It’s unclear if Todd Haynes will ever return to his shelved queer romance drama after Joaquin Phoenix dropped out of the project just days before filming was set to begin. But if Haynes still wants to make it, Lewis Pullman is happy to take on Phoenix’s role.

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IndieWire (via Variety) reports that Pullman wants to join his “Top Gun: Maverick” co-star Danny Ramirez on the untitled film and possibly revive it from its unfortunate fate.

Continue reading Lewis Pullman Says He’s “Here” To Replace Joaquin Phoenix In Todd Haynes’ Scrapped Queer Romance: “I Would Love To Get That Call” at The Playlist.

In this week’s episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo is bitten by the latest Stephen King adaptation, “Salem’s Lot.” The vampire film follows an author who returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot, hoping to find inspiration for his next novel, only to uncover that a bloodthirsty vampire is terrorizing the town. The Gary Dauberman (“Annabelle Comes Home”) film stars Lewis Pullman, Mackenzie Leigh, Bill Camp, Spencer Treat Clark, Alfre Woodard and more. 

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Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, “The Line” has been described as a frathouse thriller, which obviously has intriguing implications about the dogmatic loyalties often expected in these peer groups. The feature debut of director Ethan Berger, “The Line,” stars Alex Wolff (“A Quiet Place: Day One”) as a scholarship student desperate to break free from his working-class background and increasingly seduced by fraternity life.

Continue reading ‘The Line’ Trailer: Alex Wolff & Lewis Pullman Star In A Dark Frathouse Thriller at The Playlist.

Following his turn in “Top Gun: Maverick,” actor Lewis Pullman, the son of Bill Pullman, seems to be everywhere. From appearances on “Lessons With Chemistry” opposite Brie Larson to “Outer Range” with Josh Brolin, the 31-year-old actor is definitely on the rise. His latest onscreen appearance is the supernatural horror film “Salem’s Lot,” written and directed by Gary Dauberman, which was the opening film at the Beyond Fest earlier this week and is scheduled to be released by Max on October 3, 2024.

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At long last, Gary Dauberman‘s “Salem’s Lot” will reach audiences when it premieres on Max next month. But what took Warner Bros. so long to release it? The Stephen King adaptation from the “Annabelle” and “The Nun” director was shot nearly three years ago after being announced by New Line in April 2019.

Continue reading ‘Salem’s Lot’ Trailer: Lewis Pullman Stars In ’70s-Set Stephen King Adaptation Hitting Max On October 3 at The Playlist.

There’s something creepy about fraternities and sororities, right? They have such silly rules and seemingly smart kids all turn into lemmings to join their ranks. It’s strange. And that’s what’s at the heart of the new film, “The Line.”

As seen in the teaser, “The Line” follows a group of kids all attempting to get a foot in the door of the most prestigious fraternity on campus. However, as you might expect, things get out of hand, as young men attempt to do anything to land a spot in the frat and to earn a higher social status.

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Thanks to the massive success of the “IT” films, studios have been rushing to adapt every Stephen King property they can get their hands on. One of those is the upcoming film adaptation of the classic King book, “Salem’s Lot.”

READ MORE: ‘The Running Man’: Glen Powell To Star In Edgar Wright’s Remake Of Stephen King’s Richard Bachman Chase Thriller

With “Salem’s Lot” expected to arrive on Max in a couple of months, we finally have our first look at the film, via new photos from Vanity Fair.

Continue reading ‘Salem’s Lot’ First Look: Lewis Pullman Stars In New ’70s-Set Stephen King Adaptation at The Playlist.

Over the weekend, you might have heard that Marvel Studios had a little Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con. And while most of the headline-grabbing news was about the Russo Brothers and Robert Downey, Jr., there were other films talked about, including “Thunderbolts*.” And one of the confirmations we got from that presentation was about Lewis Pullman possibly playing the antagonist of the film.

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If time is a river, as the oft-repeated phrase echoes through the second season of Prime Video’s mysterious, existential Western and metaphysical sci-fi series, the “Outer Range,” then the unrelenting flow of time is also an unforgivable force that stops for no man. Weirder and darker than ever, and yet somehow streamlined and more ruggedly focused, thanks to the series’ new veteran showrunner Charles Murray (“Deadwood,” “Hill Street Blues,” and “Sons Of Anarchy”), “Outer Range” continues to grip and mesmerize with its mind-bending, enigmatic blend of family anxieties, crisis-of-faith dilemmas, impending land rivalries, and the burden of keeping secrets.

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Two years after it premiered, one of our favorite shows of 2022, “The Outer Range” returns this summer (read our review). Something of an unusual but welcome mix of “Yellowstone” family drama and existential “X-Files” sci-fi, “Outer Range” star Josh Brolin as a rancher in Wyoming fighting for his land and his family, who discovers something unfathomable on its outskirts. Brolin also makes his directorial debut with season two’s penultimate episode

The mindbending series also features an outstanding cast including Imogen Poots (“Baltimore”), Lili Taylor (“Manhunt”), Tamara Podemski (“Reservation Dogs”), Lewis Pullman (“Top Gun: Maverick”), Tom Pelphrey (“Ozark”), Noah Reid (“Schitt’s Creek”), Shaun Sipos (“Reacher”), Isabel Arraiza (“The Little Things”), Olive Abercrombie (“The Haunting of Hill House”), and Will Patton (“Horizon: An American Saga”), among others.

Continue reading ‘Outer Range’ Season 2 Trailer: Time Is A Motherf***er for Josh Brolin at The Playlist.

Amazon Prime Video‘s acclaimed sci-fi Western series “Outer Range” is finally making its return. Today, the streaming service announced the series will debut on May 16 and shared some new first-look images from the show.

Oscar-nominee Josh Brolin (“Dune: Part Two”) returns to lead the cast of “Outer Range” which also features an impressive ensemble that includes Imogen Poots (“Baltimore”), Lili Taylor (“Manhunt”), Tamara Podemski (“Reservation Dogs”), Lewis Pullman (“Lessons In Chemistry”), Tom Pelphrey (“Ozark”), Noah Reid (“Schitt’s Creek”), Shaun Sipos (“Reacher”), Isabel Arraiza (“The Little Things”), Olive Abercrombie (“The Haunting of Hill House”), and Will Patton (“Horizon: An American Saga”).

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The first big Marvel story of 2024 was Steven Yeun exiting “Thunderbolts” due to scheduling conflicts. Yeun joined the cast of the MCU installment last February, and if the rumors are true, he would’ve played the movie’s villain, Sentry. Now it appears Kevin Feige & co. have found their replacement. Deadline reports that Lewis Pullman is the studio’s top choice to replace Yeun as “Thunderbolts” looks to head into production soon.

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Charming performances and strong production values struggle to push through overwritten dialogue and ham-fisted plotting in Apple TV+’s mini-series “Lessons in Chemistry,” based on the hit 2022 novel by Bonnie Garmus. At its core, this is a story about how it is not predictable formulas that make up the building blocks of life but the chaotic random elements that define our journey. Trying to cram an overstuffed debut novel (and adding a bit more stuffing even) into eight episodes leads to a mini-series that often tells much more than it shows, allowing characters to become thematic and cultural mouthpieces more often than it should.

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What happens when life doesn’t go exactly as planned? “Lessons in Chemistry,” a new limited series for Apple TV+, explores this question as it follows Elizabeth Zott, a woman faced with something far from her dreams. Losing out on a chance to become a scientist sends her toward an unexpected career change; but hosting a cooking series allows Zott the opportunity to show ‘50s audiences that women are capable of so much more.

Continue reading ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ Trailer: New Limited Series Starring Brie Larson Hits Apple TV+ On October 13 at The Playlist.

At just 23 years old, Eliza Scanlen has already amassed one of the most formidable filmographies of her Zoomer peers. “The Starling Girl” is just the latest addition to a sterling résumé packed with commercial success and indie darlings alike. If there’s anything that seems to unite her roles, it’s how one finds themselves within the context of a family unit. In projects like “Little Women” and “Babyteeth,” familial bonds can be a mostly positive and protective force — even if they can form a closed ecosystem from the world around them.

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Despite everyone’s differences in upbringing, growing up is a difficult experience that is universal and nondenominational. While we all know this and have seen countless coming-of-age films that tackle the difficulty of discovering yourself, your wants, and your dreams, Laurel Parmet’s “The Starling Girl” puts a twist on the genre that explores Christianity, crushes, and power dynamics. 

From the trailer, you can tell that this is going to be an emotional story following seventeen-year-old Jem Starling as she struggles to define her place within her fundamentalist community in Kentucky.

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Apple TV+ has an extensive slate of releases in 2023, with “Extrapolations,” “Hello Tomorrow!” and “The Last Thing He Told Me” already premiering. And more dramas arrive on the streamer later this year, like “Lessons In Chemistry,” with Brie Larson in the leading role.

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Based on the bestselling debut novel of the same name by Bonnie Garmus, “Lessons In Chemistry” follows Larson as an aspiring scientist who must resort to hosting a TV cooking show to realize her dreams.

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Richard Pryor used to do a bit on the differences between Black and white churches – one that was often revised and revisited by his many imitators in the decades that followed. But one thing he got particularly right, beyond the lameness of the hymns and the restrained quality of the ministers, is the eerie quiet of white churches, the way that the fires of hell and the sins of man can be described in tones barely more threatening than a hot dish recipe.

Continue reading ‘The Starling Girl’ Review: Eliza Scanlen Shines in This Deeply Felt Coming-Of-Age Drama [Sundance] at The Playlist.