Search Party
Jeff Goldblum has joined the cast of the fifth season of “Search Party ” at HBO Max. He’ll play the recurring role of Tunnel Quinn, a charismatic tech billionaire who enters a very public business partnership with Dory (Alia Shawkat). [Source: TV Line]
Bones and All
Jake Horowitz (“The Vast of Night”) has joined Luca Guadagnino’s currently shooting in Ohio cannibal love story “Bones & All” alongside Timothee Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance and Andre Holland.
The story follows two teenage outcasts in love on a thousand-mile odyssey through the back roads of Reagan’s America. [Source: Deadline]
The Scent of Burnt Flowers
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (“Watchmen,” “Candyman”) is attached to star and executive produce the limited thriller series “The Scent of Burnt Flowers” from Macro Television Studios.
Blitz Bazawule (“The Burial of Kojo”) will write, direct, and executive produces the six-episode series set in the 1960s and follows an African American couple on the run, and the charismatic Ghanaian musician, Kwesi (Abdul-Mateen), whom they lean on to preserve their freedom. [Source: Variety]
Painkiller
Uzo Aduba and Matthew Broderick will lead the cast of Netflix’s opioid crisis limited series “Painkiller”. West Duchovny, Dina Shihabi and John Rothman also star and filming will begin later this year in Toronto.
Aduba will play as Edie, an investigator leading the case against Purdue Pharma. Broderick will portray Richard Sackler, scion of the billionaire Sackler family and senior executive at Purdue Pharma. [Source: Deadline]
