Elizabeth Olsen To Star in HBO Max Series Based on Axe Murderer Candy Montgomery

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO Max’s upcoming “Green Lantern” series is eyeing actor Jeremy Irvine for the role of Alan Scott.Irvine would join Finn Wittrock in the series, who has been cast in the lead role of Guy Gardner. HBO Max declined to comment.Scott was Earth’s first Green Lantern, who, true to the comics, is a gay man.

Jeremy Irvine (Treadstone) is negotiations to join Finn Wittrock in HBO Max’s upcoming Green Lantern series based on the DC characters, from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

HBO Max is rounding out the cast to Mindy Kaling’s The Sex Lives of College Girls. Sherri Shepherd (Mr. Iglesias), Maya Rose (American Horror Story), Rob Huebel (Medical Police), Nicole Sullivan (MADtv), Conor Donnally (Hooked), Sierra Katow (Last Comic Standing) Mekki Leeper (Control Room) and James Morosini (American Horror Story) are set for recurring roles in the comedy series.

Dawson’s Creek fans will remember Joshua Jackson as the much-loved Pacey Witter, but his latest role brings about a much darker and more sinister side of the actor we haven’t seen before.

Ricky Schroder is not too happy about Costco’s mask policy, and he is letting everyone know it.

“It was something I was passionate about because in many ways, things don’t change and it’s not as if our society is completely sorted,” It’s a Sin creator Russell T Davies said of the HBO Max miniseries that focusing on the fatal devastation of AIDS in the UK in the 1980s.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Fox has ordered the country music drama series “Monarch” for the 2021-2022 broadcast season from executive producer and creator Melissa London Hilfers. The show, formerly known as “Untitled Country Music Dynasty,” will feature original songs and covers.Per the logline, the one-hour drama is a Texas-sized, multigenerational musical drama about America’s first family of country music.

EXCLUSIVE: Craig Macneill and Clay Chapman, the duo behind SXSW horror film The Boy, have teamed up with Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films to develop a horror series at Amazon.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer Aida Osman, host of Crooked Media Podcast Keep It, rapper KaMillion (Love & Hip Hop Miami) and comedian Jonica Booth (Bad Girls Club) have been cast as the leads of Rap Sh*t (working title), HBO Max’s half-hour comedy series from Insecure co-creator Rae and her Hoorae Productions.

Love and Death.The show will focus on a notorious murder in Texas in 1980, with Olsen playing Montgomery, a woman who was convicted of murdering her neighbour and friend Betty Gore with an axe.Love and Death will be produced by Lionsgate Television, with Big Little Lies creator David E.

WandaVision star Elizabeth Olsen has secured her next TV role in limited series Love and Death. Based on Jim Atkinson/John Bloom's book Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs and a two-part Texas Monthly series by the same authors (titled Love & Death in Silicon Prairie), this one places Olsen in the shoes of convicted killer Candy Montgomery.

Elizabeth Olsen is set to star in HBO Max's new limited series, .

HBO Max has greenlighted Love and Death, a limited series about the true story of Wylie, TX, housewife Candy Montgomery’s murder of Betty Gore in 1980. Elizabeth Olsen (WandaVision) will star as Montgomery in the series, from the Big Little Lies and The Undoing duo of David E. Kelley and Nicole Kidman and Lionsgate Television.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterElizabeth Olsen is set to star in a new HBO Max limited series that boasts an all-star lineup behind the camera as well.Olsen will star in “Love and Death,” which hails from writer and executive producer David E. Kelley.

Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story) has been tapped to star as Guy Gardner/Green Lantern in HBO Max’s upcoming series based on the DC characters, from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterFinn Wittrock has been cast in a lead role of the upcoming “Green Lantern” series at HBO Max, Variety has learned.Wittrock will star as Guy Gardner, who is described as a hulking mass of masculinity, and, as rendered in the comics, an embodiment of 1980s hyper-patriotism. And yet, Guy is somehow likable.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Walker” Season 2 at The CW has upped Odette Annable to series regular status.Annable currently recurs on the series as Geri, an old friend of Walker (Jared Padalecki) and his late wife.

Mad Men and The Social Dilemma actor Vincent Kartheiser has joined the cast of HBO Max’s Titans and is set to take on Jonathan Crane, a.k.a. Scarecrow in season three.

At age 69, actress Jean Smart is having a bit of a renaissance moment in her career.