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Eddie Izzard is set to star in HBO drama pilot The Devil You Know (formerly New World). Also cast in the project, co-written by Orange Is The New Black creator Jenji Kohan, Bruce Miller and Tracy Miller and directed by Gus Van Sant, are young actresses Nadia Alexander and Ismenia Mendes.

Described as a provocative period drama, The Devil You Know (working title) explores the circumstances around one of the most compelling chapters in American history — the infamous Salem Witch Trials in 17th century New England, where intolerance and repression set neighbor against neighbor and led a town to mass hysteria.
Izzard plays farmer Thomas Putnam, the conservative, rigid and devoutly Puritan patriarch of the powerful Putnam family. He is a leader in agrarian Salem Village, but his top position is being threatened from many sides.

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Izzard, who also co-stars in Sony PlayStation’s comic book-based series Powers, is repped by APA. Mendes, who has been doing theater in New York, recently starring in Grand Concourse at Playwrights Horizon, is repped by Luber Roklin and UTA.

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Eddie Izzard, meet Hannibal Lecter.
The Valkyrie and The Riches actor is coming to Bryan Fuller’s promising-sounding NBC thriller Hannibal in a guest-star role.
Izzard will play an inmate at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane — yes, the very same facility where Hannibal Lecter is eventually incarcerated. Izzard’s character is claiming to be “the infamous Chesapeake Ripper.”
You’ll recall that Izzard was recently on NBC in another Fuller project, starring as Grandpa Munster in Fuller’s Mockingbird Lane, which aired as a Halloween special last month. Previously announced Hannibal guest stars include Gina Torres, Molly Shannon, Ellen Greene and Chelan Simmons. There’s no premiere date yet for Hannibal, but we’re expecting a midseason release.

Creatively, Hannibal has a shot at being NBC’s strongest new show of the season — if you haven’t read our interview with Fuller about his plans to reinvent Dr. Lecter for NBC, check that out here.

“Mockingbird Lane,” Bryan Fuller’s long-planned reboot of “The Munsters,” is finally seeing the light of day. NBC will air the pilot as a special Halloween show on Friday, October 26 at 8 p.m. ET.

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Bullet in the Face is coming to IFC in August

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Set to premiere Summer 2012 on IFC. The six-part, half-hour show is part comedy, part action thriller with guest star actors Eddie Izzard (“Valkyrie,” “Ocean’s Thirteen”) and Eric Roberts (“The Dark Knight,” “The Expendables”) as notorious crime lords.

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Actor/comedian Eddie Izzard is determined to revamp the image of the pirate as Treasure Island cutthroat Long John Silver.

The British star insists his new movie version of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale will terrify kids who thought the outlaws of the sea were lovable rogues like Captain Hook and Captain Jack Sparrow.

He tells TV Guide magazine, “We certainly have softened and romanticised them (pirates)… It’s probably the Disney effect.

“The truth is, pirates were drunken, murderous bastards who didn’t give a f**k about anyone but themselves and would not hesitate to rip you up.

“They were well organised, like mafia gangs. In fact, our approach here is much less classic Treasure Island and much more Goodfellas.”

Treasure Island is on SyFy in the USA on Saturday, May 5th (both episodes). Check local listings.

Eddie Izzard is in final negotiations to co-star in NBC’s Munsters reboot.

The comic actor will costar and have a producer’s credit on writer-producer Bryan Fuller’s dramatic revamp of the campy classic sitcom, which is now titled Mockingbird Lane. Izzard, who’s been circling the role for weeks, will play the ancient vampire and shape-shifter Grandpa in the show. Bryan Singer will direct.

The pilot project was pushed back from spring to summer as production partners focused on improving the show’s creative aspects. Fuller’s other NBC drama pilot Hannibal, a small-screen take on the Hannibal Lecter films, has been going full steam ahead.

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