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George R.R. Martin plans to pull back the curtain — quite literally — on a mysterious piece of Westeros history. The fantasy author is developing a Game of Thrones stage production, which will depict an event mentioned in Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire novels, but never seen in HBO’s series: The Great Tourney at Harrenhal. “The […]

George R.R. Martin is developing “Game of Thrones” into a Broadway play that takes place during one of the most epic events in Westeros’ history: The Great Tourney at Harrenhal. The currently untitled stage production will be produced by Simon Painter and Tim Lawson in partnership with Kilburn Live. Martin is writing and adapting the play based on his “A Song of Ice & Fire” works alongside award-winning playwright Duncan MacMillan. Dominic Cooke is set to direct. Also Read: 'Game of Thrones' Author George RR Martin Signs 5-Year Overall Deal With HBO “The seeds of war are often planted in times of peace,” Martin said in a statement Tuesday. “Few in Westeros knew the carnage to come when highborn and smallfolk alike gathered at Harrenhal to watch the finest knights of the realm compete in a great tourney, during the Year of the False Spring. It is a tourney oft referred during HBO’s GAME OF THRONES, and in my novels, A SONG OF ICE & FIRE… and now, at last, we can tell the whole story… on the stage. An amazing team has been assembled to tell the tale, starting with producers Simon Painter, Tim Lawson and Jonathan Sanford. Their knowledge and love of my world and characters has impressed me from the very first, and their plans for this production blew me away since the first time we met. Dominic Cooke, our director, is a former Artistic Director of London’s Royal Court Theatre, who brought Shakespeare’s dramas of the War of the Roses to television, and our playwright, Duncan Macmillan, has previously adapted George Orwell and Henrik Ibsen, among others. Working with them (back before the pandemic, when we could actually get together) has been a treat, and I am eager for our collaboration to resume. Our dream is to bring Westeros to Broadway, to the West End, to Australia… and eventually, to a stage near you. It ought to be spectacular.” The Hollywood Reporter first reported the news of Martin’s stage adaptation of his “A Song of Ice & Fire” series. More to come… Read original story ‘Game of Thrones’ Broadway Play in the Works From George RR Martin At TheWrap

Clone Force 99’s “unique” tactics give Grand Moff Tarkin cause for concern in the full trailer for Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Bad Batch. Hitting Disney+ on Tuesday, May 4 (aka Star Wars Day) with a special 70-minute premiere, followed by new episodes every Friday starting on May 7, Star Wars: The Bad Batch follows the […]

They wanted to show the "quiet despair" of addiction, Taylor-Joy said.
PaleyFest LA 2021 sponsored by Citi and Verizon. Stars and an executive producer of Netflix's The Queen's Gambit (William Horberg, Anya Taylor-Joy, Marielle Heller, Moses Ingram, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Harry Melling, and Bill Camp) gather with moderator Stacey Wilson Hunt at PaleyFest LA 2021 to celebrate their show. Topics include: how countless producers dismissed making a film of Walter Tevis's 1983 novel about a self-destructive female chess player, calling it "non-commercial"; the word-of-mouth campaign that led to the mini-series becoming a phenomenon for Netflix; Taylor-Joy's (Beth Harmon) decision to sign on without reading a script due to her love of the book; the reaction of theater veteran Camp (Mr. Shaibel) to finding himself with a new fan base after the show's success; Melling (Harry Beltik), Brodie-Sangster (Benny Watts), and Taylor-Joy becoming chess devotees after learning to play for the mini-series; and how the show caused a newfound popularity for the game of chess, and skyrocketing sales of chess boards.
PaleyFest LA 2021 sponsored by Citi and Verizon. Stars and creatives of ABC's Big Sky (Ross Fineman, Matthew Gross, Katheryn Winnick, Kylie Bunbury, John Carroll Lynch, Brian Geraghty, Jesse James Keitel, Natalie Alyn Lind, Jade Pettyjohn, Valerie Mahaffey, and Brooke Smith) gather with moderator Maureen Lee Lenker at PaleyFest LA 2021 to celebrate their show. Topics include: how executive producer/creator David E. Kelley has made the show's complex characters more of an allure than the thrill-oriented plots; the amount of shocking twists put into each episode, all of which end with a cliffhanger; viewer reactions when Ryan Phillippe's character of Cody Hoyt, the nominal lead, was killed at the end of the premiere episode; the effect of veteran actor Lynch (Rick Legarski) on his co-stars; how feelings of isolation while filming in British Columbia quickly created an on-set "work family"; and the surprising amount of singing which Kelley injects into a decidedly non-musical show.
PaleyFest LA 2021 sponsored by Citi and Verizon. Stars and creatives of FX's What We Do in the Shadows (Paul Simms, Stefani Robinson, Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillén, and Mark Proksch) gather with moderator Kyle Newacheck at PaleyFest LA 2021 to celebrate their show. Topics include: how the well-regarded first season blossomed into the universally acclaimed second season; creator Jemaine Clement's insistence on shooting the show strictly like a documentary; what inspired Novak to come up with an otherworldly Polish accent for Nandor; Guillén's (Guillermo) delight at being a symbol of pride and inspiration for the LGBTQ+ and Latinx communities; Demetriou's reaction to winning a best actress award as the volatile Nadja at the Critics' Choice Super Awards; and the cast and crew's less-than-enthusiastic reaction to the vampire-themed "Twilight" novels and films.
PaleyFest LA 2021 sponsored by Citi and Verizon. Stars and creatives of HBO's Six Feet Under (Alan Ball, Robert Greenblatt, David Janollari, Alan Poul, Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Lauren Ambrose, Frances Conroy, Freddy Rodriguez, and Rachel Griffiths) gather with moderator Lynette Rice at PaleyFest LA 2021 to celebrate their show and its twentieth anniversary. Topics include: how Ball's time as a youth in funeral homes influenced the pilot script; Ball's secret for creating indelible characters; the on-set practical jokes involving "cadavers"; how the ongoing relationship between Michael C. Hall's David and Mathew St. Patrick's Keith proved groundbreaking; Ball's determination to write female characters that weren't defined by the men in their lives; the stereotype-free depiction of Latinx leads Freddy Rodriguez's Rico and Justina Machado's Vanessa; how Ball planned the memorable series finale; and the show's effectiveness twenty years later.

When “Godzilla vs. Kong” debuts in the U.S. on Wednesday, it will play in more theaters than “Tenet,” “Wonder Woman 1984” or any other pandemic-era release. The epic monster mashup, from Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment, is screening in more than 3,000 North American locations. That surpasses the benchmark previously held by Christopher Nolan’s time-bending […]

The latest trailer for Chris Rock's Spiral: From the Book of Saw is our best look yet at how a copycat killer will reflect more than just Jigsaw. The post Chris Rock’s SPIRAL Trailer Unleashes a Jigsaw Copycat Killer appeared first on Nerdist.

Last week, Walt Disney Studios announced a flurry of release date changes for its upcoming film slate, kicking a number of premium titles down the road as COVID-19-stricken movie theaters slowly reopen. Buried among seismic moves like Marvel’s “Black Widow” heading to theaters and Disney Plus on the same day was yet another push for […]

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In an emotional message posted to social media on March 29, BTS condemned the increase in violence against Asians since the start of the pandemic.

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South Korean pop group BTS has posted a letter expressing its support for the Stop Asian Hate movement that has arisen as a result of increased frequency in instances of hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. “We send our deepest condolences to those who have lost their loved ones,” reads the statement, which […]
The network is in conversations on a potential event series or event movie that would conclude the storytelling of Neil Gaiman's book of the same name.

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Donovon Lynch, a 25-year-old Black man, was identified as one of the two people killed in three separate shootings in Virginia late on Friday night.

Thundercats are on the move, again. “Godzilla vs. Kong” director Adam Wingard is attached to helm a computer-animated adaptation of the beloved 1980s Rankin Bass animated series “Thundercats” for Warner Bros., from a script Wingard will write with frequent collaborator Simon Barrett (“You’re Next,” “The Guest”). Dan Lin of Rideback and Roy Lee of Vertigo, […]

Thanks to Connelly, the "Career Opportunities" poster has been turning heads for 30 years… starting with the head of its leading man, Frank Whaley. “I was driving down Sunset Boulevard in L.A. and there’s that poster on a billboard above the Roxbury Nightclub. I almost crashed the car," the actor and remembers.

Armie Hammer has been dropped from another film, in the wake of sexual assault allegations and continuous online chatter that has been spiraling across social media since the beginning of the year. Hammer is no longer attached to the thriller “Billion Dollar Spy,” Variety has learned exclusively. Hammer was set to star opposite Mads Mikkelsen […]