Week in Review 1.8.16
This week's Week in Review features news items from last week and this week. Casting News From Motown Philly to Teen Angel: the extant version of Boyz II Men will appear in the January 31 live Fox broadcast of Grease . They'll be singing "Beauty School Dropout" to Frenchy. The Grease Live cast is led by Aaron Tveit. Broadway.com has more. Samantha Barks , who wowed audiences as Eponine in the recent film adaptation of Les Miserables , has been cast in the film adaptation of Strike , a 2005 musical about the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. She'll appear alongside Alan Doyle and Barenaked Ladies' Steven Page . Broadway.com has more. Possible casting news: Tom Hardy ( The Revenant , Inception ), Mark Rylance ( Jerusalem , Twelfth Night ), and Kenneth Branagh (every Shakespeare movie you've seen) are in talks to star in Christopher Nolan 's WWII action thriller, Dunkirk . The Wrap has more. Casting for Familiar , the new Danai Gurira ( E...