the role of social media in modern American life (the same way that Gillian Anderson’s Media represented television and pop culture in Season 1).
Production on American Gods‘ sophomore season is scheduled to begin in May.
H/T: TVLine
Joan Collins Joins AHS
Dame Joan Collins has joined the Season 8 cast of American Horror Story in an as-yet specified role.
The Dynasty legend joins returning favorites Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters in the FX anthology series.
The only thing certain about the new season is that it takes place in the future.
Meryl Streep Makes Her Big Little Lies Debut; Plus More Cast Members Announced
Filming has commenced on the second season of HBO’s Big Little Lies and star Nicole Kidman shared on Instagram a sneak peek of multiple Oscar winner Meryl Streep on the series’ set.
Streep has joined the cast as Mary Louise Wright, the mother of Alexander Skarsgard’s deceased character Perry (aka the mother-in-law of Kidman’s widow Celeste).
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TVLine reports that Merrin Dungey is set to return for Season 2 of the HBO drama. Dungey’s Detective Adrienne Quinlan will be a recurring guest star next season.
Also returning: Robin Weigert, who plays Celeste and Perry’s therapist Dr. Amanda Reisman; Kathryn Newton, who plays Madeline’s oldest daughter Abby; and Sarah Sokolovic, who plays Tori, the wife of theater director Joseph, who Madeline had an affair with in Season 1. Weigert will be a recurring guest star, while Newton and Sokolovic will be series regulars.
Joining the cast are: Crystal Fox (The Haves and the Have Nots) as Bonnie’s mother Elizabeth Howard, and Mo McRae (Empire, Pitch) as Michael Perkins, a teacher at the kids’ school who has a beef with Renata.
Season 2 of the Emmy-winning HBO drama will bring back headliners Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern, as well as co-stars Shailene Woodley, Adam Scott and Zoe Kravitz.
Big Little Lies‘ seven-episode second season is slated to premiere in early 2019.
Legends‘ Jes Macallan Bumped Up to Series Regular
Send in the clones!
Legends of Tomorrow has promoted Jes Macallan, who recurs as Ava Sharpe, to series regular for Season 4.
Macallan joined the superhero series in Season 3 as a Time Bureau agent who eventually went on to lead the organization and become romantically involved with Waverider captain Sara. During last week’s episode, Ava learned that she was a clone from the future.
Last month, it was announced that Matt Ryan (aka John Constantine) would be a series regular in Season 4 — if the show got renewed, which it did (just yesterday)!
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow airs its season 3 finale on Monday @ 8pm ET on The CW.
H/T: EW
Wonder Woman 2 Casts Game of Thrones Actor in a Key Role
Just when you thought that Wonder Woman 2 couldn’t get any more different. Following the last casting announcement of Kristen Wig as Cheetah, we have now learned of a new cast member joining the sequel.
Game of Thrones and Narcos actor, Pedro Pascal has landed an unnamed key role in the upcoming movie.
Not much is known about Wonder Woman 2 at this point in development and plot details haven’t been shared. However, Patty Jenkins is back to direct, write and produce the sequel to her first hit Wonder Woman movie.
Wonder Woman 2 was given a release date of Nov. 1, 2019.
Source: Variety
Captain Marvel Get’s Additional and Familiar Casting from the MCU
We haven’t seen any footage from the upcoming Captain Marvel movie. However, we have gotten some set photos and some casting news in the past. But, today we have some casting news that is out of this world.
Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson; Lee Pace as Ronan The Accuser, and Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer. They will all be returning to reprise their respective roles in the new MCU movie.
We last saw Ronan and Korath in Guardians of the Galaxy, and Agent Coulson has been a mainstay on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Of course, we saw both Ronan and Korath die in Guardians.
However, Captain Marvel will be set in the 90’s and will be an origin story. The film follows Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), as she finds herself with her powers when a galactic war fought by two alien races (The Kree and the Skrull), come to Earth.
Production has begun recently, and to celebrate Marvel released a photo of Larson researching the role at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
Captain Marvel will open in theatres on March 8, 2019.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Series Regulars Added to Cast of Marvel’s The Punisher
Marvel’s The Punisher has cast three new people as series regulars!
Josh Stewart (Shooter), Floriana Lima (Supergirl) and Giorgia Whigham (Scream) have been cast as new series regulars for the upcoming second season of Marvel’s The Punisher on Netflix.
Stewart will play John Pilgrim, a man whose calm exterior belies a ruthless interior. Despite having left behind a life of violence, circumstances will force him to use his old skills and bring him into Frank Castle’s world. Lima will portray Krista Dumont, a smart, compassionate and driven psychotherapist for military veterans. Whigham will play Amy Bendix, a street-smart grifter with a mysterious past.
The Punisher executive producer/showrunner Steve Lightfoot said, “We are incredibly excited to have Josh, Floriana and Giorgia joining the cast of Marvel’s The Punisher and seeing them bring their talents to the next chapter in the Frank Castle story.”
There is currently no premiere date for the second season of the show. However, you can catch up if you haven’t seen the show by watching all 13 episodes of the first season on Netflix.
Source: Deadline
Max Adler Joins The Flash Cast As Pyro
Another Glee alumni is joining The Flash cast. Max Adler will be joining the Arrowverse as Pyro, a DC comics villain.
Adler will play Jaco Birch, a character described as “an obsessive music fanatic who worships at the altar of classic heavy metal.”
In the DC Comics, Pyro was granted extraordinary, superhuman abilities by a 45,000 year-old sorcerer, and became one of Power Girl’s many villains. As his super-pseudonym suggests, he’s a pyrokinetic and he’s seemingly about to have Barry hot on his heels.
Adler’s appearance is said to debut on the small screen in March.
Welp….cats outta the bag! 🙀 Excited to share…. https://t.co/qQ5EXxZugj
— Max Adler (@Mr_Max_Adler) January 29, 2018
The Flash airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW.
Source: CBR