The Fabelmans (2022) breakout and Saturday Night (2024) actor Gabriel LaBelle is joining Not Safe for Life, a dark comedy Like Taxi Driver but set in the age of social media. LaBelle will play a man fighting off nasty internet trolls to defend the honor of a girl who doesn’t even know he exists. Production is set to begin this week in Bulgaria.
From the stage to the station, Patti LuPone (Agatha All Around) is joining CBS’s Elsbeth as a guest star on its third season. Not too far off from her real-life persona, LuPone will play Ruby Lane, a legendary New York cabaret performer who kills both onstage and off.
Marton Csokas has been cast as Halle Berry’s husband in the drama feature Fleur. The actor is best known as the ruthless foe to Denzel in the original The Equalizer (2014) and will now play Berry’s husband of thirty years, whom she suddenly leaves to reinvent herself in Paris. Production is beginning this week.
Jon Abrahams (Meet the Parents, Scary Movie) stars with Felissa Rose (Terrifier 2) and Lew Temple (The Walking Dead) in the new thriller Fractured. The film will follow a man with anxiety who begins to suspect that his reality is being manipulated. Sage O’Bryant will direct the psychological thriller.
Felix Solis (Ozark) joins the NBC reboot of The Rockford Files. Solis will play an L.A. defense attorney and the best friend of Rockford (played by David Boreanaz). The show follows James Rockford as he returns to being a private investigator in Los Angeles.
Yellowjackets has upped Jenna Burgess to a series regular role ahead of its fourth and final season. Burgess joined the survival series in its second season, quickly becoming a fan favorite as the teenage Melissa, played by Hilary Swank in the alternating adult timeline. The anticipated return of the Showtime series is slated for early 2027.
A new generation of Mystery Inc. is coming. Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Scooby-Doo will have Tanner Hagen (The Pitt) as Shaggy Rogers, Abby Ryder Fortson (Carousel) as Velma Dinkley, Maxwell Jenkins (Lost in Space) as Fred Jones, and Mckenna Grace (Regretting You, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) as Daphne Blake. This means that we will get to see the youngest version of the live-action Mystery Inc. yet to date, with the cast’s average age being 19, which is accurate to the original 1969 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! series.