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  • First Teaser for ‘Hanna’ TV Show Starts With a Babynapping

    First Teaser for ‘Hanna’ TV Show Starts With a Babynapping

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    In the first teaser for the TV series “Hanna,” an ordinary looking baby is mysteriously snatched from the hospital.

    Of course, we know that’s no ordinary baby. As we learned in the movie that preceded it, Hanna was genetically engineered to be a killing machine. Will that killer instinct manifest as early as infancy?

    Saoirse Ronan played the teenage assassin in the 2011 film, who was raised (and trained) in the Finnish wilderness by her father (Eric Bana).

    In the TV series, Joel Kinnaman will take over the Bana role. His rival will be his former “The Killing” costar, Mireille Enos, who’ll play spy Marissa Wiegler (originally played by Cate Blanchett.)

    It seems likely we’ll see Hanna at various ages, but the actress playing the title character is 18-year-old Esme Creed-Miles of “Dark River.” Her mom, by the way, “Minority Report” star Samantha Morton and Charlie Creed-Miles of “Peaky Blinders.”

    Like the film, the TV series will also be set in Eastern Europe.  It premieres in March on Amazon Prime.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp6myRLnhAs&feature=youtu.be

    [Via IndieWire]

  • Amazon Cancels Award-Winning ‘Mozart in the Jungle’

    Despite racking up great reviews and awards, Amazon is canceling “Mozart in the Jungle” after four seasons.

    The series starred Gael Garcia Bernal as a brash young conductor at the New York Symphony and costarred Lola Kirke, Malcolm McDowell and Bernadette Peters. It collected Golden Globes in 2016 for best comedy series and lead comedy actor for Bernal.

    Executive producers Paul Weitz, Will Graham, Roman Coppola, and Jason Schwartzman released a statement about the cancellation: “We are so proud of the four seasons we made of this show and are grateful to the cast, crew, fans and Amazon for writing this symphony with us. We hope people will keep finding the show for years to come.”

    “Mozart” was produced by Amazon Studios. The series fourth, and now final, season debuted in mid-February.

    According to the AV Club, the order comes directly from CEO Jeff Bezos, who wants less small-scale projects (no matter how critically acclaimed), and more big, expensive blockbusters, like the upcoming billion-dollar ‘Lord Of The Rings’ TV series.

    [Via Variety, AV Club]

  • Orlando Bloom Lands His First TV Series, a Neo-Victorian ‘Fantasy-Noir’

    Orlando BloomOrlando Bloom, who’s best known for playing an arrow-slinging elf and an immortal pirate, takes on another fantasy gig: In his first TV series, he’ll star as a neo-Victorian detective trying to solve the death of a fairy.

    The show, called “Carnival Row,” sounds a bit like “True Blood” (lead character Sookie was a “fey” with mind-reading abilities) and the Gothic “Penny Dreadful.”

    Per Vulture, the series is a “fantasy-noir set in a neo-Victorian city” where “mythical creatures fleeing their war-torn homeland have gathered in the city, and tensions are simmering between citizens and the growing immigrant population.”

    Bloom will be playing the main character, the fancifully named Rycroft Philostrate, who’s trying to get to the bottom of a “faerish refugee”‘s death.

    Amazon has ordered the show, which will be eight episodes, straight to series. No word yet on when it will premiere.

    It’s based on a script by Travis Beacham (“Pacific Rim,” “Clash of the Titans“) that made Hollywood’s prestigious Black List in 2005.

  • Amazon Is Turning ‘The Departed’ Into a TV Series

    the departed, tv series, amazon, jack nicholson, leonardo dicaprioMob thriller “The Departed” will soon make its mark on the small screen, with Amazon developing a new TV series based on the Oscar-winning flick.

    Deadline reports that the series will put “a new, updated spin on the two-way-undercover concept” that played out between Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, and Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2006 Martin Scorsese movie. One of the key elements that’s being changed is the location: While the film was set in Boston and focused on the Irish Mafia, the series will be set in Chicago. “The Departed” was itself was based on another film, the Hong Kong-set thriller “Internal Affairs.” Both movies will serve as inspiration for the series.

    Here’s the synopsis, per Deadline:

    “The Departed” TV series is set [in] present-day Chicago, amidst the shifting tides of warring ethnic drug gangs. In it, a young cop goes undercover to infiltrate a ruthless Latino gang, which simultaneously plants its own man in the police department. The show follows these two embattled moles as they attempt to fulfill their mission and stay alive.

    A bunch of producers from the film are boarding the series in the same role, so despite the update on the location and premise, it sounds like the show’s creative team will try to keep the spirit of the flick very much intact. And with its awards pedigree (the movie took home Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Editing, in addition to netting Mark Wahlberg a nod for Best Supporting Actor), producers are no doubt eager to repeat the film’s critical success on the small screen, too.

    We’re curious to see how this one works out. Stay tuned.

    [via: Deadline]