I have screen-capped Mary’s scenes in a behind the scenes video detailing the world of The Returned, which I previously posted about here. You can check out the caps by heading to the gallery. If for some reason the video doesn’t work because of where you live, view it using the Youtube vid below. Mary’s new show will debut Monday, March 9th at 10pm on A&E.
The Film Society Lincoln Center’s 15th edition of Film Comment magazine has announced it’s new film festival line-up and among the many movies is Mary’s latest film, Faults. The movie will play Monday, February 23 at 8:30 pm. Tickets are available on the site which you can purchase here. New stills have also been released which you can view in the gallery.
Also, IGN has premiered a brand new trailer for Mary’s new show, The Returned, based on the French series Les Revenants. View the trailer below and head to the gallery to check out the full set of trailer screencaps.
Below is a new featurette on how artist Dirk Dzimirsky created the character drawings for the A&E series The Returned. The show will premiere next month, March 9, at 10pm. You can see Mary’s drawing as her character Rowan in the gallery. Incredibly beautiful drawings.
This. Looks. Awesome! The first teaser trailer for A&E’s upcoming series The Returned has hit the web and it looks so good! The show is an adaptation of the International Emmy Award-winning French series Les Revenants. You can watch the teaser footage below and check out the full set of screencaps in the gallery.
The first promo stills from Carlton Cuse’s upcoming mystery drama The Returned have hit the web and I’ve added the stills featuring Mary to the gallery. You can view them by clicking the thumbnails below:
I’ve also added pics of Mary featuring her, Carlton Cuse and her co-stars at the TCA panel from today.
Additionally, The Returned‘s executive producers Carlton Cuse and Raelle Tucker emphasized that they weren’t out to fix or amend the French version of the show. “The starting point is similar, but our show becomes quite different around episode 6 where in the French version it becomes quite genre and incident heavy at episode 8,” said Cuse. He further mentioned that the FremantleMedia French series is “working independently on season two currently. Our show going forward will be wholly original.”
When asked about The Returned‘s similarity to Lost in its mysterious intrigue, Cuse said, “The show is a mosaic like Lost. We’re filling in tiles but not in a straight order. The weave of the characters is how the projects are similar.”
Those who did watch Les Revenants will find that the plot line is somewhat similar, since the characters are near carbon-copies from the original. Mark Pellegrino portrays patriarch Jack (Jérôme in the French version), Sophie Lowe plays Lena (versus Léna), Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Rowan (versus Adèle), India Ennenga as Camille, and Sandrine Holy as Julie. (The latter two have the same character names.) “I do think that their performances are quite different from the original French series,” executive producer Raelle Tucker says. “I feel that each one of these people brought the essence of the character. I think over episodes, you will see how those characters are quite different and shift a lot.”
A quick update for all of us looking forward to seeing Mary in the new A&E series The Returned: According to Twitter, tomorrow A&E will be at the winter TCA to present the upcoming show with some of the cast in attendance. Hopefully we’ll get a teaser trailer out of this! 🙂 *Fingers crossed.*
Also, Faults was among IndieWire‘s top ’25 best films of 2015 we’ve already seen’ list. Here’s what they said about the film:
“Faults”
Director: Riley Stearns
Cast: Leland Orser, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Beth Grant, Chris Ellis
Synopsis: A washed-up TV guru/cult expert decides to de-program a young girl from a cult called Faults, in order to pay off the remainder of his debt.
Verdict: Riley Stearns writes and directs his first feature like a man who’s been making compelling, darkly funny, and unpredictably twisted films for years. Films about cults tend to either veer towards undiluted horror (“The Wicker Man,” “Children of the Corn”), eerie drama (“Martha Marcy May Marlene,” “The Master”) or strict genre-fare (“Kill List”), so it’s a testament to Stearns’ talents that he manages such a formidable balancing act of a spooky genre story masquerading as a suburban drama of horrors. Crumbling societal values and power trips with identity make for some of the blackest humor we’ve seen recently, and with the underused Leland Orser absolutely ripping it in a spectacular lead performance, followed so closely by the excellent and instinctive Mary Elizabeth Winstead, “Faults” is likely to end up as one of the year’s very top directorial debuts.
Our Review: Here’s William’s B grade review from SXSW
Release Date: March 6th
The Austin Chronicle also praised the film:
Sharing much of the cast with one of my favorite gonzo action/slasher hyrbids ever, The Guest, Faults could not be more tonally different. Leland Orser plays a washed-up cult deprogrammer named Ansel Roth, hired to get a young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) back with her family. What quickly and disturbingly unfolds is not just a battle of wits, but a Beckett-meets-Mamet descent into interpersonal darkness. Orser gives one of the year’s best performances, while Winstead’s aura of blank innocence gives director Riley Stearns space to take the movies to incredibly dark places. As I wrote during SXSW, “Stearns’ graduation to the feature leagues may be the most quietly impressive since Craig Zobel opened up the Great World of Sound.”
Following the news that The Returned would be premiering March 9th on A&E, Mary’s The Returned co-star Agnes Bruckner posted a first look photo of the cast featured in the latest issue of TV Guide Magazine. In it, there are character descriptions. Mary’s character is named Rowan Blackshaw who is a single mother recovering from the loss of her musician fiance.
Head to the gallery to see the HQ scan!
Yahoo! TV has revealed that A&E’s The Returned, a remake of the French series Les Revenants, will air March 9th at 10 p.m.
The show follows a Washington mountain town that experiences the sudden freakish reappearance of long-lost loved ones and those once left behind aren’t sure whether to rejoice or run. “Technically, it’s a zombie show, but they’re not horrible creatures trying to eat people. They don’t remember anything about how they died and want to reconnect, but life moves on, they’re not quite the same as when they were alive, and It’s impossible to pick up where you left off,” executive producer/writer Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel) explains. “It’s a character-centered meditation on love, loss, and grief with a genre element. We view death as the ultimate event, but what if it isn’t?”
Foreign Exchange: While Cuse says the first six episodes contain a fair amount of overlap with the spooky French favorite, “we tried to fill in character backstories.” And this version, adds Cuse, cuts down on the original’s sense of ennui: “We had to address the different tonal approaches and cultural differences for it to work for an American audience.”
The Returned stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Agnes Bruckner, Mark Pellegrino, Kevin Alejandro, and Sophie Lowe.
Be sure to check your local listings, tune in and set your DVRs!
