The Lord of the Rings
Actress Morfydd Clark, who is reportedly playing a young Galadriel in Amazon’s mega-budget “The Lord of the Rings” series, has spoken to the NME about being locked down in New Zealand since February while working on the show and has discussed the scale of it.
How big does it get? According to Clark: The amount of [people working] on this show is continually mind-blowing. One guy’s job consists just of seeing how dust reacts to footsteps and breath! That would never have even crossed my mind before. Other than something like Marvel, I don’t think things could get much bigger than this.” [Source: NME]
Production Restarts
HBO has revealed production on the Zendaya-led “Euphoria” won’t begin on the second season until early next year. Netflix’s flagship series “Stranger Things” is targeting September 28th to resume shooting its fourth season in Georgia.
Hulu’s award-winning “The Handmaid Tale” has already resumed production in Toronto two weeks ago, with Mckenna Grace joining the cast list. Finally, Apple’s Jason Momoa-led “See” series will resume shooting October 14th at Cinespace Film Studios in Toronto with this second season to film through March. [Source: TV Line]
Mr. Mercedes
Peacock has officially acquired the rights to David E. Kelley’s series adaptation of Stephen King’s “Mr. Mercedes” from AT&T Audience Network – nearly four months since the channel has ceased their operations.
The first two seasons of the Brendan Gleeson-led series will now be available for streaming on Thursday, October 15th exclusively on Peacock, the third season has yet to set a date. Details about its future or potential renewal have not been announced. [Source: Peacock]
Utopia
Amazon has unveiled a red-band trailer for its new adaptation of 2013 British series “Utopia” arriving on September 25th. The story follows a group of young comic fans come together to embark on a high-stakes twisted adventure to use what they uncover to save themselves and humanity. John Cusack, Dan Byrd, Jessia Rothe, Desmin Borges and Ashleigh LaThrop co-star.
