Production has begun in Vancouver on “Human,” a sci-fi cop show pilot from J.J. Abrams (“LOST”) and J.H. Wyman (“Fringe”), starring Minka Kelly (The Roommate) and Karl Urban (Dredd) as LAPD officers working with android partners.
According to The Wrap, Kelly is playing Valerie Stahl, a uniformed cop with good morals and a puppy dogs and ice cream outlook on life. Urban co-stars as John Kennex, an embittered veteran officer critically injured during a mission gone wrong.
Kelly is coming off the failed ABC reboot series “Charlie’s Angeles.” She is best known for playing cheerleader Lyla Garrity on “Friday Night Lights” and for her leading role in Screen Gems’ psycho-bitch thriller The Roommate.
“Guiding Light” and “One Tree Hill” star Bethany Joy Lenz will be a recurring on season eight of Showtime’s “Dexter.” She joins new faces Rhys Coiro (Straw Dogs), Nick Gomez (Looper), old-people actress Charlotte Rampling (Melancholia) and Sean Patrick Flanery (SAW: The Final Chapter).
TV Guide reports that Lenz will play a sexy former finance executive named Cassie, looking for peace and quiet in Dexter’s neighborhood. The character will be introduced in the fourth episode of show’s supposed final season.
Lenz has not starred in a horror project since 1996’s Thinner, a crappy adaptation of the awesome Stephen King novel in which a fat man is cursed to die slowly through weight loss by a gypsy for running over and killing his daughter with his car while getting blown by his wife.
Twentieth Century Fox has released the first official trailer for The Wolverine, a sequel to 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. In theaters July 26, the film is directed by James Mangold (Knight and Day, 3:10 to Yuma) and written by Mark Bomback (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Total Recall).
This time out, Wolverine is in modern day Japan facing off against the Silver Samurai and sexy villainess Viper. Hiroyuki Sanada (“LOST”) plays the Silver Samurai, Russian stunner Svetlana Khodchenkova ( Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) is Viper. Hugh Jackman returns as the Wolverine.
