Lucas Till in ‘Monster Trucks’ (Photo Credit: Paramount Pictures)
Paramount Pictures unveiled the official trailer for Monster Trucks, a family fantasy adventure/action comedy that’s about trucks and monsters and…well, you just have to watch the trailer for yourself. Directed by Chris Wedge (Robots, Ice Age), the cast of the 2017 release includes Lucas Till, Jane Levy, Holt McCallany, Barry Pepper, Tucker Albrizzi, Danny Glover, Amy Ryan, Rob Lowe, Frank Whaley, and Thomas Lennon. Monster Trucks will open in theaters on January 13, 2017.
The Plot: Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp (Lucas Till), a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend. Melding cutting edge visual effects and state-of-the-art CGI, Monster Trucks is an action filled adventure for the whole family that will keep you on the edge of your seat and ultimately touch your heart.
Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe in ‘Swiss Army Man’ (Photo by Joyce Kim / A24)
A24’s released the official lyric video for ‘Montage’ from the trippy fantasy adventure comedy Swiss Army Man. The song was written and performed by Andy Hull and Robert McDowell of Manchester Orchestra, with the film’s stars Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano also lending their voices to the single. ‘Montage’ is featured on the film’s soundtrack and will be released as a single on June 3, 2016. Co-written and co-directed by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, Swiss Army Man will open in limited release on June 24th followed by a wide release on July 1st.
Discussing the song, Andy Hull stated, “Last January, I received an email from our good friends, the directing duo Daniels. We had met and fallen in love while working together on our music video for ‘Simple Math’ (the one where they throw me out of a car). They asked if I was interested in writing some songs for a full-length feature they had been working on. I was obviously thrilled at the opportunity and so they sent me the script. It was the craziest story I had ever read and I knew that only these two insanely talented individuals could pull off something this ambitious. I immediately wrote and recorded a song with Robert and sent it to them. I guess we did something right because that was when this 13-month process of scoring our first movie began. There was also one other thing we had to keep in mind. The Daniels didn’t want any real instruments in the movie. Only voices. The idea was that Paul and Daniel’s character would create their own score in their minds. Duh!”
Hull continued, “Anyways, we had to write a lot of the material before the movie was shot so that the actors could sing along while filming. After the movie was shot, we did traditional scoring at our studio, where we watched the footage and added music (voices). Nearly a year after we began working on the movie, we flew to LA to record the final vocals from the actors to really make it sound like this score is taking place inside of a crazy dudes mind. It was and is surreal. The end result is at times really trippy and lonely. There are also songs that have over 100 voices singing and sound outside of anything I thought we would be able to create. What we aimed for was something really beautiful that can evoke emotions without having to always use lyrics or any traditional instrumentation. It’s an up and down journey that parallels the travels and conversations of these two characters. It was easily one of the greatest experiences of our lives. It really pushed and stretched us to think outside of the box and outside of our comfort zone. I’m thrilled that we finally get to share it.”
The Plot: Hank (Paul Dano) is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a corpse named Manny (Daniel Radcliffe) washes up on shore; the two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an epic adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
BBC America’s released details on their slate of new and returning scripted series as well as info on the special David Beckham: For the Love of the Game. Programs new to the network’s lineup for the summer and fall seasons include The Hunt debuting on July 3rd and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency which is set for an October 22, 2016 premiere. Ripper Street returns on July 28th, Undercover will air on November 17th, and The Living and the Dead premieres this fall.
“Our brand and shows stand out despite the huge volume of TV content right now,” said Sarah Barnett, BBC AMERICA President. “BBCA shows are a little different from the mainstream, even if they sometimes end up shaping it. From Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency to Planet Earth II to Top Gear to our new work in development, this is television that US audiences become fanatical about because of its unabashed commitment to an entertaining vision and strong point of view.”
BBCA Series Details:
The Hunt – Narrated by famed naturalist Sir David Attenborough, the new series comes from multi-Emmy®-winning executive producer Alastair Fothergill (The Blue Planet, Frozen Planet) and series producer Huw Cordey (South Pacific, Frozen Planet) – the makers of the landmark series Planet Earth, which captivated audiences around the world in over 130 countries. Through character driven stories, The Hunt illustrates in dramatic detail the strategies predators use to catch their prey (and those that the prey use to escape), with each episode centering on one of our planet’s key habitats. From open grasslands and dense forests to the arctic and the open ocean, the cutting-edge seven-part series features rarely seen wildlife and animal behavior – revealing like never before the challenges predators and prey face in these very different worlds.
Ripper Street – BBC AMERICA’s critically-acclaimed drama is a vivid, sensual descent into the often-violent lives of the men and women of Whitechapel in late Victorian London. Matthew Macfadyen stars as Detective Inspector Reid, Jerome Flynn as Detective Inspector Bennet Drake, Adam Rothenberg as Captain Homer Jackson and MyAnna Buring as Long Susan. In this shadowy world, police and criminals are the closest of enemies, and sometimes the strangest of allies.
The Living and the Dead – In 1894, a newlywed couple inherits a farm in the English countryside, and begins their new life there together. But their arrival in the isolated community unleashes strange supernatural phenomena that threaten their marriage and their survival. The Living and the Dead is an uncanny, intriguing and disturbing drama, steeped in the eeriness of the rural world, just as the industrial revolution is poised to crash in and disrupt old certainties. This original six-part series, created by Ashley Pharoah (Life On Mars, Ashes To Ashes), will star Colin Morgan (Humans, Merlin) and Charlotte Spencer (Line Of Duty).
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – From the producers of The Walking Dead and penned by Max Landis – the mind behind cult classic Chronicle – BBCA’s new original series Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is a comedic thriller that follows the bizarre adventures of eccentric “holistic” detective Dirk Gently (Samuel Barnett) and his reluctant assistant Todd (Elijah Wood), as they wend their way through one big, seemingly insane mystery a season, crossing unlikely paths with a bevy of wild and sometimes dangerous characters, each episode landing them a few random steps closer to uncovering the truth. The series is an adaptation of Douglas Adams’ (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who) wildly successful comic novels, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, and is set in the unexpected world of the hyper, absurd, eponymous detective Dirk Gently.
Undercover – A six part limited series, Undercover features lead character Maya, who is about to become the first black woman to hold the highest ranking public prosecutor role in England. Just as her life comes under intense public scrutiny she discovers her husband Nick, and the father of her children, has been lying to her for years. Is he concealing an affair, or is it something altogether more sinister? If she digs up his real past will she jeopardize her own future? What price do you pay for uncovering lies? And who wants her in the top job, and why? From BAFTA-winner Peter Moffat (Criminal Justice) and directed by James Hawes (Penny Dreadful), the series stars Academy Award-nominee Sophie Okonedo (The Secret Life of Bees) as Maya, Adrian Lester (Red Band Society) as Nick and Golden Globe®-nominee Dennis Haysbert (24) as Rudy Jones.
David Beckham: For the Love of the Game – In BBCA’s new 90 minute special David Beckham: For the Love of the Game, soccer legend David Beckham sets himself the challenge of a lifetime: to play seven soccer matches on all seven continents of the globe and get back to the UK in time for his own star-studded UNICEF fundraising match. Playing the beautiful game in some of the most challenging and remote locations of the world, Beckham discovers how important soccer is to the many different people he meets and plays with. In this up close and personal portrait, David visits locations ranging from the icy landscapes of Antarctica to the jungles of Papua New Guinea while reflecting on soccer’s unique ability to inspire and unite people across the world.
Projects in Development:
Zero Motivation – Executive Produced by Amy Poehler and Brooke Posch through Paper Kite Productions along with Natasha Lyonne, Eilon Ratzkovsky (July August Productions), Israeli filmmaker Talya Lavie and Tami Sagher who is executive producing and writing. Zero Motivation is based on the award-winning feature film from Lavie. It is a comedic and dramatic glimpse into the Israeli army through the eyes of an eclectic cast of young women, who quickly learn they will be stationed at a remote human resources office pushing paper in the middle of the Negev desert.
Memoria – Adam Barken (Killjoys, Flashpoint) is set to write Memoria, an emotionally driven sci-fi drama about a man who begins to unravel after his memories conflict with technology. Temple Street, the company behind BBCA’s Orphan Black, is producing.
Quatermass – Nicola Shindler’s RED Production Company (Happy Valley) and Simon Oakes’ Hammer Films (The Woman in Black) are set to produce Quatermass – a modern remake of the British series that follows Professor Bernard Quatermass and his daughter, Sarah, as they investigate an alien invasion. Jeremy Dyson (League of Gentlemen, Ghost Story) is attached to write. STUDIOCANAL will handle the worldwide distribution and be the Studio for Quatermass.
Junk – Junk is a satirical look inside the world of the soda and junk food industry. Dean Craig (Death at a Funeral) is set to write, and Neal Baer (Law & Order: SVU) will executive produce.
Foreign Babes in Beijing – Rachel DeWoskin and Zayd Dohrn are developing a series set in Beijing based on DeWoskin’s memoir of the same name, which chronicles her personal experiences as a soap opera actress on Chinese television. Manage-ment’s Dan Halsted is producing along with Andre and Maria Jacquemetton (Mad Men).
Trip – Australian writer Louise Fox (creator of Australian Broadcasting Corp’s Glitch) is set to write Trip, a thrilling reimagining of the classic Chinese novel, Monkey: Journey to the West, which explores the journey of reincarnation. See-Saw Films (Top of the Lake) is set to produce.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tony Hale in ‘Veep’ (Photo: Lacey Terrell / Courtesy of HBO)
Veep finishes up its fifth season with four brand new episodes airing in June 2016. Created by Armando Iannucci, the cast is led by Julia Louis-Dreyfus and includes Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Matt Walsh, Reid Scott, Timothy Simons, Sufe Bradshaw, Kevin Dunn, Gary Cole, and Sam Richardson. John Slattery, Sarah Sutherland, and Hugh Laurie are back on season five as guest stars.
The Season 5 Plot: President Selina Meyer is in the midst of a virtually unprecedented Electoral College tie, with her future as commander in chief coming down to just a few hundred votes. While Amy and Dan work on a long shot to victory, Selina finds herself spinning her wheels in D.C., as her staff strives to make her seem presidential (even though she actually is President), at the same time fending off the ambitions of Tom James, her charismatic running mate, who in a twist of obscure constitutional procedure could end up becoming president.
Veep June 2016 Episodes:
Episode #45 (season 5, episode 7): “Congressional Ball”
Debut: SUNDAY, JUNE 5 (10:30-11:00 p.m. ET/PT)
Other HBO playdates: June 5 (12:30 a.m., 3:30 a.m.), 7 (4:55 a.m.), 8 (8:30 p.m.), 9 (10:45 p.m., 5:30 a.m.) and 10 (4:30 a.m.)
HBO2 playdates: June 6 (8:00 p.m.), 10 (5:00 p.m.) and 11 (12:45 p.m., 2:00 a.m.)
At the White House Christmas party, Selina (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) bargains for votes in hopes of breaking the election tie. Meanwhile, the staff is preoccupied with the annual “50 Hottest D.C. Staffers” list; Mike (Matt Walsh) eyes a job outside politics; and Dan (Reid Scott) helps Jonah (Timothy Simons) with debate prep in New Hampshire.
Written by Billy Kimball; directed by Maurice Marable.
Episode #46 (season 5, episode 8): “Camp David”
Debut: SUNDAY, JUNE 12 (10:30-11:00 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: June 12 (12:30 a.m., 3:30 a.m.), 14 (2:55 a.m.), 15 (8:30 p.m.), 16 (10:00 p.m., 4:40 a.m.) and 17 (5:05 a.m.)
HBO2 playdates: June 13 (8:00 p.m.), 17 (5:45 p.m.) and 18 (11:45 a.m., 2:45 a.m.)
Selina takes Catherine (Sarah Sutherland) to a family pre-Christmas celebration at Camp David, where her team also plans to conduct secret negotiations. After a disastrous debate in New Hampshire, Amy (Anna Chlumsky) and Dan try to make Jonah seem more human.
Written by Rachel Axler; directed by Becky Martin.
Episode #47 (season 5, episode 9): “Kissing Your Sister”
Debut: SUNDAY, JUNE 19 (10:30-11:00 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: June 19 (12:30 a.m., 3:30 a.m.), 21 (5:25 a.m.), 22 (7:00 p.m.), 23 (10:00 p.m., 5:10 a.m.) and 24 (3:35 a.m.)
HBO2 playdates: June 20 (8:00 p.m.), 24 (4:30 p.m.) and 25 (2:35 a.m.)
Catherine and Marjorie (Clea DuVall) have a fight. Mike prepares for his babies. Selina is interviewed.
Written by Erik Kenward; directed by David Mandel.
Episode #48 (season 5, episode 10): “Inauguration” (season finale)
Debut: SUNDAY, JUNE 26 (10:45-11:15 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: June 26 (1:00 a.m., 4:15 a.m.), 28 (4:50 a.m.), 29 (7:30 p.m.) and 30 (11:15 p.m., 4:50 a.m.), and July 1 (4:15 a.m.)
HBO2 playdate: June 27 (8:00 p.m.)
Selina and her staff get ready for inauguration day. Mike suffers exhaustion; Catherine gets a makeover.
Written by Jim Margolis; directed by Becky Martin.
Dan Stevens stars in ‘Legion’ (Photo Credit: Chris Large-FX)
FX Networks is moving forward on Legion, a dramatic series set in the X-Men world. Legion will be produced by FX Productions and Marvel Television and comes from Fargo‘s Noah Hawley who executive produces along with Lauren Shuler Donner (X-Men: Days of Future Past, Deadpool), Bryan Singer (X-Men: Apocalypse), Simon Kinberg (The Martian), Jeph Loeb (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Jim Chory (Marvel’s Daredevil) and John Cameron (Fargo, The Big Lebowski).
Filming’s expected to get underway on the eight episode first season this summer and FX is targeting an early 2017 premiere. The series will star Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Rachel Keller (Fargo), Jean Smart (Fargo), Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation), Jeremie Harris (A Walk Among the Tombstones), Amber Midthunder (Hell or High Water), Katie Aselton (The League) and Bill Irwin (Interstellar).
“We’ve come to expect excellence from Noah Hawley and with Legion he has delivered another major creative achievement,” said Grad. “Just as he did in reimagining Fargo, he is bringing an entirely new aesthetic and sensibility to the enormously popular and richly represented X-Men world. The pilot episode is stunning, driven by incredible performances from Dan Stevens, Aubrey Plaza, Jean Smart, Rachel Keller and the rest of the cast. We join our producing partners at Marvel in congratulating the creative team for what they’ve accomplished and are as excited as the fans for the premiere of Legion’s first season.”
“Marvel Television is thrilled to not only have our first partnership with FX go to series, but working with the enormously talented Noah Hawley makes it even better,” said Executive Producer Jeph Loeb. “From the first time we heard Noah’s vision to his exceptional script and cast through the extraordinary filming of the pilot, we knew the series would be incredible.”
The Plot:Legion introduces the story of David Haller: Since he was a teenager, David has struggled with mental illness. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.
Disney’s set a December 25, 2018 theatrical release date for Mary Poppins Returns and confirmed Emily Blunt (Into the Woods) and Hamilton‘s Lin-Manuel Miranda will take on starring roles. Per Disney, Emily Blunt will be playing Mary Poppins while Miranda will play a new character who’s a street lamplighter named Jack. The sequel to the beloved classic movie Mary Poppins has Into the Woods director Rob Marshall attached to helm the project and Oscar nominee David Magee (Life of Pi, Finding Neverland) is on board to write the script based on The Mary Poppins Stories by P.L. Travers.
Marshall, John DeLuca, and Marc Platt are producing Mary Poppins Returns. Five-time Oscar nominee and Tony Award winner Marc Shaiman is working on a new score and will write original songs along with Tony Award winner Scott Wittman (Hairspray).
“I am truly humbled and honored to be asked by Disney to bring P.L. Travers’ further adventures to the screen. The iconic original film means so much to me personally, and I look forward to creating an original movie musical that can bring Mary Poppins, and her message that childlike wonder can be found in even the most challenging of times, to a whole new generation,” stated director/producer Marshall.
The Plot: Drawing from the wealth of material in P.L. Travers’ seven additional novels, the story will take place in Depression-era London (when the books were originally written) and follows a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, who, along with Michael’s three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend Jack, she helps the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives.
Oscar winner Julia Roberts has been named Spike TV’s Woman of the Decade and will pick up her award during the 2016 Spike TV Guys Choice show airing on June 9, 2016 at 9pm ET/PT. The 10th annual awards show will also be honoring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon with the Guys of the Decade award, and NBA superstar Kobe Bryant has been selected as the Athlete of the Decade. Other winners include Pitch Perfect‘s Anna Kendrick (‘Hot & Funny’ award), Gigi Hadid (‘Our New Girlfriend’ award), and Denver Broncos linebacker/Super Bowl MVP Von Miller (‘Most Unstoppable Jock’ award).
“We have been inviting Julia Roberts to be honored on Guys Choice for nine years and to have her gracing our big 10th anniversary show is a dream come true,” said Executive Producer, Casey Patterson. “Guys Choice is about Men of The Year and the women they love. Nobody is more beloved than Julia.”
According to Spike TV, this year’s Guys Choice show will have a Rat-Pack Las Vegas theme. The network also will include salutes to the military and will honor returning veterans during the broadcast. Beth McCarthy-Miller is directing and Casey Patterson, Carol Donovan, and Josh Greenberg are executive producing.
Oscar, SAG, and Golden Globe winner Roberts can currently be seen in theaters opposite George Clooney in Money Monster.
The upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows will have a one-week run in IMAX 3D theaters kicking off on June 2, 2016. The action film will be digitally remastered into the IMAX format, according to the announcement by Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies and IMAX Corporation. Directed by Dave Green from a script by Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, the new TMNT movie stars Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Laura Linney, Stephen Amell, Noel Fisher, Jeremy Howard, Pete Ploszek, Alan Ritchson, Brian Tee and Tyler Perry.
The live-action Turtles film is based on the characters created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, with Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Galen Walker, and Scott Mednick producing.
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is a fun fit for The IMAX Experience® with its larger-than-life effects and high-octane action, and we are pleased to partner again with our long-time friend Michael Bay and the whole team at Paramount in offering this film to domestic audiences in IMAX 3D,” said Greg Foster, Senior Executive Vice President, IMAX Corp. and CEO of IMAX Entertainment.
The Plot: Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo return to theaters this summer in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows to battle bigger, badder villains alongside April O’Neil (Megan Fox), Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett), and a newcomer: the hockey-masked vigilante Casey Jones (Stephen Amell). After super villain Shredder (Brian Tee) escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman (Tyler Perry) and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop (Gary Anthony Williams) and Rocksteady (WWE Superstar “Sheamus”), to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world.
As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.
Bridget Regan in ‘The Last Ship’ season 3 (Photo by Doug Hyun / TNT)
During the 2016 WonderCon in Los Angeles, The Last Ship executive producer Steven Kane and actress Bridget Regan who plays Sasha Cooper teamed up to discuss season three. The new season’s set to premiere on TNT on Sunday, June 12th at 9pm ET/PT and as Kane explained during our interview, we can expect the crew of the Nathan James to be addressing an emerging issue with the cure in Japan. “Something’s going on in Japan, the cure doesn’t seem to be working, there’s a risk of a mutation,” explained Kane, adding, “But that doesn’t seem possible because Dr. Scott said it doesn’t mutate. That was one of the reasons we were able to stop it, but something’s going on.”
The trailer for season three shows some of the crew members being captured and held as prisoners of war. Commenting on what fans of the series can expect from the upcoming season, Kane said, “Let’s just say that there’s a lot going on. A lot of intrigue in Asia and intrigue at home, and our guys get caught smack-dab in the middle of it.”
“The region is filled with pirates – not the Pirates of the Caribbean pirates, but people just sort of stealing what they can. Natural resources may be in abundance but getting them out of the earth, getting them out of the farmland is still [difficult]. You need people for that. There are going to be winners and losers in this post-apocalyptic world and so our job is to make sure that the winners don’t subjugate the losers,” explained Kane. “We kind of put our nose into different places and say, ‘Look, we brought the cure home for everybody. If there’s a mutation, we want to get to the bottom of it and see if our doctors can figure it out. We worked too hard for this to fall apart now.'”
Asked how season three will top the previous two seasons, Kane replied, “We ask that question of ourselves because we throw everything in every time. We didn’t just take three years to find the cure – we found the cure the first season. So, what do you do next? And then it was, ‘Well, what does America look like?’ And then we started the season saying, ‘What can we do next?’ I was already talking about if we get a season four, what I could do. I started saying things like, ‘Well, season three was easy because…’ And I caught myself and said, ‘Wait a minute, two months ago I was saying how season two was so easy and season three is killing me. So our attitude is like what the Navy SEALS say, ‘The only easy day was yesterday.'”
“The trick is you can’t BS the audience. You can’t create something people won’t believe entirely because everything is kind of grounded in reality,” added Kane. “The virus is grounded in real science. The desires of people who wanted the cure was grounded in real human behavior, whether it was greed, whether it was panic or fear. You know, Mrs. Granderson had points. She made good points. She was still a villain but she had logic. She wasn’t twirling a mustache. And, the Russians had a point. And the Brits – the guys who became immune – they had a philosophy. They were even writing a manifesto. So, how do you create villains that are not just the Bad Guy of the Week, that actually are worth exploring as characters in and of themselves, and then give these guys great people to fight against. And then to force them to dig deep into what they can bring, fighting each other…not fighting but arguing with each other and fighting the common enemy. Then, keeping it exciting, keeping it at sea. They’re all the challenges we have.”
As for what Bridget Regan can tease about her character, Sasha, Regan offered, “Sasha, when we meet her, she’s in what we refer to as New China. One of the things I love about the show is that it explores this idea of what people are capable of in the best way and in the worst way. That’s what’s so scary about this premise and that’s what’s really scary about our setting for this season is that the people that can rise to power might not necessarily have the best of intentions. Sasha is doing her best trying to manage this new power in China and keep up relations as peaceful as possible, but there’s only so much she can do. So when Tom Chandler comes back into her life, she boards the Nathan James and she’s in a really new world for her. Being on board a Naval Destroyer is something fully new, but her skills are put to use because she is this translator. She’s aware of the region, of the potential adversariess and what their strengths are and their weaknesses. She’s vital to this mission and she has a knowledge that no one else on the ship has, but she also knows Tom in a way that no one else does.”
Watch the full interview 16 minute interview with Bridget Regan and Steven Kane:
Gaby Hoffmann and Jeffrey Tambor in ‘Transparent.’
The Emmy winning series Transparent starring Jeffrey Tambor has earned a fourth season. Amazon just announced the renewal of the show which airs on Prime Video, with season three set to premiere this fall followed by season four in 2017. In addition to Tambor as Maura Pfefferman, the returning cast members include Judith Light as Shelly Pfefferman, Gaby Hoffmann as Ali Pfefferman, Amy Landecker as Sarah Pfefferman and Jay Duplass as Josh Pfefferman. Transparent was created by Jill Soloway, and Amazon confirmed Soloway will remain on board as writer, director and showrunner.
“As the quality of television rises to new heights, Transparent continues to stand out for its depth of character, compassionate storytelling and its infinite creative risk-taking,” said Joe Lewis, Head of Half Hour TV at Amazon Studios. “We’re grateful that customers have responded so enthusiastically to the Pfefferman family and we’re excited to bring them another chapter of their story.”
“Amazon’s explosive freedom and revolutionary thinking has given birth to this show,” stated Soloway. “It’s so much more than TV to us, it’s our version of the most ambitious streaming art we can conjure. We’re having the time of our lives sharing season two for the awards season hoopla, and editing and finishing up season three for a fall release. This news of an order for season four is so so sweet. The Pfeffermans have many more stories to tell and we can’t wait to keep making them.”
The Plot:Transparent is a half hour novelistic series that explores family, identity, sex, and love. The series stars Tambor as Maura. When she reintroduces herself to her family, everyone else’s secrets finally start to come out. This includes her ex-wife Shelly (played by Light), and their children—meandering Ali (played by Hoffmann), music producer Josh (played by Duplass), and sexually conflicted Sarah (played by Landecker). Each family member spins in a different direction as they figure out who they won’t become.
