‘2012′ movie is set to become a TV show, according to Zap2it. They report that the FX cable TV station has obtained the rights to a TV series based on the “2012″ movie,which brought in about $65 million dollars at the domestic box office,this past weekend.
The series’ preface will be set in the year 2013 because,apparently, the world doesn’t actually end in 2012.
FX also obtained the basic cable network rights to air the “2012″ movie on their network at the beginning of 2012. They also bought rights to air the movie, “Zombieland.”
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According to reports,after the $18.6 million grossing weekend from “The Time Traveler’s Wife” movie, ABC has ordered a pilot TV show that’s based on it. Marta Kauffman, the co-creator of “Friends” TV show will be writing the script,and will also executive produce the show.
It’s reported that Kauffman has been discussing a TV show version of the movie for years,now. But the movie’s recent box office success has definitely pushed it along.
They hope that the TV show will be able to explore the relationship between the time traveler Henry and his wife,Clare, more indepth than the two hour movie allowed.
Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) won’t quite be the same competent individual that fans of the show have gotten use to seeing,before getting injured,and sent into a comma which put him in a dream state where he was married to Brennan (Emily Deschanel).
David Boreanaz recently stated on the set of “Bones”, “It’s an interesting thing that’s going to happen.What I really want to maintain with the arc with him … is that he does have a remembrance of certain things
According to E! online with Kristin, HBO officially announced that they are already giving two of it’s shows, “True Blood” and “Entourage” another season to grace us on the small screen.
The HBO’s president of programming Michael Lombardo stated, “One of the reasons we brought True Blood back as soon as we did was it always felt like a summer show.
Fox’s hit real time drama show “24″ has hired another new cast member for it’s upcoming eighth season. His name is Clayne Crawford. He’s been in such productions as “A Walk To Remember Me”,”Swimfan”, “A Love Song For Bobby Long”,and “The Great Raid”.
Clayne will now play a bad boy in “24″ who is from Dana Walsh’s (Katee Sackhoff) past. Sackhoff, who previously starred in “Battlestar Galactica” plays an expert data analyst at CTU with a secret past. She’s also involved with Freddie Prinze Jr.’s character Davis Cole.
According to inside reports from EW.com , Dominic Monaghan who played the character of Charlie Pace on ABC’s hit show,”Lost” before drowning in one of the episodes is not being resurrected to return to the show as it has been speculated.
Apparently he has recently appeared in an ABC promo campaign,and the rumors started flying. But the actual reason as reported by EW, is that he’s actually going to be joining the cast of another hour long ABC drama as a full time regular,and ABC wants it to be a surprise. EW promised ABC that they wouldn’t tell what the new show is, so there are no details on that as of yet. But you’re welcome to guess.
CW’s hit show, “Smallville” is casting for a new role. According to one of my sources who received a casting notice from the show stating that they are trying to fill the role of a character named Mason.
His character description is that he’s a charmer who savors life,and appreciates good food. He loves fast cars and beautiful women (what straight man doesn’t). He never misses any details,and is a master of seduction. His intelligence can’t be matched as he outmaneuvers everyone in his path. He longs to find a home,but the vulnerability can be twisted making him a force to be reckoned with.
There are reports stating that he could also be Zod,but it’s not officially confirmed.
Along with “Everybody Hates Chris” and “The Game”, another show entitled “Reaper” gets the CW hatchet swung at it. The “Reaper” is a comedy / drama that started back in 2007. It starred Bret Harrison as Sam Oliver who’s soul was sold to the Devil by his parents before he was born so each week he has to carry out dangerous tasks for the Devil in an effort to send evil souls that have escaped from hell,back to it.
Ray Wise played the Devil character great. It was a very funny show. It had a Fall 2008 hietas,but was returned to the CW line up in March of 2009 and lasted until the show’s finale in May of 2009. The showed aired 31 episodes over that period of time.
According to the network, they will putting their new “Vampire Diaries” show on the 7pm central time slot on Thursday nights which will replace ‘Smallville’ as it gets bumped to Friday nights at 7pm central time filling the now canceled, “Everybody Hates Chris” and “The Game” tv shows. The CW says that the change shouldn’t effect Smallville since it has a very strong fan base,and they’ll also air “Smallville” promos on Thursday nights during both the “Vampire Diaries” and “Supernatural” time slots.
Freddie Prinze Jr. just got employed again by snagging a regular role in the long running Fox tv show, “24″ which as of Wednesday (5-27-09) started filming for it’s upcoming 8th season. According to reports, Freddie will play the character of Davis Cole who is a recently returned Marine that runs the CTU Field Ops. He also wants to follow in the footsteps of Kiefer Sutherland’s character, Jack Bauer.
Also there will be other new cast members joining the show which include : Anil Kapoor who will play a Middle East leader, Chris Diamantopoulos-the president’s new chief of staff, and John Boyd will play a CTU systems analyst. They will all be regulars. However, two other newcomers that they are bringing on, which include : Jennifer Westfeldt and Nazneen Contractor will play recurring roles.
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