Amazon’s upcoming series adaptation of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ graphic novels Criminal has rounded out its cast with several new additions per Deadline. Joining the crime drama are Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy), Chris Diamantopoulos (The Boys in the Boat), Lawrence Kao (Walker: Independence), Kyle Bradley Davis (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Aina Brei’yon (Dark Matter), Robert […]
Emilia Clarke joins Prime Video’s Criminal adaptation
Game of Thrones veteran Emilia Clarke has joined Prime Video’s upcoming Criminal series adaptation based on the graphic novels by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, per Variety. Criminal follows “an inter-generational story of families connected through shared criminal history.” Brubaker and Jordan Harper (Hightown) will serve as showrunners with Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (Captain Marvel) directing […]
Charlie Hunnam to lead Ed Brubaker’s Criminal series
Prime Video’s adaptation of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Criminal comic book series has found its lead, with Deadline revealing that Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) has been cast alongside the previously announced Adria Arjona (Hit Man), Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water) and Kadeem Hardison (Drive). As per the trade, Hunnam will play the […]
Adria Arjona joins Prime Video’s Criminal adaptation
Having received a series order back in January, Prime Video’s upcoming TV adaptation of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ hard-boiled crime comic Criminal has added Star Wars: Andor star Adria Arjona to its cast. Arjona – who will next be seen alongside Glen Powell in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man – joins the previously announced Richard Jenkins […]
Ed Brubaker’s Criminal gets TV series order from Prime Video
Prime Video has announced a series order for an adaptation of Criminal, the hard-boiled crime comic book series from writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips, with Brubaker scripting the pilot as well as co-showrunning with Jordan Harper (Hightown). “Sean and I have been building this world in our books for over a decade, and […]
Netflix Review – Criminal Season 2
Martin Carr reviews season 2 of Netflix’s Criminal… Criminal changed the format for police procedurals by challenging our preconceptions. Extended monologues, voyeuristic interrogations and audience complicity drew people in without scenery chewing. For the guest star suspects including David Tennant and Hayley Atwell in season one, it provided opportunities for a measured masterclass in acting […]
Kit Harrington stars in trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s Criminal
Netflix has released a trailer for the second season of its police procedural anthology series Criminal. The upcoming season sees Game of Thrones‘ Kit Harrington as a suspect in a new set of mysteries. Watch the trailer below… Criminal follows a new take on the police procedural formula as it focuses entirely on the interrogation process between the investigators […]
Netflix’s interrogation drama Criminal gets a first trailer
Netflix has released the first trailer for its upcoming crime drama Criminal. Split across four countries – France, Spain, Germany and the UK – the series is based entirely within the confines of police interrogation rooms and stars Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby, Nicholas Pinnock, Mark Stanley, Rochenda Sandall, and Shubham Saraf with guest appearances from […]
Hayley Atwell, David Tennant and Nicholas Pinnock to star in Netflix’s Criminal
Netflix has announced that Hayley Atwell (Agent Carter), David Tennant (Good Omens) and Nicholas Pinnock (For Life) have been cast in its upcoming police interrogation drama Criminal. Created by George Kay (Killing Eve) and Jim Field Smith (She’s Out of My League), the series is described as “a stripped down, cat-and-mouse drama that will focus […]
The Death of Good Screenwriting in Hollywood
Tom Jolliffe on the death of good screenwriting in Hollywood… Awards season is in full swing, so it seems somewhat ironic to come and bemoan the dearth of good screenwriting within the modern studio system, but I’m going to anyway. Putting aside the award nominated films, my focus is more on those films that are […]
