Stevie Nicks' Role In American Horror Story Revealed

A couple of days ago it was rumoured that Stevie Nicks, of Fleetwood Mac fame, was due to appear in an upcoming episode of Coven, the third American Horror Story serial.

Now it has been revealed that Nicks will be appearing, and that she'll be playing... herself.

This avoids some real-world paradoxes, as Lily Rabe's character Misty has been seen to be a fan of the band. Explaining Nick's role, which will be in the tenth episode of the serial, series creator Ryan Murphy says:

"She appears as herself. It’s part of Fiona’s ruse in that Fiona is trying to get the true Supreme to reveal herself because she needs to stay alive. So she tells Misty Day that the Supreme gets so many great things in life, like tickets to the Oscars and Met Ball tickets. So she brings Stevie Nicks in as a gift to Misty to prove to her that if she exhibits more power she’ll get that and more. Then the other girls come home and see Stevie and Misty singing and it starts them trying to move much quicker to prove that they are the Supreme."

It sounds kinda like something that would happen in  Ryan Murphy's other series, to me...

...Only far less horrifying

Robert Patrick Returns To From Dusk Till Dawn

Robert Patrick has been cast as the lead in the upcoming From Dusk Till Dawn TV series.

However, he will not be reprising his role from From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, but rather will be playing Jacob Fuller, the role that Harvey Keitel played in the first flick.

Also starring will be Madison Davenport as Kate Fuller, Brandon Soo Hoo as Scott Fuller, D.J. Cotrona as Seth Gecko, Zane Holtz as Richie Gecko Jesse Garcia as Texas Ranger Freddie Gonzalez, Don Jonson as Rodriguez/Tarantino regular Eaerl McGraw and Eiza González as Santánico Pandemonium, stepping into the... memorable role made famous by Salma Hayek in the original movie.


It would also be unwise to rule out a Danny Trejo appearance somewhere in there, what with Robert Rodriguez is serving as executive producer.

The ten-part mini-series will follow the plot of the original movie, and will debut on the El Rey Network in the US early in the new year. A UK airing has yet to be confirmed.

Walking Dead Spin-Off To Be Prequel Series?

Earlier this year, AMC announced that they are working on a spin-off show to their hugely popular Walking Dead series.

Now, TVLine are reporting that the show might well "be a prequel of sorts, one that would chronicle the early days of the epidemic and the effort to contain it.".

Creator Robert Kirkman previously told IGN that the new series would be set in a different location and would feature completely different people. "It definitely won’t be set in Georgia… It’s important to us that this show exists on its own. The spin-off has to be a show worthy of existing, or else we've all sold out."

If this is to be a prequel, then the timescale of the series would surely be a bit limited, what with the main series only kicking off a few months into the outbreak. Unless they plan on holding back the zombie outbreak for a while, maybe as a season finale type thing...

Prequel shows seem to be the next big thing, with AMC recently announcing Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul, and Kurt Sutter announcing his plans to create a First Nine series when Sons Of Anarchy finishes.

The Walking Dead's fourth season is currently airing on Sunday nights on AMC in the States, and on Friday nights on FOX in the UK.

Javier Bardem For Pan Role?

Javier Bardem is being eyed for the role of Blackbeard in Joe Wright's upcoming Peter Pan origin movie.

Jason Fuchs will be providing the screenplay for the adaptation of J.M. Barrie's classic character with Arrow executive producer Greg Berlanti producing under his Berlanti Productions and Sarah Schechter overseeing for Warner Bros.

According to Deadline, Fuchs' script has an orphan taken to the magical world of Neverland, where he becomes the savior of the natives and leads a rebellion against evil pirates, lead, or course, by Blackbeard.

This is not the only Pan origin tale in the works - in yet another case of two similar movies happening at the same time (see also: Deep Impact/ Armageddon, Volcano/Dante's Peak, White House Down/Olympus Has Fallen or Avatar/The Smurfs), over at Columbia Pictures  Channing Tatum and Joe Roth are producing Neverland, another take on the start of Peter Pan's adventures.

Which is not to be confused with the recent Sky One mini-series Neverland, which starred Rhys Ifans and Bob Hoskins, and told the origins of P- Well, you get the idea...

Legal Battle Over Bond Characters Is Resolved

The legal battle between MGM and Kevin McClory and his estate is finally over, freeing up the rights to certain characters in the franchise.

McClory helped Ian Fleming in developing the storyline for Thunderball, and as a result McClory has claimed that he created many of the iconic characters from the world of James Bond, presumably Blofeld and SPECTRE, who would appear in successive movies following that.

It was this dispute that lead McClory to release Never Say Never Again, which is essentially just a remake of Thunderball, and is not considered a part of the Bond canon by MGM.

The legal issues were muddled further when Sony tried to buy the rights to Never Say Never Again and its characters from McClory, only to be sued for doing so by MGM (keeping up...?)

In the end, the sensible thing was done, and Blofeld, SPECTRE etc. were retired from the movie series, replaced by organisations such as Quantum.

With the legal issues now having been resolved (and no details have been released as to just how they were resolved), this means that we could theoretically now see Blofeld and co. returning to menace Daniel Craig's Bond in an upcoming movie (though where this would leave Quantum is anyone's guess).

The next Bond movie is expected to hit in 2015.

The Killing - Ironically Still Not Dead

How's this for a shocker - AMC's The Killing is coming back for a fourth season, despite having been cancelled twice already.

The show made an incredibly strong start, but soon degenerated into a bit of a mess, eschewing the standard accepted mystery practice of giving us a cast full of suspects in favour of rather bafflingly deciding to present only one suspect at a time leaving the viewer never without doubt that the supposed killer in any given episode was of course innocent because there were still episodes to go.

This somewhat daft approach, coupled with a baffling decision to stretch the initial case out for a second season even though it was all but solved, which lead to a messy second run that spent far too much time backtracking established facts from the first season, caused AMC to cancel the show.

A decision that they retracted, leading to a third season that few people even knew about - especially in the UK, when C4 refused to stump up for the latest batch of episodes. Unsurprisingly, despiet a pretty favourable reception to the thrid season, the show was cancelled again.

Only now Netflix - fast becoming a legitimate giant of original programming, with the fourth season of Arrested Development and four upcoming Marvel shows to their name, amongst others - have stepped in to give the show a six-episode final run, following on from their help in the production of the third season.

This is a very surprising move, as public demand for more of The Killing can hardly have been huge.

All six episodes will be made available in one chunk - a strong move, as the show is infinitely better when viewed in marathon form, as opposed to once a week - though no release date has yet been set.

Terrence Howard Is Still Being Civil About Iron Man Snub

Terrence Howard has never been one to keep quiet about being replaced by Don Cheadle in the Iron Man franchise.

But you'd have thought that time would have healed those old wounds. Not so.

The famously bat-shit actor is still bitter, and has been sounding off yet again, this time turning his ire on former co-star and all-round legend Robert Downey Jr.

...And you can see how many shits RDJ gives about that...

Speaking at a Bravo event, the actor said:

"It turns out that the person that I helped become Iron Man, when it was time to re-up for the second one, took the money that was supposed to go to me and pushed me out. They came to me with the second and said 'look, we will pay you one-eighth of what we contractually had for you, because we think the second one will be successful with or without you.' And I called my friend, that I helped get the first job, and he didn't call me back for three months."

It should be pointed out that, for some reason, Howard was the highest paid actor in the first movie by some margin, so a reassessment of that for the second - especially when Disney realised just what a huge draw that RDJ was proving to be - should have been expected. And, to be fair, I don't think you'll find anyone (other than Mr. Howard) who refused to go see any further Iron Man films because he was no longer in them.

But, to be honest, if I'd been effectively booted out of the War Machine role before even getting a chance to suit up, I'd take it badly too...

"...Next time..."

"Yeah, about that, Terry..."