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Briefs : Fraggle Rock, Munsters, Marlowe, Halo & more!

A round-up of who’s doing what with whom…

 

Apple TV+ today unearthed the teaser trailer for the highly anticipated reboot of the beloved classic series “Fraggle Rock,” titled “Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock.” Debuting on Apple TV+ on Friday, January 21, 2022, the new 13-episode Apple Original series from The Jim Henson Company in association with New Regency follows last year’s celebrated Apple Original shorts “Fraggle Rock: Rock On!”

 

Lionsgate have picked up the English-language rights to Danish action-comedy “Riders of Justice”. Shawn Levy (“Free Guy”, “Night at the Museum”) will produce. [More…]

 

“Munsters” director Rob Zombie has posted a pic of Richard Brake (“3 From Hell”) as “Dr. Henry Augustus Wolfgang ☠️ Transylvania’s most popular Mad Scientist”..

 

Francois Arnaud, Daniela Melchior, Diana Kruger, Jessica Lange, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alan Cumming, Danny Huston, Ian Hart and Colm Meaney have joined the cast of “Marlowe”, the film adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novels starring Liam Neeson in the title role. [More…]

 

We will never see T’Challa in the MCU again, says “Black Panther” producer and Vice President of Development Nate Moore.

 

Ahead of it’s June 4, 2022 release, Baz Luhrmann has released a first look at “Elvis” – starring Austin Butler as the King, and Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker.

 

During Xbox(R)’s 20th anniversary celebration today, Paramount+ revealed the first teaser for the service’s highly anticipated upcoming original series, “Halo”, based on the iconic Xbox franchise. HALO will launch on Paramount+ in the U.S. and in all international markets where the streaming service will be available in 2022. The series stars Pablo Schreiber (“American Gods”) as the Master Chief, Spartan-117, Natascha McElhone (“Californication”) as Dr. Halsey, the brilliant, conflicted and inscrutable creator of the Spartan super soldiers, and Jen Taylor (Halo Game Series, RWBY) as Cortana, the most advanced AI in human history, and potentially the key to the survival of the human race. Additional stars include Bokeem Woodbine (“Fargo”), Shabana Azmi (“Fire”), Natasha Culzac (“The Witcher”), Olive Gray (“Half Moon Investigations”), Yerin Ha (“Reef Break”), Bentley Kalu (“Avengers: Age of Ultron”), Kate Kennedy (“Catastrophe”), Charlie Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”) and Danny Sapani (“Penny Dreadful”).

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