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“Westworld” Showrunner Joins J.J. Abrams’ HBO Series “Demimonde”
“Westworld’s” Bash Doran has been set to executive produce and run “Demimonde” as part of a two-year overall deal, reports TheWrap.
HBO placed a straight-to-series order for “Demimonde” back in February. J.J. Abrams is set to pen the script, making this the first TV series the producer has written since 2008’s “Fringe.”
In classic Abrams’ fashion, HBO’s official logline for the series is purposely vague: an epic and intimate sci-fi fantasy drama.
Doran will executive produce, along with Abrams and Ben Stephenson — head of television for Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions — in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Bash is the creator of the new UK Channel 4 series “Jerusalem,” which is currently shooting in the UK. Her other small screenwriting and producing credits include Hulu’s “The Looming Tower,” “Masters of Sex,” “Boardwalk Empire,” and “Smash.”
Last week we learned that Steve Buscemi had joined the cast of “Wednesday” Season 2 at Netflix, and Variety lets us know that Thandiwe Newton (“Westworld”) has also signed on.
Jenna Ortega is back as Wednesday Addams in the upcoming second season of Netflix’s “Wednesday,” with Steve Buscemi playing the new principal of Nevermore Academy.
Jenna Ortega stars in the hit series as Wednesday Addams, with Luis Guzmán playing Gomez and Catherine Zeta-Jones playing Morticia in Tim Burton’s Netflix series. Christina Ricci also appears in the show, playing a brand new role, with Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester.
“Wednesday” is described as “a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy.” The series follows…
“Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships.”
Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (“Smallville”) are the writers and showrunners, with Tim Burton executive producing and directing several episodes of the show’s debut season.
We don’t know much about “Wednesday” Season 2 at the moment but Jenna Ortega has promised that the new season will be “bolder” and darker than the first season of the series.
“We’ve decided we want to lean into the horror more,” Ortega said last year.
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