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  • Simon Rex joins the cast of The Leader

    By Express News Service

    We had previously reported that Tim Blake Nelson and Vera Farmiga will be leading the upcoming film about the Heaven’s Gate cult, The Leader. The latest update is that Simon Rex will also be joining the film’s cast. Heaven’s Gate was a cult with members who committed mass suicide believing that the passing of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997 was their ticket to the ‘next level’ in the journey of life – a type of heaven beyond human life.

    The Leader is the story of the cult and its founders, Marshall Applewhite (aka Ti) and Bonnie Nettles (aka Do). Tim and Vera will be playing Marshall and Bonnie respectively in the film. Simon Rex is expected to play a key devotee of the cult who falls in love with a fellow cult member and faces devastating consequences. The film will be written and directed by Michael Gallagher.

    The Leader will follow how Ti and Do rise to the top of a group of members who strongly believed that they will be transported off to a new world from this planet by a spaceship. Under the instructions of these two leaders, the members of the cult had to give up all worldly pleasures including family, friends, sexuality, individuality, and money.

    After Bonnie passed away from cancer in 1985, things began to go even more off the rails, resulting in the group’s suicide in 1997. Michael Gallagher will also produce The Leader on behalf of Cinemand with Balcony 9 Productions’ Joel David Moore and Max Osswald. 

    We had previously reported that Tim Blake Nelson and Vera Farmiga will be leading the upcoming film about the Heaven’s Gate cult, The Leader. The latest update is that Simon Rex will also be joining the film’s cast. Heaven’s Gate was a cult with members who committed mass suicide believing that the passing of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997 was their ticket to the ‘next level’ in the journey of life – a type of heaven beyond human life.

    The Leader is the story of the cult and its founders, Marshall Applewhite (aka Ti) and Bonnie Nettles (aka Do). Tim and Vera will be playing Marshall and Bonnie respectively in the film. Simon Rex is expected to play a key devotee of the cult who falls in love with a fellow cult member and faces devastating consequences. The film will be written and directed by Michael Gallagher.

    The Leader will follow how Ti and Do rise to the top of a group of members who strongly believed that they will be transported off to a new world from this planet by a spaceship. Under the instructions of these two leaders, the members of the cult had to give up all worldly pleasures including family, friends, sexuality, individuality, and money.

    After Bonnie passed away from cancer in 1985, things began to go even more off the rails, resulting in the group’s suicide in 1997. Michael Gallagher will also produce The Leader on behalf of Cinemand with Balcony 9 Productions’ Joel David Moore and Max Osswald. 

  • Warner Bros pushes back ‘Many Saints of Newark’ to September 2021

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Warner Bros has announced that “The Many Saints of Newark”, the prequel film to hit HBO series “The Sopranos”, has been delayed by six months. The film, which was set to release in March this year both theatrically and on HBO Max, will now open on September 24, reported Deadline.

    “The Many Saints of Newark” has been directed by Alan Taylor from a script by show creator David Chase and Lawrence Konner.

    Set against the backdrop of the Newark riots of the 1960s when African-Americans and Italians clashed, the film will feature an ensemble cast of Alessandro Nivola, Vera Farmiga, Jon Bernthal, Billy Magnussen, Corey Stoll, and Ray Liotta.

    Michael Gandolfini, the son of late “The Sopranos” star James Gandolfini, is playing the younger version of his father’s famous character Tony Soprano in the film. Chase and Konner have produced the movie in collaboration with Nicole Lambert.

    “The Sopranos”, headlined by James Gandolfini, was HBO’s one of the most critically acclaimed shows of all time. It ran for six seasons from 1999 to 2007 and won 21 Emmys.

  • Vera Farmiga to play lead role in horror movie ‘Bad Bloom’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Actor Vera Farmiga will be playing the lead role in upcoming horror feature “Bad Bloom”. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Farmgia, known for starring in “Conjuring” series and “The Orphan”, will also produce the project.

    Bryce McGuire, who previously directed short films “Night Swim” and “The White Room”, will make his feature directorial debut with the movie. The story is about a family living in isolation on a remote island to keep an unknown creature at bay.

    “Their tightly-guarded reality begins to unravel when one of the children learns the monster they feared is not the monster they envisioned,” the official plotline read.Jon Rubinstein and Galt Niederhoffer will produce “Bad Bloom” under the Authentic Management banner, alongside Renn Hawkey of Ruminant Films.

    Farmiga will next star in “The Sopranos” prequel “The Many Saints of Newark”. The actor recently joined the cast of Marvel Studios/Disney Plus series “Hawkeye”, co-starring Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfield.