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Reina Hardesty Joins Amazon’s “The Boys” Spinoff Series About Young Adult Superheroes
Amazon is developing a spinoff series for “The Boys” that will center on a group of young superheroes, “set at America’s only college exclusively for young adult superheroes (or “supes”) that is run by Vought International.” Deadline brings us an update today, the site reporting that Reina Hardesty (“The Flash,” “Brockmire”) has come on board for a leading role.
Jaz Sinclair (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”), Lizze Broadway (“Here and Now”), Shane Paul McGhie, Aimee Carrero, and Maddie Phillips also star in the series.
The site notes, “It is described as an irreverent, R-rated series that explores the lives of hormonal, competitive supes as they put their physical, sexual, and moral boundaries to the test, competing for the best contracts in the best cities. Part college show, part Hunger Games — with all the heart, satire and raunch of The Boys.”
Craig Rosenberg will serve as showrunner and he’s also writing the pilot.
Producers will include “The Boys” team of Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
“The Boys” is based on the best-selling comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.
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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