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  • Natalie Portman Shares First Look at ‘Pale Blue Dot,’ Replacing Reese Witherspoon

    Natalie Portman Shares First Look at ‘Pale Blue Dot,’ Replacing Reese Witherspoon

    Pale Blue Dot, Natalie Portman
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    Space is the place to be right now. Ryan Gosling has “First Man.” Sean Penn has “The First.” And now Natalie Portman has “Pale Blue Dot.”

    Reese Witherspoon was attached to star in “Pale Blue Dot,” until scheduling conflicts arose with “Big Little Lies” Season 2. So the film swapped one Oscar winner for another. (What, like it’s hard?)

    Natalie Portman just shared the first look at her character via Instagram, showing astronaut Lucy Cola in full NASA jumpsuit regalia. (See below.)

    “Pale Blue Dot” co-stars Jon Hamm, Dan Stevens, and Zazie Beetz. The story follows Lucy as she returns to Earth after a mission to outer space. According to Variety, “The film explores the theory that astronauts who spend long periods of time in space begin to lose their sense of reality when they return home.”

    Apparently there’s a love triangle angle, and once her affair with a fellow astronaut comes to an end, Lucy beings to lose touch with reality.

    According to ET, the movie is loosely based on the real-life “astronaut love triangle” story. When NASA captain and naval flight officer Lisa Nowak returned from a mission aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 2006, her boyfriend Bill Oefelein broke up with her and began to date U.S. Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman. It got very ugly.

    Here’s Portman all suited up:

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    In character as Lucy Cola. 📷: @hilstills #sneakpeek

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    “Pale Blue Dot” marks the feature film directorial debut for “Fargo” and “Legion” boss Noah Hawley. It also stars Ellen Burstyn, Colman Domingo, and Jeremiah Birkett. There’s no release date at this point.

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  • Noah Hawley Says ‘Fargo’ Season 4 Is ‘Long Shot’ For 2019

    FARGO -- “The Narrow Escape Problem” – Year 3, Episode 4 (Airs May 10, 10:00 pm e/p) Pictured (l-r): Ewan McGregor as Ray Stussy. CR: Chris Large/FXWinter is coming … but not soon enough for “Fargo” fans waiting for Season 4.

    While FX has yet to officially order a fourth season of the acclaimed anthology drama, creator Noah Hawley and FX CEO John Landgraf have both talked about it like a sure thing.

    The only downside is that Hawley doesn’t expect Season 4 to be ready anytime soon— because filming needs to take place in winter.

    “I have to write [the episodes], then we have to prep it, then we have to film it, which means it’s either this coming winter or next winter,” he told The Wrap.

    “Given my schedule with making a movie and posting a movie this summer, and then gearing up to do more ‘Legion,’ assuming we get a pickup. It seems like a long shot that I can launch ‘Fargo’ 4 this winter.”

    Hawley does have a lot of projects on his plate. His other FX series, the “X-Men”-related “Legion,” debuts its second season on April 3. He’s also working on an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle” for the network.

    On the movie side, he’s developing a “Doctor Doom” movie, based on the “Fantastic Four” uber-villain, and the Natalie Portman astronaut film “Pale Blue Dot.”

    Still, Hawley’s got plans for “Fargo” Season 4. While he hasn’t divulged many details, he has previously said that it will take place before Season, so sometime before 1979.

    “It will always be a complicated story with a lot of moving pieces,” he said.

  • ‘Legion’ Creator Noah Hawley Envisions His Doctor Doom Movie as Political Thriller

    Doctor Doom is getting political.

    “Legion” and “Fargo” showrunner Noah Hawley is developing a movie centered on Doctor Doom, the “Fantastic Four” villain. And while he is a very busy man (Season 2 of “Legion” premieres April, he’s already got an idea for as-yet-unordered “Fargo” Season 4), Hawley has a take on how he’d approach the character and film.

    He told The Observer, “As with ‘Legion,’ my thought was that the [superhero] genre has a certain kind of movie covered, but what else can the genre do? What’s interesting to me about Doom’s character is he’s the king of an Eastern European country and is there a version of this that is more of a political thriller that mixes genre?”

    Hmm, sounds like Hawley wants to focus on Doctor Doom as leader of the fictional Latveria, just as “Black Panther” did with T’Challa and Wakanda. Hey, it worked for that movie. And of course, both are based on Marvel comics.

    In fact, Hawley hat-tipped another Marvel movie while discussing his Doctor Doom angle.

    “It’s something that [“Captain America: The Winter Soldier”] did really well, which was kind of make a Cold War thriller movie out of a superhero movie,” he said.

    “This is different than that, but it does have this idea of, and I don’t want to say too much about it, but it is a mixture of genres … The mandate is not to re-launch the’ Fantastic Four’ franchise as much as it is to take this fascinating and under-served character and really build a movie about him where we ask the question: Is he a hero? Is he a villain? What does he really want? We’re able to explore these questions in a serious way.”

    Of course, the future of a Doctor Doom movie as well as the “X-Men” franchise is up in the air after Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox. If the deal goes through, the rights to those characters will be held by the same company that owns Marvel.

  • ‘Fargo’ Season 4 in the Works for 2019

    “Fargo” is still open to visitors: A fourth season of the Noah Hawley anthology drama is in the works!

    “‘Fargo’ is not gone,” FX boss John Landgraf told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour.

    He added, “Noah Hawley — who’s become quite a busy bee, not only with ‘Legion,’ but he’s got a pretty substantial career as a novelist and feature career coming up as a writer/director — has told us that he has an idea which excites me enormously for a fourth cycle of ‘Fargo.’ The plan is to have that ready for 2019. The anticipation there’s going to be another cycle of Fargo in 2019.”

    All three seasons of “Fargo” have told different stories in varying time periods. Season 3 focused on twin brothers played by Ewan McGregor, who become involved a double murder case.

    Hawley has been cagey about Season 4, though, because as Landgraf pointed out, he’s got a lot on his plate. Season 2 of his superhero drama “Legion” goes into production this fall. He’s signed on to direct 20th Century Fox’s “Doctor Doom” movie. He’s writing and possibly directing an adaptation of his novel “Before the Fall,” as well as the Reese Witherspoon astronaut movie “Pale Blue Dot.” And he’s working on an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle” as a limited series for FX.

  • ‘Fargo,’ ‘Walking Dead’ Creators Team Up With Russo Brothers For FX Crime Drama

    'Captain America: Civil War' - European Premiere - VIP ArrivalsIn the era of Peak TV, it’s not just good enough for a project to have one successful creative force behind it. No, for FX’s newest crime drama has four.

    Joe and Anthony Russo, the directors of “Avengers: Infinity War” and two “Captain America” movies, are making “The Mastermind” for FX. They’re teaming up with the production companies of Noah Hawley (“Fargo,” “Legion”) and Robert Kirkman (“The Walking Dead”)

    The drama is based on an Atavist Magazine investigative series about Paul Le Roux, a former programmer and criminal cartel boss who became a DEA informant. Deadline likens it to Netflix’s buzzy “Making a Murderer,” in that the engrossing story unfolds slowly, chapter by chapter.

    Atavist Magazine is a longform nonfiction publishing platform founded by Evan Ratliff, who wrote “The Mastermind” series.

    This is Kirkman’s first producing project for FX; his other series, “The Walking Dead” and “Fear the Walking Dead” are on AMC, while “Outcast” is on Cinemax. Ironically, FX is one of the outlets that rejected the now-enormously successful “Walking Dead.”