Hulu’s The Path Trailer
Hulu have debuted the full trailer for The Path, their upcoming original series from Friday Night Lights executive producer Jason Katims and Jessica Goldberg.
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Michelle Monaghan (True Detective) star in the series, about a married couple who are part of a religious movement with menacing cult overtones, with Hugh Dancy (Hannibal) as the leader of the group.
Tom Hiddleston & Hugh Laurie Face Off in The Night Manager
For the first time in over 20 years, one of John le Carré's spy novels (author of The Constant Gardener, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, etc) has been adapted for television. Starring Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, and Olivia Colman, AMC's upcoming miniseries - The Night Manager - brings us into the sinister world of arms dealing, intelligence, Third World militias, and widespread corruption at the highest levels of corporations and governments.
A six episode co-production with Ink Factory and BBC, The Night Manager is set to premiere on April 19th and features Hiddleston as a British spy involved in a dangerous cat and mouse game with a nefarious arms dealer played by Laurie.
Hiddleston and Laurie both appeared at the TCA Winter Press Tour to further discuss their roles and answer questions from the critics on hand. Hiddleston delved into what he found so fascinating about his character, Jonathan Pine. "There is a tension between a very calm exterior and a turbulent and chaotic interior," he said, "that he’s someone who actually has a great amount of vulnerability and a huge amount of doubt. Le Carré describes him as a self exiled creature of the night and a sailor without a destination."
Adventures of Mana Coming to Mobile in the West
Adventures of Mana, the upcoming remake of the classic Game Boy RPG Final Fantasy Adventure, is coming to iOS and Android in the west, Square Enix has announced.
While the game is set to release for both smartphones and PlayStation Vita in Japan sometime this winter, its English website makes no mention of a release for Sony's handheld in North America or Europe.
Last month, Square announced Final Fantasy IX for PC and mobile in Japan, and just yesterday, the publisher confirmed the PS1 RPG will also be coming to Steam in the west. Whether or not a smartphone version will be availble in North American and Europe remains to be seen, but at least iOS and Android users have Adventures of Mana to look forward to.
Mortal Kombat X DLC Gameplay Reveal Coming Next Week
NetherRealm Studios plans on releasing a gameplay video of some kind for Mortal Kombat X’s Kombat Pack 2 next week.
Rather than offer fans one of his typical cryptic teases, series’ co-creator Ed Boon made a direct announcement via Twitter.
Kombat Pack 2. Game play video. Next Week. pic.twitter.com/EhYMOv300D
— Ed Boon (@noobde) January 8, 2016
Boon did not specify what would be shown but expect to see all-new footage of Kombat Pack 2 guest characters Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the Xenomorph from the Alien films, as well as series’ veteran Bo Rai Cho and Tri-Borg, who is a combination of the popular cyborg characters Cyrax, Sektor, and Robot Smoke.
Killer Instinct Season 3 Playable at KI Cup and PAX South
Killer Instinct fans will be able to go hands on with a playable demo of Season 3 the Killer Instinct World Cup and PAX South later this month.
Developer Iron Galaxy Studios’ lead combat designer Adam “Keits” Heart announced via Twitter the studio plans on bringing a preview build of the game to both events, taking place the weekend of January 29-31. He did not
Attending KI Cup at the end of January? FIRST PLAYABLE PREVIEW of Killer Instinct Season 3 on the showfloor (PAX South too!) #KICup
Anthony Hopkins Regrets Hannibal and Red Dragon
Anthony Hopkins, who memorably has brought the literary character Hannibal Lecter to life, has no intention of ever reprising his role as the iconic cannibal, admitting he regrets returning to play the character in Hannibal and Red Dragon.
"I did it once. Made the mistake of doing it twice, three times," Hopkins told TheWrap, going on to say he thinks "The Silence of the Lambs is okay. It was a good film."
When asked if he ever might reprise the role of Hannibal Lecter, Hopkins replied with a blunt "No," adding, "I don’t want to do that. Done with that."
Following Hopkins' trio of films, Mads Mikkelsen assumed the role of Lecter in the TV series Hannibal, which had a three-season run on NBC.
Beauty and the Beast’s Gaston Coming to Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time has found its Gaston in True Blood actor Wes Brown.
According to Variety, Brown will appear as the egocentric hunter during the second half of Season 5 in an unspecified episode. Gaston's arrival will offer a twist on the classic Beauty and the Beast story, returning to a time before Belle (Emilie de Ravin) met Rumpelstiltskin.
Wes Brown in True Blood
Outlander: Season 2 Is ‘More Politics,’ ‘More Danger’
Outlander is out to save the future in Season 2. The stars and creators of the Starz series headed to the 2016 winter Television Critics Association press tour to preview what's ahead when Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) head to Paris to try to prevent the Jacobite Rebellion and its subsequent failure.
From the return of Tobias Menzies as Frank to how showrunner Ron Moore and author Diana Gabaldon are working to prevent adverse butterfly effects as much as possible, here are eight key new details learned during the TCA presentation. Some minor spoilers for Season 2 ahead.
There's a science behind the time travel in Outlander, even if it's a science that Gabaldon invented. "You always do that if you're dealing with time travel in any serious literary way, anyone who does time travel stuff, unless it's a costume drama where she goes back and she's going to be fancy clothes, but she's going to be a 20th century woman and show people the errors of their ways. This is not what I do," she said. "You do in fact figure out how time works one way or another. I am honored to say I was invited to write up the Gabaldon Theory of Time Travel for the Journal of Transfigural Mathematics in Berlin -- which I did."
Sherilyn Fenn Part of Twin Peaks Revival
Sherilyn Fenn will reprise her role as Audrey Horne in Showtime's Twin Peaks revival. Deadline reports that Fenn will have "a major presence" when the show returns to air in 2017.
Ridley Scott in Talks to Bring The Prisoner to the Big Screen
Universal may have found its director for The Prisoner, as Ridley Scott is currently in talks to direct.
According to Deadline, Scott is in "early negotiations" with the studio to bring an adaptation of the Patrick McGoohan 1960s British TV series to the big screen.
The Prisoner has been in the works at Universal for quite some time, as several drafts of the film adaptation having already been written, the latest of which was penned by The Departed writer William Monahan.
The movie will tell the story of former government agent "Number Six" who, after resigning from his job, finds himself trapped in an isolated village. As he struggles to find freedom, he's hunted by those who seek to uncover the knowledge he holds.