Movie News - Movies and Musicals with Aedín Gormley
Sep 12, 2026 · 15 min · 9 segments
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Aedín GormleyHost
Starting with some casting news, Laura Linney is going to star alongside Morgan Freeman and Michael Keaton, who's actually going to direct the project.
Now, he has directed before, but it's a Western thriller called Road to Rune.
Linney's going to portray Hedda Tessman, who's joining Keating as a retired marshal.
His 40-year search for his wife's killer leads him to an aging outlaw losing his memory.
Linney's character is a frontier trader who works the territory alone, all grit and composure.
And when violence rides on, And in both men, she proves to be the reckoning neither of them saw coming.
Now, Anthony Hopkins, we know he never stops and you've news of his next project to tell.
Yeah, he's going to star in 2048, which is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi film from director Timothy Woodward Jr., Now, they recently worked together on a sci-fi horror film called Eyes in the Trees, which is currently in post-production.
But this one is set in a future where a dying planet has forced the last remnants of humanity underground.
2048 unfolds inside a vast subterranean society controlled by the collective.
So the story follows Wesley, an ordinary worker whose life is upended when he becomes entangled with a hidden resistance, questioning everything that the collective has taught them.
He draws on the attention of Bryant, who will be played by Hopkins, a brilliant and ruthless architect of the collective who maintains his grip over society through surveillance, manipulation and psychological terror.
Starting with some casting news, Laura Linney is going to star alongside Morgan Freeman and Michael Keaton, who's actually going to direct the project.
Now, he has directed before, but it's a Western thriller called Road to Rune.
Linney's going to portray Hedda Tessman, who's joining Keating as a retired marshal.
His 40-year search for his wife's killer leads him to an aging outlaw losing his memory.
Linney's character is a frontier trader who works the territory alone, all grit and composure.
And when violence rides on, And in both men, she proves to be the reckoning neither of them saw coming.
Now, Anthony Hopkins, we know he never stops and you've news of his next project to tell.
Yeah, he's going to star in 2048, which is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi film from director Timothy Woodward Jr., Now, they recently worked together on a sci-fi horror film called Eyes in the Trees, which is currently in post-production.
But this one is set in a future where a dying planet has forced the last remnants of humanity underground.
2048 unfolds inside a vast subterranean society controlled by the collective.
So the story follows Wesley, an ordinary worker whose life is upended when he becomes entangled with a hidden resistance, questioning everything that the collective has taught them.
He draws on the attention of Bryant, who will be played by Hopkins, a brilliant and ruthless architect of the collective who maintains his grip over society through surveillance, manipulation and psychological terror.
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