TOM HARDY'S TABOO' 19TH CENTURY SERIES ADS CAST! VIN DIESEL'S 'RIDDICK' SF SAGA TO GET 'MERC CITY' SPINOFF TV SERIES! NETFLIX REBOOTS 'LOST IN SPACE' TV SERIES

TOM HARDY'S 'TABOO'

EPIC SERIES GETS ITS CAST

TV updates for you today, people, starting with the news on BBC One's and FX's epic series TABOO starring Tom Hardy which has just revealed its cast! In the story created by himself, Tom Hardy plays James Keziah Delaney who returns to 1814 London after 10 years in Africa to discover that he has been left a mysterious legacy by his father. Driven to wage war on those who have wronged him, Delaney finds himself in a face-off against the East India Company, whilst playing a dangerous game between two warring nations – Britain and America. Michael Kelly will be American doctor Dumbarton, Jonathan Pryce is Sir Stuart Strange, the head of the East India Company and Delaney’s nemesis, Oona Chaplin is Delaney’s half-sister while David Hayman will be his trusted man-servant.

NEW SF SERIES ANNOUNCED

'MERC CITY' FROM VIN DIESEL'S 'RIDDICK' EPIC SAGA    
Meanwhile, besides announcing the fourth movie in famous sf epic saga RIDDICK, Vin Diesel has revealed that it will be turned into TV series as well titled MERC CITY! It will follow the Mercs and Bounty Hunters of the Riddick Universe. The fourth movie in the saga, will be called CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK: FURIA!
'LOST IN SPACE' REBOOT  
At the same time, Netflix is planning to reboot LOST IN SPACE TV series, this time a more grounded sf saga about a young family of space explorers who get lost in the galaxy and encounter strange alien lifeforms while trying to overcome insurmountable odds. Dracula Untold writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless are penning it!

KATE WINSLET IN WW2 BIOPIC 'THE LIVES OF LEE MILLER'! YA SAGA 'OBSIDIAN' GETS MOVIE ADAPTATION! STUNNING NEW 'THE LAST WITCH HUNTER' POSTER WITH VIN DIESEL

KATE WINSLET GOES WW2 

IN 'THE LIVES OF LEE MILLER'

Deadline writes today that our most beloved British star Kate Winslet is set to venture into a World War 2 project after accepting the role of Lee Miller in a feature about the acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue who during World War II chronicled such seminal events as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. Based on THE LIVES OF LEE MILLER, a biography written by her son, Antony Penrose it will describe Miller's life of a model, the muse for such artists as Picasso and Man Ray, who distinguished herself in Europe as a photojournalist.

'OBSIDIAN' YA SAGA 

TO GET MOVIE ADAPTATION
In the news about new book adaptations, Sierra Pictures will turn Jennifer L. Armentrout's YA novel OBSIDIAN into a movie! The first of the five book LUX series, it follows bookish Katy Swartz who moves with her mother to West Virginia, resigning herself to thick accents and a boring life. She is hopeful after meeting her neighbours who are a shot of life, and the brother and sister tandem becomes even more interesting when it turns out they are aliens. When she falls for the brother and he touches her, it marks her as a homing device for an army of extraterrestrial bad guys.

'THE LAST WITCH HUNTER' 

GETS THE LAST MOVIE POSTER

Meanwhile, coming out next week is Vin Diesel's action packed fantasy movie THE LAST WITCH HUNTER and you can check out the latest poster for it! Also starring Michael Caine and Lotte Verbeek, it sees Diesel leading an epic battle against witches who still live amongst us, vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world.

NEW POSTERS FOR VIN DIESEL'S 'THE LAST WITCH HUNTER' AND 'BROOKLYN' WITH SAOIRSE RONAN, JIM BROADBENT, JULIE WALTERS, DOMHNALL GLEESON

VIN DIESEL'S

 'THE LAST WITCH HUNTER' GETS A STUNNING NEW POSTER

Just two new posters for you today, people, beginning with a rather artsy one for Vin Diesel's THE LAST WITCH HUNTER which hits cinemas this October also starring Michael Caine, Elijah Wood and Lotte Verbeek.

NO WITCH WILL SURVIVE 
The modern world holds many secrets, but the most astounding secret of all is that witches still live amongst us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world. Armies of witch hunters battled the unnatural enemy across the globe for centuries, including Kaulder a valiant warrior who managed to slay the all-powerful Queen Witch, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the queen curses Kaulder with her own immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter in the afterlife. Today Kaulder is the only one of his kind remaining, and has spent centuries hunting down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost loved ones. However, unbeknownst to Kaulder, the Queen Witch is resurrected and seeks revenge on her killer causing an epic battle that will determine the survival of the human race.

  'BROOKLYN' TRAILER

WITH SAOIRSE RONAN, JIM BROADBENT AND JULIE WALTERS

 Period set drama coming from John Crowley and starring Saoirse Ronan, BROOKLYN, which arrives into theatres this November, also has a new poster.  Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters also star in the story adapted by famous writer Nick Hornby from Colm Tóibín's award winning book of the same name. Opening November 6th on both sides of the ocean, BROOKLYN  follows an Irish immigrant named Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) to New York City in the 1950s, where she finds steady work and budding romance with a fiery young boy named Tony (Emory Cohen). When she is called back to Ireland following a family loss, she is romanced by a local man (Domhnall Gleeson) who doesn't want her to return to the US.