Sony-Backed Eleventh Hour Films Adapts Jane Casey’s Thriller ‘The Killing Kind’ Into Limited Series

Luca Villacis (Channel Zero: Candle Cove, Knuckleball), Prince Amponsah (Killjoys, The Handmaid’s Tale), Dylan Taylor (Fahrenheit 451, Bad Blood), Joe Pingue (Godless, The Expanse), Maxwell McCabe-Lokos (Tin Star, Chaos Walking), Ajahnis Charley (I am Gay, Untitled Black Sketch Project), Milton Barnes (The Flash, Locke & Key) and Kate Moyer (The Handmaid’s Tale, Holly Hobbie) are set for recurring roles in HBO Max’s Station Eleven.

Another day, another Ryan Murphy show. Deadline reports that Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale are set as the leads in “The Watcher,” an upcoming Netflix limited series from Ryan Murphy and frequent collaborator Ian Brennan.

EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Watts and Bobby Cannavale are set as the leads in The Watcher, a Netflix limited series from Ryan Murphy and his frequent collaborator Ian Brennan.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFor their first outings as television creators, Ethan Hawke and Little Marvin held nothing back.Hawke acquired the rights to James McBride’s novel “The Good Lord Bird” for the Showtime adaptation. He also wrote scripts, executive produced and starred as abolitionist John Brown, approaching history with a witty bent.

Newcomer Lex Mayson has been cast opposite Kate McKinnon’s Carole Baskin and John Cameron Mitchell’s Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel in Joe Exotic (working title), Peacock’s limited series based on the Wondery podcast.

Hulu has set a stellar recurring cast for The Dropout, its upcoming limited series about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos. William H. Macy, Laurie Metcalf, Elizabeth Marvel, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Kate Burton, Stephen Fry, Michel Gill, Michael Ironside, Bill Irwin and Josh Pais join Amanda Seyfried in the series from Liz Meriwether, Seachlight Television and Disney Television Studios’ 20th Television. Production is scheduled to begin this summer.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThere’s another limited series in the works about the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin, an event that catalyzed a national civil rights movement for Asian Americans, this one from Participant.Participant announced that it is developing and producing a new limited scripted series inspired by the true story of Chin, a Chinese American who was brutally beaten and killed by two former autoworkers who blamed him for the economic downturn in Detroit.The project joins another

Giovanni Ribisi (Sneaky Pete), Colin Hanks (Fargo) and Dan Fogler (Fantastic Beasts franchise) will join Miles Teller and Matthew Goode in Paramount+’s upcoming limited series The Offer.

FX has been attempting to put together a new limited series adaptation of the James Clavell novel “Shōgun” for a couple of years now but kept running into bad luck and obstacles, between various development hiccups and last year’s pandemic, which led to further delays on the series that takes place in feudal Japan. READ MORE: FX CEO Warns Of Too Many Scripted Series And “Too Much Narrative” As He Announces New Drama ‘Shōgun’ However, things are finally being pushed into gear.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Gaston (The Leftovers) has been cast alongside Vera Farmiga, Cherry Jones, Adepero Oduye, Julie Ann Emery, Cornelius Smith Jr. and Molly Hager in Five Days at Memorial, Apple TV+’s limited series from John Ridley, Carlton Cuse and ABC Signature.

Sam Keeley has joined the cast of Joe Exotic (working title).

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K.J. Yossman “The Killing Kind,” the latest novel from best-selling author Jane Casey, has been optioned by Sony Pictures Television-backed Eleventh Hour Films.The thriller, which is published Thursday by HarperCollins, will be adapted into a limited series by screenwriters Zara Hayes (“Showtrial”) and Jonathan Stewart (“Meet You in Hell”).

Jonah Hill has joined an upcoming limited series which will see him portray legendary “Hollywood Fixer” Sidney Korshak.

It sure does feel like it’s been a while since we’ve really seen Jonah Hill appear in a meaty role in something, right? Since 2018, the actor has only appeared in two live-action films (“Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot” and “The Beach Bum”) and one series (“Maniac”). But those hoping for a big-time Jonah Hill fix are in luck, as it appears the actor has another limited series on the horizon.

EXCLUSIVE: Hiroyuki Sanada (The Twilight Samurai) and Cosmo Jarvis (Lady Macbeth) have been tapped as two of the three leads in Shōgun, FX’s limited series based on James Clavell’s best-selling novel. Sanada and Jarvis will play the male leads, Yoshi Toranaga and John Blackthorne, respectively, in the project, which tells the story from both a Western and Japanese perspective.

EXCLUSIVE: Molly Hager (Waitress) is set as a lead alongside Vera Farmiga, Cherry Jones, Adepero Oduye, Julie Ann Emery and Cornelius Smith Jr. in Five Days at Memorial, Apple TV+’s limited series from John Ridley, Carlton Cuse and ABC Signature.