Here's the latest crime drama news, which is a bit truncated due to the Thanksgiving holiday:
MOVIES
Susanna Lo is directing the indie drama Manson Girls, about the female devotees who joined Charles Manson’s flock in the 1960s and helped carry out brutal killings meant to start an apocalyptic race war. The project stars Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects) as Manson, and Eric Balfour, Monica Keena, Tania Raymonde, and Laura Harring as some of Manson's followers.
Josh Brolin spoke with Deadline about his role in Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon.
A trailer was released for Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman: The Secret Service featuring Colin Firth as "gentleman spy" Harry Hart, Samuel L. Jackson as the villain, and Mark Hamill as Professor James Arnold. The plot follows an errant youth called Eggsy (played byTaron Egerton) who's recruited by Harry Hart to become a super spy.
TELEVISION
ITV has renewed its hit period drama, Grantchester, for a second season. The six-part mystery series stars James Norton as charismatic clergyman Sidney Chambers, who turns investigative vicar.
Viola Davis, who plays the tough-as-nails law professor and defense attorney Annalise Keating on ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder, is set to produce another ABC drama project titled Conviction, a legal drama inspired by the life of Kym Worthy, the chief prosecutor of Wayne County, MI, known as the toughest woman in Detroit.
BBC America’s hit original drama Orphan Black has added several new cast members for the third season, including Justin Chatwin (Shameless) as a savvy drug-dealer, James Frain (Intruders) as a well-educated “cleaner” who is both charming and intimidating, Ksenia Solo (Black Swan) as a soulful and compassionate holistic healer, Kyra Harper (Warehouse 13) as a ruthless advisor to the military, and Earl Pastko (Murdoch Mysteries) as the violent personal bodyguard to Frain’character.
The last remaining original cast member of CSI, George Eads (playing Nick Stokes) is leaving at the end of its current season after being with the show for fifteen years.
Jon Lindstrom (Castle) is the latest to join the second season of HBO’s True Detective, joining Colin Farrell, Taylor Kitsch, Rachel McAdams and Vince Vaughn. The new plotline centers on three police officers (Farrell, Kitsch, McAdams) and a career criminal (Vaughn), who must navigate a web of conspiracy in the aftermath of a murder.
Bollywood director Dibakar Banerjee chatted with The Gulf Times about his upcoming film Detective Byomkesh Bakshi, scheduled to open in February 2015. The project is based on a character created by Sharadindu Bandhyopadhyay in a series of stories between 1932 and 1970, often compared to Arthur Conan Doyle’s sleuth, Sherlock Holmes.
THEATER
Beyond Desire, a musical currently on stage in Sydney's Hayes Theatre Company, is a work about which The Australian notes, "Hamlet gives Beyond Desire most of its characters and plot, which are then fashioned into an Edwardian-style music drama spiced with a pinch of EM Forster’s Maurice and a large dash of Upstairs, Downstairs, the whole then wrapped in the claustrophobic atmosphere of an Agatha Christie country-house murder mystery."
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