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Da Vinci’s Demons
David Goyer’s Leonardo Da Vinci series, about the early years of the famous Renaissance Man, looks to be a go at Starz. This is something quite different for Goyer, who is best known for his work on comic book flicks like “Blade”, “Batman Begins” and (an unproduced) “The Flash”. (More…)
Da Brick
HBO has picked up the boxing drama to series. Creator Doug Ellin, Mike Tyson, Spike Lee and John Ridley executive produce. Set in current-day Newark, NJ, nicknamed “brick city,” The Brick is described as a contemporary exploration of what it means to be a young, black man in supposedly post-racial America and is loosely inspired by aspects of Tyson’s youth. Search is under way for an young back actor to play the lead. (More…)
The Transporter
The showrunners of the spin-off TV series, Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, have exited. Steven Shill, who was recently brought in to work alongside Mallozzi and Mullie, is expected to take over as showrunner on the 12-episode series, which stars Chris Vance in the role made famous by Jason Statham. Three episodes of the show are already in the can. (More…)
Under the Dome
Stephen King’s 2009 novel is coming to Showtime. The supernatural thriller, which “revolves around locals at a Maine vacation spot who battle one another when a force field suddenly surrounds their town and cuts them off from the rest of the world”, will be produced by Steven Spielberg. (More…)
Hatfield’s & McCoys
Tom Berenger (“Inception”), Powers Boothe (“Deadwood”) and Mare Winningham (“St Elmo’s Fire”) have joined the cast of the Kevin Costner-starring TV Western about America’s most infamous family feud. Berenger will play Jim Vance, Anse Hatfield’s “Uncle Jim”, who was the firebrand warlord of the Hatfield family; Boothe, will play Wall Hatfield, Anse’s level-headed, fair-minded older brother who was the local (West Virginia) justice of the peace and judge; and Winningham will play Sally McCoy, wife of Randall McCoy and matriarch of the Kentucky-side family, who loses four sons, a daughter, and her own sanity in the feud. Kevin Reynolds is directing the mini-series, which also stars Bill Paxton (More…)
Charlie Sheen Roast
A series of new promos for ‘The Roast of Charlie Sheen’ is online, here’s one :
Hangtown
“Battlestar Galactica” developer/EP Ron Moore has sold a new western to ABC. ”Described as a Western with a procedural overlay, Hangtown is set in the early 1900s in a frontier town that’s begun rapidly expanding with the coming of the railroad. It centers on three characters: the Marshal, a Matt Dillon/Clint Eastwood type who prefers to solve crimes by his instinct; a young doctor from the East Coast who is interested in using the new field of forensics to solve crimes; and a young woman writer who is trying to sell dime novels to the publishing houses in New York about crime in the Wild West. Every week the instincts of the Marshal, the science of the doctor, and the young woman’s drive to tell a rousing good yarn to her editors combine to solve crimes in a wide-open, lawless town.” (More…)
Two and-a-Half Men
Judy Greer will play Ashton Kutcher’s soon-to-be ex-wife, while Courtney Thorne-Smith will reprise her role as Alan’s ex-girlfriend this season.
