The trend of recognized and talented actors who have made their entire film career make their way to television far from diminishing, if not the opposite.
In 2014 we had the presence of stars such as Clive Owen , Billy Bob Thornton , Halle Berry, Matthew McConaughey , Woody Harrelson, Eva Green and Josh Hartnett, among others, but in 2015 we will have many other actors who will star in a series of TV.
His mere presence will make these series receive an important attention, so it is better to take them into account. Find out below who are these 10 actors who finally gave in to the charms of acting on television and creating characters that we will see once a week:
# 10 Catherine Keener
The actress of Capote , Into the Wild and Being John Malkovich , will star in Show Me a Hero , a six-episode miniseries of HBO, created by David Simon (The Wire).
The miniseries will be set in 1987 and based on real events, more precisely in the figure of Nick Wasicsko, who was the youngest mayor of a city in the United States (will be played by Oscar Isaac) and who took office in the middle of a Great crisis of the city of Yonkers, when the construction of public housing was ordered in a neighborhood dominated by white middle class inhabitants.
This divided the city and unleashed a battle fueled by fears, racism and complex political plots.Catherine Keener will play one of the owners of the neighborhood in question.
# 9 Billy Crystal
In addition to his career as an actor, Billy Crystalhas an extensive career as a comedian, and precisely in this will emphasize his new series The Comedians , which will be on the FX screen in mid-2015.
Following the style of other chain sitcoms, such asLouie or Legit , Billy Crystal will play in the series a veteran comedian named Billy, that is, a more or less fictional version of himself.
# 7 and # 8 Tim Robbins & Jack Black
Another of the big bets of HBO for 2015 is the series The Brink , a black comedy that focuses on a global geopolitical crisis. Tim Robbins stars in the series playing the Secretary of State of the United States, and accompanies him in the cast Jack Black, who will be a Foreign Service diplomat.
# 6 Cuba Gooding Jr.
Ryan Murphy is already working on what will be his new series on the FX network, a sort of spin-off of American Horror Story entitled American Crime Story . Like the horror series, it is a series of anthology (that is, with independent seasons and with self-contained plots), but in this case focused on real cases of crimes and legal trials in the United States.
The first season will address the case of OJ Simpson, which will be interpreted by Cuba Gooding Jr. One of the defense lawyers will be played by David Schwimmer .
# 5 Dwayne Johnson
A new sports comedy entitled Ballers will next year hit HBO, starring Dwayne Johnson , who will appear in the role of a retired athlete. The series was created by Steve Levinson ( Entourage ,Boardwalk Empire ) and will be produced by Dwayne Johnson himself and Mark Wahlberg.
# 3 and # 4 Ed Harris & Hilary Swank
The cable channel Starz has ordered a first season of 10 episodes of a dramatic series called The One Percent , which will have Ed Harris and Hilary Swank as part of the cast. The leading actor will beEd Helms , who you probably know about The Hangover trilogy or the US version of The Office.
But not only its protagonists come from the cinematographic field, since the series was co-created by Alejandro González Iñárritu , director of Amores Perros , 21 Grams , Babel and the recent and acclaimed Birdman .
# 2 Anthony Hopkins
Much has been spoken in the last days ofWestworld , the new science fiction series created by Jonathan Nolan (Christopher’s brother) that was confirmed by HBO to produce at least one full season. Not only because it is based on the classic film of the same name, directed by Michael Crichton, and because JJ Abrams will be in production, but also because it has added a truly dazzling cast, led by Anthony Hopkins.
Other actors that will be at Westworld are James Marsden, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Wright, Miranda Otto and Rodrigo Santoro.
# 1 Patrick Stewart
Perhaps nobody would have imagined this, but the fact is that Sir Patrick Stewart , the star of the X-Men saga and who played the legendary Captain Picard in Star Trek , will be the protagonist of a sitcom called Blunt Talk , which has been confirmed by the Starz chain.
The comedy was created by Jonathan Ames (the creator of Bored to Death ), will be produced by Seth MacFarlane , and will follow the life of a British news anchor (Stewart), who moves to Los Angeles with his assistant and with the charge of several failed marriages, to officiate as a host of a talk show.
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