Stephen Cognetti has written and directed every entry in the Hell House LLC found footage horror franchise, which began in 2015 and currently consists of Hell House LLC, Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel, Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire, and the recently released Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor. In an interview with Bloody Disgusting last year, Cognetti said he wants to make more Hell House movies, but he’s hoping to secure higher budgets and move away about from the found footage style for future installments… Now Terror Films has released a teaser trailer for the next entry in the Hell House franchise, Hell House LLC: Lineage (you can watch the teaser in the embed above), which is expected to reach the Shudder streaming service in October of 2025. There’s not much to go on just yet, so we’ll have to wait and see what the budget level and shooting style of this one is going to be. Filming will begin in November.
Terror Films referred to Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor as “the first chapter of what will become known as the Hell House LLC Origin Films”. This one is set in 2021 and will show what happens when a group of internet sleuths travel to the remote Carmichael Manor. Located deep in the woods of Rockland County, New York, the estate is the site of the infamous 1989 Carmichael family murders that have gone unsolved to this day. What they discover are secrets that have been hidden away for decades and a terror that has been lurking in the shadows long before Hell House.
It was produced by Joe Bandelli, with Joe Dain and Jim Klock executive producing for Terror Films Releasing.
The Hell House LLC franchise began in 2015, and Hell House LLC quickly gained a reputation as one of the best found footage movies out there. I’m not usually a fan of the found footage style, but I have to admit that Hell House LLC was actually pretty good. I wasn’t so impressed by the 2018 sequel Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel, and still haven’t seen the 2019 entry Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire or Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor. But I will eventually.
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INTRO: Marriage. Divorce. Dating. Unplanned pregnancy. Psychological counseling. Gambling debts. Sexual awakening. Absentee fathers. Balloon animals. Cowboys. It’s all covered in the 1989 comedy Parenthood – which tells the stories of parents, grandparents, and a whole lot of kids. This led to Oscar nominations, financial success, and even a couple TV series follow-ups – and we’re about to hear all about it, because it’s time for Parenthood to be Revisited.
SET-UP: Legendary producer Roger Corman gave Ron Howard his first shot at directing a feature film with 1977’s Grand Theft Auto. At the time, Howard was best known for his acting roles, having played Opie Taylor on many episodes of The Andy Griffith Show and then Richie Cunningham on many episodes of Happy Days. It was while he was working on Happy Days that he met the writing duo of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, as Ganz was a supervising producer on the show and Mandel was a creative consultant. As Happy Days wound down to its end, Howard started skipping seasons to focus on building his directing career. And in 1982, he teamed with Ganz, Mandel, and his producer friend Brian Grazer to make the comedy Night Shift. That collaboration continued on the following year’s hit Splash, which earned Ganz and Mandel a Best Screenplay Oscar nomination. The writers and Grazer didn’t work on Howard’s films Cocoon or Willow, but Ganz and Mandel did write his 1986 film Gung Ho.
By the time the ‘80s were winding down, Howard and his wife Cheryl had four children, and the experience of raising those kids gave Howard an idea he would use to bring the whole gang back together. As he explained to E Online, inspiration struck after a particularly hectic seventeen hour flight with three of his kids: four-year-old daughter Bryce and seven-month-old twins. Howard said, “We needed the diapers and the formula and all that stuff with us, but we were only allowed two carry-on items. I had twenty-four carry-on items. So I got the crew to all carry on stuff for me and my job was to look after Bryce on the flight. Within the first forty minutes of the flight, she projectile vomited all over my shirt and I had no change. And the babies were crying, and I was helping Cheryl, and we were just walking them and driving the crew crazy.” Upon arrival, he was sweating, cursing, covered with puke, and feeling worn out as he was getting their luggage from the baggage carousel. And that’s when he realized he was living through the makings of a comedy.
He turned to Grazer, Ganz, and Mandel to develop a project that would be all about parenthood. It would even be titled Parenthood. And these were the right guys to work with on such a project. Grazer had two kids of his own, Ganz had three, and Mandel had six, including a set of triplets. Howard had a fourth child on the way, so these guys had fifteen kids between them at the time. They had plenty of real world experience to draw on as they put together the script.
Parenthood features so many characters that have so much going on, you might feel like you need to draw a diagram to keep it all straight. And, by the way, at no point in the film is there a seventeen hour flight. That scenario didn’t make it to the screen. The movie does introduce us to the overlapping Buckman, Lampkin, and Huffner families, who live in St. Louis, Missouri.
Jason Robards takes on the role of Frank Buckman, an elderly workaholic who was admittedly a bad parent. But he had four kids anyway, with his wife Marilyn, who is played by Eileen Ryan but barely registers as a character. Steve Martin plays Frank’s son Gil, who is married to Karen, played by Mary Steenburgen. They have three kids: Jasen Fisher as the high-strung Kevin. Who has to start going to therapy because he freaks out about any little thing that happens. Alisan Porter as Taylor, and Zachary Lavoy as Justin, who likes to ram his head into things. Dianne Wiest plays Gil’s sister Helen, single mother to teenagers Julie and Garry Lampkin, played by Martha Plimpton and Joaquin Phoenix – who was credited as Leaf Phoenix at the time. Julie is ready to dive into adult life with her dimwitted boyfriend Tod Higgins, played by Keanu Reeves. And Garry is going through a rough patch, feeling abandoned by his father and carrying around a mysterious bag all the time. A bag that turns out to be filled with pornography. Harley Jane Kozak is Frank’s third child Susan. She’s a teacher and is married to scientist Nathan Huffner, played by Rick Moranis. Who has very strict ideas about raising their daughter Patty, played by Ivyann Schwann, as if she’s a highly intelligent adult. He has so many rules in place in their household, Susan starts eating sweets behind his back. And poking holes in her diaphragm. Then we have the black sheep of the Buckman family: youngest son Larry, played by Tom Hulce. Who shows up at Frank’s door with his previously unheard of son Cool, played by Alex Burrall, and has some major gambling debts hanging over his head. Helen Shaw also has a few memorable moments as Grandma, Frank’s mother, who is still sticking around at an advanced age. Shaw didn’t begin acting until she was in her 80s. By the time she made Parenthood, she was in her 90s. She didn’t pass away until 1997 – at the age of 100.
Although the story is set in St. Louis, filming took place in Orlando. But the filmmakers were able to hide the Florida of it all, picking locations that appear to be in middle America. The main giveaway that this was Orlando is a scene set inside a classroom where one of the students is a young Howie Dorough – who would join the Orlando-based group the Backstreet Boys just a few years later.
REVIEW: Since there were four dads brainstorming this movie together, the filmmakers would admit that it is more focused on fatherhood than anything else. They had to write what they knew. And at the end of the ‘80s, there was a feeling that the approach to parenting had shifted. Baby boomers had grown up with fathers who only had to give the family financial support and not be abusive to be considered good dads. Now the boomers were adults and they were anxious to be better, more present fathers than their dads had been. As Ganz and Grazer put it to the Los Angeles Times, “Men have a different role and responsibility than they did in another time. All of us felt that, as dads, we did not have the license, even if we were inclined, to say, ‘I’m doing my part by bringing home the check.’ Now being a good dad means going to Lamaze classes, happily cleaning up throw-up and changing diapers, and going to check out schools with the kids. People now have parties during the day so you can bring your kids.”
The character they all most strongly identified with was Gil, and this comes through in the film, as he is a standout in the ensemble. Steve Martin wasn’t a father at the time; he hadn’t even spent much time around kids before being on this set. But he did a great job of acting like a dad who’s doing his best to be there for his kids while also trying to climb the corporate ladder, which he falls off of at one point. Raising three kids is already taking a lot out of him. The worry, the responsibility, all the activity, which includes having to dress up like a cowboy and make balloon animals in one of the funniest scenes. Now his wife has revealed that she’s pregnant with their fourth child. The same news Ron Howard received from his wife during the development of Parenthood.
Gil is aiming to be a better father than his own dad, Frank, was. Frank was one of those “be a good dad by bringing home money” types, and was so busy that he would take Gil to baseball games when he was a kid just to pay an usher to watch Gil while he was off doing other things. Through the story of Frank’s dealings with the troubled Larry, we’re shown that kids can keep their parents worrying well into adulthood. The end of their story feels very true-to-life, as Frank presents a perfectly reasonable resolution to Larry’s problems… but Larry won’t go through with it. He won’t put in the effort required to change his ways. Or raise his son.
The Huffners’ story was meant to be a parody of a nightmare version of parents that was emerging at the time. Ganz said it was their reaction to “obsessive yuppie parents who aren’t satisfied unless their child plays Schubert and speaks three different languages by the second grade. It’s these people who make you feel very bad as a parent for not giving your kids all these advantages, that make you feel like you’re too lazy, not energized enough. Rationally you can’t take these people seriously, but deep down you have a fear that you may be screwing up.” So those parents got a skewering in the form of Rick Moranis’s character.
Dianne Wiest’s Helen is where most of the mother perspective comes into the film. She’s also the only character raising teenagers. She was a hippie at Woodstock in her glory days, now she’s struggling to be a single mother to two kids whose father is largely absent from their lives. And they are definitely giving her some challenges to overcome.
This movie covers so much ground with its characters, chances are high that most viewers will find something to relate to. Especially if they’re a parent themselves, or someone from a large family. It’s not just about being a parent. It’s also about being a son. A daughter. A sibling. A grandchild. And while showing these relatable characters and situations, it also delivers a good amount of laughs, with many of those, of course, coming from Steve Martin. The movie has a great sense of humor that helps save it from feeling schmaltzy. An example of this comes when Grandma drops what’s meant to be a deeply impactful metaphor about roller coasters, advising Gil to enjoy the ride of life even as it makes him scared, sick, excited, and thrilled all at the same time. It’s touching… Then, as soon as Grandma leaves the room, Gil makes a mockery of it. Saying, “A minute ago, I was really confused about life, and then Grandma came in with her wonderful and affecting roller coaster story, and now everything’s great again.” So you can let the metaphor have an emotional effect on you, even while you know it’s cheesy. And then you can laugh at it with Gil because the movie acknowledges that it was simultaneously touching and cheesy.
LEGACY/NOW: Parenthood feels like the sort of movie that would be released in December to draw in families over the holidays while also catching awards season attention… But that wasn’t the case. This was a summer release, reaching theatres on August 2nd, 1989. An interesting counter-programming move in a summer season that was packed with movies we’re still talking about to this day. Batman, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lethal Weapon 2. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Ghostbusters II. There were even Star Trek, Karate Kid, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and James Bond sequels in there. Along with James Cameron’s The Abyss. Dead Poets Society, When Harry Met Sally, Field of Dreams, Turner & Hooch, Uncle Buck. Weekend at Bernie’s, Road House, Major League, Pet Sematary. Rain Man. Movie-goers had to be struggling to keep up, with so many classics hitting the screen. It’s a good thing ticket prices were lower, or everyone would have gone broke.
Parenthood held its own against all this big-time competition. The movie was the eighth biggest film of the summer and ended up pulling in one hundred and twenty-six million dollars at the box office.
Beyond the financial success, it was also a hit with critics and was a contender when awards season did come around. Randy Newman earned a Grammy nomination for his song “I Love to See You Smile.” Newman also got a Golden Globe nomination, with Steve Martin and Dianne Wiest being nominated for their performances. Newman and Wiest were nominated again at the Academy Awards… But Parenthood didn’t end up taking home any Oscars. That’s okay. Wiest had already won an Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters, and would win another for Bullets Over Broadway a few years later. This was Newman’s fourth nomination, and he has gone on to be nominated almost twenty more times, winning twice along the way. Ron Howard had Best Director and Best Picture wins in his future, for A Beautiful Mind. So there’s no lack of Academy recognition here.
This movie proved to be so popular that Howard and the writers decided to make a follow-up: not a sequel, but a TV series that started airing in 1990 and had a pilot episode that was written by Ganz and Mandel. The story of the Buckmans, Lampkins, and Huffners continued on NBC for twelve episodes – although the Huffners were renamed the Merricks for some reason. Most of the characters were recast and there were familiar names in this new cast, like Ed Begley Jr. as Gil, Thora Birch as Taylor, David Arquette as Tod, and Leonardo DiCaprio as Garry. Ivyann Schwan and Alex Burrall reprised the roles of Patty and Cool. But the ratings weren’t high enough for the show to go beyond one season.
But that wasn’t the last we heard of Parenthood. Twenty years later, prolific TV series creator Jason Katims convinced the reluctant Ron Howard and Brian Grazer to let him develop a new Parenthood TV show. This one was only loosely inspired by the film. The setting was moved to California and it focused on an entirely new group of characters. It just happens to be another story of parents and children. Changing things up was a recipe for success, because this Parenthood ran for six seasons and a total of one hundred and three episodes.
So that idea Howard had after his nightmare plane ride really worked out for a bunch of people. Thirty-five years after the film was released, it still holds up as an entertaining comedy with a lot of relatable, amusing character moments. So if you haven’t seen Parenthood in a while, give it another look. It’s definitely worth revisiting.
A little over a year ago, Showtime announced that they were ordering a series – then known as Dexter: Origins, now known as Dexter: Original Sin – that would serve as a prequel series to their popular show Dexter, which finished its eight season initial run back in 2013, then recently came back for a new season (called Dexter: New Blood) that appeared to wrap things up for good… We’ve been hearing Dexter: Original Sin casting announcements here and there in recent weeks, and now Deadline has revealed that the cast of the show has expanded by nine! All of these actors are set to have recurring roles: Joe Pantoliano (The Matrix), Brittany Allen (The Boys), Randy Gonzalez (Bloodline), Aaron Jennings (Pure Genius), Raquel Justice (One Day at a Time), Jasper Lewis (V/H/S), Carlo Mendez (The Bay), Isaac Gonzalez Rossi (That’s Amor), and Roberto Sanchez (Palm Royale).
As for the characters they’ll be playing: “Pantoliano plays Mad Dog, Allen plays Dexter’s biological mother, Laura Moser, Gonzalez plays Santos Jimenez, Jennings plays Clark Sanders, Justice plays Sofia, Lewis plays Dexter’s adoptive mom and wife of Harry, Doris Morgan, Mendez plays Hector Estrada, Gonzalez Rossi plays Gio, and Sanchez plays Tony Ferrer.” Some of these names will be familiar to fans of Dexter. And I have to say, I’m very interested in watching Joey Pants play a character called Mad Dog.
Dexter: Original Sin follows Dexter in 1991 Miami, as a student transitioning into a serial killer in training. When his bloodthirsty urges can no longer be ignored, Dexter finds solace and understanding in Harry. As his only confidant, he teaches Dexter a Code that’s designed to help him find and kill people who deserve to die—all while avoiding getting caught by law enforcement. This is a particular challenge for young Dexter as he begins a forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department.
Played by Michael C. Hall in the nine seasons of Dexter, the title character is “a serial killer with a code which directs his compulsions to kill only the guilty. As a blood spatter analyst for the Miami police, he has access to crime scenes, picking up clues and checking DNA to confirm a target’s guilt before he kills them.“
Dexter: Original Sin will be available from Paramount+ with Showtime. The first season of the show is expected to consist of 10 episodes. Production is currently underway in Miami.
The actors named above join previously announced cast members Patrick Gibson of Shadow and Bone (as the young Dexter Morgan), Christian Slater of Mr. Robot (as Dexter’s dad, Harry Morgan), Molly Brown of Senior Year (as Dexter’s younger sister, Debra Morgan), Christina Milian of Falling Inn Love (as Maria LaGuerta, Miami Metro’s first female homicide detective), James Martinez of Love, Victor (as Angel Batista, an up-and-coming homicide detective who leads with his heart), Alex Shimizu of The Blacklist (as Vince Masuka, a forensic analyst who eagerly shares his expertise while relishing the chance to boss around his new intern, Dexter Morgan), Reno Wilson of Mike & Molly (as Bobby Watt, the longtime partner and confidant of Dexter’s adoptive father, Harry), Patrick Dempsey of Grey’s Anatomy (Aaron Spencer, the Captain of Miami Metro Homicide who has a decades-long relationship with Harry Morgan), and Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Tanya Martin, the CSI Chief at the Miami Metro Police Department and Dexter Morgan’s new boss.)
Clyde Phillips, who served as showrunner on the first four seasons of Dexter and returned to the job for Dexter: New Blood, serves as showrunner on this new show as well. Phillips is also executive producing alongside Scott Reynolds, Mary Leah Sutton, Tony Hernandez, Lilly Burns, and Michael C. Hall. Robert Lloyd Lewis is producing with Showtime Studios and Counterpart Studios. Michael Lehmann, who directed Slater in the cult classic film Heathers, will serve as directing executive producer. The show is being creatively overseen by Gary Levine and Urooj Sharif for Showtime Studios, with production supervised by Tara Power. It will be distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution outside of Paramount+ markets.
Last we heard, Dexter: New Blood is also expected to continue on Showtime, now shifting the focus to Dexter’s son Harrison. Phillips is overseeing the expansion of the Dexter franchise, with other possibilities in the line-up including “spinoffs that trace the back stories of some of the show’s most iconic characters. This includes John Lithgow’s memorable Trinity Killer.”
Are you looking forward to Dexter: Original Sin? What do you think of the cast that’s being assembled for the show? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
The Lightning Perfume Bottle is a weapon that can only be discovered in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. This unique weapon is strong on its own, but when paired with a specific collection of gear, it can become one of the most powerful boss-killing weapons in the entire game.
The Lightning Perfume Bottle is a weapon that can only be discovered in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. This unique weapon is strong on its own, but when paired with a specific collection of gear, it can become one of the most powerful boss-killing weapons in the entire game.
Scarlett Johansson returns to theaters this weekend with Channing Tatum in the comedy Fly Me to the Moon. Our own Tyler Nichols found the movie to be a pretty entertaining watch and would say in his review of the film, “At its core, Fly Me To The Moon is about truth. It’s about the line we walk between transparency and our ultimate goal. […] Fly Me To The Moon is ultimately a very light and fun experience. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the subject isn’t likly to glean anything new, but it’s nice to humanize so many folks who have been lost to time (even if many of them and the story are fictional).”
While promoting the film on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Deadline reports that Johansson reveals that being married to Colin Jost of Saturday Night Live isn’t all laughs for her. Jost hosts the Weekend Update segment with fellow comedian Michael Che and she admitted that an annual bit they do on the segment looms over her during the year. Jost and Che would partake in a “joke swap” where they would write jokes for each other to say. This usually sets up some amusingly awkward situations where either Jost or Che would have to begrudgingly get out some statements that cause discomfort among themselves. The jokes Che would write for Jost would usually target his wife, Johansson.
The former MCU Black Widow explained on The Kelly Clarkson Show, “We need to go into like, witness protection after that night. Like, I am absolutely terrified we’re gonna be like, targeted. It’s so bad. I black out for that period of the night. I don’t — I actually don’t remember it.” Last May, Che wrote a joke for Jost that poked fun at Johansson’s controversy with ChatGPT’s Open AI. The joke Jost had to say was, “ChatGPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in Her. Which I’ve never bothered to watch, because without that body, what’s the point of listening?”
Johansson added, “That’s like a tame version.” Clarkson would agree as she chimed, “It’s Daytime [television], we kept it tame.” Johansson would go on to say that the roast-like jokes got “brutal.” She expounded, “I feel like every year it gets worse, it’s just terrible.” She then said during the Her joke, “It’s painful. I mean I really do — I actually don’t remember that segment. I fully blacked out.”
The Prime Video series adaptation of Criminal, the Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series written by Ed Brubaker and illustrated by Sean Phillips, has been steadily building up its cast in recent weeks, and now Variety reports that the latest actor to join the ensemble is Luke Evans, whose credits include Fast & Furious 6, Beauty and the Beast, Dracula Untold, and the Hobbit films. For Criminal, Evans is taking on the role of “Tracy Lawless, who was pushed out of the outlaw life of his family (his father is the legendary Teeg Lawless and Ricky is his little brother) at the age of 18 when a judge gave him a choice of prison or the military. In the Army, Tracy thrived, his wild outlaw instincts getting funneled into the strict discipline of the military. He was placed into the Special Forces and trained to be an expert in covert operations and guerilla warfare. But underneath it all, the Lawless blood still pumps in his heart.“
Evans’ co-stars will include Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy), Adria Arjona (Hit Man), Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water), Kadeem Hardison (A Different World), Pat Healy (Better Call Saul), Taylor Selé (BMF), Logan Browning (Dear White People), Gus Halper (Rustin), Aliyah Camacho (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), Michael Mando (Better Call Saul), Marvin Jones III (Halo), Michael Xavier (Wild Cards), Dominic Burgess (Palm Royale), John Hawkes (True Detective), and Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones).
Criminal tells “the interweaving saga of several generations of families tied together by the crimes and murders of the past.” The official logline for the series says it will show viewers an interlocking universe of crime stories.
Hunnam will be playing the lead character, “Leo, a brilliant master thief who sees all the angles, and specializes in plans with no guns and no violence. Like a chess player, Leo thinks three moves ahead. Other crooks think he’s a coward, especially compared to his father Tommy, who went to jail for murdering the most feared man in the city, Teeg Lawless.” Arjona is taking on the role of Greta, “a sharp-tongued top-level car thief and driver and the widowed mother of Angie. Ever since her husband died in a bank job gone bad, Greta has been battling with herself about how to escape the only life she’s ever known – and the only place she’s ever thrived. The problem is, she’s good at this. She’s looking for a big score, a lump of money she can use like a gun to shoot her and Angie out of this life and into another one.” Jenkins’ character is Ivan, “Leo’s dad’s best friend, and has always been an uncle figure to him. He used to be a robber and criminal, but is now currently suffering from dementia. Leo is trying to care for him but realizes he’s more work than he can handle.” Hardison is playing Gnarly, “an old friend of Leo and Ivan. Gnarly was his nickname as a boxer back in the 1970s and it’s all anyone calls him. He walks with a limp, an old one. Gnarly’s a local legend, and he can go from warm to fierce in a heartbeat. He commands respect, partly because he can inflict massive physical damage, even at his advanced age — and partly because he has the authority and gravitas to stop other men in their tracks.”
Clarke’s character is Mallory, “a slick and daring armed robber, as quick with a gun as she is with her wits. Part of a heist crew with Ricky Lawless, who she’s in a passionate Bonnie-and-Clyde-like affair with. Mallory is a woman on the edge, living on the wrong side of the law and hiding secrets that will bring her and her entire crew into the danger zone.“ Halper will portray Ricky Lawless, “an unstable guy who likes booze, coke, and speed (and not within moderation), Ricky has known Leo since they were teenagers. Like Leo, he’s the son of a criminal — only his dad was the most-feared man in the city, Teeg Lawless.” Camacho will play Angie, “Greta’s daughter. Angie is sharp, alert and maybe a little too adult for her age. Having lost her father at a young age, it is only she and her mom making their way through life. She has an idea of the kind of business her mom is in, no matter how much Greta tries to shield her.” Mando’s character is Jeff, “a plainclothes Vice detective who pretty much hates all of humanity, and he’s looking to make a score screwing over anyone and everyone that is in his way. The kind of bad cop who uses his badge to shove others around and get them to do his bidding.” Jones III is Chester, “crime boss Sebastian Hyde’s fearsome chief enforcer. Much like a seven-foot-tall man becoming a basketball player whether he likes it or not, Chester was drafted into the criminal life for his size and fearsomeness. He’s no sadist, relying on his reputation and intelligence to get his way. He speaks softly most of the time, but the threat of sudden and deadly violence is always there.” Xavier is playing Terry, “another criminal, a good friend of Leo, a tough armed robber with a big heart, stepdad to Angie and the love of Greta’s life.” And Burgess is Delron, “a large man with a large appetite and large emotions. Delron is facing a trial in the next few days, and he’s at the mercy of a few powers that be in the criminal organization he works for. “
Hawkes is set to play Sebastian Hyde, “a hard man who is six months out from a stroke, and now walks with a cane. Once the biggest shark in the shark tank, Hyde is now showing his humanity a bit — maybe a bit too much. The owner of a gambling club, the kind of man whose name is accompanied by fear, Hyde can be both amused by someone one minute, and a ruthless enforcer the next.” Healy’s character is Seymour, “a veteran thief and one-time part of Leo’s dad’s crew. Seymour does what he has to stay alive and get rich while trying to survive in the criminal world.” Selé has been cast as Royal, “the manager of Sebastian Hyde’s gambling club, and he is sharp-dressed and menacing. Royal is ruthless and will do whatever he needs to protect himself and move forward in the underworld.” And Browning is playing Jenny, “an Internal Affairs detective with a dry sense of humor and an absurdly calm demeanor. She presents as an even-tempered woman who appears to be without a care in the world. Jenny is very smart; her father was a criminal and she loves her job — which gives her the right to question, harass, terrify and imprison cops all day long. Jenny was raised with Leo as her playmate/buddy/blood brother for life.”
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, the filmmaking duo behind Half Nelson, Sugar, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Mississippi Grind, Captain Marvel, andFreaky Tales, will be directing the first four episodes of Criminal. Brubaker has written the script for the pilot and will serve as showrunner of the series alongside Jordan Harper (Hightown). Brubaker and Harper are also executive producing with Sean Phillips, Sarah Carbiener, Phillip Barnett, and Legendary Television.
Are you interested in Criminal? What do you think of the cast of this show – and are you glad to hear that Luke Evans is part of the group? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
Palworld players have fought against one Raid Boss (and some variations) before, but the June 27, 2024 Sakurajima update brought a new Pal to go up against. Blazamut Ryu is an imposing beast with a lot of health and only 10 minutes of playtime. It can be a challenge, to say the least. But fret not, I’ve got you…
