Fran Drescher to play Timothée Chalamet’s mother in ‘Marty Supreme’
Fran Drescher has signed on to join the cast of Marty Supreme, in which she’ll be playing Timothée Chalamet‘s mother, ABC Audio has confirmed.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Tyler, The Creator also appear in the project, which is currently underway.
The film from director Josh Safdie and studio A24 “is a fictional work set in the world of 1950s ping pong culture, not a biopic” of one of the sport’s biggest names, Marty Reisman, the studio explains.
The cast also includes Hellraiser‘s Odessa A’zion, actor and magician Penn Jillette, Kevin O’Leary aka Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank and Abel Ferrara.
Fans weren’t the only ones hoping for more of Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness when WandaVision ended more than three years ago.
“I was always interested in more Agatha,” Jac Schaeffer, who created that series, as well as the new Agatha-centric spin-off, Agatha All Along, told Good Morning America.
Schaeffer said viewers’ overwhelming response to Hahn’s performance as the witchy breakout character — and that viral song — was a whirlwind ride, but a series focused on her “didn’t seem within the realm of possibility.”
The showrunner said a year or so after WandaVision ended, she was “exploring different characters and different worlds” for other Marvel projects, but she couldn’t get Agatha out of her head.
“It just kept going back to her,” she recalled, crediting Hahn. “The joy and complexity and the continued interest in this character is because of her.”
Hahn called it “an actor’s dream” to be able to embrace all aspects of her character — from the dramatic to the kooky.
“I’ve been blessed enough in this career to be able to jump into different genres,” she said. “I’ve never been really pigeonholed … so I feel like this is, weirdly, the culmination of that ability.”
As for whether or not Agatha is a true villain, Hahn and Schaeffer have a few thoughts.
Hahn said, “It feels very binary to call someone just bad” — even Agatha.
“There is much more to explore there,” Schaeffer said, adding that she also wouldn’t call Agatha “evil.”
“I think that as a young person she was told she was bad … and that kind of thing imprints on a person,” she said.
Also starring Patti LuPone and Aubrey Plaza, Agatha All Along premieres with two episodes Sept. 18 on Disney+.
Given how delightfully cheesy the 1997 original is — and what wise guys the two stars are — it’s raising some eyebrows that Paul Rudd and Jack Black are reportedly circling a reboot of Anaconda.
The director will be Tom Gormican, who helmed the hit absurdist Nicolas Cage/Pedro Pascal comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, so this likely won’t be a down-the-middle remake.
The original starred Owen Wilson, Ice Cube and Jennifer Lopez, and featured Jon Voight as a scuzzy Paraguayan snake hunter in a performance so over the top that it has been immortalized in memes and GIFs.
The movie, about a National Geographic film crew in search of the massive reptile, became a cult hit, grossing more than $130 million. It went on to spawn a 2004 sequel before the franchise went the way of Sharknado with a pair of Sci-Fi Channel horror comedy films in 2008 and 2009.
As for Black and Rudd, THR says it’s not clear who is playing whom, but the two main characters in Gormican’s project are guys having mid-life crises who seek to remake their favorite snake movie — only to run into real trouble in the jungle. One’s a wedding photographer and the other is a fading actor hoping to get back into the spotlight.
Millie Bobby Brown is living among robots in a new trailer for The Electric State.
A trailer for the sci-fi movie starring Brown and Chris Pratt arrived on Thursday and features the pair searching for Brown’s sibling in the movie.
The Netflix film, directed by the RussoBrothers, takes place “in the aftermath of a robot uprising in an alternate version of the ’90s,” according to a synopsis. The story centers around “an orphaned teenager who ventures across the American West with a cartoon-inspired robot, a smuggler, and his sidekick in search of her younger brother.”
The Electric State will premiere on Netflix on March 14, 2025.
“Right now all of us have something in common,” Brown’s character, Michelle, says in the trailer, which is tracked to a version of the Oasis hit “Champagne Supernova.”
“We all lost something in the rebellion,” she continues. “Robots lost their freedom, humans lost connection with each other, and I lost everyone I loved — or so I thought.”
Pratt, who plays a smuggler, enters the trailer, telling Michelle he will accompany her on a trip to recover her lost brother. The action-packed trailer showed the pair’s ensuing adventure, which includes several robot battles.
Along with Pratt and Brown, the film stars Ke Huy Quan, Woody Norman, Giancarlo Esposito, Martin Klebba and Stanley Tucci. A star-studded group including Woody Harrelson, Jason Alexander, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate, Hank Azaria, Colman Domingo and Alan Tudyk also star in voice roles.