The Pope of Greenwich Village
Producers Hawk Koch and Gene Kirkwood are teaming with Oscar-winning “Green Book” writer Nick Vallelonga, writer/director George Gallo (“Midnight Run”), and actor/playwright Chazz Palminteri (“A Bronx Tale”) on an eight-hour miniseries adaptation of Vincent Patrick’s 1979 book “The Pope of Greenwich Village”.
The story revolves around two cousins who unknowingly rob the mob and face dangerous consequences. Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hanna and Geraldine Page starred in the previous 1984 film adaptation. [Source: Deadline]
Fear the Walking Dead
AMC has officially renewed its “The Walking Dead” spinoff “Fear the Walking Dead” for a seventh season. The renewal comes in the wake of the show’s mid-season finale of the current sixth season which aired just before Thanksgiving.
Lennie James, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Colman Domingo, Danay GarcÃa, Maggie Grace, Garret Dillahunt, Rubén Blades, Jenna Elfman, Alexa Nisenson, Colby Minifie, Karen David, and Austin Amelio star in the show . [Source: Twitter]
Memorial Drive
Sony Pictures Television has optioned Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey’s bestselling book “Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir” for development as a drama series. A writer is now being sought.
The project is dubbed a chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy. [Source: Deadline]
Firefly Lane
Netflix has released the first teaser for “Firefly Lane,” a series adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s 2013 novel about a three-decade-long friendship between two very different women that was brought together by tragedy when they were teenagers.
Emmy winner Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke star in the series which will be available for streaming on Wednesday, February 3rd. Ben Lawson, Beau Garrett and Patrick Sabongui co-star.
American Gods
Starz has released the official trailer for the third season of “American Gods,” its series adaptation of the acclaimed Neil Gaiman fantasy-thriller work. In addition, Danny Trejo will join Dominique Jackson as one of the many forms of the villainous Mr. World who is primarily played by Crispin Glover .
Also joining this season is Julia Sweeney as Ann-Marie Hinzelmann, the warm one-woman welcomer for Shadow Moon upon his arrival in Wisconsin as he attempts to break away and assert himself as his own man.
