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House of the Dragon Cast Switchover This Weekend
A Song of Ice and Fire fans have known from the beginning of House of the Dragon that an actor swap was immanent in the role of the young women, Rhaenyra Targaryen (currently played by Milly Alcock), and Alicent Hightower (currently played by Emily Carey), and being aged up in this weekend’s episode as a new poster from the Official Twitter Account revealed earlier this week:
House of the Dragon on Twitter: “Bloodlines will burn.Sundays on @HBOMax. #HouseoftheDragon #HBO50 pic.twitter.com/lOPHdBPzV3 / Twitter”
Bloodlines will burn.Sundays on @HBOMax. #HouseoftheDragon #HBO50 pic.twitter.com/lOPHdBPzV3
Emma D’Arcy (Hanna) will take on the role of Princess Rhaenyra, and Olivia Cooke (Bates Motel), steps into the role of Queen Alicent to echo the multiple time jumps George R.R. Martin’s Fire and Blood book utilizes in its telling of the events of the Dance of the Dragons.
If I may share my bias, a couple weeks ago we release a Geek History Lesson episode titled House of the Dragon where I break down all the important details about the events upon which the House of the Dragon television show is built.
With House of the Dragon averaging 29 million viewers over the five episodes which have aired to date.
Super Mario Bros. Movie Teaser is Heading to NYCC
New York Comic Con made headlines when their Official Twitter Account shared the following yesterday:
New York Comic Con on Twitter: “Join us October 6th at 4pm ET for the teaser trailer premiere of Nintendo & Illumination’s upcoming Super Mario Bros. film, releasing April 7, 2023. pic.twitter.com/1jEFnlvCnU / Twitter”
Join us October 6th at 4pm ET for the teaser trailer premiere of Nintendo & Illumination’s upcoming Super Mario Bros. film, releasing April 7, 2023. pic.twitter.com/1jEFnlvCnU
The Super Mario Bros. animated movie stars (to much social media fanfare, both for good and for ill), Chris Pratt and it based on the iconic video game franchise.
New York Comic Con attendees will want to be well-organized and get their houses in order to make sure they are in the right place at the right time at the convention in coming weeks to be able to be amongst the first people in the world to watch the teaser trailer.
Super Mario Bros. is slated for release on April 7th, 2023.
True Detective Season 4 Adds New Cast Members
The fourth installment in the HBO crime smash series True Detective has announced a handful of new cast members familiar from across genre and the HBO slate of television shows. It was earlier report the new season will be retitled: True Detective: Night Country.
Variety reports the following actors have been added to the upcoming season of True Detective:
John Hawkes (“Deadwood,” “Winter’s Bone”), Christopher Eccleston (“Doctor Who,” “The Leftovers”), Fiona Shaw (“Killing Eve,” “Harry Potter” franchise), Finn Bennett (“Domina,” “The Nevers”), and Anna Lambe (“Three Pines,” “Trickster”) have all joined the new season alongside previously announced leads Jodie Foster and Kali Reis.
… with Variety reporting these details as well:
Shaw will appear as Rose Aguineau, “a survivalist with a past full of secrets.” Bennett will play Peter Prior, “Liz Danvers’ protégé and apprentice— both for better or worse.” Lambe joins as Kayla Malee, “a young nurse with little patience for anybody that messes with her family.
The official synopsis for True Detective: Night Country is as follows:
True Detective: Night Country,” the official description for the new season reads as follows: “When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
Hawkes will play Hank Prior, described as “a police officer with old grudges hiding under a quiet surface.” Eccleston will play Ted Corsaro, “the regional Chief of Police and a political animal with a long history tying him to Liz Danvers.
There is no release date for True Detective: Night Country yet in place.
