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  • David Corenswet becomes Clark Kent for James Gunn’s ‘Superman: Legacy’

    By Express News Service

    With James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy planned to go on floors in January 2024, the makers of the film have cast David Corenswet in the titular role. 

    In addition to David, the film will also feature Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane. David has appeared in Netflix series The Politician and films like The Sunlit Night, Affairs of State. Superman: Legacy will not serve as an origin story, but talk about Man of Steel as an established character.

    Superman: Legacy will be the first film which will be backed by DC after James Gunn and Peter Safran took over. “I completely relate to Superman, because he’s an outsider who feels like an alien, but also the ultimate insider. And that’s kind of like what I feel like,” James Gunn said to The Hollywood Reporter. 

    With James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy planned to go on floors in January 2024, the makers of the film have cast David Corenswet in the titular role. 

    In addition to David, the film will also feature Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane. David has appeared in Netflix series The Politician and films like The Sunlit Night, Affairs of State. Superman: Legacy will not serve as an origin story, but talk about Man of Steel as an established character.

    Superman: Legacy will be the first film which will be backed by DC after James Gunn and Peter Safran took over. “I completely relate to Superman, because he’s an outsider who feels like an alien, but also the ultimate insider. And that’s kind of like what I feel like,” James Gunn said to The Hollywood Reporter.
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  • James Gunn finds his lead stars for ‘Superman: Legacy’

    The film, which Gunn also wrote, has a release date of July 11, 2025. LOS ANGELES: Actor David Corenswet will suit up as Superman for filmmaker James Gunn’s “Superman: Legacy”, which marks the start of a new chapter in DC Universe (DCU).

    The project, which Gunn and his fellow CEO of DC Studios Peter Safran announced in March, has roped in “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel” star Rachel Brosnahan to play Lois Lane, according to entertainment news outlet The Hollywood Reporter.

    Corenswet, best known for featuring in two Netflix series “The Politician” and “Hollywood” from Ryan Murphy, beat out the likes of Nicolas Hoult and Tom Brittney to bag the role of Clark Kent aka Superman.

    He will be the fourth actor to play the superhero in films after Christopher Reeve, Brandon Routh, and Henry Cavill.

    Brosnahan, also known for featuring in “House of Cards”, bagged the role of Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane over Emma Mackey and Phoebe Dynevor.

    The part was earlier played in movies by Margot Kidder, Kate Bosworth, and most recently Amy Adams.

    “Superhero: Legacy” deals with the superhero’s journey to make sense of both his aristocratic Kryptonian heritage and his small-town, midwestern upbringing as Clark Kent.

    The film, which Gunn also wrote, has a release date of July 11, 2025.

    The project will mark the first phase of the revamped slate for the DCU, which also includes upcoming titles “Batman: The Brave and the Bold” with Andy Muschietti as the director, and “The Authority”.

  • Rachel Brosnahan was ‘not funny’ prior to starring in ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES: Actress Rachel Brosnahan was told she was “not funny” before landing the starring role on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”.

    She stars in the title role of aspiring stand-up comedienne Midge Maisel on the hit Amazon Prime series but was initially told to consider a different kind of acting career before landing the part, reports aceshowbiz.com.

    The 31-year-old star said: “I spent the first couple years of my career being told I was not funny. It wasn’t like an insulting thing. It was really just a lot of people who were professionals kind of saying, ‘You might want to head in a different direction. Maybe consider something over here’.”

    The former “Manhattan” actress, who eventually won a Primetime Emmy Award for her role on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, went on to reveal that just hours before being offered the part, she had been rejected at another audition because casting directors wanted “someone funnier.”

    At Prime Video show’s FYC event, she said: “I think it’s been a really challenging and really incredible exercise over the last couple of years. But I’m eternally indebted to (executive producers) Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino for saying yes and taking that kind of chance on someone like me.”

    “The day I found out I was going to be their Midge, (I) lost a role that morning because I wasn’t funny enough,” she further recalled, “They wanted someone funnier.”

    During the event, panel moderator Danny Strong recalled a conversation he had with producers about their challenge in finding the right person to take on the role and claimed that had they not found Rachel in the end, the show may “never” have happened.

    Danny said, “I was having dinner with them in the early part of the casting process. And Amy, she said, ‘Yeah, I can’t … I haven’t found my lead. And if I don’t find her, I’m just gonna not do the show because I need someone great or it’s just gonna be a waste of my time.’”

    He went on, “Then we had dinner, I don’t know, a month later, three weeks later. And she was like, ‘I found her. We’re all good.’ So literally, if she hadn’t found (Rachel), there may never have been the show.”

  • Millicent Simmonds, Rachel Brosnahan to lead ‘Helen & Teacher’

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Titled ‘Helen & Teacher’, the period biographical drama will be directed by Wash Westmoreland of ‘Still Alice’ fame, as per The Hollywood Reporter.

    Simmonds, who will portray Helen Keller in the film, is in fact a distant cousin of the activist.

    Brosnahan will star as Anne Sullivan, Keller’s committed yet controlling translator and companion.

    Set during the early 1900s, the movie will follow Keller’s tumultuous time at Radcliffe College of Harvard University when her rapidly expanding worldview and sexual awakening brings her into direct conflict with the more conservative Sullivan.

    When Ms. Sullivan is courted by the young and brilliant publisher, John Macy, tensions escalate between the two women threatening the bonds of their friendship.

    ‘Helen & Teacher’ has a screenplay by Laetitia Mikles and Westmoreland. It was written in consultation with a team at Helen Keller National Center for Youth and Adults.

    A Killer Films and Sugar23 production, the film will be produced by Sukee Chew and Pamela Koffler. Victor Paul Wajnberg and Russ Posternak will serve as executive producers.

  • Director Walter Hill casts Rachel Brosnahan in Western

    By Express News Service

    The Marvelous Mrs Maisel actor Rachel Brosnahan will star opposite Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe in Walter Hill’s upcoming western film Dead For A Dollar. Also written by Hill, Dead for a Dollar will follow a famed bounty hunter (Waltz) who runs into Dafoe’s character, a sworn enemy, professional gambler and an outlaw that he had sent to prison years before, while on a mission to find and return the wife (Brosnahan) of a successful businessman who is being held hostage in Mexico.

    The feature will be produced by Berry Meyerowitz, Neil Dunn, Carolyn McMaster, Kirk D’Amico and Jeremy Wall. Jeff Sackman, Larry Greenberg, Waltz, Lawrence Mortorff, and Alex Habrich will executive produce.

    Brosnahan recently starred in Amazon’s I’m Your Woman. Her other feature credits include Beautiful Creatures, The Finest Hour, The Courier, Spies in Disguise, and Patriots Day. Her TV credits include House of Cards, Manhattan and The Black List.

  • Rachel Brosnahan announces wrap on ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ season 4 

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: The fourth season of the hit period comedy drama series “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel” has finished shooting, its lead star Rachel Brosnahan has announced.

    Brosnahan, who plays the titular role of stand-up comic Midge on the acclaimed Amazon Prime Video show, took to Instagram on Saturday to share the news of the wrap on the latest chapter.

    “And that’s a wrap on @maiseltv season 4. I am so in awe of this crew who had each other’s backs and kept each other safe during this strange and challenging time in the world outside our bubble,” the actor wrote alongside a behind-the-scenes photo from the set.

    Production on the fourth season of the multiple award-winning series began in January this year in New York following industry Covid protocols as well as local health guidelines.

    ALSO READ: Kelly Bishop joins ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ Season 4

    “We’ve been working away over here since January and can’t wait to share the season with you,” Brosnahan added.

    The previous season saw Midge and Susie, played by Alex Borstein, discover that life on tour with Shy (Leroy McClain) was glamorous but humbling.

    “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel” also stars Tony Shalhoub, Marin Hinkle, Michael Zegen, Kevin Pollak and Caroline Aaron.

    Milo Ventimiglia, Kelly Bishop, Jackie Hoffman and Allison Guinn also round out the cast for the new season.

    The third season was released in December 2019.

  • We’re back: Rachel starts shooting for ‘Marvellous Mrs Maisel’ Season 4

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Production has started on season four of Amazon’s critically-acclaimed comedy “The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel”.

    The news was shared by lead actor Rachel Brosnahan in a post on Instagram, sharing a photo from the sets in which she is seen beneath a plastic-encased umbrella.

    “It looks a little different this year but we’re back! Working away on @maiseltv Season Four,” she captioned the photo.

    According to Deadline, the show’s cast and crew are shooting the new season in New York following industry Covid protocols as well as local health guidelines.

    The 1950s-set dramedy revolves around Brosnahan’s Midge, an Upper West Side housewife who ventures into standup comedy and her rise as her own person after her picture-perfect marriage falls apart.

    Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband, Daniel Palladino, the award-winning show also features Tony Shalhoub, Marin Hinkle, Michael Zegen, Kevin Pollak, Caroline Aaron and Jane Lynch.