The Mandalorian & Grogu: Next Star Wars Film Adds Alien & Avatar Star Sigourney Weaver In Major Role
Some exciting Star Wars news this morning as The Mandalorian & Grogu has cast its first major supporting role.
As per The InSneider newsletter (and confirmed by multiple trades), 3x Academy Award-nominee Sigourney Weaver has joined the cast of Disney and Lucasfilm's next Star Wars film, which is expected to begin production at the tailend of this year.
The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau (Iron Man; Iron Man 2; The Lion King) will helm and produce the upcoming feature, with Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and Lucasfilm chief creative officer Dave Filoni also serving as producers.
Weaver will join a cast headlined by series leading man Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones; The Last of Us; Wonder Woman 1984), who is expected to reprise his role as Din Djarin for the film. However, the extent of his involvement is yet-to-be-determined as the 3x Primetime Emmy-nominated actor also has Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four, where he plays Reed Richards,...
As per The InSneider newsletter (and confirmed by multiple trades), 3x Academy Award-nominee Sigourney Weaver has joined the cast of Disney and Lucasfilm's next Star Wars film, which is expected to begin production at the tailend of this year.
The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau (Iron Man; Iron Man 2; The Lion King) will helm and produce the upcoming feature, with Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and Lucasfilm chief creative officer Dave Filoni also serving as producers.
Weaver will join a cast headlined by series leading man Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones; The Last of Us; Wonder Woman 1984), who is expected to reprise his role as Din Djarin for the film. However, the extent of his involvement is yet-to-be-determined as the 3x Primetime Emmy-nominated actor also has Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four, where he plays Reed Richards,...
- 5/11/2024
- ComicBookMovie.com
Exclusive: Jessica Stroup is set for a key series-regular role in the ensemble cast of Heart of Life, ABC’s drama pilot inspired by the John Mayer song.
Written by Ben Queen and directed by Anne Fletcher, Heart of Life follows two sets of adult siblings from wildly different worlds who discover they’re related and must reassess everything they thought they knew about their shared father. As they explore the mystery of their separate childhoods, they’ll experience the difficulty in overcoming the sins of the past and learn the joys of reuniting with long-lost family.
Stroup will play Alexandra Reid, Wes’ (Dave Annable) sister, one of the two sets of adult siblings. The other set is played by Harry Shum Jr. and Katie Findlay.
Queen, Mayer, Paul Weitz and Melvin Mar executive produce for 20th Century Fox TV and ABC Studios.
Stroup most recently...
Written by Ben Queen and directed by Anne Fletcher, Heart of Life follows two sets of adult siblings from wildly different worlds who discover they’re related and must reassess everything they thought they knew about their shared father. As they explore the mystery of their separate childhoods, they’ll experience the difficulty in overcoming the sins of the past and learn the joys of reuniting with long-lost family.
Stroup will play Alexandra Reid, Wes’ (Dave Annable) sister, one of the two sets of adult siblings. The other set is played by Harry Shum Jr. and Katie Findlay.
Queen, Mayer, Paul Weitz and Melvin Mar executive produce for 20th Century Fox TV and ABC Studios.
Stroup most recently...
- 3/18/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s looking increasingly likely that The Defenders was a supercharged flash in the pan.
Marvel and Netflix’s ensemble series, which first aired in the summer of 2017, assembled the street-level heroes of Hell’s Kitchen (and Harlem!) for a plot involving The Hand, Midland Circle, and Sigourney Weaver’s thinly-drawn antagonist, Alexandra Reid, who rhymed off one clichéd line after another as she staked a claim for New York City.
But for all of the hype generated by The Defenders, the Netflix crossover struggled to retain much of an audience compared to its predecessors – namely Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist – and new comments made by Jessica Jones herself, Krysten Ritter, suggest that the show may have been a one-off, after all.
Well, I think Jessica was pretty well received. People were excited to see her again, so that made us happy because Jessica is the next up.
Marvel and Netflix’s ensemble series, which first aired in the summer of 2017, assembled the street-level heroes of Hell’s Kitchen (and Harlem!) for a plot involving The Hand, Midland Circle, and Sigourney Weaver’s thinly-drawn antagonist, Alexandra Reid, who rhymed off one clichéd line after another as she staked a claim for New York City.
But for all of the hype generated by The Defenders, the Netflix crossover struggled to retain much of an audience compared to its predecessors – namely Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist – and new comments made by Jessica Jones herself, Krysten Ritter, suggest that the show may have been a one-off, after all.
Well, I think Jessica was pretty well received. People were excited to see her again, so that made us happy because Jessica is the next up.
- 3/7/2018
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
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