Hey look! It's Star Wars news the doesn't include set photos! J.J. Abrams and Greg Grunberg (Heroes) have a long history together. The two are childhood friends who made home movies together in the late seventies. That grew into a professional relationship and Abrams cast him in Felicity, Alias, and a TV pilot called The Catch. As far as films go, the actor had a small role in MIssion: Impossible III, he provided the voice of Kirk's stepdad in Star Trek, was a TV actor in the background of Super 8, and now he's going to show up in Star Wars: Episode VII. Grunberg confirmed the news himself on Twitter saying:
"Yes @smgulz it Is safe to assume I have a role in #StarWarsEpisodeVII - If I say more than that, Jj will have me killed."
It's also safe to assume that Grunberg's role won't be a big one. It's...
"Yes @smgulz it Is safe to assume I have a role in #StarWarsEpisodeVII - If I say more than that, Jj will have me killed."
It's also safe to assume that Grunberg's role won't be a big one. It's...
- 9/12/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Exclusive: Heroes alum Greg Grunberg has signed a talent holding deal with Warner Bros Television to star in a drama or comedy project for the studio targeted for next season. The impetus for the deal was the fact that Warner Bros is the TV studio home of Grunberg’s childhood friend and frequent collaborator, writer-producer J.J. Abrams. The intention is for Grunberg to join a series project from Abrams. Grunberg previously co-starred on Abrams’ series Felicity and Alias as well as on Abrams’ pilot for ABC The Catch. Grunberg also did cameos in the pilot for Abrams’ ABC series Lost and the Abrams-directed features Mission: Impossible III and Star Trek, where he provided the voice of Kirk’s stepfather. So far this season, Abrams’ Wbtv-based Bad Robot has landed a pilot production commitment from NBC for epic adventure thriller Revolution penned by Supernatural creator Eric Kripke. A potential gig on...
- 10/25/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Machine Gun Preacher
Opens: 2011
Cast: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Madeline Carroll, Kathy Baker
Director: Marc Forster
Summary: After finding God, drug-dealing biker Sam Childers renounces his outlaw ways and embarks on a spiritual path, becoming a crusader for hundreds of desperate and helpless children who were being forced to become soldiers in war-torn southern Sudan.
Analysis: Despite taking the freshly rejuvenated James Bond franchise and nearly destroying it with the very disappointing "Quantum of Solace", German-Swiss filmmaker Marc Forster still has a decent amount of good will left thanks to strong earlier efforts like "Monster's Ball," "Finding Neverland," "Stranger Than Fiction" and "The Kite Runner".
Now, in his first film since that Bond outing, Forster returns to serious drama with this true story tale of a biker who became a humanitarian crusader for children in the Sudan. The story itself is fascinating, the born again Sam Childers and...
Opens: 2011
Cast: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Madeline Carroll, Kathy Baker
Director: Marc Forster
Summary: After finding God, drug-dealing biker Sam Childers renounces his outlaw ways and embarks on a spiritual path, becoming a crusader for hundreds of desperate and helpless children who were being forced to become soldiers in war-torn southern Sudan.
Analysis: Despite taking the freshly rejuvenated James Bond franchise and nearly destroying it with the very disappointing "Quantum of Solace", German-Swiss filmmaker Marc Forster still has a decent amount of good will left thanks to strong earlier efforts like "Monster's Ball," "Finding Neverland," "Stranger Than Fiction" and "The Kite Runner".
Now, in his first film since that Bond outing, Forster returns to serious drama with this true story tale of a biker who became a humanitarian crusader for children in the Sudan. The story itself is fascinating, the born again Sam Childers and...
- 1/17/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Touchstone, Whitley ink talent deal
Actress Kym Whitley has signed a one-year talent holding deal with Touchstone Television. Whitley worked with Touchstone on The Catch, a pilot for ABC from J.J. Abrams. She also is shooting an episode of Touchstone's Grey's Anatomy, which airs on ABC. Whitley, who also is a stand-up comic, appeared as a hooker in an episode of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. Her TV credits include Disney Channel's That's So Raven, Lifetime's Missing and UPN's Girlfriends.
- 8/8/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Green joining Prinze in ABC comedy pilot
Beverly Hills, 90210 alum Brian Austin Green has been tapped to co-star opposite Freddie Prinze Jr. in Prinze's untitled comedy pilot for ABC. Lauren Tom, Hugh Bonneville and Rea Seehorn have been cast in CBS' comedy pilot Everything I Know About Men, and Golden Globe winner Stacy Keach has joined CBS' untitled Susie Essman comedy. Meanwhile, casting is almost complete for ABC's drama pilot The Catch. The untitled Freddie Prinze Jr. project, from Warner Bros. TV and Mohawk Prods., stars Prinze as a successful, single guy raised in a house full of women who has his life turned upside down when the women move back in with him.
- 3/23/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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