Breaking Bad, the much anticipated TV series starring Bryan Cranston, is now set to air on Sunday, January 20 at 10:00/9:00c on AMC. A little later than we previously reported.
Thanks to Thomas a reader for his tip, you can see behind the scene on set photos in our gallery here.
In an attempt to create internet hype AMC has spread “viral” videos on YouTube and other sites under random usernames, that appear as leaks. There have also been some more official promotional videos, making of videos and documentary clips. Watch them all in the above player.
Breaking Bad is a new TV series starring Bryan Cranston (Hal) and it looks like Bryan is coming back in a big way.
Its scheduled to première on Thursday, January 17th at 10:00pmSunday, January 20 at 10:00/9:00c on AMC. This is subject to change due to the ongoing writers strike. Nine episode of the series were ordered by AMC and it is unclear how many have been shot. Whether or not they have all been completed will determine if the show premières on this date as will when the writers strike ends.
So you say you want to make a movie?
I’m working with the Internet web site www.netstudio.tv to develop a short film. We’ve decided we want to make this short film in the Horror genre, and we’re looking for ideas.
It’s actually a contest. If you send in the ideas that we use, you can win cash and prizes.
Contestants can enter at any stage of the contest. Right now we’re at Stage One: The Pitch. THE DEADLINE FOR THIS FIRST PITCH IS OCTOBER 31 MIDNIGHT.[The deadline now seems to be in around 3 days] The deadlines for the following phases will be announced at a later date.
I’m the project’s showrunner. That means I’ll be coordinating the contest and writing the final script. If my schedule permits, I’d like to direct the short film…maybe even act in it.
The finished product will be broadcast on www.netstudio.tv It costs nothing to enter the contest. Please check out the site and go to “fright site.” If you’ve got a scary idea, I want to hear it!
Happy Haunting,
Bryan
Official details and photos have now been release by AMC, on Bryan Cranston’s (Hal) latest project Breaking Bad.
Breaking Bad, the next addictive original series from AMC, is a darkly comic drama that captures life at a moment of irrevocable change. In the ultimate mid-life crisis, high school chemistry teacher Walter White takes a match to his straight-laced existence and concocts a criminal new lifestyle.
Life becomes crystal clear for Walter when he discovers he is dying of lung cancer. With a new sense of fearlessness and desperate to secure his family’s financial future, Walter teams up with a former student to turn a used Winnebago into a rolling meth lab. Released from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society, Walter transforms from repressed everyman into empowered “entrepreneur”.
Created by Vince Gilligan (The X Files) and starring Bryan Cranston (Malcolm in the Middle), Breaking Bad takes us on a journey where everyday life combusts in an uncontrolled experiment with the American dream.
The series premieres in January 2008.
Other behind the scene photos can be seen here. More show details here.
New movie short with Bryan Cranston? We’re not sure as there is very little information on this, the only sources being industrygigs.com and 2 Craig’sLists postings. They are seeking a Gaffer/Set Dresser for a film called The Hollywwod Hollywood Quad.
The misspelling of Hollywood gives it less credibility but Jim Troeshis know as the Hollywood Quad and has a successful podcast of the same name, so a film based on him looks likely. He has also worked with Cranston in the past. We will keep you updated with any more news.
Following up on our previous post on Bryan’s role as Lucifer on ABC’s Fallen: The trilogy has now aired but here is a behind the scenes video of Bryan in a sword fight.
MediaBlvd> What was working with Bryan Cranston like? [Paul Wesley who plays Aaron Corbett, the lead] When I first heard that he was going to be playing Lucifer, I was a little bit surprised because he comes across as such a nice, funny, comedic guy. I’m a fan of his work, but I was like, “Okay, that’s a humorous take on the devil.” But then, after working with him, I learned that he’s such a great dramatic actor. It was a pleasure. I really learned a lot from him. I thought the scenes we did were really powerful, and I think he delivered. His approach was really interesting. He didn’t play the devil in a stereotypical way. He was very compassionate as Lucifer. I thought he was very likable. As an actor, he really came through for us. I think most actors would have played Lucifer with that evil grin and that demeanor, and I think it would have been much less interesting.
[Author Tom Sniegoski who wrote the book series upon which Fallen is based]“I didn’t really mind it when I was watching it,” he went on to add about the Lucifer portrayal in the films. “It was interesting, it was fun, and I liked the way they wrapped things up. But I felt that by making Lucifer the villain, the whole point of the book series was gone just in that portrayal of that character.” However, Sniegoski was very pleased with the choice of Bryan Cranston (Malcom In The Middle) to portray Lucifer. “I read that in Variety. I kind of sat for a minute and thought about it. It’s obvious that he’s a very good actor from Malcolm.” But Tom did end up having to defend that choice to his friends. “Now that I’ve seen it, I can back it up even more. When you first see the character, he’s very nice and fatherly. I thought that was a wonderful take on the character,” he said.
As we have reportedpreviouslyBryan Cranston (Hal) recently starred on stage in Neil Simon’s Chapter Two. Here is a 2nd review that rates Bryan again. If there are any readers who got to see it, it would be great to hear your thoughts.
Solid cast does justice to Simon’s Chapter Two
Benny or Local? If you’re “Chapter Two” director John Burke, you’re probably enjoying a singular opportunity to work with the best of both worlds.
As artistic director of the annual Shadow Lawn Summer Stage series of productions at Monmouth University, Burke has assembled casts that have featured a mix of Actors Equity professionals, community-stage commandos, Monmouth students and occasional characters who appeared to have stumbled onto the set from the fire exit. Results have consequently ranged in quality from the transcendent to the train wreck.
With this revival of Neil Simon’s 1977 comedy, the school’s Music and Theatre Arts Department chair finally has a cast to die for — a quartet of players that includes a couple of Monmouth County’s most versatile pros, along with a pair of talented out-of-towners from screens big and small. It’s a production that’s attracted special attention due to the participation of Bryan Cranston, the Emmy-nominated actor known to millions as Jerry’s swinging dentist on “Seinfeld” — as well as, most memorably, family man Hal on the Fox series Malcolm in the Middle.
In his role as the perennially frustrated, put-upon patriarch in that long-running sitcom, the stalwart character man checked his thespian dignity at the soundstage door and regularly tested the envelope of his considerable energies, going to sometimes superhuman lengths in the service of a sharply-written, creatively realized belly laugh. As the widowed novelist George Schneider in Simon’s quasi-autobiographical play, Cranston is called upon to conjure a very different sort of character — a guy who doesn’t always wear his heart on his sleeve, for whom the right words somehow always manage to be expressed in all the wrong ways.
Keeping a low profile in the early scenes, and gradually dipping into his toolbox of facial expressions and physical-comedy gifts, Cranston finds the requisite laughs in Doc Simon’s dependably gag-infused script — without veering so far into shtick as to dilute the power of his more emotionally wrenching scenes toward the end of this play. It’s a beautifully modulated performance, and a satisfying showcase for a skilled farceur who’s always managed to invest even the silliest of projects with an enormous amount of heart and mind.
Any actor worth his paycheck should be expected to feign likability, of course, but in this production, Cranston finds himself in the company of friends — not least of whom is wife Robin Dearden, the veteran stage-screen actress who co-stars here as Jennie Malone, a recent divorcee who rebounds into a re-marriage as the second Mrs. Schneider. With the action flip-flopping from one Manhattan apartment to another over the course of nearly 20 brief blackout scenes, Cranston and Dearden are asked to telescope what seems like years of life experience into an impulsive whirlwind relationship that seems so doomed, yet so right at its core.
Alternately helping and hindering things are George’s press-agent brother Leo and Jennie’s best friend Faye, played by Shadow Lawn returnee Bill Timoney and his wife, Georgette Reilly Timoney. The Belmar residents are both cartoon-voice specialists and multifaceted artists in their own right; their presence here reinforces the very real sense of rapport among this company.
With the material secure in such good hands, the only problems with the production arise from the fact that it’s being presented in the school’s 700-seat Pollak Theatre, rather than the Summer Stage’s usual home at the charming little Woods Playhouse, a facility that’s currently undergoing some welcome renovations. With whole sections of the auditorium blocked off to ticket buyers, the Pollak makes an unfortunately cavernous setting for this intimately-scaled show.
In the not too distant future, when posterity is able to sort through the prodigious output of the prolific Neil Simon, Chapter Two may take its place as one of the popular playwright’s deepest and most heartfelt works — this despite being ill-served by a 1979 film version that starred a miscast James Caan. Those who might think they’re dealing with the umpteenth dessert-show production of Last of the Red Hot Lovers should grab the opportunity to see this often overlooked play, presented by a group of artists who have mined it for its full heartbreaking, knee-slapping potential.
As previously reported Bryan Cranston next major role is in Breaking Badand AMC original TV series set to air January 2008. Bryan plays a high school chemistry teacher who becomes a meth dealer (using his chemistry skills) when he learns that he is dying of lung cancer so he can provide for his wife and handicapped son after he’s gone.
With its focus on a sympathetic drug peddler, the script from The X-Files exec producer Gilligan had been considered a hot, if controversial, property……The main character does some things that are surprising and questionable……..But it’s a classic story of one man against the system, and you’re rooting for him……While the show doesn’t glorify meth dealing, it does paint a sympathetic portrait of the man who decides to take up an unlikely new vocation as a drug dealer, said those familiar with the project…..
Bryan’s on screen son (16) is played by RJ Mitte (pictured above) which his biggest role to date. RJ and his character share something in common both have cerebral palsy (although RJ’s is mild). For more information on RJ read this article. There is a lack of plot imformation and the current photos we have focus on RJ. But we are on the lookout.
As we have reportedpreviouslyBryan Cranston (Hal) is currently starring on stage in Neil Simons Chapter Two. Here is a review that rates Bryan but is disappointed overall. If there are any readers who get to see it, it would be great to hear your thoughts.
Chapter Two has turned into a blacker comedy than it needs to be at Shadow Lawn Stage in West Long Branch.
Granted, this is Neil Simons most complicated play, for it deals with death and disappointment. The famous line Marry in haste, repent at leisure here becomes “Remarry in haste, and repent almost immediately.”
Give credit, though, to the four performers — including Bryan Cranston (Hal in Malcolm in the Middle) — for making the laughs that do exist to fly over the footlights. All four, however, are sabotaged by set designer Fred Del Guercio and director John Burke — though both men were probably undermined by a small budget.
Del Guercio hasn’t designed a set, but is merely the show’s interior decorator. All he’s done is pick out pieces of furniture, and arrange them into two apartments — one for recent widower, novelist George Schneider, and one for actress Jennie Malone, who’s newly divorced. Behind them, Del Guercio hasn’t created two distinct walls, but has simply dropped an enormous black curtain. That dark expanse imposes an additional heaviness.
Burke, though, is the bigger culprit, for thinking that each scene needs to end with a blackout. Considering that there are 18 scenes, the lights go out far too often. The audience sits in darkness for dozens of seconds, and waits … and waits … and waits. That short-circuits the play’s flow.
Most directors who tackle “Chapter Two” prefer to keep the lights up when, say, George exits from his apartment to end a scene and Jennie comes into hers to begin one. While every now and then a technical worker needs to come on in darkness to deal with a significant prop, Burke still should have kept the blackouts to a minimum.
The chemistry is excellent among the four performers for good reason. Cranston (George) and Robin Dearden (Jennie) are married in real life. So are Bill Timoney, who plays George’s brother Leo, and Georgette Reilly Timoney, who portrays Jennie’s best friend Faye Medwick.
Cranston first wears the mask of tragedy as, at first, George mourns the loss of his beloved wife, cancer-victim Barbara, to whom he was blissfully married for 12 years. When a believable contrivance has him meet Jennie through an errant phone call, Cranston finally gets the chance to put on the mask of comedy. He knows how to play consternated, and can amusingly shrink in his skin when he makes a mistake. At playing benign neurosis, Cranston is a master comedian.
Dearden first plays the divorcee as the seen-it-all New Yorker, seeming as haughty as her impressively high cheekbones. She then displays a third-degree burn on her soul. Eventually she warms into such a nice person that, if George doesn’t appreciate her, many men in the audience will yearn to take his place.
Simon made George and Jennie the “serious” couple, and Leo and Faye the “comic” one. Thus, the Timoneys have more fun. He has an astonishing sense of comic timing, and knows how to punch a punch line. She has a delicious pert quality that usually isn’t seen in this role, but she makes it work wonderfully.
“Chapter Two” isn’t the summer-by-the-sea comedy that audiences may desire on a hot night. Still, for those who always wondered what Hal in “Malcolm in the Middle” did for a living, here’s one answer: Bryan Cranston is an accomplished stage performer who knows that having a strong cast around him makes him look even better.
BY PETER FILICHIA
Performances play Pollak Theatre on the Monmouth University campus July 19-29, 400 Cedar Avenue, West Long Branch, NJ. Tickets are $35. For information, call (732) 263-6889 or visit the official site.
As was reported last year Bryan Cranston (Hal) will have a devilish turn this august in the 2nd and 3rd part of ABC’s Fallen trilogy. Quite a role change from Hal! But as many will know Bryan has shown he is very much a multi-talented actor. He plays Lucifer alongside Aaron Corbett(Paul Wesley) the half-angel. Check out the trailer and behind the scene clips below.
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