JJ Abrams is well known for gravitating towards the same actors over and over again. He is reputed to be very loyal to his former acting collaborators and to place them in various roles in the cinema, however insignificant. Star Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerFor example, it features Keri Russell, Greg Grunberg and Dominic Monaghan, who worked with the writer / director on Happiness or Lost.
However, there is another Abrams vet in Episode IX that we all overlook: Karl Urban. Yes, Boys star (who also played Bones McCoy in the Abrams reboot Star Trek movies) appears for a fraction of a second as a first-order stormtrooper around the 20-minute mark. If you listen carefully, you can hear Billy Butcher himself introducing the Knights of Ren to the audience.
“Here’s the process: I was lucky enough to go visit JJ Abrams while shooting Skywalker’s rise. While I was there, he put me on a stormtrooper uniform and we had a really fun day on set, “Urban told Digital Spy, who first broke the news.” It has been one of my lifelong goals to be an assault soldier, so I can mark that now. “
You can catch the actor in Boys Season 2, coming to Amazon on Friday, September 4.
Jordan Peele sticks to his gender wheelhouse as a producer on Sink with Issa Rae Por Hollywood reporterThe project is a supernatural film about a family moving into an idyllic house that has a large sink in the backyard. “He manages to take all the things that are broken and destroyed and make them perfect. But what if that thing is a person?” read the synopsis.
In addition to producing, Rae (The lovebirds) is expected to star in the movie Universal, which is said to be a “genre piece that addresses the question of perfection and female identity.” Montrel McKay, Sara Rastogi and Win Rosenfeld are also on board as producers.
Sink It is based on a short story by Leyna Krow, who is executive producing alongside Alex Davis-Lawrence. The latter co-founded Moss, the literary magazine in which the story was originally published.
The sonata, a horror movie starring the late Rutger Hauer, will arrive in Crackle on Saturday, August 1, the streaming platform announced today.
Directed by Andrew Desmond (Entity), the movie stars Freya Tingley (Once upon a time) as Rose Fisher, a musical talent who inherits an evil mansion from her estranged director father (played by Hauer in one of his last on-screen roles). James Faulkner (game of Thrones) also stars. Desmond co-wrote the script with Arthur Morin.
“Well-crafted stories like this are always welcome by the Crackle audience,” said Philippe Guelton, president of Crackle Plus, in a statement.The sonata It combines the suspense of a thriller with the horror of classic horror to create a delicious cocktail of fear, which I know our fans will enjoy. “
The sonata It opened in a small number of theaters earlier this year and earned less than $ 1 million worldwide. She currently owns 46 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
“Desmond’s first directorial role demonstrates smooth craftsmanship and attractive aesthetics that elevate this slim material somewhat, and would certainly be welcome in a better-performed narrative context,” wrote Dennis Harvey in his review for Variety.
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