Exclusive: He’s played a local politician on two seasons of AMC’s The Killing and Honest Abe himself in Nat Geo’s Killing Lincoln, and now Billy Campbell is set to portray the emotionally troubled Cdc pathologist lead in Syfy’s upcomng Helix. Two days before Helix’s Comic-Con panel, I’ve learned that the actor will play Dr. Alan Farragut in the dark thriller series about a team of scientists investigating a possible disease outbreak. Farragut is just getting over a failed marriage and the affair his wife had with his brother, who now needs his help after becoming infected with a deadly disease. Campbell, who also stars in the Ron Maxwell-directed Civil War feature Copperheads, is set to start filming on the 13-episode series in Montreal on July 29. Due to debut in January, Helix is executive produced by Battlestar Galactica developer/executive producer Ronald D. Moore,...
- 7/18/2013
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
Belle
Sam Claflin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sarah Gadon, Emily Watson, Matthew Goode, Tom Wilkinson and Miranda Richardson have all joined the cast of "Belle", British filmmaker Amma Asante's new biopic of Dido Elizabeth Belle.
Dido (Mbatha-Raw) was the half-black illegitimate daughter of renowned Admiral Sir John Lindsay, eventually taken in and raised as an aristocratic lady in 18th Century England by Lindsay's uncle William Murray, the Earl of Mansfield. Gadon and Claflin will play Belle's cousin and love interest respectively. [Source: Screen Daily]
Northern Soul
Steve Coogan has signed on to star in Elaine Constantine's "Northern Soul" which deals with the 1970s underground nightclub-based music movement that took bleak industrial North-West England by storm.
Elliot James Langridge, Josh Whitehouse, Lisa Stansfield, James Lance, Christian McKay and Roisin Murphy all star in the project which begins shooting early June in Northern England. [Source: THR]
Copperhead
Jason Patric and Angus MacFadyen are top-lining Ron Maxwell's...
Sam Claflin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sarah Gadon, Emily Watson, Matthew Goode, Tom Wilkinson and Miranda Richardson have all joined the cast of "Belle", British filmmaker Amma Asante's new biopic of Dido Elizabeth Belle.
Dido (Mbatha-Raw) was the half-black illegitimate daughter of renowned Admiral Sir John Lindsay, eventually taken in and raised as an aristocratic lady in 18th Century England by Lindsay's uncle William Murray, the Earl of Mansfield. Gadon and Claflin will play Belle's cousin and love interest respectively. [Source: Screen Daily]
Northern Soul
Steve Coogan has signed on to star in Elaine Constantine's "Northern Soul" which deals with the 1970s underground nightclub-based music movement that took bleak industrial North-West England by storm.
Elliot James Langridge, Josh Whitehouse, Lisa Stansfield, James Lance, Christian McKay and Roisin Murphy all star in the project which begins shooting early June in Northern England. [Source: THR]
Copperhead
Jason Patric and Angus MacFadyen are top-lining Ron Maxwell's...
- 5/16/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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