When Ron Howard was handed the keys to the Millennium Falcon and given the task of finishing production on Solo: A Star Wars Story, actor Paul Bettany was put into a situation not many people get the chance to be in. Suddenly, a guy he knew and had worked with previously was in charge of a Star Wars movie. So,…
Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) is hardly the only handsome rake in Solo: A Star Wars Story, as evinced by Lando Calrissian’s (Donald Glover) repeat suave-as-fuck appearances in the trailers. Because the spin-off is basically an origin story, it’s also full of shady characters, including rogues played by Woody Harrelson,…
Netflix’s The Crown is preparing for a seismic shift in its on-screen talent, as the show prepares to leap forward into a new era, where Olivia Colman is queen, Helena Bonham Carter is her sister, and someone new gets to take over for Matt Smith as the petulantly philandering Prince Philip. Possibly Paul Bettany, if…
Ron Howard continues to fill his inherited Han Solo movie with actors he’s worked with before, with Variety reporting that A Beautiful Mind and Da Vinci Code co-star Paul Bettany has signed on for Howard’s standalone Star Wars film.
Discovery has released the first look at its anthology series that finds Paul Bettany taking on the role of the terrorist Ted Kaczynski in Manhunt: Unabomber. But the trailer, for what it’s worth, doesn’t focus all that much on Bettany’s performance, given that it is largely from the perspectives of the members of the…
Who he is: Vision
Some intriguing casting news has emerged from Discovery Channel’s upcoming fact-based FBI drama Manifesto. It looks like Glee and Hollywood Game Night veteran Jane Lynch will be portraying former US Attorney General Janet Reno in the show’s first season, which as we reported previously will focus on the case of…
Back in March, we reported that Kevin Spacey and the Discovery Channel were developing an anthology-style drama series about the fun and exciting ways that the FBI has managed to catch some of America’s most dangerous criminals over the years. The series will be called Manifesto, and the first season is set to focus…
Upon reading a headline informing you that Harrison Ford is expected to star in a new film entitled Official Secrets, it’s natural to feel overwhelmed for a moment by deja vu. “Didn’t that already happen?” you might ask yourself, flipping through your mental Rolodex of Ford films with drably governmental names. “Isn’t…
Famous actors playing homeless people is always a tough sell. No matter how committed they may be to the role, it’s hard to suspend disbelief; the disparity between the character’s poverty and the celebrity’s obscene wealth is so pronounced that it continually gets in the way. Richard Gere did an impressive job of…
Smartphones, lightning-fast Internet, and nanotechnology connect Transcendence to the here and now. But in plenty of other respects, this humorless science-fiction cautionary tale feels like a relic from an earlier era, pulled out of a dusty old box of zip disks and 56k modems. Forget that the basic plot, about a…
