We have to begin today’s round on projects in the works with news of upcoming series because, frankly, that’s where the action is at the moment. Tireless Steven Soderbergh will executive produce and Gregg Araki will co-write and direct all ten episodes of Now Apocalypse, which “follows Ulysses and his friends Carly, Ford, and Severine, as they venture on various questions pursuing love, sex, and fame,” reports Charles Barfield at the Playlist. “As Ulysses deals with sexual and romantic dating app experiences, he begins having foreboding premonitory dreams that the reality around him. According to Starz, the series ‘explores identity, sexuality, and artistry, while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles.’”
“Javier Bardem is set to star as Spanish explorer Hernan Cortes in an Amazon miniseries from writer Steven Zaillian and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television,” reports Daniel Holloway for Variety. “Amazon Studios has given a four-episode order to the untitled miniseries, created for television by Schindler’s List writer Zaillian and adapted from a screenplay by the late Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.”
IndieWire’s Liz Shannon Miller talks with director Danny Boyle, series creator Simon Beaufoy, and stars Donald Sutherland and Hilary Swank about their plans to tell the story of John Paul Getty over three seasons of Trust—if FX gives the go ahead for the second two. As for the first, here’s Matt Zoller Seitz, writing for Vulture: “Acidic comedy carries the day. Beaufoy and Boyle have a knack for deadpan expressions of hatefulness, as when John Paul’s butler informs him over breakfast that his grandson has been abducted, and he replies that he can read the paper on his own just fine, then adds, ‘The butter is too hard.’ Sutherland’s performance is so ferocious, at times frightening, that it obliterates any memory of [Christopher] Plummer’s fine work in [Ridley Scott’s] All the Money in the World.”
Margot Robbie will be one of the producers “on a new ten-part series, retelling the work of Shakespeare from female perspectives,” reports Deadline’s Denise Petski. “The project, currently in development, will be produced in Australia, with filming expected to begin in 2018.”
“Due to creative differences, FX, Donald Glover, Stephen Glover and Marvel Television have agreed to part ways on Marvel’s Deadpool animated series,” FX announced on Saturday. Nellie Andreeva has the story at Deadline.
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Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) will direct Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer in a comedy about “two women fighting the elements to make it home for Christmas,” reports Variety’s Justin Kroll.
Also, Tiffany Haddish will be voicing one of the characters in The Lego Movie 2.
And: “Naomi Watts is in negotiations to join Frank Grillo and Mel Gibson in the Joe Carnahan action pic Boss Level . . . Grillo will play a retired special forces veteran trapped in a never-ending loop, resulting in his death every day.”
“Birth of a Nation filmmaker Nate Parker has resurfaced and is attached to direct Black & Blue, a feature based on the life of decorated LAPD detective Ralph Waddy,” reports Deadline’s Anita Busch. Waddy served “during what was the most racially charged period in the city’s history as it dealt with the Watts riots, Robert Kennedy’s assassination at the Ambassador Hotel, the rise of the Black Panthers, the capture of the Skid Row Slasher and the Manson Murders (which Waddy connected to Charles Manson and his followers). Waddy was involved in investigating all of these and other high-profile crimes.”
At the Playlist, Jordan Ruimy notes that Steven Spielberg has confirmed that a sequel to The Adventures of Tintin (2011), this one directed by Peter Jackson, is still on.
“Hot off adapting the Ernest Cline novel Ready Player One for director Steven Spielberg, Zak Penn has signed on to adapt ROM,” reports Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. “Hailing from a utopian society on the planet Galador, ROM is a cyborg who, after defeating the invading Dire Wraith on its planet, continues the battle on Earth and other planets.”
Also, “Netflix has acquired the live-action feature film rights to Carmen Sandiego and has attached Gina Rodriguez to star as the title character.
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