This week I made the mistake of watching hours of SCOTUS hearings, so rest assured pretty much anything mentioned below is gonna be better than that.
Animation
Kate Mulgrew returns to her iconic role as Captain Kathryn Janeway in the upcoming Star Trek: Prodigy, an new animated series aimed at kids. Look for it on Nickelodeon in 2021. [TrekCore]
She-Ra showrunner Noelle Stevenson is taking her co-created Boom! series Lumberjanes to HBOMax as executive producer, writer, and sometimes-director. [ComingSoon]
Seth Grahame-Smith (The LEGO Batman Movie) will be showrunner for a new Green Lantern HBO Max series. From Berlanti Productions, the one-hour drama will star Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz, and Alan Scott. [THR]
Bee & Puppycat is getting a second season, almost five years since the first one. Natasha Allegri’s animated series will land on Netflix and is titled Bee & Puppycat: Lazy in Space. [Polygon]
I'm SO excited to announce that I'm a Staff Writer on the Netflix fantasy-adventure series Spirit Rangers!
Spirit Rangers is about a modern day Native American family, and in what may be a first for U.S. animated shows, it features an ALL NATIVE writers room which is rad as hell! https://t.co/d7uU9V9XUd pic.twitter.com/U4PLxB6705— Joey Clift (@joeytainment) October 15, 2020
Broadway
The Tonys are, for some reason, still happening, and Moulin Rouge’s Aaron Tveit is the only nominee for best Lead Actor in a Musical due to the shortened season. [Deadline]
Other nominees include both Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge for acting in their dual monologue show Sea Wall/A Life, Diablo Cody for the Jagged Little Pill book, and Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play. [NYTs]
Next season’s Tonys look pretty bleak: Broadway theatres are now shutdown thru May 2021 due to COVID-19. [Vulture]
Movies Etc.
First, a long interview with Alan Moore to help promote his new show, called The Show, which is about crime, mystery, and a stolen artifact. [Deadline]
You are being considered for the amazing opportunity of life. ? Watch the trailer for Edson Oda’s NINE DAYS, starring Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Benedict Wong, Tony Hale, and Bill Skarsgård #NineDays pic.twitter.com/FGSIM1rYWi
— Sony Classics (@sonyclassics) October 12, 2020
Anya Taylor-Joy (New Mutants) will be playing a young Charlize Theron (she not appearing in this film) in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road prequel Furiosa. She’ll be joined by hunks Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. [The Wrap]
Dylan O’Brien on ‘Love and Monsters,’ ‘Teen Wolf’ and Life After His Devastating ‘Maze Runner’ Accident https://t.co/jcgqoj6uXn
— Variety (@Variety) October 15, 2020
Sony Pictures refuses to confirm nor deny the rumors of Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire making appearances in the upcoming third Tom Holland Spider-Man film. [ET Canada]
Margot Robbie and Christina Hodson founded a screenwriting lab for women, and now all six participants have sold screenplays with distribution deals. [Variety]
AMC is going broke. [Axios]