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It’s crazy to think that boyish-looking Jonathan Tucker, known for roles in “The Virgin Suicides” (1999), “Hostage” (2005), “In the Valley of Elah” (2007), and “The Ruins” (2008), is now 40 years old. And beyond roles like “Charlie’s Angels” (2019), the perennially youthful-looking actor generally plays nice guys, introverts, and the like.

on Showtime), “American Gigolo” is based on the 1980 Schrader film of the same name, starring Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton. The series follows Julian Kaye (Jon Bernthal), a former gigolo who spent 15 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. After he’s exonerated, he scrambles to rebuild his life — which includes putting together the puzzle of who framed him for the crime, and also reuniting with his former flame, Michelle Stratton (Mol). “[Jon Bernthal] is fantastic.

An Armani-clad Richard Gere cruising down the Pacific Coast Highway in a black Mercedes-Benz as Blondie’s “Call Me” blares, sets the tone not only for Paul Schrader’s classic neo-noir “American Gigolo,” but also, as Karina Longworth posits in the latest season of her podcast You Must Remember This, the erotic ’80s. So, of course, this deep into the era of reboots, the film was ripe for a television re-imagining.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic With its pulsing burble of Blondie music and its chilly aesthetic, the 1980 Paul Schrader film “American Gigolo” is a showpiece of what would soon be the Reagan decade. Some 42 years later, a TV adaptation feels lost in time, and searching for an argument for its existence. Starring Jon Bernthal and with a pilot written and directed by “Ray Donovan’s” David Hollander (whose ties to Paramount Television Studios were severed during production), “American Gigolo” is lead-footed, and prurient rather than hot. And Bernthal seems at sea here, an unusual look for a star whose coiled charisma has elsewhere served him well. His Julian Kaye — whose name is shared with Richard Gere’s character in Schrader’s movie — emerges from a 15-year sentence we’re told happened about a decade and a half ago, but nothing about Julian’s world feels of the present day, or of Earth. Julian, we understand, was wrongfully convicted; Rosie O’Donnell’s Detective Sunday is attempting to crack the case of what really happenned, while a swirling remembered attraction between Julian and Gretchen Mol’s Michelle threatens Julian’s chances at finding a post-prison equilibrium.

Jon Bernthal takes on the role of the “American Gigolo” in the trailer for the upcoming Showtime reboot series.

Can another ‘80s classic reinvent itself? Showtime’s new series “American Gigolo” joins an already crowded list of upcoming remakes. The project attempts a difficult feat, combining the neo-noir flare of Paul Schrader‘s classic 1980 film while also taking its story in new directions.

J. Kim Murphy Although Showtime is pulling from his groundbreaking 1980 drama for its upcoming series, Paul Schrader has no interest in tuning into the network’s upcoming “American Gigolo” adaptation.The writer-director clarified his lack of involvement in the production through one of his famed Facebook posts on Saturday morning.“Some years ago I received a call from Paramount asking about remaking ‘American Gigolo’ as a series,” Schrader wrote.

No stranger to hot takes, Paul Schrader has a new target in his sight: his own movie.

Deadline, which cites unnamed sources close to the production, said Hollander was ousted as a result of an investigation into misconduct claims. Furthermore, the outlet says “American Gigolo” co-executive producer David Bar Katz is set to take over the showrunning duties. Billed as a modern-day adaptation of the 1980 neo-noir crime film of the same name, the series will star “The Punisher” actor Jon Bernthal in the main role, originated by Richard Gere.

Every so often, the movies like to argue with themselves by dropping two versions of the same story within spitting distance of one another: “Dante’s Peak” and “Volcano,” “Deep Impact,” and “Armageddon.” The one-two punch of Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket” and Jamie Dack’s “Palm Trees and Power Lines” is, for clarity’s sake, nothing like dueling dumb-dumb disaster spectacles, but to consider Dack’s film without considering Baker’s is both impossible – everyone at Sundance is doing it– and frankly careless (but mostly impossible).

Angelique Jackson Gretchen Mol, Jonathan Tucker and newcomer Lily McInerny are set to star in “Palm Trees and Power Lines,” from director Jamie Dack.Based on Dack’s short of the same name — which debuted as a Cinéfondation selection at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival — “Palm Trees and Power Lines” is a coming-of-age drama about a disconnected teenage girl named Lea (McInerny) who enters a relationship with a man twice her age.

Before establishing himself as a Hollywood megastar thanks to leading roles in the likes of “An Officer and a Gentleman” and “The Cotton Club,” Richard Gere set a whole generation’s pulses racing as male escort Julian Kaye in Paul Schrader‘s 1980 noir thriller, “American Gigolo.” Now, Jon Bernthal (“The Punisher,” “Those Who Wish Me Dead“) is set to follow suit as the lead of Showtime’s small-screen adaptation of the classic ’80s thriller.

“Let’s Make a Deal” host Wayne Brady is applying his CBS game show’s mantra to a blizzard of primetime projects.In addition to “Deal,” he’s hosting Fox’s new series, “Game of Talents”; co-stars opposite Jon Bernthal and Gretchen Mol in Showtime’s “American Gigolo” pilot; is developing a CBS sitcom; and optioned April Daniels’ book, “Dreadnought,” about a trans superhero, hoping to turn it into a TV show.And that’s only the tip of the creative iceberg for Brady, whose TV resume includes “Whose

EXCLUSIVE: Leland Orser (Brand New Cherry Flavor) is set as a lead opposite Jon Bernthal and Gretchen Mol in Showtime’s pilot American Gigolo, an update of the 1980 film noir classic that starred Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton. The project hails from David Hollander, Paramount TV Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Television.

EXCLUSIVE: Lizzie Brocheré (Falling Water) and Gabriel LaBelle (Dead Shack) are set as series regulars in Showtime’s pilot American Gigolo, starring Jon Bernthal, Gretchen Mol and Rosie O’Donnell, an update of the 1980 film noir classic that starred Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton. The project hails from David Hollander, Paramount TV Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Television.

Hulu has picked A24 feature False PositivestarringIlana Glazer. The movie followsLucy (Glazer) and Adrian (Justin Theroux) who, after several attempts of trying and failing to get pregnant, finally find their dream fertility doctor in the illustrious Dr.Hindle(Pierce Brosnan).

The classic “American Gigolo” is strutting itself back into the modern era.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Gretchen Mol (Boardwalk Empire) has been tapped as the female lead opposite Jon Bernthal in Showtime’s pilot American Gigolo, an update of the film noir classic which starred Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton.

A handful of first look pictures from season two of The Twilight Zone have debuted online.

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