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TV: Who’s Going to Play Rick Grimes in ‘The Walking Dead’? We’ve Got the Frontrunner!
Casting is underway for AMC’s “The Walking Dead” TV series as Jon Bernthal (“Eastwick”, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian) was announced to be playing Grimes’ partner and friend Shane in the Frank Darabont directed pilot episode. Adding to the story, Bloody Disgusting learned exclusively that Jonny Lee Miller (Hackers, Dracula 2000, “Eli Stone”) is the frontrunner (in talks) to play “Rick Grimes”, a police officer who leads a group of zombie survivors in search of a safe place to live during the apocalypse. As mentioned earlier, shooting begins this May on the pilot with hopes of it turning into an ongoing series. Those of you who are fans of AMC’s “Mad Men” know exactly how good this could be.
Survivors fight for to preserve their humanity in the final trailer for epic survival thriller The Dog Stars.
The Dog Stars opens exclusively in theaters, IMAX, and premium large formats August 28.
Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Josh Brolin (Weapons), and Margaret Qualley (The Substance) star.
The film is “set in a world where survival is instinct, but humanity is a choice.
“Ridley Scott tells the story of Hig, a young pilot who, together with a military survivalist, Bangley, has carved out an efficient but isolated homestead in a brutal post-apocalyptic world until a mysterious radio transmission spurs Hig to venture into the unknown in search of the hope and humanity he still believes exists.”
Guy Pearce, Benedict Wong, and Allison Janney also star.
The film is based on Peter Heller’s bestselling novel and written by Mark L. Smith (Overlord, The Revenant) and produced by Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss, Mark L. Smith, and Cliff Roberts.
The final trailer below previews some post-apocalyptic thrills and feral night sieges, but don’t expect your standard fare here. “We’re doing too many end-of-the-world stories,” Scott recently told Empire of his choice to bypass typical zombie depictions. “This is not The Road. I did not want to do World War Z again; no zombies, please. I thought, ‘What the fuck am I gonna do here?’”
“I think people will be surprised and engaged, actually. I would say, hmm… charmed as well,” Scott says. “Although, there is some violence.”