Hollywood stars Emma Stone and Jonah Hill have joined the list of actors turning to television with Netflix’s Maniac, a dark comedy mini-series looking at human connection. Oscar winner Stone and The Wolf of Wolf Street star Hill play Annie and Owen, two strangers with personal problems who take part in a pharmaceutical drug trial. A trailer shows the two characters in multiple, sometimes fantastical, settings during the experiment where they are told by the doctor leading the trial that “pain can be destroyed, the mind can be solved”. “It seemed like a great opportunity to dive into this world that was sort of different from ours but talking about a lot of the themes that we deal with today in modern society,” Stone, who has worked with Hill in the 2007 comedy Superbad, told Reuters.
Hollywood veteran Robert Redford, who said last month The Old Man & The Gun will be his last film, appears to have locked his decision as he says he cannot hang around “forever”. “I can’t last forever,” Redford told Variety. He plans to relax and spend some time going horse-riding when he hangs his boots as an actor.
Actor Nicolas Cage believes that his 2007 superhero film Ghost Rider would have been a hit if it was made and released in the present era. The 54-year-old actor told Yahoo Entertainment that an R-rated Ghost Rider, made on the lines of Deadpool, would be “enormously successful” today. “Had Ghost Rider been made in R-rated format, the way they had the guts to do with Deadpool, and they did it again today, I’m fairly certain it would be enormously successful,” Cage said. Upon its debut, Cage’s film was panned by the critics and grossed $115 million in the US against a $110 million budget.
Chris Pratt and writer Katherine Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s eldest daughter, are ‘’very serious’’ about each other. The pair, who were first spotted together during a picnic on Father’s Day earlier this summer, might get engaged soon, reported People magazine. “They’re such a great fit together. It’s only been a few months but Chris and Katherine are both very serious about the relationship and their friends wouldn’t be surprised if they got engaged sooner rather than later. Katherine has spent time with Chris’ family and they all love her too. She fits in really well with them and vice versa,” a source said. Pratt, 39, and Schwarzenegger, 28, first met through her mom Maria Shriver.
