Table of Contents TV Show Casting for The Mandalorian, Second Walking Dead Spin-off, The Third Day, and MoreThe Lord of the RingsThe BoysThe MandalorianFalcon and the Winter SoldierZack Snyder’s Norse Mythology Anime SeriesLovecraft CountryThe Third DayArrowThe StandThe Walking DeadThe Second Walking Dead Spin-off
TV Show Casting for The Mandalorian, Second Walking Dead Spin-off, The Third Day, and More
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The Lord of the Rings
J.A. Bayona will be directing the first two episodes of the TV adaptation. “J.R.R. Tolkien created one of the most extraordinary and inspiring stories of all time, and as a lifelong fan it is an honor and a joy to join this amazing team,” said Bayona. “I can’t wait to take audiences around the world back to Middle-earth and have them discover the wonders of the Second Age, with a never-before-seen story.” “We are thrilled to have J.A. and Belen joining the fellowship as we continue to develop this epic series,” said writers JD Payne and Patrick McKay. “We have been great admirers of J.A.’s work for years, and know that his epic, cinematic, and deeply heartfelt aesthetic is the perfect sensibility to bring Middle-earth to life anew.” Bayona’s first feature film, the critically acclaimed thriller The Orphanage, executive produced by Guillermo del Toro, premiered to a ten-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival and later won seven Goya Awards in Spain, including best new director. Bayona most recently directed the blockbuster feature Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which grossed more than $1.3 billion worldwide. He also directed The Impossible, starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor, and A Monster Calls, starring Sigourney Weaver, Liam Neeson, and Felicity Jones, as well as the first two episodes of Showtime’s hit series Penny Dreadful.
The Boys
Aya Cash is in negotiations to star as superhero Stormfront, gender-flipped in the TV adaptation from a man to a woman. Stormfront’s biography: Disney+
The Mandalorian
Jon Favreau has announced that he has begun writing the screenplays for Season Two of Star Wars television series.
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Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Derek Kolstad has joined the show’s creative team in an unspecified role. Netflix
Zack Snyder’s Norse Mythology Anime Series
Jay Oliva has been hired to write the untitled norse mythology anime series that is being produced by Zack Snyder. HBO
Lovecraft Country
Tony Goldwyn has been cast as Samuel Braithwhite, “someone who views people as assets and objects and outsiders — including his daughter Christina — as inferiors.” This actor joins already cast: Courtney B. Vance, Aunjanue Ellis, Elizabeth Debicki, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Jonathan Majors, Wunmi Mosaku, Courtney B. Vance, Jamie Harris, Jamie Chung, Jordan Patrick Smith, Jamie Neumann, Erica Tazel, and Mac Brandt. Lovecraft Country‘s plot synopsis: based on the novel by Matt Ruff, “Lovecraft Country follows Atticus Black (Majors) as he joins up with his friend Letitia (Smollett-Bell) and his Uncle George (Vance) to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father. Thus begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.’ Misha Green is writing the screenplays for the TV series.
The Third Day
Katherine Waterston has been cast as Jess, “who Sam encounters on the island.” This actress joins already cast Jude Law. The Third Day‘s plot synopsis: “In the series, Law plays Sam, who is being drawn to a mysterious island off the British Coast and thrown into the unusual world of its secretive inhabitants. Isolated from the mainland, the rituals of the island begin to overwhelm him, and he is confronted by a trauma from his past. As the line between reality and fantasy blurs, Sam finds himself immersed in an emotional quest that puts him at odds with the islanders and begins to threaten their way of life.” Dennis Kelly wrote the screenplays for the TV series. The CW
Arrow
Katherine McNamara, who portrays Mia Smoak, has been upped to a series regular on the superhero TV series for the eighth (and final) season. CBS All Access
The Stand
Marilyn Manson has been cast in an unspecified role in the apocalypse TV series. James Marsden, Amber Heard, Whoopi Goldberg, Greg Kinnear, Odessa Young, and Henry Zaga. The Stand‘s plot synopsis: based the book by Stephen King, The Stand deals with the way “the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after, a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides — or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail — and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.” Josh Boone and Ben Cavellare are writing the screenplays for the TV series. AMC
The Walking Dead
Lauren Cohan may return to The Walking Dead following the cancellation of Whiskey Cavalier. Since Cohan’s Maggie Greene was never killed off, Maggie could return.
The Second Walking Dead Spin-off
Alexa Mansour, Nicolas Cantu, and Hal Cumpston have been cast in unspecified lead roles in the second The Walking Dead spin-off TV series. The spin-off’s plot synopsis: “the series will feature two young female protagonists and focus on the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse. Some will become heroes, some will become villains. In the end, all of them will be changed forever. Grown-up and cemented in their identities, both good and bad.” Leave your thoughts on this TV show casting news (via ComicBook, Spoilertv, Revolver, Birth.Movies.Death, Deadline, The Wrap) below in the comments section. Readers seeking to support this type of content can visit our Patreon Page and become one of FilmBook’s patrons. Readers seeking more TV show casting can visit our TV Show Casting Page. Want up-to-the-minute notifications? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr.
