Monday, August 11, 2014

Development News - Amazon Sets Premiere Date for Third Batch of Pilots; Ed Harris Books Villain Role on 'Westworld'

Development News - August 11, 2014

Amazon's The Cosmopolitans, Hand of God, Hysteria, Really & Red Oaks and HBO's Westworld.





AMAZON's THE COSMOPOLITANS, HAND OF GOD, HYSTERIA, REALLY and RED OAKS
  • Today, Amazon announced that it will debut its third pilot season on August 28 on Amazon Instant Video in the U.S. and the UK as well as Amazon's instant video app. Customers will be invited to give feedback on five pilots: Whit Stillman's comedy The Cosmopolitans starring Adam Brody & Chloë Sevigny; Marc Foster's drama Hand of God starring Ron Perlman & Dana Delany; Shaun Cassidy's drama Hysteria starring Mena Suvari & T.R. Knight; Jay Chandrsekhar's comedy Really starring Sarah Chalke and Selma Blair; and Greg Jacobs & Joe Gangemi's comedy Red Oaks starring Craig Roberts & Jennifer Grey.
HBO's WESTWORLD
  • Ed Harris (Game Change) has been cast as one of the leads on the drama pilot starring Anthony Hopkins, Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden and Jeffrey Wright. He will play The Man in Black, the distillation of pure villainy into one man.