NEIL PATRICK HARRIS IS COUNT OLAF IN NETFLIX LEMONY SNICKET SERIES? CONNIE NIELSEN IS 'WONDER WOMAN'S' QUEEN HIPPOLYTA OF AMAZONIANS!

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS IS

COUNT OLAF IN NETFLIX' NEW 'LEMONY SNICKET' SERIES?

Well, isn't this an absolute bliss? Everybody's favourite Neil Patrick Harris is in talks to take the role of crazy Count Olaf in Netflix new series adaptation of A SERIES OF UNFOR- TUNATE EVENTS after they find a new show runner since Mark Hudis has left the project. Famous LEMONY SNICKET children books follow the lives of orphaned siblings Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire as they try to find a guardian and stay out of the clutches of their evil Uncle Olaf, who wants to get his hands on their fortune. The 13 episode series could be directed by Brad Silberling who already helmed the same movie with Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep!

'WONDER WOMAN' MOVIE

FINDS ITS QUEEN OF AMAZONIANS  Meanwhile, beside the World War One setting being officially confirmed for WONDER WOMAN movie, Gal Gadot's Diana of Themyscira's has found her mother, Hippolyta the Queen of Amazonians in GLADIATOR's Connie Nielsen (who is, by the way, 50, not that the photo shows it). It has been revealed before that the movie, set in today's world, in WW1 and WONDER WOMAN's homeland, will  see Chris Pine playing her love interest Steve Trevor! Ewen Bremner, Robin Wright, David Thewlis, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya also star in Patty Jenkins helmed movie. There are also some gossips saying that Sean Bean could play the main villain Ares. The movie is out June next year.

1ST LOOK AT GAL GADOT IN 'WONDER WOMAN' STANDALONE MOVIE! KENNET BRANAGH IS NEW POIROT IN 'MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS'! NEW 'WAR & PEACE' EPIC SERIES PHOTO WITH JAMES NORTON, LILY JAMES

'WONDER WOMAN'

1ST PHOTO WITH GAL GADOT

DC and Warner Bros. have revealed today the first look of Gal Gadot in the WONDER WOMAN movie celebrating the start of the shooting. Although the story is still kept under wraps, a picture of Gal's costar Chris Pine from the sets, which has been deleted in the meantime, reveals that at least part of the movie might be set in World War I! Before she appears in her 2017 standalone movie, WONDER WOMAN will first appear next year in SUPERMAN VS BATMAN. Chris Pine will be her love Captain Steve Trevor (who could also play his own grandfather in WWI), Robin Wright is Claire Underwood, Danny Huston, David Thewlis and Ewen Bremner also starring.

KENNETH BRANAGH IS NEW

HERCULE POIROT IN 'MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS'
 And here's some lovely Agatha Christie news: 20th Century Fox has hired legendary Kenneth Branagh to both direct and star in the new movie version of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS! Branagh will not only direct and star as Hercule Poirot, but will also produce with Ridley Scott! As 'Deadline' reports, famous for its labyrinthine plot and unconventional solution, the story first published in 1934 sees detective Poirot stranded on the famous train during a terrible snowstorm in a town in Yugoslavia. When a fellow passenger is murdered, Poirot discovers a great number of other passengers could be the culprit.

NEW 'WAR AND PEACE'

EPIC TV SERIES PHOTO

BBC's sweeping epic series WAR AND PEACE which arrives to the small screens this January starring James Morton, Paul Dano and Lily James has a new photo.  Epic six episodes chronicle events surrounding the French invasion of Russia seen through the eyes of five aristocratic Russian families. Also starring Jim Broadbent, Gillian Anderson, Aneurin Barnard and Brian Cox it will air on Lifetime and History in USA.