Casting Call
Marvel and Netflix have found their Luke Cage. Halo: Nightfall’s Mike Colter will play the super strong ex- con.
The Walking Dead’s LA set spin- off series casts Deadwood star Kim Dickens as the female lead.
Spartacus a ctor L iam McIntyre, Dexter’s Devon Graye and The Tomorrow People’s Peyton List sign on for villainous roles in The Flash.
Lucy Lawless and Stuart Townsend are heading to Salem for the witchy show’s second season.
John Rhys- Davies, Arrow’s Manu Bennett and Pan’s Labyrinth star Ivana Baquero all set for MTV’s Shannara.
Admiral Adama ( aka Edward James Olmos) to play Robert Gonzales in the second half of SHIE LD’s second season.
Former Ghostbuster Ernie Hudson to appear as Poseidon in episode 15 of Once Upon A Time’s fourth season.
Chuck’s Zachary Levi joining the cast of Heroes: Reborn.
Glee’s Melissa Benoist will be the new Supergirl f or C BS.
How would you sum up
The Catalyst? It’s in part about secrecy – about learning to cope with the knowledge that if anyone truly knew you, they would think you repulsive, and knowing that they would be at least half- right. But I also wanted to write a teenage girl who had far more important things to deal with than the usual pressures put on teenage girls: who wasn’t beautiful, and wasn’t well- liked, and yet could not care less, because she was too busy trying to stop a war.
How long did you work on it?
From writing the first scene to finishing the proofs, almost exactly two years. I wrote it on weekends, after I’d finished my homework, and in my lunch breaks at school.
How did you go about building the world of The book?
I knew my main character would be a monster, and I set about altering the world I knew to accommodate her. I wanted to set the wonders of magic against the half- amused world- weariness of 21st century London. And doing that turned out to require an apocalypse, which is always fun to write.
“I’m very excited to return to the strange and wonderful world of Twin Peaks. I look forward to seeing all of you there. May the
forest be with you”
Kyle MacLachlan announces his return
to in style.
Which SF/ Fantasy authors would you like to be compared to in a dream review?
Oh, any of them. All of them. My favourite authors when I was younger were always SFF: JK Rowling, naturally, Derek Landy, and Stuart Hill, who wrote the Icemark Chronicles, which I used to read over and over. And of course I love the classics: The Midwich Cuckoos, The War Of The Worlds.