Idris Elba is set to play Knuckles to Ben Schwartz’s titular character in the forthcoming Sonic the Hedgehog sequel — and this is probably one of the most exciting bits of casting news of the week.
ABC has picked up Matt Lopez‘s Latinx drama Promised Land to series. The show is described as an epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California’s Sonoma Valley and stars John Ortiz, Cecilia Suárez, Augusto Aguilera, Christina Ochoa, Mariel Molino, Tonatiuh, Andres Velez, Katya Martín and Rolando Chusan.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has been tapped to star in the Steve Caple Jr.-directed dystopian crime thriller By All.
All American‘s Jalyn Hall is set to play Emmett Till in Chinonye Chukwu’s Till. He joins Danielle Deadwyler and Whoopi Goldberg in the film based on the original research of Keith Beauchamp for his award-winning 2005 doc The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till.
Netflix has revealed the cast for the live adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender — and it’s less problematic than that feature in 2010 that many would like to forget. The cast includes Gordon Cormier,Kiawentiio, Ian Ousley, and Dallas Liu.
FX has renewed What We Do In The Shadowsfor a fourth season ahead it’s season three premiere… and as an added bonus they dropped a trailer!
Amazon Studios and Mindy Kaling are developing Uzma Jalaluddin’s novel Hana Khan Carries On into a film.
Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s feature directorial debut Tick, Tick…Boom!is set to open AFI Fest.
Rita Moreno has joined The Prank. The dark comedy will be directed by Maureen Bharoocha and also stars opposite Connor Kalopsis and Ramona Young.
Sterling K. Brown is set to star in the pic Coyote Bluewritten by John Wick scribe Derek Kolstad. The Amazon Studios action film will mark the feature directorial debut of Hanelle M. Culpepper.
Emmy-nominated Nailed It host and podcast queen Nicole Byer has set her first hourlong stand-up comedy special on Netflix.
Lil Rel Howery is set to star in the comedy pic Bromatesexecutive produced by Snoop Dogg.
Daniel Sunjata joins Michelle Monaghan and Matt Bomer in Netflix’s psychological thriller limited series Echoes from 13 Reasons Why showrunner Brian Yorkey.
Rowan Blanchard and Auli’i Cravalho are set to star in Hulu’s upcoming queer teen feature directed by Sammi Cohen and produced by Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph.
The Dakota Johnson’s indie Cha Cha Real Smooth has added numerous names to its cast which includes Raúl Castillo.
Richard Greenberg’s Tony Award-winning play Take Me Out, about baseball and homophobia, is set to be adapted as a limited television series with Jesse Williams set to star.
Legendary’s live-action adaptation of manga My Hero Academia has tapped Shinsuke Sato, as its director.
A couple of deals and moves to take note of this week…HBO and HBO Max signed a two-year first-look deal with trailblazing and under-appreciated filmmaker Robert Rodríguez, founder of Troublemaker Studios. Courtney A. Kemp made a Power move (see what I did there) and moves from Lionsgate Television to Netflix with a rich overall deal. Nishika Kumble has been named VP scripted television for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Netflix-based production company, Archewell Productions. Tia Mowry’s Quick Fix is headed to cable as Urban One’s TV One and Cleo TV have struck a multi-year licensing deal with Kin to bring the digital series to Cleo TV.
