Ryan Hansen and Samira Wiley in ‘Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television.”
YouTube Premium’s bringing back the original comedy series Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television for a second season. Among the stars who’ll be joining Hansen in guest starring roles are Ballers‘ Rob Corddry, Scrubs‘ Donald Faison, and Son of Zorn‘s Tim Meadows.
The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Samira Wiley is also returning for the comedy’s second season along with Two and a Half Men‘s Jon Cryer.
YouTube announced the season two guest stars with a short letter about the new season:
“Dear Viewer,
Despite abysmally low ratings and a robust letter-writing campaign urging YouTube not to renew the series, a contractual obligation with SAG coupled with the threat of legal action from Ryan Hansen himself, has forcibly compelled YouTube Premium to announce that we will be releasing season two of Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television* at some point in the future.
Created and executive produced by an A-list Hollywood director who would prefer to remain anonymous in order to protect his reputation, season two of Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television will feature some of the same ‘hilarious’ hijinks that caused almost no one to watch season one.
Starring Ryan Hansen, the cast thankfully also includes Wood Harris who was desperately needed to add some semblance of legitimacy to the show. In addition, guest stars in season two include, but are not limited to: Jillian Bell, Rob Corddry, Jon Cryer, Rhys Darby, Donald Faison, Lucy Hale, Tom Lennon, Ken Marino, Tim Matheson, Joel McHale, Tim Meadows, Stephen Merchant, Ben Schwartz, Dax Shepard, Jessica St Clair, Pete Wentz, and Samira Wiley among others that will hopefully distract from the glaring fact that season two of Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television unfortunately still stars Ryan Hansen.
Thank you. And please continue to enjoy Cobra Kai – that show is awesome.”
Life has become even more complicated for Sam in the season two trailer of Netflix’s critically acclaimed dramatic series, Atypical. The first official season two trailer reminds us that all families are imperfect, unpredictable, and atypical.
Netflix has set a September 7, 2018 premiere date for season two. Season one debuted on August 11, 2017 and consisted of eight episodes. The second season received a 10 episode order.
Atypical was created by Robia Rashid (The Goldbergs, How I Met Your Mother, Will & Grace). Rashid serves as a writer and executive producer, with Seth Gordon and Mary Rohlich also executive producing. Gordon, director of Horrible Bosses, The King of Kong, and Baywatch, directed multiple episodes of the critically acclaimed series. Series star Jennifer Jason Leigh is a producer.
The Plot:Atypical is a coming of age story that follows Sam (played by Keir Gilchrist), an 18-year-old on the autistic spectrum as he searches for love and independence. While Sam is on his funny yet emotional journey of self-discovery, the rest of his family must grapple with change in their own lives as they all struggle with the central theme: what does it really mean to be normal?
Oscar nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight) stars as his mother, Elsa, who is on her own journey of self-discovery. Michael Rapaport (White Famous) plays his father, Doug. Brigette Lundy-Paine (Margot vs Lily, The Glass Castle) plays Sam’s sister Casey and Amy Okuda (How to Get Away with Murder) plays his therapist Julia.
The cast of season two also includes Nik Dodani (Alex Strangelove) who plays Sam’s best friend, Zahid, and Jenna Boyd (Nowhere, Michigan) plays Paige, Sam’s on again, off again girlfriend.
Keir Gilchrist and Nik Dodani star in ‘Atypical’ season 2 (Photo by Beth Dubber / Netflix)Poster for ‘Atypical’ season 2 (Photo Credit: Netflix)
Chris Pine stars in Outlaw King, a period drama based on the true story of Robert the Bruce. The official two minute trailer finds Chris Pine (Wonder Woman, the Star Trek film franchise) as Robert the Bruce leading the fight to defend the oppressed against the Prince of Wales.
The action adventure film reunites Chris Pine with his Hell or High Water director David Mackenzie. Mackenzie also wrote the script with Bash Doran (Boardwalk Empire), James MacInnes, Mark Bomback, and playwright David Harrower. The behind the scenes team includes director of photography Barry Ackroyd, production designer Don Burt, costume designer Jane Petrie, and editor Jake Roberts.
Pine’s joined in the Outlaw King cast by Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nocturnal Animals), Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth), Tony Curran (Sons of Anarchy), Stephen Dillane (Game of Thrones), Billy Howle (Dunkirk), James Cosmo (In Darkness), and Sam Spruell (The Bastard Executioner). Writer/director Mackenzie, Gillian Berrie, Richard Brown, and Steve Golin produced the drama.
Outlaw King will make its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival as the Opening Night Film on September 6, 2018. Netflix has planned a limited release in theaters and on the streaming service beginning November 9, 2018.
The Plot:Outlaw King tells the untold, true story of Robert the Bruce who transforms from defeated nobleman to outlaw hero during the oppressive occupation of medieval Scotland by Edward I of England. Despite grave consequences, Robert seizes the Scottish crown and rallies an impassioned group of men to fight back against the mighty army of the tyrannical King and his volatile son, the Prince of Wales.
Chris Pine stars in ‘Outlaw King’ (Photo Credit: Netflix)Chris Pine as Robert the Bruce in ‘Outlaw King’ (Photo Credit: Netflix)
Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia Clark in ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ season 4 episode 10 (Photo Credit: Ryan Green/AMC)
The storm is underway as AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead season four episode 10 kicks off. Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) makes it to a house, seeking shelter. It seems deserted but there’s a lot of bedding on the floor. She discovers a walker in the kitchen and quickly dispatches him before hearing another. Down that one goes just as another approaches.
Alicia clears the house and places the dead walkers outside, duplicating the layout of a family photo she spots on the fireplace mantel.
Outside, the hurricane sends debris streaking through the air. Telephone poles are on the verge of toppling.
After drying off, Alicia collects the family photos and tosses them outside next to the dead bodies. She then searches the flooding basement for a way to secure the front door which won’t stay closed.
After hammering wood in place, she turns her attention to lighting candles and grabbing a bite to eat. As she’s hunting for a can opener, a noise upstairs requires her attention. She looks out a second-floor window and spots a walker impaled on a tree limb. She calls out to whoever might be inside the house, telling them she just wants to be left alone.
Finally, Alicia finds the source of the noise. Charlie (Alexa Nisenson) has been hiding in a closet and Alicia screams, ‘Why are you here?! Did you follow me? You can’t be here!”
Alicia quickly packs her backpack with canned goods, grabs the family’s car keys, and runs outside in the pouring rain. The car door is stuck closed and she knocks herself unconscious when she finally manages to pry it open.
When Alicia comes to she’s back inside the house, alive but stiff and sore. Her backpack and weapon are beside her, and she runs upstairs to pound on Charlie’s bedroom door. She demands to know why Charlie rescued her and why she won’t speak.
Frustrated and angry, Alicia continues to speak through a closed door. She reminds Charlie it’s her fault that her mother and everyone else she cared for are dead. Charlie led those killers to the sanctuary her family and friends built. Alicia gets emotional as she talks about Charlie shooting her brother and how he slowly bled to death knowing that Charlie – someone he tried to save – killed him.
Charlie sits on the bed, alone, tears in her eyes while listening to Alicia.
Alicia reveals the dilemma that’s currently tearing her apart. “I can’t send you out there, but if you’re in this house with me I will probably kill you,” says Alicia. “I don’t know if I want to kill you, I just know that I probably will.”
Alicia, voice breaking, admits she’s trying to be as good as her mother and believe what she believed. As she talks, we see Charlie removing a handgun from her backpack. Charlie finally rises from the bed and approaches the closed bedroom door as Alicia says, “You may be a kid, Charlie, but you know what you did. And that makes you garbage. That makes you a waste of a person.”
The powerful scene continues with Alicia, voice dripping with hatred, telling Charlie she’s worse than the walkers who kill people. Alicia hopes Charlie lives a long life and is forced to always remember what she did to all those innocent people who just wanted to help her. She also warns Charlie that her actions are something she will never be able to make up for.
Alicia returns downstairs and chops up furniture to use for firewood. A storm window comes loose, and Alicia’s forced to brave the weather to try and secure it. While she’s outside, she notices Charlie has covered the dead bodies in sheets.
Back inside, Charlie goes through the family photos she’s retrieved from the rain. She dries each one off as Alicia returns and yells at her about covering the bodies. Alicia also demands to be told the reason why Charlie refuses to speak. Charlie remains mute, and then Alicia asks if she knew the people who owned the house.
Alicia makes Charlie follow her outside to secure the storm windows. Charlie does as told, handing Alicia nails. They notice walkers approaching, drawn by the hammering. Alicia and Charlie hammer the front door in place, but the walkers can see them through the window.
Charlie refuses to give Alicia her soaking wet coat until Alicia screams in her face. When she finally takes it off, Alicia finds the gun in her pocket. Alicia can’t finish the sentence as she realizes she must be holding the gun Charlie used to shoot her brother, Nick.
Alicia holds the gun inches from Charlie’s forehead, ready to shoot. Her eyes show no sympathy for the young girl who caused the death of her mother, brother, and so many others. Alicia finally manages to say, “I told you you couldn’t be here. I told you I didn’t want to be around you.”
Charlie cries as Alicia, who’s barely managing to control herself, asks if Charlie’s there to kill her. She believes Charlie wanted to get her before she could kill Charlie.
Alicia sends her from the room, and Charlie flees back upstairs.
Charlie looks through the family photos again. She then opens the window and stares at the walker in the nearby tree. The wind travels through the house, alerting Alicia.
Charlie approaches the walker and is just about to be bitten when Alicia grabs her and brings her back inside. Alicia realizes the gun wasn’t meant to kill her; it was meant so that Charlie could take her own life.
Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia Clark in ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ season 4 episode 10 (Photo Credit: Ryan Green/AMC)
Alicia thinks Charlie might have the right idea, but she won’t let her kill herself. Charlie finally speaks. She wants to know why Alicia saved her, wondering if she did it just so that she will continue to suffer with the memories of what she did. Alicia admits she doesn’t know but she isn’t letting Charlie off the hook. Alicia doesn’t forgive her and she doesn’t see goodness in her. “Whatever it is you’re looking for, you’re not going to get it. Not from me,” says Alicia.
They settle in to eat and when asked Alicia replies that she’s from California and has no idea when the storm will blow over. It’s not something she’s ever encountered pre-zombie apocalypse. Charlie tries to make small talk about California, and finally Alicia realizes Charlie’s never even been to a beach. Charlie recalls how her family had plans to go to Galveston and spend time on the beach, but they never made it.
Later, Alicia wakes to discover Charlie’s no longer in bed. She finds Charlie working on putting the family photos back in frames. Alicia tells her to stop but she refuses, sure that if someone comes looking for them they’ll need these photos. Charlie says she realizes she’s a garbage person, but she has to do this.
Alicia finally tries to really reach the young girl, telling her the pictures won’t change the fact these people are gone. As they talk, the storm kicks into high gear. A window flies off and they seek shelter in the basement. It’s still flooding and to make matters worse, the wind is destroying portions of the house and making it impossible for them to escape the basement by taking out the stairs.
Alicia finds an alternate escape route, spotting cellar doors that lead to the outside. Unfortunately, they’re locked from the outside. They also find a small window, but Alicia can’t break the glass.
The water continues to rise, and the only option is to wait out the storm by standing on items in the basement. Their heads almost touch the ceiling as Charlie cries that she doesn’t want to die and become a walker. She confesses she saw her parents after they turned. She can’t remember what they looked like before they became walkers and she wishes she’d saved a photo of them.
Charlie asks if Alicia has the gun, frantically declaring she can’t end up like her parents. Alicia says she can’t kill her, screaming at Charlie that she won’t do it. Charlie’s sure they’re going to die and begs Alicia to kill her so she doesn’t turn into a walker. Charlie closes her eyes and remains completely still. Alicia places the gun barrel against Charlie’s forehead as she’s flooded with memories of the last moments of her brother and her mother’s lives. She dissolves in sobs as she, again, tells Charlie she can’t kill her. They clutch each other’s hands.
They hear something heavy fall into the cellar door. They’re able to open it and discover the noise came from the walker who had been impaled by the tree. By falling into the cellar door, he saved their lives.
After the storm passes, Alicia buries the family. Charlie wonders why Alicia did it, and Alicia admits she did it for the “people who could come back.” Charlie hands Alicia her zombie-killing weapon, but Alicia gives it back to Charlie to use to fend off the walkers.
Alicia sends Charlie out to find something while she places a family photo in a glass jar and then puts the glass jar by the graves. Charlie returns and says, “I can see her in you, even if you can’t. She’s there.”
Alicia confesses she left Morgan alone in the storm. She also admits she walked away from everyone. Charlie smiles and reminds her she’s good at finding things.
They head out in a car and Alicia tells Charlie to close her eyes. Alicia admits the beach is one of her favorite places to go and then paints a picture of what it’s like to visit the shore. Charlie listens, eyes closed. She pictures the ocean as Alicia explains what it feels like to touch the sand and enter the water.
Charlie becomes emotional as she pictures her mom and dad on the beach. She can finally recall their faces before they transformed into walkers. Alicia has given this young girl what she craved (and desperately needed) the most.
They make it back to Strand’s place and no one’s there. There’s been a lot of damage from the storm. Charlie calls out for Alicia when she finds the school bus that housed John and June heavily damaged and resting on its side. Alicia believes they’re gone, but Charlie insists they have to find them. “Charlie, things don’t get better and they’re not going to. They’re only going to get worse.”
A walker approaches and Alicia kills him. They then take off on foot.
Warner Bros Pictures took the top two spots on the box office top 10 chart over the August 17-19, 2018 weekend. The studio’s groundbreaking romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians got an early jump on the weekend by opening in wide release on Wednesday, August 15. Over its first five days in theaters, the romcom rang up $34 million domestically and pushed the gigantic shark thriller, The Meg, into second place after topping the chart its first weekend in release.
Crazy Rich Asians marks the first American feature film in wide release set in contemporary times to feature an all Asian-led cast in more than 25 years. You have to go all the way back to 1993’s The Joy Luck Club to find a film with similar demographics in front of and behind the camera. The romantic comedy sits at 92% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and earned an A from audiences, according to Cinemascore.
Crazy Rich Asians will be facing stiff competition from the R-rated raunchy puppet film The Happytime Murders with Melissa McCarthy next weekend.
The Crazy Rich Asians Plot: The story follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding), to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick’s family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a few key details about his life.
It turns out that he is not only the scion of one of the country’s wealthiest families but also one of its most sought-after bachelors. Being on Nick’s arm puts a target on Rachel’s back, with jealous socialites and, worse, Nick’s own disapproving mother (Michelle Yeoh) taking aim. And it soon becomes clear that while money can’t buy love, it can definitely complicate things.
A scene from Warner Bros. Pictures’ and SK Global Entertainment’s contemporary romantic comedy, ‘Crazy Rich Asians.’
Roadside Attractions just released the teaser trailer for The Oath, a dark comedy written by first time feature film director Ike Barinholtz (Central Intelligence, The Mindy Project). The level of violence might be slightly exaggerated, however the timely comedy’s teaser trailer perfectly captures the current state of America.
The producers of Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman – and Jordan Peele’s Get out – Sean McKittrick, and Ray Mansfield – produced the political comedy which shares a name (but nothing else) with the 2018 TV series starring Sean Bean and the 2016 crime drama directed by Baltasar Kormakur. David Stassen and Andrew Robinson also produced.
Writer/director Barinholtz stars in the ensemble comedy along with Tiffany Haddish, John Cho, Carrie Brownstein, Billy Magnussen, Meredith Hagner, Jon Barinholtz, Nora Dunn, and Chris Ellis. Tiffany Haddish was also involved as an executive producer with Edward H. Hamm Jr and Kristen Murtha.
Barinholtz came up with the idea for the comedy in November 2016, shortly after Trump’s election. “Right after Trump won, I had Thanksgiving at my house,” stated Barinholtz. “And after dinner, my family and I got into an argument about the election. The strange thing was that we were all pretty much aligned politically. So I thought if we’re getting this angry at each other, I can only imagine what’s happening to other people around the country.”
Roadside Attractions has set an October 12, 2018 limited theatrical release date for The Oath.
The Plot: “A controversial White House policy turns family member against family member in The Oath, a savagely funny dark comedy about surviving life and Thanksgiving in the age of political tribalism. When Chris (Ike Barinholtz), a high-strung 24-hour progressive news junkie, and his more levelheaded wife Kai (Tiffany Haddish) learn that citizens are being asked to sign a loyalty oath to the President, their reaction is disbelief, followed by idealistic refusal.
But as the Thanksgiving deadline to sign approaches, the combination of sparring relatives, Chris’s own agitation and the unexpected arrival of two government agents (John Cho and Billy Magnussen) sends an already tense holiday dinner gathering completely off the rails. As timely as it is outrageous, The Oath is a gleefully wicked reinvention of the traditional holiday comedy for our divisive political times.”
Oscar winner Renée Zellweger (Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Cold Mountain) has committed to starring in the new original dramatic series, What/If. The series is set up at Netflix and was created by Mike Kelley (Revenge, Swingtown), with Robert Zemeckis executive producing.
Season one will consist of 10 one-hour episodes. Netflix hasn’t confirmed any additional casting details or announced when production will begin on the original drama which marks Renee Zellweger’s debut as the star of a television series.
Mike Kelley is writing the new series and will serve as the showrunner. Kelley also executive produces with Alex Gartner, Page Fright’s Melissa Loy, Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven, and Compari Entertainment’s Jack Rapke. Jackie Levine is on board as a co-executive producer.
Kelley recently created the ABC dramatic series Revenge which ran for four seasons. Revenge starred Emily VanCamp, Madeleine Stowe, Gabriel Mann, Nick Wechsler, and Josh Bowman, and aired from 2011-2015. Kelley was also responsible for creating the short-lived dramatic series Swingtown which aired for one season on CBS.
Renée Zellweger recently completed work on the 2019 feature film, Judy, directed by Rupert Gould. The biopic is based on the events surrounding Hollywood legend Judy Garland’s 1968 performances in London. In addition, Zellweger has the musical drama Blue Night directed by Fabien Constant and co-starring Simon Baker, Sarah Jessica Parker, Common, Taylor Kinney, and Jacqueline Bisset heading to theaters later this year.
The What/If Plot: Social thriller What/If explores the ripple effects of what happens when acceptable people start doing unacceptable things. Each season will tackle a different morality tale inspired by culturally consequential source material, and the power of a single fateful decision to change the trajectory of an entire life.
The series stars Renée Zellweger (Jerry Maguire, Chicago, the Bridget Jones movies) in the role of Anne. In her distinguished career she has also received three Golden Globe and SAG awards.
“I will call you Alpha,” says Keda (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a young hunter who has befriended an injured wolf on his long, dangerous, and lonely journey home in the dramatic adventure, Alpha.
The film takes place 20,000 years ago during the last Ice Age. A young man named Keda sets off on his first hunt with his tribe led by his father who’s the chief. While traveling to find the great buffalo herd, Keda’s father teaches him how to track, how to use the sun and the night stars to find his way home, and how to be a warrior.
Once they discover the whereabouts of the herd, the hunt begins. During all the chaos of running and charging buffalo, Keda is injured and believed to be dead. His grieving father is forced to leave his son’s body behind in order to return with the rest of the tribe. They cannot delay in bringing their kill home or the winter weather will close the path to their village. However, it turns out Keda isn’t dead and when he awakes, fighting off hungry vultures, he quickly realizes he’s injured and has been abandoned by his tribe.
Determined to make it back to his parents, a frightened and desperate Keda begins his long and perilous journey across the wilderness. It’s not long before he comes across a pack of wolves and has to fend them off, even injuring one. Keda takes pity on the wounded animal who has also been abandoned by its pack and instead of finishing it off, decides to help the wolf.
Originally enemies but now needing each other to survive, Keda and his new companion, who he names Alpha, travel the dangerous wasteland together facing countless threats and overwhelming odds to get back home.
Filmed brilliantly in IMAX, Alpha is a compelling and visually stunning adventure full of suspense, tension, and a few touching moments. It’s an epic adventure told in a similar style to the classic Disney adventure films of the 1970s.
Kodi Smit-McPhee delivers an extremely effective performance as a young man on the verge of becoming an adult who struggles with his doubts about what his future holds. He must delve deep inside himself to find the courage his father knows he has, and he must put to use all the teachings of his father if he’s to survive the dangerous and long trip home. Smit-McPhee captures the fear, doubt, strength, and kindness of the character perfectly.
The film is beautifully shot, capturing a breathtaking world long gone complete with mountains, rivers, desolate lands, caves, and the last freezing of the Ice Age. Director Albert Hughes (The Book of Eli, Dead Presidents) brings the audience into this astonishing adventure, providing the illusion of being immersed in rivers, climbing mountains, and on a buffalo hunt with the characters up on the screen. It’s truly a visual delight seen in IMAX.
Captivating and engaging, Alpha is an exciting adventure film about the origin story of man’s best friend that will entertain and surprise audiences. It’s a howling good time.
Marvel’s Iron Fist season two new cast members Alice Eve and Simone Missick were teamed up for interviews at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con. After being part of The Defenders and Luke Cage casts, Missick’s Misty will become an important member of the Iron Fist team. Alice Eve joins the series in the role of Mary Walker/Typhoid Mary, a character fans are anxious to see brought to life in the Netflix series.
Season two of the action drama will premiere on Netflix on September 7, 2018 with Finn Jones back in the title role.
What are you most excited for fans to see in season two and what are you most excited about getting to incorporate in the new season?
Jeph Loeb: “I think that when Raven (Metzner) came in and started talking about two things – one, that we up our game on the action side of things and we brought in Clayton Barber as the fight coordinator and really helped train our actors to a place. I think people will see that. But I think more importantly a lot of season one focused on Danny discovering himself as to who he is and his relationship with Rand. Now, he has a different mission.
His mission is the post-The Defenders world and – spoiler ahead – just before Matt Murdock died he asked Danny to take on the mantle of protecting his city. So, we’re seeing him more in a vigilante role. We’re seeing him in the same way that Luke looks after Harlem and Jessica is in Hell’s Kitchen, that we sort of open up the Lower East Side and be down in Chinatown and down in The Bowery. And we’ll see a (new) part of New York. We’ve always said New York is the fifth Defender, and having him be in that world and bring into that Colleen and her world, and then bring Misty into that. And then all of a sudden Mary shows up and then Davos shows up and then it’s all a mess.”
Alice, were familiar with the character Typhoid Mary?
Alice Eve: “No, I wasn’t familiar with Typhoid Mary. However, I was given the comics and I read them in detail. I fell madly in love with Typhoid Mary because her psychosis chimes nicely with mine. Sometimes I would rather be violent than say hello as well. I understand.”
Simone, can you talk about the whole arm issue?
Simone Missick: “Yeah, she loses it violently and she doesn’t have it. You know, at the end of The Defenders Misty loses her arm and, essentially, she loses her identity and her career. She steps away from being a cop. We get to see that journey of her getting the prosthetic from Danny Rand with the help of her newfound friend, Colleen, and the adjustment of that. You know, the discrimination people who are differently abled receive from the people around them, whether it’s the people at their job or whether it’s their actual friends or family. And so, she gets to the point where she feels confidant in who she is. She’s got her swagger back.
You get to see her and this guy named Luke Cage… or something like that…they fight and stuff. (Laughing). When you see Misty step on the scene in Iron Fist season two, she’s very much in that new walk of, ‘This is who I am and this is who I am to the world.’ But then, the world of Colleen and Danny is completely different than the world of Luke and Misty uptown. There’s a little bit of unsure footing in that.
If you were at the panel you got to see this young lady by the name of Mary just come in and expose a different level of Misty that we haven’t seen. You don’t really get to see Misty get her ass kicked and in this show you do. I think that that’s exciting. To me, we’re telling a great story of women in a full-fledged and full-rounded way. It’s not just, ‘I show up, I wreck it, and I leave.’
You get to see other things happen emotionally and physically that are exciting.”
Misty and Colleen are fan favorites. Any thoughts about a spin-off with those two characters?
Jeph Loeb: “Obviously, there’s great excitement. I think there will be even greater excitement when people see the show. That’s really Netflix’s decision. I get up every morning and I’d like to make about 10 other shows, but I have to wait until someone actually says, ‘We’ll put it on the air,’ otherwise my boss goes, ‘You spent $100 million. Who’s going to pay for that?!’”
Will we see any other Daredevil influences in season two?
Jeph Loeb: “I think only in maybe the tone and certainly Danny confronting certain situations that Matt would have. For example, how the police feel about what it is that he’s doing. It’s not like he’s unknown. He’s actually a very well-known person, so we have to deal with those things in the most realistic way we can.”
How does the tone overall compare to the first season?
Alice Eve: “I think Raven has really brought…you saw it a little bit in the scene with Colleen and Danny in the kitchen where there’s sort of extreme violence and then there’s a kind of almost ’40s repartee, like a ‘40s humor back and forth. Balancing that levity with violence, and it’s almost like with dancing. I know Clayton, our stunt guy, would say for him it was Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. We were doing dances together.”
Jeph Loeb: “But in a punk rock style. That’s what so cool about it.”
Alice Eve: “Right. So, I think Raven has brought a tempo, certainly with Colleen and a couple of others. Obviously, there is darkness and there’s tragedy in there, too, but there is this sort of tempo that I would say that is the tone. I would say the tone is slightly ‘40s.”
Alice, could you talk about training to play Typhoid Mary?
Alice Eve: (Laughing) “I think that’s all I am allowed to talk about so, yes, let’s talk about that! I did it a lot with Clayton. He’s a man I truly admire. I have a lot of time for Clayton, although I hated him for five months. But in hindsight I’m really grateful it was him because he was ruthless with me and tough.
As Jeph told me – change my relationship with pain. I did end up in the hospital. I was in a lot of pain all the time. I worked really hard because he was a hard taskmaster. I trained four hours a day, every day that I wasn’t filming. Sometimes you had to go when you were.
That is not something I’m at all regretful about. It actually in a lot of ways changed my life. The ability to inhabit yourself as a woman and know that we’re taught in school that boys are stronger but to be in your body and to know that actually you do have resources – you do have reflexes, you do have speed, you do have strength. Those are things you can walk down the street at night with. It’s different. Walking down the street as a woman is a specific experience, and to know that you have something in your arsenal – it may be one or two moves. I’m not saying I would go down the street like Jackie Chan. But I do know that if something happened, I have something in my head as a response. That’s a great gift. That’s a bigger gift than any ring.”
What would you say is the overarching theme of the season?
Alice Eve: “Duality.”
Simone Missick: “Duality.”
Jeph Loeb: (Laughing) “I guess I’ll go with duality.”
The CW Supernatural panel was a huge draw on the final day of the 2018 San Diego Comic Con. The Supernatural cast can always be counted on to conduct a fun Q&A, and they always help finish up the Comic Con weekend on a high note. This year’s group of Supernatural stars included Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, and Comic Con newbie Alexander Calvert. In addition to the panel, the group also participated in roundtable interviews to further delve into what fans can expect when season 14 kicks off on October 11, 2018.
Misha Collins did a terrific job of withholding spoilers while discussing what’s in store for Castiel in the new season. Here’s what everyone’s favorite angel had to say about season 14, returning guest stars, and Cas and Jack’s relationship.
In season 13 Naomi gave Castiel the bad news that Heaven will cease to exist unless he’s able to find Gabriel. Will he try and help since he’s one of the last remaining angels?
Misha Collins: “Yes. The season starts with us frying other fish. It’s a fish fry sort of season. So, yeah, we’re focusing on retrieving Dean, handling Michael, and there is this sort of ominous looming fact that Heaven’s angels are so depleted that all the ghosts in Heaven could be unleashed on the Earth. So, that’s coming. I think it’s something we’re going to deal with a little later in the season.”
What can you say about Cas’ relationship with Jack in season 14?
Misha Collins: “I think Jack has sort of had this idea of Cas. In that first year he really didn’t spend much time with Cas. But Cas for him sort of took on a bit of a mythological quality as his sort of would-be adopted father or caretaker or guardian angel. And, so, this is really I think our first time where we get to really flush that relationship out at all.
It really is one of passing things down from one generation to another because Jack is going through a lot of the struggles that Cas went through in season five and six – that was a long time ago! Yeah, so there’s a real lot of stuff we get to work on together.”
What does that look like at the beginning of the season? What are the first steps that you take?
Misha Collins: “Well, the first thing that we’re trying to do is find Michael because he’s off our radar and then the next sort of step… I’m not going to reveal too much but our objective at the outset is to find Michael and extract him from Dean’s vessel. That’s sort of our objective. We have conversations about, ‘Is it okay if we destroy the vessel in pursuit of tackling Michael?’ And, we’re split on that.”
Will this be resolved quickly or will it last a bit longer through the season?
Misha Collins: “I’m not telling you.”
What will happen now that there’s this larger group of people who’ll be working together? What’s the dynamic among the group?
Misha Collins: “It’s a constant petty power struggle. A lot of gossiping behind each other’s backs. A lot of backstabbing and undermining one another.”
How does Cas fit into that?
Misha Collins: “He’s the biggest gossip of everybody. I think it’s an interesting place to find ourselves. It hasn’t been typical in Supernatural for us to have such a big cast of known characters. Typically, it’s like two or three core characters and then guest stars who come and go. Now we’ve got a lot of characters that the audience knows well who are alive again and are getting to sort of play out… We’re getting to work with characters that we already know and the nice thing about that is you don’t have to introduce the character and get to know them and figure out what their idiosyncrasies are. You can sort of start with a given entity, and I think that that allows us to play with the storyline in a little bit of a different way.
So, I think it’s kind of an interesting new vibe on the show. Of course, it won’t last. People are going to get picked off or sent away.”
What will be the differences in approaching the problem between Cas and Sam?
Misha Collins: “I think that we’re both nose to the grindstone…shoulder to the grindstone…shoulder to the wheel. What’s the saying? Sh*t! We’re both just trying to focus on the task at hand and we both have a real brass tacks attitude about it. We’re going to figure this out. We’re going to make it happen, and very focused. Cas is very much sort of in hunter mode because of that. He’s just focused.”
