Dascha Polanco & Lil Rel Howery Join Natasha Lyonne In Rian Johnson’s Peacock Series

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNatasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson’s Peacock series “Poker Face” has added five new cast members, Variety has learned exclusively.Tim Meadows (“Saturday Night Live,” “The Goldbergs”), Jameela Jamil (“The Good Place,” “She-Hulk”), Nicholas Cirillo (“Outer Banks,” “Jesus Revolution”), Audrey Corsa (“All Rise,” “Dear Edward”) and Niall Cunningham (“And Just Like That,” “Life in Pieces”) have all been cast in the series.The five new cast members join previously announced series lead Lyonne in the series, along with cast members that include Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Benjamin Bratt, Stephanie Hsu, and David Castañeda. Plot and character details for the series are being kept largely under wraps, though sources say the show will follow a procedural format and see Lyonne’s character working to solve different murders in each episode. Meadows is repped by CESD and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime is developing The Whites, a crime drama limited series starring and executive produced by Ethan Hawke. Written by Tony Award-winning playwright and prolific screenwriter Jez Butterworth (Ford v. Ferrari, Spetre), the series is adapted from Richard Price’s novel of the same name. The Whites is a Civic Center Media project in association with MRC Television, with Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman’s T-Street and Ethan Hawke and Ryan Hawke’s Under the Influence producing.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterEthan Hawke will star in and executive produce a limited series currently in development at Showtime, Variety has confirmed.The series is titled “The Whites” and is based on the novel of the same name by Richard Price. It begins with the idea that every detective is haunted by their White Whale, the perpetrator who got away because the justice system failed. Billy Graves (Hawke), once a rising star in his department and former member of a group of well-respected cops called the “Wild Geese,” walks away from NYPD Homicide and joins the Nightwatch division, where his cases end when he clocks out— but his past comes calling when a seemingly straightforward murder case involving a White Whale unfolds, threatening his career, enduring friendships, and family.

Having already starred in three ‘To All The Boys’ films before, Netflix and its algorithm seem to love young Asian American actress Lana Condor. Netflix already has seemingly corned the YA rom-com, and they love a genre twist, and all those forces seem to swirl into a confluence of things for their new film, “Boo Bitch.” READ MORE: ‘Glass Onion’: Rian Johnson’s ‘Knives Out’ Sequel Gets An Official Title & Will Arrive This Holiday Season.

Knives Out is titled Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.The director revealed the title in a thread on Twitter, where he explained how novelist Agatha Christie influenced his approach to the sequel.“Something I love about Agatha Christie is how she never tread water creatively,” Johnson wrote. “I think there’s a misperception that her books use the same formula over and over, but fans know the opposite is true.“It wasn’t just settings or murder methods, she was constantly stretching the genre conceptually.

Ever since the release of the first “Knives Out,” film fans have been clamoring for more mysteries involving Detective Benoit Blanc. Thankfully, Netflix (and its massive bank account) came around and paid filmmaker Rian Johnson an obscene amount of money to bring multiple “Knives Out” sequels to the streaming service.

Close to a year after he yelled ‘action’ on set, Rian Johnson has revealed the title of the new Knives Out sequel which will premiere exclusively on Netflix this holiday season.

EXCLUSIVE: Chloë Sevigny is the latest cast addition to Poker Face, Peacock’s 10-episode mystery drama series starring Natasha Lyonne, from Rian Johnson, his T-Street banner and MRC Television.

While Natasha Lyonne couldn’t attend the Russian Doll: For Your Consideration Event, that doesn’t mean her presence wasn’t felt!

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Joe Otterson TV ReporterDanielle Macdonald has been cast in the Natasha Lyonne-led Peacock series “Poker Face,” which hails from creator Rian Johnson.Macdonald is the latest addition to the growing cast. In addition to Lyonne, previously announced cast members include Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Benjamin Bratt, Stephanie Hsu, and David Castañeda.

Netflix’s “Russian Doll,” Natasha Lyonne become obsessed with filming a pivotal finale sequence at a location that was her “kind of kink” — the underground cisterns in Budapest.“I have two churches in my life: science and the movies. And what I love about science is that it is so conclusively bigger than me,” Lyonne told Variety during an interview on the upstate New York set of “Poker Face,” her upcoming Rian Johnson-created Peacock series. “I have a real intuitive understanding of the language of cinema and literature and music.

Buddies despite the breakup. Natasha Lyonne brought out ex-boyfriend Fred Armisen when she hosted the Saturday Night Live season 47 finale just one month after confirming their breakup.

prequel series centered on Diego Luna's rebel spy, Cassian Andor, finally has a release date. The latest series billed as “a tense nail-biting thriller” will debut with two episodes Aug.

Lucasfilm might be allegedly done with the Skywalker Saga for now, but the elements around it, like the dark period when the Empire ruled the galaxy, are far from done being fully explored. This dark time was covered in the prequel movie, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” and now that story and one character, in particular, are getting their own prequel in “Andor,” a “Star Wars” limited-series centering on Diego Luna‘s Cassian Andor rebel, years before the events of ‘Rogue One.’ READ MORE: Lucasfilm Reveals ‘Andor’ Coming Summer 2022, ‘Mandalorian’ S3 Late 2022/Early 2023 & More Showrun by Tony Gilroy, directed by Toby Haynes, Ben Caron, and Susanna White, “Andor” is written by a powerhouse team that includes Gilroy, his brother and filmmaker Dan Gilroy (“Nightcrawler“), Beau Willimon (the showrunner of “House Of Cards“) and Stephen Schiff (known for “The Americans“).

prequel series centered on Diego Luna's rebel spy, Cassian Andor, finally has a release date. The latest series billed as “a tense nail-biting thriller” will debut with two episodes Aug.

The “Star Wars” universe continues to expand on the small screen through Lucasfilm‘s many growing Disney+ shows. On the horizon later this summer, “Andor” centers on Diego Luna‘s Cassian Andor from “Rogue One,” exploring how his character became involved with the Rebellion.