Starz’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods has landed Ian McShane to star opposite The 100‘s Ricky Whittle. Bryan Fuller and Michael Green are writer/showrunners of the series.
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Sarah Shahi has been cast as Nancy Drew; David Spade will team up with fellow SNL alum Tina Fey; Gabriel Iglesias’s The Fluffy Shop is hiring and more in today’s TV casting round-up.
Bill Paxton joins Training Day, Judy Greed to lead Laura Steinel’s comedy, T.R. Knight returns to ABC in new pilot, and more in our daily TV casting round-up.
Demi Moore has signed on to lead the series 10 Days In The Valley from Skydance Television while Powerless has added Danny Pudi, Alan Tudyk, and Christine Kirk. The trio joins previously cast Vanessa Hudgens.
Vanessa Hudgens joins NBC’s DC Universe-based office comedy Powerless, Felicity Huffman and John Ridley extend their relationship, Hina Abdullah joins The Jury and more in today’s TV Casting news.
Logline: A pickpocket trying to pay off his lover’s debt to the Russian Mob finds himself caught up in a deadly game of blackmail with a serial killer.
The cross-cultural comedy vehicle for Zhang is set at Universal Pictures with Jason Winer directing. Best known to U.S. audiences for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and House of Flying Daggers, Zhang Ziyi is a bona-fide megastar in China.
Developed as a cross-cultural comedy vehicle for Chinese superstar Zhang Ziyi, the plot is being kept under-wraps.
Tracy Morgan is teaming with Jordan Peele for a new FX comedy, Netflix’s Black Mirror taps Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis, Chicago P.D. and Fire bring in new blood.
Mackenzie Davis, star of AMC tech drama, Halt and Catch Fire has landed another leading role in indie comedy, Izzy Gets The F*ck Across Town.
DreamWorks’ The Girl On The Train, has added Allison Janney to its cast. Tate Taylor is directing the adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ best-selling novel from a script by Erin Cressida Wilson.
Marya Cohn has made an auspicious directorial debut at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and Myriad Pictures has picked up the domestic rights for her drama starring Emily VanCamp and Michael Nyqvist.
Ferrell and Poehler star as a tight-budgeted married couple who accidentally blow all of their daughter’s college savings. Desperate to right their finances and fix their offspring’s future, they open an underground casino in their white-picketed suburbia.
The dramedy follows an improv group that loses the lease on their home theater at the same time that one of their cast members gets chosen for the biggest sketch comedy show on television.
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Jenn Murray joins the hunt for magical creatures in the wizarding world.
Cera is going to reteam with Will Arnett instead of tracking magical creatures.
The Twilight alum will star as Betsy Ross, seamstress by day, spy for George Washington by night.
Scripted by James Gunn, the thriller revolves around the American Belko company in South America, which is mysteriously sealed off at the beginning of a work day, and its employees are ordered to kill each other or be killed themselves.
The series is based on Stephen King’s novel of the same title and stars James Franco as an English teacher that time travels back to 1958 and tries to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The film will mark the actor’s directorial debut. He is also set to act in the film and co-write the screenplay with Jesse Chabot.
Satirizing musician documentaries, the film follows a rapper, Samberg, that is approached to re-team with his former boy band. Silverman is set to play Samberg’s publicist.
Stonestreet will play Ken Duberstein, the lobbyist/Washington insider who was assigned by then-President George Bush to secure Thomas’ appointment as Supreme Court Justice.
The film has recently been bulking up the cast, with “Sherlock” star Martin Freeman signing on yesterday. Elizabeth Olsen was recently announced to be returning as Scarlet Witch.
Sarah Silverman has left CAA to sign with UTA. She is the next star to follow in the mass exodus of comedy agents and stars that has occurred over the last two months. Will Ferrell and Chris Pratt were among the high profile clients to leave CAA.
The writer is set to re-unite with Melissa McCarthy in the upcoming comedy.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but pitched as “The Da Vinci Code” meets “Seven.”
The “Child Of God” star re-teams with James Franco for his latest directorial venture.
Allison Janney has joined the cast of Tim Burton’s anticipated upcoming adaptation.
Giancarlo Esposito has joined the upcoming thriller from director Jodie Foster.
