From Christmas Charmer to Time-Traveling Cowboy. Trevor Donovan will lead The Devil’s Train, a time-travel action film based on Matthew Dickens’s comic about a stuntman-turned-cowboy. Donovan’s performances have tilted into much safer territory recently with his latest being Chasing Christmas (2025) where his worst enemy is a doodler (trailer).
Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) joins Amazon MGM’s action film The Kellys, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Liam Hemsworth. The film follows a disgraced NYC cop who teams up with his family to save his wife, who is taken hostage by terrorists. No info on Rapace’s role as of now, but we’ve seen her star in action thrillers like What Happened to Monday (2017) and Unlocked (2017), where she was chased by various government agencies. Maybe she’ll be a part of the terrorist organization that forces Arnold Schwarzenegger back to action.
Isabel May, the star of Taylor Sheridan’s 1883, will lead Amazon MGM Studios’ Love Love, a new romantic comedy feature from filmmaker Joey Power (dir. After Everything). May will play a struggling tennis prodigy who forms an unlikely romance with a ball boy at the US Open. Production starts this fall in New York.
Tracey Ullman (Netflix’s Steve), Sam Spruell (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms), and Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones) join FX’s Alien: Earth season 2. Details regarding their roles are under wraps. The second season will follow our protagonists as they go against Weyland-Yutani’s attempt to retrieve their lethal alien assets.
Reda Elazouar (Sex Education) joins Clive Owen in action-thriller Scorpion, directed by Richard Hughes (Dir: The Enforcer). Elazouar will play a young police officer on his first mission with Afghanistan veterans.
From the world of X-Men to the Baywatch beach, actor Blair Redford (Fox’s The Gifted) has been added in a recurring role on Fox’s Baywatch reboot series premiering next Jan.
Joanna Pettet, known for her role as James Bond’s daughter in 1967's Casino Royale, dies at 83. She also starred in Sidney Lumet’s The Group (1966) and made many TV guest appearances in shows like Police Woman and Knight Rider throughout the 70s and 80s.