In an alternate universe, Nicolas Cage is Superman.
31.03.2022 - 00:57 / thewrap.com
Ella Purnell, who plays Jackie on “Yellowjackets,” will star opposite Walton Goggins in the upcoming “Fallout” TV series at Amazon, TheWrap has learned.It’s based on the video game series of the same name, which launched in 1997, and is set in 2077 after a global thermonuclear war. No details about Purnell’s character are confirmed at this time.
Purnell voices Gwyn in the Nickelodeon series “Star Trek: Prodigy,” and her TV credits include include “Sweetbitter,” “Ordeal by Innocence,” and “Belgravia.” She also co-starred in Tim Burton’s “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” and Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead.”She is repped by WME, Curtis Brown Group, and Sloane Offer.Production is expected to begin later this year. “Captain Marvel” co-screenwriter Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner of “Portlandia” are executive producers and co-showrunners.
“Westworld” co-creator Jonathan Nolan is set to direct the first episode and executive produce with Lisa Joy through Kilter Films. Athena Wickham of Kilter Films also executive produces along with Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks.
Amazon Studios and Kilter Films produce in association with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks.Variety first reported the news.
.In an alternate universe, Nicolas Cage is Superman.
Another show to add to the queue. GLOW fans were devastated when the show’s fourth season was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but cocreators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch are back.
EXCLUSIVE: Snabba Cash and The Rain star Evin Ahmad is to lead Netflix’s upcoming female-led action adventure series Palomino, with filming kicking off in Barcelona later this year.
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series heading to Disney+ has found its lead!
Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series at Disney Plus has cast Walker Scobell in the lead role, Variety has learned exclusively.The series adaptation of the Rick Riordan book series was ordered at the streamer back in January. The live-action show tells the fantastical tale of the titular 12-year-old modern demigod (Scobell), who’s just coming to terms with his newfound supernatural powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt. Now Percy must trek across America to find it and restore order to Olympus.Percy is described as a smart and compassionate kid with a sharp sense of humor.
Clayton Davis Showtime has finalized its plans on how to submit the cast of breakout hit “Yellowjackets” for Emmy consideration — and it comes down to which generation the star is in. Variety has learned exclusively that Showtime plans to submit Tawny Cypress, Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis and Melanie Lynskey in the lead drama actress field.
Amazon has secured its leads for “Ending Things,” quite an interesting-sounding action film the studio is putting together. Deadline reports that Amazon Studios has selected Priyanka Chopra Jonas (“The Matrix: Resurrections“) and Anthony Mackie (“The Falcon & The Winter Soldier”) to lead a new film based on a spec script from Kevin Sullivan.
Chloe Brockett has broken her silence on social media in the wake of an alleged altercation she had with her co-star Ella Rae Wise. It’s believed that Chloe tried to throw a bucket of ice over her TOWIE co-star, but missed 21 year old Ella and hit someone else. Someone who witnessed the ordeal claimed: “Chloe and Ella were rowing and it turned nasty.
TOWIE’s Chloe Brockett has allegedly been involved in an incident where she attempted to throw an ice bucket at co-star Ella Rae Wise, only to miss and hit someone else, an eyewitness has claimed. A video shows a woman that seems to be bleeding from her head being held back by TOWIE co-stars Roman Hackett and Rem Larue after a fight broke out at a bar in central London. In footage obtained by The Sun, 21 year old Chloe can be seen in the background of the video as her co-stars try to defuse the situation.
Ryan Murphy’s anthology series,, is reportedly returning to FX with an all-new installment starring Naomi Watts, ET has confirmed. The second season, which follows 2017’s , will be called and focus on the falling out between author Truman Capote and several of his female friends. The eight-part season will be adapted from Laurence Leamer’s by showrunner Joan Robin Baitz and directed by Gus Van Sant. Watts, who most recently portrayed Gretchen Carlson in Showtime’s, will star as Babe Paley, a New York City socialite who kept a circle of high-society friends that included Slim Keith.
Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout series is getting even starrier with the addition of Ella Purnell.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterElla Purnell has been cast in a lead role of the upcoming “Fallout” TV series at Amazon, Variety has learned.Like the video games on which it is based, the “Fallout” series is set in a world where the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077.Purnell joins previously announced cast member Walton Goggins in the series. As with Goggins, Amazon had no comment on the character Purnell would be playing.
Yellowjackets‘ Ella Purnell is set to headline Fallout, Prime Video’s series adaptation of the bestselling game franchise. The series comes from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s Kilter Films, with Nolan set to direct the premiere. Purnell joins previously cast lead Walton Goggins.
Tilly Keeper - otherwise known as EastEnders' Louise Mitchell - is reportedly set to join a whole host of British stars in the upcoming series of multi award-winning Netflix hit, You.The 24-year-old actress, who joined the popular London soap back in 2016, will feature in the fourth season of the immensely addictive psychological thriller, which is allegedly scheduled to be filmed in the UK as opposed to its usual location in the States. Along with Tilly, former Corrie star Dario Coates, 29 - known for playing Kym Marsh's on-screen son Alex on the Cobbles - is also set to join the line up, as is Eve Austin, who previously portrayed Tabitha Taylor-Rudd in Emmerdale.
Actress and singer Krysta Rodriguez (Halston) has joined the cast of Out Of Order, a new comedy starring Brandon Routh, Sam Huntington and Brooke Shields.