Netflix has released a special one minute video teasing the introduction of Agent Poindexter into Marvel’s Daredevil. The just-released video shows Poindexter – also known as Bullseye (played by Wilson Bethel) – masquerading as Daredevil and terrorizing the city in the comic book-inspired show’s upcoming new season.
The video confirms fans will be getting details on Bullseye’s backstory in season three. Per Netflix: “This is the journey of the highly skilled, but deeply troubled and unpredictable Agent Benjamin “Dex” Poindexter as he descends into villainy. He becomes a deadly adversary for Matt Murdock… one who won’t stop until he’s destroyed the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen.”
Charlie Cox leads the cast as Matt Murdock/Daredevil. Vincent D’Onofrio (Wilson Fisk), Elden Henson (Foggy Nelson), Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page), Joanne Whalley (Sister Maggie), and Jay Ali (Rahul “Ray” Nadeem) also star in season three.
Marvel’s Daredevil season three will premiere on October 19, 2018.
The Marvel’s Daredevil Season 3 Synopsis:
“The highly anticipated new season of the conspiracy-thriller explores how an iconic villain returns to power, and the darker path taken by a crushed hero, who finds himself – and a Daredevil imposter – at the center of the tyrant’s plan.
Missing for months, Matt Murdock (Cox) reemerges a broken man, putting into question his future as both vigilante Daredevil and lawyer Matthew Murdock. But when his archenemy Wilson Fisk (D’Onofrio) is released from prison, Matt must choose between hiding from the world or embracing his destiny as a hero.”
Droughtlander ended a month early for the lucky fans who made it to Starz’ Outlander panel at the New York Comic Con. Starz surprised the audience with a screening of season four’s first episode followed by a panel featuring Sam Heughan (“Jamie Fraser”), Caitriona Balfe (“Claire Randall Fraser”), Sophie Skelton (“Brianna Randall”), Richard Rankin (“Roger Wakefield”), writer/executive producer Ronald D. Moore, and executive producer Maril Davis. Outlander author Daiana appearance at the panel was another surprise for New York Comic Con Outlander fans.
If you weren’t able to attend NYCC, then you’ll have to patiently wait for the season four premiere on November 4, 2018. However, Starz did bring the fourth season’s “Americana-themed” title credits online for fans to check out.
The Season 4 Plot:
“Season Four of Outlander continues the story of time-traveling 20th century doctor Claire Fraser and her 18th century Highlander husband Jamie Fraser as they try to make a home for themselves in colonial America. We find the Frasers in North Carolina, in a place called Fraser’s Ridge at yet another turning point in history – the cusp of the American Revolution. As Claire and Jamie build their life together in the rough and dangerous backcountry of North Carolina, they must negotiate a tenuous loyalty to the current British ruling class, despite Claire’s knowledge of the bloody rebellion to come.
Along the way, the Frasers cross paths with notorious pirate and smuggler Stephen Bonnet in a fateful meeting that will come back to haunt the Fraser family. Meanwhile, in the 20th century, things heat up between Claire and Jamie’s daughter, Brianna Randall and Roger Wakefield, the historian who helped search for Jamie in the past. But as they grow closer, the young couple realize they have very different ideas about the future of their relationship. However, when Roger and Brianna search for proof that Brianna’s parents reunited in the 18th century, a shocking discovery makes them both consider following in Claire’s footsteps.”
A Look Back at Outlander Season Three:
“Book Three picks up right after Claire (Balfe) travels through the stones to return to her life in 1948. Now pregnant with Jamie’s (Heughan) child, she struggles with the fallout of her sudden reappearance and its effect on her marriage to her first husband, Frank (Tobias Menzies).
Meanwhile, in the 18th century, Jamie suffers from the aftermath of his doomed last stand at the historic battle of Culloden, as well as the loss of Claire. As the years pass, Jamie and Claire attempt to make a life apart from one another, each haunted by the memory of their lost love. The budding possibility that Claire can return to Jamie in the past breathes new hope into Claire’s heart… as well as new doubt. Separated by continents and centuries, Claire and Jamie must find their way back to each other. As always, adversity, mystery, and adventure await them on the path to reunion. And the question remains: When they find each other, will they be the same people who parted at the standing stones, all those years ago?”
Co-creator Matthew Senreich, actors Breckin Meyer, Gary Anthony Williams and Bryan Cranston, and co-creator Zeb Wells at Sony Crackle’s ‘SuperMansion’ panel.
Sony Crackle’s SuperMansion voice cast members Bryan Cranston, Breckin Meyer, and Gary Anthony Williams joined series creators Zeb Wells and Matthew Senreich for a wide-ranging press conference at the 2018 New York Comic Con. It was evident from the hysterical press conference that the talent behind the Emmy-nominated SuperMansion obviously enjoy each other’s company. It was also obvious that no topic was off limits, including Bryan Cranston’s private parts.
SuperMansion returned with new season three episodes on October 4, 2018. Among the upcoming episodes will be the just-announced holiday special, “A Prayer for Mr. T: The SuperMansion Thanksgiving Special” airing on November 15th.
SuperMansion Season 3 Press Conference:
What’s the most fun aspect of hearing the voices bring the characters to life?
Zeb Wells: “It is hearing the actors come in and actually bring the script to life. But then it’s also fun once the actors have done that, then the animators get to take those records and then bring that to life, so that might be the most fun.”
Bryan Cranston: (Joking) “I think the most fun is to be able to take a mediocre script and turn it into something that represents gold. It’s always a challenge because you know what you’re going to read on the page is dreck.”
Breckin Meyer: “It’s funny. Bryan and I talk a lot about how bad the script is and then the challenge for us as actors is to rise above the material.”
Bryan Cranston: “I mean, way above. To be fair, it’s not that hard to rise above the material.”
Breckin Meyer: “It doesn’t take much. But this is why we are who we are.”
Gary Anthony Williams: “I want to disagree with everything they said. I have a legal issue so that I can only work on this show. So, to me, legally speaking, to me this is the best thing I’ve ever done, legally speaking.”
There are so many creative minds on this. Do they go off script?
Zeb Wells: “Because there’s so many characters doing so many things, you’ve got to stick to what the story thread is for the episode. But you always want to allow the actor to riff if they want to. And then I really think once an actor’s come in and done the character a couple of times, their performance starts influencing the writing which is fun. Then the writing becomes more organic and you can hear the characters’ voices in your head as you’re writing.”
As the executive producer, have you ever had to flex your power at all?
Bryan Cranston: “Yeah, I do. I think it’s important that people who work for you fear you as opposed to respect you. So, I try to instill that kind of fear-based energy throughout the course of every recording. There’s usually at the beginning of every season I’ll fire someone and nobody knows who that’s going to be. I think it creates comradery and a good spirit within the organization because everybody’s scared sh*tless. But, quite frankly, they’re really relieved when it’s not them. I think there’s an esprit de corps that’s created doing that.”
Was the rap in the Comic Con Carnage written or was it improvised? Were you trying to beat the “Super Bowl Shuffle?”
Breckin Meyer: “Nobody can beat the ‘Super Bowl Shuffle.’”
Zeb Wells: “We were absolutely trying to be like the ‘Super Bowl Shuffle.’ That’s a big influence there. Funny story having nothing to do with the show, but my mother-in-law is a big Chicago fan and she tried to tell me that they invented rap with the ‘Super Bowl Shuffle.’ She fought me tooth and nail. She thought that was the invention of rap.”
Bryan Cranston: “Lovely woman. She’s not very bright, but a lovely, lovely person.”
Breckin Meyer: “When she’s awake she’s very, very nice.”
Zeb Wells: “That was not improvised. That was written. And we had a lot of fun writing it and I’m sure you guys had a lot of fun rapping it.”
Bryan Cranston: “Yes, we did have a blast rapping. Most people don’t know that I have a rap background.”
And your rap name is?
Bryan Cranston: “It was Wrapper. I would wrap presents and things like that. The tape and the whole thing.”
Was the Comic Con episode inspired by real experiences?
Zeb Wells: “Yes, they were. Well, you’ve probably heard of the legendary SuperMansion panel from C2E2. Basically, everyone there who was at the panel was waiting for the Timeless panel that was directly afterwards.”
Breckin Meyers: “We’re like in the back, Robert Kennedy behind the scenes of the hotel thing walking through the bowels of it. We’re like, ‘How many people are out there?’ They’re like, ’25.’ I’m like, ‘Dig it! 2,500. Right on!’ They’re like, ‘No, no. 25.’ How many were for Timeless? 24. It was a good time. But then from pain came funny.”
Season three seems more epic in scope. Was that a conscious decision?
Matthew Senreich: “I think one of the greatest things that Crackle did for us is they picked up a lot of episodes right out of the gate and we knew what we had to work with. So, with more episodes came the ability to break them up into sections, little portions that will kind of lead to these epic endings for all of them.”
Has there ever been any plot line or script where you just couldn’t wind up doing it?
Zeb Wells: “Yeah, sometimes you edit yourself. I think there was a character in a script named Snake Mandick.”
Bryan Cranston: “That’s an unfortunate name.”
Breckin Meyer: “Based on that Merchant Ivory movie.”
Zeb Wells: “And that was one when I read it I was like, ‘Maybe we don’t need to make this puppet.’ And maybe no one needs to ever hear about this.”
Bryan Cranston: “Good thing you didn’t tell anybody!”
Zeb Wells: “Every once in a while Crackle will push back. The last time they pushed back it was because we made a Blues Traveler joke that was very mean about Blues Traveler. They said, ‘Do we really need to be this mean to Blues Traveler?’ And I thought, ‘No, we don’t. We don’t.’”
Breckin Meyer: “John Popper started Crackle – that’s the thing. The lead singer of Blues Traveler left Blues Traveler to start Crackle.”
Is there anything the voice actors have recorded that makes you change the story?
Zeb Wells: “We record first but there have been times where Bryan will start riffing or Gary will start riffing and we’ll think of something we’ll have to have…”
Matthew Senreich: “But not Breckin.”
Bryan Cranston: “He’s right here.”
Zeb Wells: “I realized it would start to turn into a role call at that point.”
Breckin Meyer: (Sarcastically) “No, I mean we’re so lucky to have Gary and Bryan on the show. They really are legends.”
When you’re working on how you’ll voice a character, where do draw inspiration from?
Bryan Cranston: “To do a voice that’s the clone of Titanium Rex, I squeeze my scrotum so tightly that all that can come out was a higher pitched voice. But you recognize that it was the same kind of voice because when I do Titanium Rex, I don’t squeeze so tightly. There’s a firmness to it, but I wouldn’t say it’s a squeeze.”
Breckin Meyer: “That’s actually how I came up with my character’s voice is I watched a video of Bryan grabbing his junk. I was like, ‘Hmmm, you know what I want to sound like right now.”
Gary Anthony Williams: “For me because I came in later in this process, so I just asked them what does he look like and then go from there. I would run two or three voices by them maybe. They’d go, ‘No. Do more like Bryan. Squeeze your stuff.’ I get all in my undercarriage and that’s it.”
Breckin Meyer: “My thing with Zeb was because we worked together on Robot, Robot Chicken not Mr. Robot, with Zeb he created Courtney and I think early on he was just like, ‘He’s a super-douche.’ And so I was like, ‘How about this?’ And he said, ‘No, no, no. He’s a super-douche. Just be your voice.’ But I held Bryan’s scrotum while doing it. It’s just one of the things he puts in the contract that you have to do.”
Is there a guest voice you really want to get on the show?
Breckin Meyer: “Michael Keaton.”
Bryan Cranston: “I was hoping that we could get the real Barack Obama on the show when that was written. I thought, ‘Maybe!’”
Zeb Wells: “I want to get Michael Pena on the show. I’ve always thought that he’s just hilarious.”
The second season of Starz’ genre-bending series, American Gods, doesn’t arrive until sometime in 2019, however the network has kicked up the hype surrounding the long-awaited new season with the release of an official teaser trailer. The trailer premiered at the New York Comic Con on October 5th during a panel featuring the main cast and author/executive producer Neil Gaiman.
Returning for another outing in the world created by Neil Gaiman are Ricky Whittle (‘Shadow Moon’), Pablo Schreiber (‘Mad Sweeney’), and Emily Browning (‘Laura Moon’). The returning cast also includes Orlando Jones (‘Mr. Nancy’), Yetide Badaki (‘Bilquis’), Crispin Glover (‘Mr. World’), Bruce Langley (‘Technical Boy’), Omid Abtahi (‘Salim’), Mousa Kraish (‘The Jinn’) and Demore Barnes (‘Mr. Ibis’).
In addition to the packed panel hosted by Patton Oswalt, American Gods was represented at the New York Comic Con by a booth which was designed to replicate the diner from the series.
The American Gods Season 2 Plot:
“Following the epic showdown at Easter’s party, Season Two ups the ante with Mr. Wednesday continuing his quest to pitch the case for war to the Old Gods with Shadow, Laura and Mad Sweeney in tow. But when things don’t go as planned at the House on the Rock, they all find themselves on a haunting journey through middle America.”
Amazon’s critically acclaimed drama series The Man in the High Castle returned for its third season on October 5, 2018. The cast, including series stars Alexa Davalos, Chelah Horsdal, Rufus Sewell, and Joel de la Fuente, were present at the 2018 New York Comic Con to discuss the new season which finds Juliana (Davalos) “grappling with her destiny after seeking safety in the Neutral Zone.”
Teamed up for roundtable interviews, Davalos and Horsdal talked about their characters, the new season, the scope of the series, and their favorite scenes.
The third season really keeps you on your toes. Is it ever difficult for you to remember which characters you’re interacting know what in which multiverse?
Alexa Davalos: ““No, but I think when you live in something for years and years it sort of becomes part of your makeup. It’s constantly in the back of your mind.”
Who do you think throughout the whole show Juliana will never falter from supporting?
Alexa Davalos: “For her, it’s more of an idea than a person in a lot of ways. I think when you live in a realm where the ceiling is so low and the oppression is so serious and you’re alone, it becomes more about the path that she’s on, the trajectory that she’s on, the focus forward more than any one person. And Trudy – she carries Trudy with her always.”
What’s the atmosphere like on set? Are there ever moments when you can relax and have a little fun?
Chelah Horsdal: “We have a gas. We really do. We have a really great time.”
Alexa Davalos: “We lost it the other day together, actually, so that was the most recent.”
Chelah Horsdal: “It was the first day of the season for shooting and the two of us collapsed into a giggle fit.”
Alexa Davalos: “That happens, and you know what? Thank goodness because it is such a serious world we’re living in.”
Chelah Horsdal: “It almost seems because it’s so dark that the levity that we have in between sort of offsets the ability to be able to go to those deep dark places and be more honest and open.”
What was your favorite scene shooting from season three?
Alexa Davalos: “For different reasons there are always scenes that you love and scenes that you loathe and scenes that are daunting. I don’t have a favorite right off the top of my head.”
Chelah Horsdal: “The 5th Avenue – the parade – John’s parade as he’s been elevated. It was a really intense, beautiful day. We had 300 background there. We had 50 makeup artists. We were shooting in this huge open area that they had built a whole bunch of what you see on screen. We had green screens; we had 20 green screens that were being moved around by machines constantly. It was just logistically one of those days where you go, ‘This is what I do.’ Like, it was a really…the scale of it was extraordinary. My least favorite scene was having to take care of Alice Adler.”
Conor Leslie as Trudy Walker and Alexa Davalos as Juliana Crain in ‘The Man in the High Castle’ season 3 (Photo Credit: Liane Hentscher/Amazon Prime Video)
Speaking of the scale, since the first season has the production noticeably increased in size? Or does it feel like an intimate production?
Alexa Davalos: “It feels intimate. I mean, certainly our production designer Drew Boughton is a genius. She’s hands-down a genius and creates the most magnificent spaces for us and has done since day one. It doesn’t feel like it’s shifted, really. We have much larger sequences, certainly, and the third season toward the end that whole set piece was… I mean, it’s an airplane hangar. The thing is enormous. That certainly is the biggest that we’ve had.”
Chelah Horsdal: “That being said, starting shooting season four – I’m not going to give anything away – but there is the largest stunt sequence that is ever happened on The Man in the High Castle in the first episode. It’s a feat what they have put together, our two stunt coordinators. Well, our one this year because Jeff (Aro) left. We have a married couple who are our stunt coordinators on the show or have been up until this year. But now Maja Aro is our coordinator and she put together an incredible sequence.”
Can you tell us if you were both personally involved with that stunt?
Chelah Horsdal: “I will never reveal that.”
What about the character journeys this season? What kind of journeys are they on as people?
Chelah Horsdal: “Helen starts in such a place of deep devastation. She’s utterly heartbroken and unable to, I think, even cope in any way. I think what I feel like is through the course of the season you see her completely fall apart at the seams and then come back to some strength. I get goosebumps when I think about it because she arrives back at certainly the woman and the character that I began to know in seasons one and two of making this really strong decision for the primary reasons of protecting her daughters. That’s everything. So, it was a really fun sort of melting and then coming back together towards the end.”
Alexa Davalos: “I think at the end of two, to be honest, we find her in that really broken place. She has to find a way…I think she’s the kind of person ultimately in this season where if you sit still for too long and really sit in what you’ve experienced, you may not be able to continue. She’s just trying to survive, ultimately. And obviously the mid-season arc of it all was extremely painful and difficult. She carries that with her as well. She’s a soldier. She’s going to keep going.”
Paramount Pictures has just released the final trailer for the crazy action horror film, Overlord. The new minute-long trailer reveals what happens to anyone injected with a serum developed in a secret Nazi lab, and it’s definitely not a pretty sight.
Overlord‘s directed by Julius Avery (2014’s Son of a Gun) from a script by Billy Ray (an Oscar nominee for Captain Phillips) and Mark L. Smith (The Revenant, Vacancy). Bad Robot and J.J. Abrams produced the film along with Lindsey Weber. Jo Burn, Jon Cohen, and Cory Bennett Lewis serve as executive producers. The behind the scenes team includes cinematographers Laurie Rose and Fabian Wagner, editor Matt Evans, production designer Jon Henson, and costumer designer Anna B. Sheppard, with music by Jed Kurzel.
The action horror film’s cast includes Jovan Adepo (Sorry for Your Loss), Wyatt Russell (Lodge 49, Ingrid Goes West), John Magaro (Orange is the New Black), Mathilde Ollivier (The Misfortunes of Francois Jane), Pilou Asbæk (Game of Thrones), Bokeem Woodbine (Fargo, Underground), Iain De Caestecker (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), and Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones).
Paramount Pictures will release Overlord in theaters and IMAX on November 9, 2018. The MPAA has rated the film R for strong bloody violence, disturbing images, language, and brief sexual content.
The Overlord Plot:
“With only hours until D-Day, a team of American paratroopers drop into Nazi-occupied France to carry out a mission that’s crucial to the invasion’s success. Tasked with destroying a radio transmitter atop a fortified church, the desperate soldiers join forces with a young French villager to penetrate the walls and take down the tower. But, in a mysterious Nazi lab beneath the church, the outnumbered G.I.s come face-to-face with enemies unlike any the world has ever seen. From producer J.J. Abrams, Overlord is a thrilling, pulse-pounding action adventure with a twist.”
Jovan Adepo as Boyce, Dominic Applewhite as Rosenfeld, Mathilde Ollivier as Chloe, Wyatt Russell as Ford, and John Magaro as Tibbet in ‘Overlord’ (Photo Credit: Paramount Pictures)
Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle cast members and executive producers took part in a panel at the New York Comic Con in support of the show’s third season. The new season premieres on Friday, October 5, 2018 and with it comes a word of warning for those who aren’t necessarily into binge-watching. Prepare yourselves for being unable to turn season three off before you make it through the season finale. Season three of The Man in the High Castle is absolutely spellbinding.
Among the cast members who participated in the season three panel at the NYCC were Rufus Sewell (‘Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith’) and Joel de la Fuente (‘Inspector Kido’). Paired together for roundtable interviews, de la Fuente and Sewell discussed their characters’ journeys, what it is that drives Sewell’s John Smith in season three, and life on the set of the riveting drama.
The show’s a drama but it’s also a sneaky heavy special effects show. What’s your interaction been with the green screen and effects elements?
Joel de la Fuente: “I’ve never seen bigger green screens. They are like two or three stories high sometimes.”
Rufus Sewell: “It takes a lot of green to turn Vancouver into New York, as often as we do.”
Joel de la Fuente: “And San Francisco putting hills in. The fleet and the German aircraft.”
Rufus Sewell: “But it’s not as discombobulating as green screen can be because whatever can be real is real. We work on a real set and there will be green (screens). It’s not…I’ve experienced it where you’re just basically in a green room. […] We’ll still have all of the stuff that brings a reality to a scene and that is so believably detailed. We have a tremendous advantage.”
Joel de la Fuente: “But, also, it’s not just the set. It’s that often in these situations the intention is to call attention to the effects. With us, a lot of it is character-based so we have the opportunity that, yes, we’re standing in a green screen but we have relationships to focus on to act with. So, that makes it a sort of a thrill.”
What do you think is John’s primary driving force in season three?
Rufus Sewell: “It’s never changed. His driving force has never been personal ambition. That’s like an offshoot. The more danger his family is in, the more it looks like he continues in power – and greater power. The more danger he’s in, the more he needs to cling to the machine that’s putting him in danger.
The reason he made every choice is, ill-advised possibly, but in a very, very difficult situation facing choices that most of us would never hope to face, he’s always sided with what he believed was the side that would protect his family. And, in the circumstances, the best moral choice. I don’t believe he made the right choices, but I believe he believed he did at the time. Not to say that he’s not capable of lying to himself and sustaining a false narrative to keep him going, like people do.
But I think his intention has always been the safety of his family. That’s why when Thomas is taken away, it’s necessary to not have him there. Because if he was there, he wouldn’t think twice about doing whatever he could to save him. He’d never harm his son. His whole point is to protect his son, whatever it takes. You pick up a gun, you do this, you do that – that’s his primary super objective.”
Has Smith’s sense of identity changed in terms of dealing with Thomas?
Rufus Sewell: “I think when what happens to Thomas happens, I think he becomes even more split and divided from exterior to interior. It pushes him further into himself. I think his interior is angry, betrayed, rageful, guilt-ridden, dangerous. I think he hugely resents the machinery that’s done this to his child. He resents himself and feels culpable, but he has to make the appearance of moving the direction of the opposite. So, all these feelings are very, very confused.
But I don’t think he’s without enormous resentment towards the society that lionizes his son and bastardizes his memory and turns him into this poster child which is a lie – a hideous lie. They’re using him. I think on his inside he feels what his wife is feeling on the outside, but he has to keep it together.”
Does he have any regrets about his choices?
Rufus Sewell: “Of course. I think he wrestles with it because it’s not easy. It’s not like, ‘Oh, I should have done this,’ because there is no easy obvious (choice). I think he feels an enormous amount of responsibility and regret. But the other choice is not obvious.”
Rufus Sewell in season 3 of ‘The Man in the High Castle.’ (Photo Credit: Liane Hentscher/Amazon Prime Video)
What gets you into the mode of John Smith?
Rufus Sewell: “I don’t know. Being in the room. I try to be in the mode of myself as much as possible when I play John Smith because so much will happen for you in that situation. I want to concentrate on not seeing my behavior so as we can get to something more true, because it’s very tempting to fall into the nearest available characteristic behaviors, just from other movies we’ve watched, from other actors. So, whenever I remember to do the opposite of the Nazi-ish thing, like if I get a knife and fork with my food, ‘Can I eat it with my hands instead?’ If ever I get something on a plate, ‘Could I have it in Tupperware?’ Whatever…those things. I need to remind myself because if you forget, you move towards the cliché because we’re so used to it. So that’s what I try, in many ways, to be myself.”
How are your characters evolving and changing over the course of the third season?
Joel de la Fuente: “Kido has just survived an explosion at the end of season two, so I think there’s sort of a level of trauma and personal responsibility he feels having survived it and also being somewhat responsible for the cause of it. So, it’s that journey, the journey to sort of move past that and to sort of address whatever his honor demands to make sure he pays the debt that needs to be paid for. That is a major driving force in the season.”
Do you ever find time to have fun on the set or is it just all work and no play?
Rufus Sewell: “No, for me work is play. It’s all play unless you’re doing a comedy in which case it’s really serious. But with something like this, I know it’s dangerous to talk about because you risk sounding perverse because the subject matter. But I find the more heavy and the more intense…I mean, I’m pretty silly anyway…but you do find yourself larking about a lot. We get on. It’s a really remarkably nice bunch of people who really believe in what they do. It’s a pleasant working environment, surprisingly. And we all really believe morally in what we’re doing. We believe that the heart behind this show is in the right place.”
Joel de la Fuente: “Honestly, in order to portray the actions and events that happened in this piece, it’s sort of like closing your eyes before you know you have to keep them open for a long time. You need to laugh. You need to lighten your spirit before you go into the heaviness of it.”
Rufus Sewell: “It might sound a little bit strange but actually there’s method to the madness…possibly.”
We heard something about you doing a ballet in full Nazi regalia.
The official trailer for YouTube Originals’ sci-fi thriller, Origin, premiered during the New York Comic Con and then debuted online after its screening at Comic Con for those who couldn’t make the New York convention. Cast members and Harry Potter veterans Tom Felton and Natalia Tena introduced the trailer at NYCC while participating on a panel promoting the show’s upcoming premiere.
Origin was created by writer/executive producer Mika Watkins. Andy Harries, Suzanne Mackie, Rob Bullock, Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, and Resident Evil‘s Paul W.S. Anderson serve as executive producers. The series is a Left Bank / CiTVC co-production in association with Sony Pictures Television.
In addition to Tom Felton and Natalia Tena, the cast includes Sen Mitsuji, Nora Arnezeder, Fraser James, Philipp Christopher, Nina Wadia, Madalyn Horcher, Siobahn Cullen, Adelayo Adedayo and Wil Coban.
Origin will premiere on YouTube Premium on November 14, 2018. Season one will consist of 10 episodes.
The Origin Plot:
“From the producers of The Crown & producers of Lost comes Origin, a chilling new original series that follows a group of troubled passengers as they wake up on a damaged spaceship abandoned in deep space. Each having left behind a dark past in search of a fresh start on a newly colonized planet, they’re determined to survive at all costs. But as their terrifying situation spirals into paranoia, they come to realize that the greatest threat to their dream of starting over – and indeed their lives – is something far darker than the pasts they were so desperate to escape.”
Shonda Rhimes celebrates the 100th episode of ABC’s ‘Scandal’ (ABC/Todd Wawrychuk)
Blake Crouch’s upcoming novel Recursion is being adapted into a feature film and, as Netflix describes it, a “television universe.” Netflix made the announcement and confirmed multiple projects based on the book are in development with Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beer’s Shondaland and Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho.
The book isn’t expect to hit stores until June 11, 2019. Crouch’s previous novels include the Wayward Pines trilogy which was made into a Fox series by M. Night Shyamalan. TNT currently has a series based on Crouch’s Good Behavior novellas starring Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey).
“I have been a fan of Shonda’s and Matt’s work going back years,” said Crouch, commenting on the deal. “To have these titans of television and film working on something of mine is an incredible honor, and Netflix is the pitch-perfect home for people who want to adapt film and TV in the most innovative way possible.”
In 2017, Rhimes and Shondaland moved to Netflix to work on creating new shows. “Projects like this are why I came to Netflix,” stated Shonda Rhimes. “The opportunity to explore a multi-genre universe in innovative ways is extremely exciting. Matt and Blake both have the tremendous ability to build compelling characters and imaginative landscapes and I am thrilled to work alongside them.”
Matt Reeves has signed a first-look deal with Netflix for any feature films he’s directing or producing under his 6th & Idaho banner. Discussing the Recursion project, Reeves said, “Blake’s mind-bending novel presents an incredible opportunity to explore its expansive narrative simultaneously through both film and television. Netflix is uniquely suited for this ambitious undertaking and I can’t imagine a more exciting partner than the astonishingly talented Shonda Rhimes whose work I have admired for years.”
The Recursion Plot:
At once a relentless save-the-world sci-fi thriller, an epic romance, and an intricate police procedural, Recursion explores what happens when a brilliant female scientist invents a powerful technology that allows people not just to reactivate their most visceral memories but to reinvent them entirely. For some, it offers the chance to rewrite their entire lives. In the wrong hands, it will upend the world as we know it.
The official trailer for Marvel’s Daredevil season three finds Matt Murdock admitting that while he was trying to help people, he was actually only fooling himself. “Darkness only responds to darkness,” declares Daredevil (Charlie Cox).
The two and a half minute trailer also reveals Wilson Fisk has cut a deal and is out of prison, and he’s claiming he’s a new man. Now free, he blames the violence taking over the city on none other than Daredevil, turning citizens against the masked vigilante.
In addition to Charlie Cox, the cast of season three includes Vincent D’Onofrio (Wilson Fisk), Elden Henson (Foggy Nelson), Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page), Joanne Whalley (Sister Maggie), Wilson Bethel (Benjamin Poindexter) and Jay Ali (Rahul “Ray” Nadeem).
Marvel’s Daredevil season three is set to premiere worldwide October 19, 2018 on Netflix. Erik Oleson (The Man in the High Castle) is this season’s showrunner and serves as an executive producer.
The Marvel’s Daredevil Season 3 Synopsis:
“The highly anticipated new season of the conspiracy-thriller explores how an iconic villain returns to power, and the darker path taken by a crushed hero, who finds himself – and a Daredevil imposter – at the center of the tyrant’s plan.
Missing for months, Matt Murdock (Cox) reemerges a broken man, putting into question his future as both vigilante Daredevil and lawyer Matthew Murdock. But when his archenemy Wilson Fisk (D’Onofrio) is released from prison, Matt must choose between hiding from the world or embracing his destiny as a hero.”
Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil in season three of ‘Marvel’s Daredevil.’
