Spider-Man: Far From Home helmer Jon Watts is set to direct the pilot and serve as an executive producer on Jeff Bridges' spy series The Old Man, which has also added six-time Emmy winner John Lithgow to its cast, Collider has learned. Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Thomas Perry, the FX series centers on “Dan Chase” (Bridges), who absconded from the CIA decades ago and has been living off the grid ever since. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future, he …
Jon Lithgow has joined HBO’s Perry Mason. Based on the famous novel character, the miniseries stars The Americans’ Matthew Rhys in the title role.
Check out this first look at the indie romance, starring two new lovers in the twilight of their lives and the doomsday bunker one is obsessed with maintaining.
Bleecker Street has released the first trailer for the upcoming drama The Tomorrow Man. Written and directed by Noble Jones, the film stars John Lithgow as a doomsday prepper who meets and falls in love with a woman (played by Blythe Danner) who’s still grieving over the death of her daughter. The story finds these two lonely souls with opposite outlooks—one obsessed with the future, one fixated on the past—coming together and trying to build a relationship together. This looks like a nice movie. Lithgow and Danner are both reliable talents, and it looks like this film …
One of Stephen King's best novels is finding new life in 2019. Paramount Pictures is resurrecting the terrors of Pet Sematary, King's haunting novel about grief and mortality, and why you should always be careful what you wish for. Thirty years after Mary Lambert's original film adaptation landed in theaters, Starry Eyes duo Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer are putting their own stamp on the classic story. Last year, I had the pleasure of joining a group of reporters on the set of Pet Sematary in Montreal, where we got to visit the Creed house, take …