Talking Volumes returns to St Paul s Fitzgerald with Kate DiCamillo leading an all-star lineup startribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from startribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Queen Latifah developing film adaption of the magical novel ‘The Conductors’
Actress Queen Latifah (Photo Credit: Splash News)
Queen Latifah and her business partner Shakim Compere have partnered their Flavor Unit Entertainment with The Jim Henson Company and are developing a film adaptation of
The Conductors, the fantasy debut novel by African American writer Nicole Glover. The book was released in March and introduces Hetty Rhodes, a magic-user and former conductor on the Underground Railroad who now solves crimes in post–Civil War Philadelphia. Hetty Rhodes helped usher dozens of people north with her wits and magic. Now that the Civil War is over, Hetty and her husband, Benjy, solve murders and mysteries that the White authorities won’t touch.
Jeff Lemire‘s comic book series
Sweet Tooth is getting the Netflix treatment as a streaming show, courtesy of executive producers
Robert Downey Jr. and
Susan Downey. In a new featurette, the two talk about altering the tone of Lemire’s comics from the “foreboding” vibe of the graphic novels to something that is much more family-friendly…which I’m guessing purists who love Lemire’s comics will not exactly be thrilled about. Check out the featurette below.
Sweet Tooth Featurette
Is it just me, or was it a little weird for anyone else to see Downey working on a DC production after spending so much of his career being the face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? I know several actors have made the jump between those two companies before, and it doesn’t even seem like Downey is going to be playing an on-screen role in this show at all, but still – it’s almost like seeing Toucan Sam working behind the scenes for Lucky Charms or something.