Thursday, July 21, 2022

Casting News - Sarah Michelle Gellar to Star in and Executive Produce Paramount+'s 'Wolf Pack'; Plus 8 More Updates!

Casting News - July 21, 2022

ABC's Grey's Anatomy & The Rookie; AppleTV+'s Untitled The Buccaneers Drama; Disney+'s National Treasure: Edge of History; Hulu's Tiny Beautiful Things; Netflix's Obliterated & Untitled Arnold Schwarzenegger Drama; Paramount+'s Wolf Pack; and Showtime's Fellow Travelers



APPLE TV+'s UNTITLED THE BUCCANEERS DRAMA
  • Josh Dylan, Guy Remmers, Matthew Broome and Barney Fishwick have joined the cast of the upcoming drama starring Kristine Froseth, Alisha Boe and Josie Totah. Dylan starred in the 2018 film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Remmers and Broome are relative newcomers. Fishwick guest starred on Starz's The Girlfriend Experience and BBC One's Call the Midwife.
  • Dylan will play Lord Richard Marable, a repressed English lord swept up in a holiday romance with fiery American heiress Conchita (Boe).
  • Remmers will play Theo, the Duke of Tintagel and an English bachelor.
  • Broome will play Guy Thwarte, a charming English playboy.
  • Fishwick will play Lord James Seadown, Marable's brother.
NETFLIX's OBLITERATED
  • Terrence Terrell, Alyson Gorske, C. Thomas Howell, Eugene Kim, Paola Lázaro and Amalia Yoo have been cast as series regulars on the upcoming action comedy starring Nick Zano and Shelley Hennig. Terrell previously starred in the first season of CBS' B Positive. Gorske guest starred on HBO Max's Head of the Class. Howell recurred on TNT's Animal Kingdom, Paramount+'s SEAL Team, Netflix's The Punisher and AMC's The Terror. Kim guest starred on NBC's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, ABC's The Rookie and Netflix's The Lincoln Lawyer. Lázaro currently stars in the final season of AMC's The Walking Dead. Yoo starred in the Netflix limited series Grand Army.
  • Terrell will play Trunk, a Navy SEAL and ultimate wingman to Chad McKnight (Zano).
  • Gorske will play Lana, a Vegas party girl swept up along for the ride with the special forces team.
  • Howell will play Haggerty, the eccentric Army explosives technician.
  • Kim will play Paul Yung, an Air Force pilot embedded with our team and after a wild night of partying, the only one sober.
  • Lázaro will play Angela Gomez, a badass Marine sniper who is the best in her field.
  • Yoo will play Maya Choi, a young NSA tech expert in the field for the first time and wildly out of her element.
HULU's TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS
  • Quentin Plair is set as a series regular on the upcoming comedy starring Kathryn Hahn. He is currently recurring on The CW's Roswell, New Mexico. He will next appear in Hulu's upcoming limited series Welcome to Chippendales starring Kumail Nanjiani.
  • He will play Danny Kinkade, a creative spirit and musician. Bright and level-headed, he's frustratedly in love with his wife Clare (Hahn), and at his wits end over her selfish and self-destructive antics. Pushed over the edge, he's told her she needs to leave their house and join him in couples therapy to salvage their marriage and family unit.
ABC's GREY'S ANATOMY
  • Niko Terho has been added as a new series regular on the drama's upcoming nineteenth season. He previously starred in the Freeform film The Thing About Harry opposite fellow Grey's Anatomy series regular Jake Borelli.
  • He will play Lucas Adams, a first-year surgical resident at Grey Sloan. He is the charming black sheep of his family. Likable to a fault, he has a great mind, but doesn't have the grades to match. He's determined to prove himself as a surgeon, just like many in his family that have come before him. He will have to stop relying on his people skills and put in the work.
ABC's THE ROOKIE
  • Tru Valentino has been promoted to series regular on the drama's upcoming fifth season. He joined the drama as a recurring guest star in its fourth season - appearing in 11 episodes overall.
  • He plays Officer Aaron Thorsen, the newest rookie at the station.
SHOWTIME's FELLOW TRAVELERS
  • Will Brill, Chris Bauer, Erin Neufer, Matt Visser and Christine Horne have landed recurring roles on the upcoming limited series starring Matt Bomer, Jonathan Bailey and Allison Williams. Brill previously recurred on Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and HBO's The Time Traveler's Wife. Bauer currently stars in Starz's Heels and recently recurred on Starz's Gaslit. Neufer recurred on Netflix's Gypsy and HBO Max's Julia. Visser guest starred on Amazon's Upload, FX's A Teacher and Netflix's Firefly Lane. Horne recurred on Sky Atlantic's Riviera and CBC's Murdoch Mysteries.
  • Brill will play Roy Cohn, the ruthless Chief Legal Counsel on Joseph McCarthy's Senate Committee dedicated to rooting out communism in the United States. His obsession with David Schine causes a scandal.
  • Bauer will play Joseph McCarthy, the U.S. Senator from Wisconsin who was raised in poverty and ascended to the heights of political power, exploiting the era's fear of communism and "sexual deviants."
  • Neufer will play Mary Johnson, an ambitious speechwriter, loyal friend to Tim (Bailey), associate of Hawk (Bomer) in the State Department, and in a risky relationship with another woman.
  • Visser will play David Schine, the heir to his family's hotel fortune who earns national prominence by serving as a consultant on McCarthy's Senate committee. His relationship with Roy Cohn leads to the infamous Army-McCarthy hearings.
  • Horne will play Jean Kerr, McCarthy's dedicated right-hand, willing to do anything for the anti-communist cause - even marry her boss.
NETFLIX'S UNTITLED ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER DRAMA
  • Adam Pally will co-star on the upcoming drama starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Monica Barbaro. Furthermore, Dustin Milligan and Tom Arnold will appear as guest stars. Pally previously starred for three seasons in ABC's Happy Endings and two seasons in FOX/Hulu's The Mindy Project. Milligan starred for six seasons in Pop's Schitt's Creek and two seasons in Peacock's Rutherford Falls. Arnold recurred on FX's Sons of Anarchy and CBS' NCIS: New Orleans.
  • He will play The Great Dane, a black market middleman who isn't as goofy as he seems and knows how to manipulate and charm to get what he wants. Serving time in a Turkish prison, a team of CIA operatives help him escape so he can connect with Boro (Gabriel Luna), a criminal intent on building a nuke.
  • No details were immediately announced about the characters Milligan and Arnold will be playing.
PARAMOUNT+'s WOLF PACK
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar will star in and executive produce the upcoming drama starring Armani Jackson and Bella Shepard. She previously starred for seven seasons in The WB/UPN's Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • She will play Kristin Ramsey, an arson investigator, a highly regarded expert in her field and no stranger to personal loss. She is brought in by authorities to catch the teenage arsonist who started a massive wildfire which may have also led to the reawakening of a supernatural predator terrorizing Los Angeles.
DISNEY+'s NATIONAL TREASURE: EDGE OF HISTORY
  • Harvey Keitel will reprise his role from the feature film franchise as a guest star in the upcoming drama starring Lisette Olivera and Catherine Zeta-Jones. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1991 for his supporting performance in the film Bugsy. He will next appear in Hulu's upcoming limited series Mike starring Trevante Rhodes.
  • He plays Peter Sadusky. He previously played the character in 2004's National Treasure and 2007's National Treasure: Book of Secrets. He is the second actor from the films set to appear in the series - following Justin Bartha, also set to guest star.