Casting News: Tom Mison Joins Robin Hood, Y&R Vet To Days And More
Tom Mison (Sleepy Hollow, Watchmen) is among seven actors joining the recurring cast of MGM+'s modernized Robin Hood adaptation, our sister site Deadline reports. Mison will play Hugh, the father of Rob (NCIS: Sydney's Jack Patten), described as a "proud Saxon with deep ties to the land."
Other additions include Graeme Thomas King (Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists), Anastasia Griffith (Once Upon a Time), Matija Gredić, Mihailo Lazić, Boban Marjanović (John Wick: Chapter 3) and Jelena Gavrilović (The Outpost).
With John Glenn serving as showrunner, the series is described as a "sweeping, romantic adventure, a modern take of the classic tale that brings historical authenticity, psychological depth, and a heightened focus on the relationship between Rob and Marian." Lauren McQueen (Belgravia: The Next Chapter) also stars as Marian.
In other recent casting news...
* Peacock's Days of Our Lives has added Michael Roark (ex-Travis, The Young and the Restless) in an undisclosed role, our sister site Soaps.com confirms. Roark has already been taping and first airs in early October.
* Neil Patrick Harris will host the Netflix game show What's In the Box, in which pairs of contestants compete in trivia rounds to win "jaw-dropping" mystery prizes. "But winning a prize is just the beginning," Netflix warns. "As the game unfolds, shifting alliances and unexpected twists mean only those with sharp instincts — and a little luck — will hold onto their winnings and claim victory." The show, of which six 45-minute episodes have been ordered, will premiere in December.
* Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, Jon Favreau's animation/live-action hybrid series for Disney+, has added Ravi Cabot-Conyers (Skeleton Crew), Mykal-Michelle Harris (Raven's Home) and Ryder Allen (The Penguin), per Deadline.
* Priya Kansara (Dope Girls) has boarded Apple TV+'s For All Mankind spinoff, Star City, in the series regular role of a gifted scientist named Lakshmi, Deadline reports.
* Mackenzie Davis (Halt and Catch Fire) and Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) have joined Josh Hartnett (Penny Dreadful) in Netflix's untitled limited series about a sea creature that terrorizes a remote Newfoundland town.
* Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) will voice Solitus — a fallen Jedi who sought out access to Forcehold, a secret realm full of discarded pieces of the past — in the four-part, animated Disney+ sequel series LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past, premiering Friday, Sept. 19.