TV Casting: FIREFLY LANE, AMERICANAH, Morfydd Clark is Galadriel in THE LORD OF THE RINGS, & More

TV Show Casting for Firefly Lane, Americanah, The Lord of the Rings, and More

Firefly Lane, Americanah, The Lord of the Rings, and other TV productions have made recent TV show casting, TV movie casting, and TV directing news. These shows and movies air on: Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Netflix, and Showtime. Beware of spoilers in these casting announcements.

Amazon Prime

The Lord of the Rings

Morfydd Clark has been cast as young Galadriel, a royal Elf of both the Noldor and the Teleri, being a grandchild of both King Finwë and King Olwë…She was one of the leaders in the rebellion of the Noldor and their flight from Valinor during the First Age and was the only Noldo to survive and return at the end of the Third Age. Towards the end of her stay in Middle-earth, she was co-ruler of Lothlórien with her husband, Lord Celeborn,

He joins already cast Maxim Baldry, Joseph Mawle, and Markella Kavenagh.

The Lord of the Rings‘ plot synopsis: The series will be set during the Second Age of Middle Earth.

J.A. Bayona will be directing the first two episodes of the TV adaptation.

Netflix

The Crew

Gary Anthony Williams, Dan Ahdoot, Freddie Stroma, Sarah Stiles, and Jillian Mueller have all been cast in unspecified roles.

They join already cast Kevin James.

Firefly Lane

Patrick Sabongui has been cast as Chad Wiley, “a former journalist, now a college professor, who falls into a forbidden relationship with Tully Hart (Heigl), a promising young journalism student in the 1980s.”

Brendan Taylor has been cast as Mutt, “a 1980s TV news cameraman who pines for his coworker Kate Mularkey (Chalke.) Mutt is a funny, sweet, geeky underdog, with a great heart and hidden depths.”

These actors join already cast Katherine Heigel and Sarah Chalke.

Firefly Lane‘s plot synopsis: based on the novel by Kristin Hannah, “In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all—beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer’s end they’ve become TullyandKate. Inseparable.

So begins Kristin Hannah’s magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives.

From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness.

Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn’t know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she’ll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she’ll envy her famous best friend. . . .

For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship—jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they’ve survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test.

Showtime

Billions

Frank Grillo has been cast as Nico Tanner, “a modern artist.”

HBO Max

Americanah

Zackary Momoh has been cast as Obinze, a student in Nigeria who departs for the west “but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he…plunges into a dangerous undocumented life in London.”

Uzo Aduba has been cast as Aunty Uju, “Ifemelu’s young aunt and confidant. A highly intelligent doctor, Uju left Nigeria under tumultuous circumstances and has resettled in America to build a better life for herself and her son Dike.”

These actors joins already cast Lupita Nyong’o.

Americanah‘s plot synopsis: based on the novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Americanah tells the epic story of Ifemelu (Nyong’o), a young, beautiful, self-assured woman raised in Nigeria, who as a teenager falls in love with her classmate Obinze (Momoh). Living in a military-ruled country, they each depart for the west, with Ifemelu heading for America, where, despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple for the first time with what it means to be black. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous undocumented life in London.”

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