The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power star Morfydd Clark analyzes her Galadriel and her path to becoming the character we all know.
The awaited prequel series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has finally landed on Amazon Prime Video, and has shown us characters very different from how we used to see them, starting with Galadriel. And now Morfydd Clark explains the creative path that led her to provide her interpretation of the famous character.
“I knew The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but I had never really delved into The Simarillion,” Morfydd Clark told Variety. “I had no idea what he had done before. But there is a part where Tolkien describes Galadriel tying his hair into a braided crown on his head before going into battle, and I weighed in at that point ‘Wow, this opens up so many possibilities’ “.
“Then Tolkien changed his mind over time about Galadriel, which makes it even more interesting. I became obsessed with thoughts like ‘Why did Tolkien need to make Galadriel be exactly what he was at that point?’. And it is. as if he had fallen in love with her a little more, I think, as the years went on, so there is a certain fluidity in that character, “continued the actress.
But in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power we are given a rather different image of Galadriel than we were used to …
“I would say she earned her serenity hard. I don’t think she could have reached those levels of wisdom without going through everything she’s been through,” Clark comments. “She actually explains how wisdom goes hand in hand with a loss of innocence, which for me is a really good thing to rediscover. Why how young can you be when you are still thousands of years old? So I reflected on lost innocence. in that time frame “.
And again, he adds in conclusion: “The Elves in the Third Age have evolved considerably. The Elves in the First Age are really confusing, they deceive each other, they fight with each other … They are the history of Middle-earth, so they are in And it’s been really interesting for all of us who play canonical characters to be able to explore how they came to be the ones we’ve known so far. “
The first two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power are now available on Amazon Prime Video.
ActressMorfydd Clark didn’t know she landed the role of Galadriel when she came to New Zealand to shoot The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has finally made its debut on Prime Video, and now it’s actress Morfydd Clark to talk and reveal how she found out at the very last minute that for the occasion she was supposed to play an iconic character and loved as Galadriel.
“I didn’t know I was going to play Galadriel when I arrived in New Zealand,” Morfydd Clark tells Variety. and we thought I was going to play Celebrian, his daughter because maybe I just couldn’t imagine being able to lend the face to Galadriel. “
A condition that apparently, he shared with all the cast members, each unaware of their character until the last: “So I arrived in New Zealand not knowing who I was going to bring to the screen and looking back, it’s really crazy. everyone in the cast was like that. We all plunged headlong into this crazy venture, and we met there. And only upon my arrival did I find out who I was going to play, and there I had to recalibrate for a moment because I couldn’t believe it! “.
And now The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is one of the most masterful productions ever, with a very high budget and more than 50 or so scheduled episodes.
Still, Clark explains that it’s not something you usually focus on when auditioning: “When you’re auditioning for productions like this, you never think you’re going to get the role, so you don’t start counting [ how many episodes will possibly be, etc.]. I personally refuse to allow myself to imagine these things, to daydream, ahead of time. Otherwise, you form a strong attachment to everything you audition for. “
“I think I’m still trying to get used to all of this and what it means. The next few weeks are going to be very important for that, but it’s also a relief. You realize these things for people to enjoy. And it was time for that too. But it was also a relief. I think I’ll spend another time trying to acclimate to everything “concludes the actress.
The first two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power are now available on Amazon Prime Video.
Amazon announced that The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (our review here) won over 25 million viewers worldwide on its first day, beating all previous records and becoming the biggest debut in Prime Video history. . The series launched exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories around the world.
Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios, said: “It is somehow fitting that Tolkien’s stories – among the most popular of all time and which many consider the true origin of the fantasy genre – have brought us to this point in time. ‘pride. I am very grateful to the Tolkien Estate – and to our showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, executive producer Lindsey Weber, cast and crew – for their tireless collective commitment and boundless creative energy. And it’s the tens of millions of fans who have seen the series – clearly as passionate as we are of Middle-earth – the real measure of our success. “
Episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will be available every week until the season finale on October 14 on Prime Video.
Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will bring the heroic legends of the mythical Second Era of Middle-earth history to screens for the first time. This epic drama takes place thousands of years before the events narrated in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, and will take viewers to a distant era where great powers were forged, kingdoms ascended to glory and fell into ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope to hang from the thinnest of threads, and one of the greatest villains to come out.
from Tolkien’s pen, he threatened to plunge the whole world into darkness. Starting from a moment of relative peace, the series follows a group of characters, some already known, some new, as they prepare to face the feared return of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains to the majestic forests of the elven capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island of the kingdom of Númenor, to the most extreme places on the map, these kingdoms and characters will build a legacy that will survive far beyond their time.
The series is led by showrunners and executive producers J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay. They are joined by executive producers Lindsey Weber, Callum Greene, J.A. Bayona, Belén Atienza, Justin Doble, Jason Cahill, Gennifer Hutchison, Bruce Richmond and Sharon Tal Yguado, and producers Ron Ames and Christopher Newman. Wayne Che Yip is co-executive producer and director with J.A. Bayona and Charlotte Brändström.
World famous literary work awarded with the International Fantasy Award and the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, 1999 The Lord of the Rings was elected by Amazon customers as the favorite book of the millennium and in 2003 as the most loved novel of all time in the UK on the BBC show The Big Read. The Lord of the Rings books have been translated into over 38 languages and have sold more than 150 million copies.
House of The Dragon Episode 2Review: Last night, simultaneously with the airing in the United States on HBO and exclusively on Sky and streaming on NOW, the second installment of the new Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon, was released. The series is inspired by the novel “Fire and Blood” by George R.R. Martin, who is also the creator of the series along with Ryan J. Condal.
The series is precisely a prequel set 200 years earlier than seen in Game of Thrones during the reign of King Viserys I Targaryen and follows the bloody story that will lead to the outbreak of the “Dance of Dragons”, the civil war for the succession to the Throne. of Spade. After talking to you more generally about the series in our review of the first six episodes (which you can read here), it’s time to analyze the second episode in more detail!
[The review below features several plot SPOILERS for House of the Dragon 1 × 02: The Rogue Prince]
In this second episode, we have the first time skip of the series: in fact, a year and a half have passed since the queen’s death and Viserys Targaryen (Paddy Considine), the current ruler of the seven kingdoms, is asked to remarry to keep her image strong, which has deteriorated over the years and now may have an enemy at the gates.
Indeed, as Lord Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint) points out, a dangerous army is approaching the seven kingdoms from across the sea and risks becoming a problem first for his house and then for King’s Landing. Meanwhile, Lord Velaryon always tries to push the king to marry his young daughter, but the king’s attention is attracted by a very different woman, Lady Alicent Hightower (Emily Carey).
House of The Dragon Episode 2 – HBO Max
As if that weren’t enough, Prince Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) moved to Dragonstone after the king’s attack, taking possession of it. In all of this, Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock), the actual next pretender to the throne as decided by King Viserys, finds herself in a complicated position again when she decides to disobey the advice of the King’s Hand, Sir Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans) and he decides to take matters into his own hands with Uncle Daemon.
The second installment of House of the Dragon again demonstrates the great writing skills of Martin and Condal, who after defining the starting points of the story, the motives of the various characters involved, and their position in the circle of power of Westeros, moves on to messing up the cards again.
With a threat at the gates, a succession questioned, and a prince removed from King’s Landing, all the conditions are created so that internal conflicts can actually begin to develop and magnify, while the external ones arrive inexorably, ready to shake Westeros. In all this, the second episode finally also gives us a greater taste of some characters that we have seen very little in the first, such as Lord Velaryon, played by the talented Steve Toussaint, and Lady Velaryon, played by Eve Best.
Lord Velaryon proves to be an immensely complicated character, much more than the one that revealed his role in the council, a role that we see close to him. Velaryon is one of the last of one of the oldest dynasties of Westeros and therefore suffers subjection to the Targaryens, but he is also a partly honorable man who, worried about Westeros, finds himself making questionable choices in terms of alliances.
House of The Dragon Episode 2 – HBO Max
Instead, Lady Velaryon, the “queen who was denied the throne” here takes a more interesting dimension, and shares with her husband the contempt for her house’s forced subjection to the Targaryens, but seems much closer to Rhaenyra than she could. understand the first episode, certainly always a conflictual relationship but which shows how the two women are not so different but are partly experiencing the same drama.
Even Daemon, played by the talented Matt Smith, in this episode proves to be a complicated character, certainly violent and over the top, a somewhat rogue prince, but who understands his inferior position and suffers from it. The discourse with his niece, but also the one with his lover, reveals a large part of the psyche of the character, showing a character that is not mad but more embittered by his life.
This second installment again confirms all the good impressions of the first, House of The Dragon is truly Game of Thrones at its highest level. These two episodes are reminiscent in some ways of the subterfuges of the first season of the mother series, with a hint of the wind of war blowing in the background, and of alliances between nobles ready to oust a too weak king. The pilot, who was not a pilot, had demonstrated the potential of such a prequel and the second episode presses the accelerator constantly, but without giving an idea of excessive speed, a big problem in the last two seasons of the parent series.
House of The Dragon review, with this HBO series, launches the expansion of the Game of Thrones universe using a local approach, very different from the original series.
We have already reached that time of year that many were waiting for. Those who watch TV series know that the end of summer will be a fairly busy time for entertainment, and part of the responsibility lies with HBO which will release episodes of House of The Dragon weekly. Before starting with the review of the first 6 episodes of House of The Dragon, let’s make a summary of the programming of the series.
House of The Dragon will debut on August 22, For all the basic details on the series, trailer plot, and cast, we invite you to read our dedicated sheet.
House of the Dragon review, a question of expectations …
Expectations influence everything, especially when it comes to entertainment products as popular as Game of Thrones has become. Even the authors Ryan Condal and Miguel Sapochnik, are aware of the incredibly complicated mission, only because they arrived after 8 seasons of a pop phenomenon. House of the Dragon is not Game of Thrones and it cannot be in any scenario, this is probably the biggest obstacle that each of us will have to overcome.
What we remember from the original series are the deaths, the dragons, the wars, and all the junctions that made the series evolve and the last season, as much as it may have been discussed, was full of them. These events gave the series a completely different pace than it started when it was more political and House of the Dragon starts right there from the very beginning.
The premise of the series is quite simple, and it connects perfectly to the choice of the showrunners to go back slightly and build this “new” universe of characters in a fairly timely manner. A construction that has also given rise to the need to look for two actors to play the same role, such as those of Rhaenyra and Alicent. This allowed the series to tell the foundations of these characters, so as not to find ourselves confused by political and court dynamics that have already begun. This also justifies the unusual and numerous time jumps that we will see in the first part.
The local approach of the House of The Dragon
If you already start with the awareness that House of the Dragon is not Game of Thrones, the only other obstacle to overcome is its much narrower vision than the original series. Game of Thrones had such a vast and complex history, in which an extremely large number of protagonists orbited, that it is difficult to match.
House of The Dragon instead exists in a subset of this universe and tells some events that involved the House of Targaryen, 200 years before the story we know. Precisely for this reason, the series lives almost completely, and perhaps even a little too much, in King’s Landing, we also notice it from the set that has many more details than in the past. The rest happens in the background, we don’t see it, but they tell us about it in words.
This approach certainly makes sense if we look at it from a commercial point of view. It is clear HBO’s intention to create a subset of series that will focus on subsets of stories set in that huge universe. The fact of remaining closed within certain confines responds to that precise need not to “ruin” probably one of the many projects that the channel has in development.
So House of The Dragon mentions names people and places, just for the fun of it and to remind us that the Targaryens always live in Westeros; which has so many Dragons; which are many more than we were used to and which are powerful. The rest of the story takes place within the family, and with its absurd dynamics.
House of The Dragon also lacks a physical enemy, but there is perhaps the most complicated of all to defeat and understand: power. The Targaryens are constantly victims of power and the Targaryens themselves. The need to fulfill the obligations for the survival of the family is the only fuel of the series. Everything else does not represent a real threat, also because the future is already written.
When we get to know these new characters we find them in a fairly quiet period for the House of Targaryen, the only problem with King Viserys Targaryen concerns his succession to the throne. So the problem here is not which house will sit on the Iron Throne, but which of the Targaryens will, family is a permanent fixture in House of The Dragon and would make any attempt to create enemies superfluously.
The Targaryens then find themselves dealing with some crisis caused by a family member. Nothing to worry about, the ambition of other houses is always there, but it is often politically resolved with marriages to strengthen both. They are simple political dynamics … nothing more.
The consequences of this approach
King Viserys in his first marriage failed to produce a male heir and Rhaenyra is the only child who can succeed him, but she is a woman. This obviously opens up a huge issue that, however modern it may be, has very ancient foundations.
House of the Dragon manages to deal with it thanks to this local approach that allows it to elaborate, not to relegate the issue to a catchphrase, because you have to move to Winterfell to understand what is happening there. The theme of the role of the woman is the cause of the decline of the Targaryens, it always has been, after all, and here they found the time to dissect it and understand what impact it had on their history.
The fact that House of The Dragon somehow tries to differentiate itself from the original series is natural, you can’t expect the opposite, and you can’t even say it’s the same. Everything I have just written is part of a simple acceptance process that each of us should go through before watching the series, they are not defects, but quality.
You cannot approach the series with the hope that it will continue in the same vein as the parent series: so many battles, so many dragons, so many twists, plots, so much of everything that has made it a global phenomenon. House of the Dragon clears the beat; it is full of speeches in which so many people are mentioned, so many places, without really exploring them.
The Game of Thrones universe is moving towards the creation of appendages and sub-stories, probably replicating what Marvel and Star Wars have already done on Disney +. They are glimpses of history that come to life, which do not care about what is happening around them because it is not necessary, probably someone else will.
The “local” approach of House of The Dragon is the only obstacle that the viewer has to overcome. Needs to! Because it is almost certain that every project in this universe uses the same strategy. After all, the most choral story, the biggest and most spectacular one has already been told, now it’s time to tell the details … not to photocopy.
Some fans have identified in episode 6 of Stranger Things 4 a similarity with the beloved animated series Scooby-Doo!
Welcome to the Stranger Things meta-universe where the prefix “meta” takes on the original meaning of the Greek tradition as “together” or “in-between”. If we put aside for a moment the narrative aspects with its protagonists and the unfolding of the events, as well as the parallel dimension of the Upside Down and Eleven’s attempt to defeat evil together with his friends, the most original and interesting structure of the TV series emerges. conceived by the Duffer Brothers.
Stranger Things is the incarnation of seriality that dusts off the culture of the Eighties like an old treasure hidden in the attic. There are music, fashions, furnishings, slang and atmospheres that return, but what recurs cyclically and predominantly is cinema. In particular, the tributes to the seventh art occur thanks to the metacinematographic practice. Here then is the explanation of the term “meta” at the beginning of the text.
We are in the meta-universe to mean a cinema that returns, intertwines, is confused, hides and reveals itself. The meta cinema mentions paying homage and reworks the past together with the present and Stranger Things, born in 2016 and still in production today, is the godmother of this form of seriality.
Stranger Things 4: Scooby-Doo where are you? In the episode of Netflix’s most loved series!
The success of Stranger Things lies in attracting audiences from multiple generations. In some ways, the viewer’s taste for the plot is overshadowed and becomes a challenge for fans who want to recognize and see the era in which they lived or in which they wanted to be born come back to life.
Repetitiveness and variation of the identical are the constitutive principles of the saga. In the Stranger Things audience, a sort of fetishism is established that wants to scrutinize every single detail to bring to the surface, from the metaverse of ST to reality, for example, the easter eggs, the gifts and the unspoken things.
Some fans have identified episode 6 of Stranger Things 4 as an episode of the entertaining animated series Scooby-Doo. On the other hand Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby turn in the Mystery Machine van in search of mysteries to solve and ghosts or supernatural entities to unmask similarly to the mission of Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Will and Undi who must defeat the monstrous creatures that they inhabit the Upside Down and threaten the town of Hawkins.
In particular, in the Scooby-Doo scene (which you can see below) the protagonists are on a boat in the middle of an interdimensional sea. Shaggy screams frightened: “We are adrift between universes, guys, life is complete upside down” and Velma agrees with her usual composure: “Upside down”. After that, Fred puts his head underwater and notices the presence of an interdimensional gate, so he shows it to the others and Daphne explains that it is the Fourth Gate.
The characters then decide to dive into the water to reach the portal and, once crossed, we see their heads emerge from the water, from top to bottom, basically with the shot upside down vertically. If you haven’t missed episode 6 of Stranger Things 4, you will confirm the great similarity between the two sequences.
Squid Game has unhinged all kinds of records since it came out on Netflix in September 2021. It has become a real popular phenomenon around the world. Fans can rest easily because the second season is in the works. While waiting, however, let’s delve into the folds of the first and discover ten little-known curiosities.
1. Squid Game wasn’t exactly cheap
Contrary to what one might expect for the first season of a foreign series, Netflix didn’t want to spare any expense for Squid Game. The budget was over $ 20 million (about 2.5 million per episode). The investment it generated, however, was equally mind-boggling: it even seems that the platform has earned a whopping 900 million dollars.
2. Pure adrenaline
One of the most adrenaline-pumping moments of Squid Game is undoubtedly crossing the glass bridge. The production revealed that the bridge was truly made of glass in order to push the actors and actresses into a more spontaneous reaction. Of course, if they fell they would not have plunged into a deadly cliff as in the series.
3. What a beautiful name
Several times throughout the first season of Squid Game we hear a character claim that Sae-Byeok (# 067, played by Jung Ho-Yeon) is a cool name. But why? Because in Korean Sae-Byeok means ‘dawn’.
4. Taken from a true story
Series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has revealed that his private life played a central role in the development of Squid Game. In fact, he too was plunged into debt and did not know how to get by. Until he wrote the script for the series (it was 2018) and after some denials, Netflix didn’t decide to put it into production.
5. White Vans fly
A phenomenon is also measured in the way in which it knows how to go beyond its own means of expression and influence other fields. Squid Game is a phenomenon, there is no doubt about that. Suffice it to say that the white canvas Vans worn by the characters sold like hot cakes after the debut of the television series. In fact, sales increased by 7800%, a real overwhelming success.
6. Memories from the set
It is now a custom – it is not known how much it is actually tolerated – that some props disappear and become souvenirs of actors and actresses who have starred in a certain film or in a certain series. Squid Game was no exception. In particular, Anupam Tripathi (number 199) decided to take home the green jumpsuit he wore in the series as a souvenir for his work.
7. An unattainable record
Not even the phenomenon Stranger Things 4 managed to break the Squid Game record, which recorded 1.7 billion hours of views in the first 28 days of release. Stranger Things 4 stopped at 1.4 billion hours.
8. Squid Game becomes reality
The success of a phenomenon, we said, is also measured by its derivations. Squid Game is undoubtedly a phenomenon. Netflix has decided to give life to Squid Game – The Challenge, a reality show based on the games of the TV series which will involve 456 people from all over the world. The prize up for grabs will be 4.56 million dollars and if it is won, of course, whoever makes it to the end of the games. Whoever loses – it is right to specify – will not be killed, but simply eliminated from the game.
9. Significant numbers
There are numbers in television series that are not made up. In particular, the telephone number that can be read on the organization’s business card and the current account into which the prize is paid to the winner. These are two really existing numbers: the first owned by a lady who reported exhausted the thousands of phone calls received; the second from one of the producers who (reluctantly) had to block the account after a few years ago they started paying 456 won.
10. Squid Game was supposed to be a movie
The creator himself revealed it: originally Squid Game was supposed to be a movie. And that’s not surprising, given Hwang’s film background who has written and directed some blockbuster films in Korea.
Peter Jackson reveals that he was snubbed by the production of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series after being asked to collaborate. Peter Jackson is the Oscar-winning director who revolutionized genre cinema with his The Lord of the Rings trilogy, before turning back to the fantasy world created by JRR Tolkien with The Hobbit trilogy.
So when Amazon announced the making of a series based on the world of The Lord of the Rings – a record-breaking production inspired by the Appendices to the work of the master of fantasy and expansion of Tolkien’s mythology – many fans found it hard to imagine a depiction. Middle-earth film without Jackson’s contribution. Apparently, the director was given the opportunity to collaborate, but then he was cut off from the project.
Peter Jackson was snubbed from The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series after being asked to collaborate
The director revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he had been asked to participate in the show and that he had given his availability, but when he asked Amazon to send him the scripts, the production of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power he never answered him. “They asked me if I wanted to get involved. I replied ‘This is an impossible question to answer without seeing a script first’. So they said: ‘As soon as we have the first two scripts, we will send them to you. And the scripts never came. But it’s fine. No complaints “.
In a statement also issued to THR, Amazon responded to Peter Jackson’s comments citing an “obligation” to differentiate themselves from the director’s films. According to THR, this decision is due to the fact that Warner Bros. Discovery still owns the rights to the films, and therefore the Amazon series had to differentiate itself from that intellectual property at all costs.
“In pursuing the rights to our show, we were obliged to keep the series distinct and separate from the films,” a company spokesperson said. “We have the utmost respect for the Peter Jackson and Lord of the Rings films and are thrilled that he is looking forward to watching The Rings of Power.” Despite the misunderstanding, Peter Jackson wishes the series the best and plans to watch it alongside audiences when it arrives on Prime Video (September 2, 2022).
A podcast launched the sensational fan theory and evidence would support the thesis.
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Ifan of the series hazards a theory about Stranger Things 5, which, if true, would upset every mechanism: Vecna would actually be the father of Eleven! To suggest for the first time a podcast entitled Just the Nobodys was published on TikTok. At first glance, the scenery seems pure suggestion and nothing else. Still, there is a fair amount of supporting evidence.
Stranger Things 5: the relationship between Vecna and Undici
According to the Stranger Things 5 thesis, Brenner was well aware that none of the two to ten children were as strong as the first. As a result, the doctor gave Uno time to grow up to reproduce with Terry Ives and thus give birth to Eleven, so that she was the strongest.
Terry Ives is the mother of the protagonist. In 1969, she joined the MKUltra project, under the supervision of Dr. Martin Brenner, where she underwent experiments involving psychedelic drugs, capable of altering the mind and stimulating the senses. In late 1970 (or early 1971) she became pregnant and in June 1971 she had a daughter named Jane. Which Brenner took, covering it all up as a miscarriage. Terry didn’t fall for it and tried to reclaim her daughter by force but without success. Hence, Jane became Eleven, whose perception could radically change in Stranger Things 5.
According to the podcast, Brenner’s efforts to clone 001 did not yield the desired results. As a result, he worked to get her (who would have turned 24 in 1971) to get Terry Ives pregnant in order to shape a superpowered creature.
This would actually explain why Brenner had a unique bond with Eleven from the start and considered it his “special project”. Also, the way 001 told Eleven that “Dad” doesn’t always tell the truth and seeing himself in her and knowing the key to unlocking the young woman’s powers feeds the guesswork. Will they be correct? Only Stranger Things 5 can answer us!
Keanu Reeves is officially in the cast of the series Devil in the White City, by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Keanu Reeves
It’s Official: Keanu Reeves is to star in Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City adaptation for Hulu! This will be a huge step for him in the world of television, with a project produced by none other than Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio! The series is based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Erik Larson, which tells the story of Daniel Burnham, architect of the iconic 1893 EXPO, and serial killer HH Holmes. The devil and the white city (this is the Italian title of the work) received widely favorable reviews at its release and became a New York Times bestseller, obtaining numerous awards.
Keanu Reeves is officially in the cast of the series Devil in the White City, by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio
The series has been on standby for more than a decade, since Leonardo DiCaprio acquired the rights to the novel, with the intention of turning it into a film. Martin Scorsese was supposed to direct the film with Paramount Pictures production, but plans changed when the two took the project to Hulu to turn it into a TV series. After this long development cycle, it finally looks like the show is making great progress, and with a major star!
Deadline reports that Keanu Reeves has been officially cast as the protagonist of the Devil in the White City series. The project will be the first major American television role for The Matrix star who, early in her career, starred in numerous TV films and also appeared in the Swedish-American web series Swedish Dicks. Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will be executive producers. At the moment, no shooting start date has been set.
