Last week, we heard that Shawnee Smith is considering reprising the role of Amanda Young in the latest Saw sequel – which we’re referring to as Saw X, since it’s the tenth film in that franchise. Amanda previously appeared in Saw, Saw II, Saw III, and Saw VI. But, as it turns out, there’s a bit of a scheduling issue here. Saw X is filming in Mexico City, and at the same time Smith is busy working on a different horror project in Connecticut. Deadline revealed that the horror movie Smith is currently working on is called The Skulleton.
Smith is joined in the cast of The Skulleton by Bruce Dern (The Hateful Eight), Tyrese Gibson (Morbius), Taryn Manning (Orange Is the New Black), Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night), Drew Moerlein (South of Hell), Alexander James Rodriguez (Bee and Puppycat), Jaime Zevallos (Cloak and Dagger), James Gaudioso...
Smith is joined in the cast of The Skulleton by Bruce Dern (The Hateful Eight), Tyrese Gibson (Morbius), Taryn Manning (Orange Is the New Black), Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night), Drew Moerlein (South of Hell), Alexander James Rodriguez (Bee and Puppycat), Jaime Zevallos (Cloak and Dagger), James Gaudioso...
- 12/15/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
An upcoming horror movie with a meta approach, The Skulleton has just announced its cast through Deadline today, with Shawnee Smith (the Saw franchise) leading the pack.
Additionally, Bruce Dern (The Hateful Eight), Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious franchise), and Taryn Manning (Orange is the New Black) will also star in The Skulleton.
Deadline previews, “The film will follow Moira Cole (Shawnee Smith) who attempts to move on with her shattered life after the brutal murder of her friends and family at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin, Lee Morris. Living a quiet suburban life with her deeply affected two adult sons, Moira is constantly reminded of her past, which is strewn across the screen every October, having been optioned into a popular movie franchise.”
The cast also includes Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night), Drew Moerlein (South of Hell), Alexander James Rodriguez (Bee and Puppycat), Jaime Zevallos...
Additionally, Bruce Dern (The Hateful Eight), Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious franchise), and Taryn Manning (Orange is the New Black) will also star in The Skulleton.
Deadline previews, “The film will follow Moira Cole (Shawnee Smith) who attempts to move on with her shattered life after the brutal murder of her friends and family at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin, Lee Morris. Living a quiet suburban life with her deeply affected two adult sons, Moira is constantly reminded of her past, which is strewn across the screen every October, having been optioned into a popular movie franchise.”
The cast also includes Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night), Drew Moerlein (South of Hell), Alexander James Rodriguez (Bee and Puppycat), Jaime Zevallos...
- 12/15/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern (The Hateful Eight), Tyrese Gibson (Fast & Furious franchise), Shawnee Smith (Saw franchise), and Taryn Manning (Orange is the New Black) have signed on to horror film, The Skulleton.
Written by Anthony and James Gaudioso (Mid-Century), and directed by Ante Novakovic (Sanctioning Evil), the film will follow Moira Cole (Smith) who attempts to move on with her shattered life after the brutal murder of her friends and family at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin, Lee Morris. Living a quiet suburban life with her deeply affected two adult sons, Moira is constantly reminded of her past, which is strewn across the screen every October, having been optioned into a popular movie franchise.
Pic also features Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night), Drew Moerlein (South of Hell), Alexander James Rodriguez (Netflix’s Bee and Puppycat), Jaime Zevallos (Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger), James...
Written by Anthony and James Gaudioso (Mid-Century), and directed by Ante Novakovic (Sanctioning Evil), the film will follow Moira Cole (Smith) who attempts to move on with her shattered life after the brutal murder of her friends and family at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin, Lee Morris. Living a quiet suburban life with her deeply affected two adult sons, Moira is constantly reminded of her past, which is strewn across the screen every October, having been optioned into a popular movie franchise.
Pic also features Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey at Night), Drew Moerlein (South of Hell), Alexander James Rodriguez (Netflix’s Bee and Puppycat), Jaime Zevallos (Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger), James...
- 12/15/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Comer joins previously announced Sandra Oh in female-led drama set to debut in 2018.
BBC America announced on Wednesday that Jodie Comer has been cast in a lead role opposite Sandra Oh in Killing Eve.
The eight-episode drama is based on novellas by Luke Jennings and centres on Eve (Oh), a security services operative and Villanelle (Comer), an elegant and talented killer. The spy action thriller follows the two women as they go head-to-head in a game of cat-and-mouse.
The series produced by Sid Gentle Films comes from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator of BBC UK and Amazon’s Fleabag, who will serve as showrunner and executive producer.
Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris will also serve as executive producers on the original series.
Comer’s credits include The White Princess, the recent adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, drama series Doctor Foster, and BBC America miniseries Thirteen, for which she was nominated for a best leading actress BAFTA award. Comer...
BBC America announced on Wednesday that Jodie Comer has been cast in a lead role opposite Sandra Oh in Killing Eve.
The eight-episode drama is based on novellas by Luke Jennings and centres on Eve (Oh), a security services operative and Villanelle (Comer), an elegant and talented killer. The spy action thriller follows the two women as they go head-to-head in a game of cat-and-mouse.
The series produced by Sid Gentle Films comes from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator of BBC UK and Amazon’s Fleabag, who will serve as showrunner and executive producer.
Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris will also serve as executive producers on the original series.
Comer’s credits include The White Princess, the recent adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, drama series Doctor Foster, and BBC America miniseries Thirteen, for which she was nominated for a best leading actress BAFTA award. Comer...
- 6/29/2017
- ScreenDaily
BBC America producing eight-part female-led thriller.
Img, the sports and media brand owned by Wme, will handle international sales on BBC America’s upcoming thriller series Killing Eve.
The eight-part spy drama is lead-written and co-executive produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator of the hit BBC and Amazon series Fleabag.
It is being produced by Sid Gentle Films, Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris are also executive producers.
Killing Eve is based on the Villanelle novellas by Luke Jennings and focuses on two woman – a psychopathic assassin and the woman hunting her down. The title role will be played by Sandra Oh.
Img, the sports and media brand owned by Wme, will handle international sales on BBC America’s upcoming thriller series Killing Eve.
The eight-part spy drama is lead-written and co-executive produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator of the hit BBC and Amazon series Fleabag.
It is being produced by Sid Gentle Films, Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris are also executive producers.
Killing Eve is based on the Villanelle novellas by Luke Jennings and focuses on two woman – a psychopathic assassin and the woman hunting her down. The title role will be played by Sandra Oh.
- 6/21/2017
- ScreenDaily
Female-led spy series created by Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge will debut in 2018.
BBC America announced on Tuesday that Sandra Oh has been cast in the title role of the network’s eight-episode scripted series Killing Eve.
Based on the novellas by Luke Jennings, Bbca’s Killing Eve centres on Eve, a bored pay-grade security services operative and Villanelle, an elegant, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. The spy action thriller follows the two women as they go head-to-head in a game of cat-and-mouse.
The series produced by Sid Gentle Films comes from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator of BBC UK and Amazon’s Fleabag, who will serve as showrunner and executive producer.
Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris will serve as executive producers alongside Waller-Bridge.
Oh has appeared in TV series such as American Crime and HBO’s Arli$$, but is most known for her Golden Globe-winning turn in ABC’s long-running drama Grey...
BBC America announced on Tuesday that Sandra Oh has been cast in the title role of the network’s eight-episode scripted series Killing Eve.
Based on the novellas by Luke Jennings, Bbca’s Killing Eve centres on Eve, a bored pay-grade security services operative and Villanelle, an elegant, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. The spy action thriller follows the two women as they go head-to-head in a game of cat-and-mouse.
The series produced by Sid Gentle Films comes from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator of BBC UK and Amazon’s Fleabag, who will serve as showrunner and executive producer.
Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris will serve as executive producers alongside Waller-Bridge.
Oh has appeared in TV series such as American Crime and HBO’s Arli$$, but is most known for her Golden Globe-winning turn in ABC’s long-running drama Grey...
- 6/13/2017
- ScreenDaily
Two years after leaving ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” Sandra Oh is taking another series regular job, this time on the forthcoming BBC America drama-thriller “Killing Eve,” THR reports. “Fleabag” creator and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge will serve as showrunner and executive producer on the project, which centers on a psychopathic assassin and the woman tracking her down. The eight-episode series will premiere in 2018.
Read More: ‘Fleabag’ Season 2: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Confirms it’s Happening, Reveals Production Schedule
Oh will play the role of Eve, a security services agent who’s bored with her desk job and wants to be a spy. The assassin role of Villanelle has yet to be cast. Executive produced by London-based Sid Gentle Films’ Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris, the series is based on a group of novellas written by Luke Jennings.
“I am quivering with excitement about working with Sandra!” Waller-Bridge said in an interview with THR.
Read More: ‘Fleabag’ Season 2: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Confirms it’s Happening, Reveals Production Schedule
Oh will play the role of Eve, a security services agent who’s bored with her desk job and wants to be a spy. The assassin role of Villanelle has yet to be cast. Executive produced by London-based Sid Gentle Films’ Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris, the series is based on a group of novellas written by Luke Jennings.
“I am quivering with excitement about working with Sandra!” Waller-Bridge said in an interview with THR.
- 6/13/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
The Weinstein Company has acquired Us television rights to UK-based Sid Gentle Films’ upcoming alternate history thriller to star Sam Riley and Kate Bosworth.
SS-gb is based on Len Deighton’s 1978 novel of the same name and will air on BBC One in the UK.
James Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade adapted the speculative story, which takes place in a London in the 1940s occupied by the Nazis as a detective stumbles upon a web of intrigue.
Jason Flemyng, James Cosmo, Aneurin Barnard and Maeve Dermody also star alongside German actors Rainer Bock and Lars Eidinger.
Germany’s Philipp Kadelbach directs and executive producers are Sid Gentle Films’ Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris.
The miniseries marks the second partnership between the Weinsteins, BBC, Lookout Point, and Bbcww this year following War & Peace.
David Glasser, Negeen Yazdi, James Gold, Michal Podell Steinberg, and Talia Houminer negotiated the deal for TWC with Bbcww and Lookout Point.
SS-gb is based on Len Deighton’s 1978 novel of the same name and will air on BBC One in the UK.
James Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade adapted the speculative story, which takes place in a London in the 1940s occupied by the Nazis as a detective stumbles upon a web of intrigue.
Jason Flemyng, James Cosmo, Aneurin Barnard and Maeve Dermody also star alongside German actors Rainer Bock and Lars Eidinger.
Germany’s Philipp Kadelbach directs and executive producers are Sid Gentle Films’ Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris.
The miniseries marks the second partnership between the Weinsteins, BBC, Lookout Point, and Bbcww this year following War & Peace.
David Glasser, Negeen Yazdi, James Gold, Michal Podell Steinberg, and Talia Houminer negotiated the deal for TWC with Bbcww and Lookout Point.
- 6/22/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Sir Anthony Hopkins and Sir Ian McKellen are to star in a BBC2 adaptation of Sir Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser and BBC1 is planning a drama from a duo of James Bond writers.
The projects will be announced on Wednesday evening by BBC drama controller Ben Stephenson at an event showcasing the corporation’s work in the genre.
The Dresser will air as a 120-minute film and provides a portrait of theatre life backstage. It is made by Sonia Friedman Productions and Playground Entertainment, the indie run by former HBO Films boss Colin Callender.
Callender will executive produce alongside Sonia Friedman. The Dresser was ordered by Stephenson and BBC2 controller Kim Shillinglaw.
Meanwhile, former Carnival Films creative director Sally Woodward Gentle has secured her first order for Sid Gentle Films.
She is working with James Bond writers Robert Wade and Neal Purvis to make Ssgb - a 5 x 60-minute 1940s detective series set in a fictional...
The projects will be announced on Wednesday evening by BBC drama controller Ben Stephenson at an event showcasing the corporation’s work in the genre.
The Dresser will air as a 120-minute film and provides a portrait of theatre life backstage. It is made by Sonia Friedman Productions and Playground Entertainment, the indie run by former HBO Films boss Colin Callender.
Callender will executive produce alongside Sonia Friedman. The Dresser was ordered by Stephenson and BBC2 controller Kim Shillinglaw.
Meanwhile, former Carnival Films creative director Sally Woodward Gentle has secured her first order for Sid Gentle Films.
She is working with James Bond writers Robert Wade and Neal Purvis to make Ssgb - a 5 x 60-minute 1940s detective series set in a fictional...
- 11/19/2014
- ScreenDaily
Sally Woodward Gentle was most recently creative director at Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films. Now striking out on her own, the exec has launched production company Sid Gentle Films with financial backing from Ron Burkle‘s global investment firm The Yucaipa Companies. Sid Gentle is eyeing scripted drama, TV movies and miniseries as well as indie features. The company is already in development on a Neal Purvis/Robert Wade-penned project for the BBC, and a supernatural thriller from Ben Court and Caroline Ip, also for the BBC. Former Carnival exec Henrietta Colvin is also joining Sid Gentle Films as head of development. Lee Morris, who’s currently producing Da Vinci’s Demons, will come aboard as managing director in the New Year. Woodward Gentle’s producing credits include Channel 4′s BAFTA award-winning Any Human Heart, ITV drama series Whitechapel and Helena Bonham Carter drama Enid. She is also...
- 12/5/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Back in 2002, a writer called Peter Morgan wrote an ITV drama called The Jury, which starred some actor called Gerard Butler. Well, nine years later, Peter's decided to do it all over again! Yes, after writing movies like The Queen and Frost/Nixon, Morgan's penned a new series of The Jury, which will air every day next week. There's no Gerard Butler this time - instead, Julie Walters is playing a QC alongside a whole host of other great acting talent. Over the five episodes, not only do we get to see a controversial court case unfold, but we get to learn about those jury members. At a recent BAFTA screening of the show, Julie and Peter joined producer Lee Morris and Michael Offer to answer questions about The Jury - read on to find out what they had to say! Julie, your character in The Jury (more)...
- 11/5/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Back in 2002, a writer called Peter Morgan wrote an ITV drama called The Jury, which starred some actor called Gerard Butler. Well, nine years later, Peter's decided to do it all over again! Yes, after writing movies like The Queen and Frost/Nixon, Morgan's penned a new series of The Jury, which will air every day next week. There's no Gerard Butler this time - instead, Julie Walters is playing a QC alongside a whole host of other great acting talent. Over the five episodes, not only do we get to see a controversial court case unfold, but we get to learn about those jury members. At a recent BAFTA screening of the show, Julie and Peter joined producer Lee Morris and Michael Offer to answer questions about The Jury - read on to find out what they had to say! Julie, your character in The Jury (more)...
- 11/5/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
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