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Matt Bomer and John Carroll Lynch are attached to star in transgender drama “Anything”, with Maura Tierney, Micah Hauptman, Margot Bingham, and Melora Hardin also in the cast.
Timothy McNeil is making his feature directorial debut on the project which has Mark Ruffalo and Great Point Media’s Robert Halmi and Jim Reeve on board as exec producers.
Based on McNeil’s play, “Anything” stars Lynch as a man who is suicidal following the death of his wife. When he moves from Mississippi to Los Angeles – where he can be under the watchful eye of his protective sister (Tierney) – he begins an intense friendship with a transgendered sex worker (Bomer). The unlikely new couple must reconcile their vastly different backgrounds as they fill the void in each other’s lives.
“Modern Family” star Julie Bowen will play the enemy of Melissa McCarthy’s lead character in “Life of the Party”.
Gillian Jacobs, Jackie Weaver, Debby Ryan, Matt Walsh, Molly Gordon and Maya Rudolph co-star in the movie which has a screenplay by McCarthy and Ben Falcone. Falcone will also direct.
“Life of the Party” will open on May 11, 2018.
Liam Garrigan is in talks to play King Arthur in Paramount’s “Transformers: The Last Knight”, reports Mashable.
Should the deal come off, Garrigan will be portraying the same character he plays on ABC’s “Once Upon a Time”.
Santiago Cabrera is attached to play Merlin in the film which ties into Arthurian legend.
Michael Bay is directing the film which stars Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Isabela Moner, Laura Haddock, Jerrod Carmichael, Gil Birmingham and Anthony Hopkins.
“Transformers: The Last Knight” will open on June 23, 2017.
David Berry has nabbed the role of Lord John Grey in the hit series “Outlander”.
The character is described as a steadfast and honorable British subject, torn between a finely-honed sense of familial duty and a strong moral compass of right and wrong. He is boyishly handsome with an upper class rearing — the consummate gentleman. However, a scandal from his past has relegated Lord John to an undesirable position as governor of a desolate prison in Northern Scotland.
The series is adapted from Diana Gabaldon’s international best-selling books by Ronald D. Moore.
National Geographic Channel has added Emily Watson to the cast of its upcoming global anthology series “Genius”.
Watson will play Elsa Einstein, the second wife – and first cousin – of enigmatic scientist Albert Einstein.
Geoffrey Rush is playing the older Einstein while he is being portrayed in his younger years by Johnny Flynn.
Based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of the celebrated scientist, “Genius” will chart how an imaginative, rebellious patent clerk, who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate, unlocked the mysteries of the atom and the universe. Each episode will explore Einstein’s extraordinary scientific achievements, along with his volatile, passionate and complex personal relationships.
Alison Brie will star in Netflix’s 10-episode comedy series “G.L.O.W.”, which centres on 1980’s female wrestling in LA.
Brie is set to play Ruth, a struggling actress who finds one last attempt to live her dreams in the form of a weekly series about female wrestlers.
