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Amazon’s “The Dark Tower” TV Series Has Begun Filming and Michael Rooker Will Star!
Just two years after Idris Elba brought gunslinger Roland Deschain to the big screen in The Dark Tower, actor Sam Strike (Leatherface) has been cast to bring the character to the small screen in MRC and Amazon‘s pilot for a TV series adaptation of Stephen King‘s epic saga, which is filming now. And today we’ve learned that Michael Rooker will also star!
The pilot is being filmed on location in Croatia, Michael Rooker Online notes.
Jasper Pääkkönen (BlacKkKlansman) will co-star in the pilot as the Man in Black, with Jerome Flynn (“Game of Thrones”) also on board.
Deadline recently teased, “The Dark Tower TV series is independent from the film and is meant to be a more faithful retelling of the book than the movie was. I hear it will take place many years before the events depicted in the film, and will focus on Roland Deschain’s (Strike) origin story– how he first became a gunslinger and got his guns, his first conflict with the man in black, his first love and his first mission as a gunslinger.”
Glen Mazzara (“The Walking Dead”) is showrunner and exec producer.
The Ghostbusters franchise returns to the world of animation with brand new Netflix series “Ghostbusters: Night Shift,” and the official logo has been revealed this weekend.
Expect “Ghostbusters: Night Shift” to clock in on Netflix in 2027!
Netflix previews, “Ghostbusters: Night Shift, a series from Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation based on the beloved Ghostbusters franchise, will debut exclusively on Netflix in 2027.
“The new series marks the next chapter in the franchise’s ghoul-catching legacy, bringing supernatural comedy and paranormal action back to animation.”
The upcoming animated series from Netflix will be executive produced by Ben Hibon, Elliott Kalan, Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan, Amie Karp, and Dan Aykroyd.
Reitman, son of Ivan Reitman, director of the original Ghostbusters features, and Kenan co-wrote the franchise’s most recent installments, Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Frozen Empire.
“This isn’t the first time the Ghostbusters universe has gone animated,” Netflix reminds in their press release today. “The 1980s and ’90s saw The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters take over the small screen. For now, you can rest assured: If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, a Ghostbuster will be on the job — even if it’s after hours.”
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