One to beam down, which is, occasional accidents apart, a lot safer than falling, we reckon.

Deadline studies that Mulgrew—greatest identified, after all, for her position as the area queen of our hearts Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager, a task she’ll reprise in animated kind later this 12 months for the kids-focused sequence Star Trek: Prodigy—will be part of the Showtime sequence as Drew Finch, a significant recurring position. Described as a CIA operative and “collector of secrets,” Finch is a “master of finding and exploiting the weak link,” which apparently consists of protecting her personal mysterious previous at the hours of darkness from others.

Mulgrew is simply the most recent in an more and more spectacular listing of additives to the solid of the variation of Walter Tevis novel and impressed by the enduring 1976 movie adaptation by Nicolas Roeg. The film starred the legendary and dearly missed David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien being who involves Earth from his devastated homeworld, Anthea, in the hunt for water provides that might save the planet from a lethal drought. Mulgrew joins Chiwetel Ejiofor, who will play the brand new alien being who has fallen to earth in a time of nice upheaval for humanity, and Naomie Harris in the principle solid, alongside Sonya Cassidy, Clarke Peters, and Jimmi Simpson. All this goes a protracted solution to saying we’re not fairly certain it might probably stay as much as Bowie’s flip, however even then, it’s clear Showtime’s taking an enormous swing at making an attempt to observe up on Roeg’s and the music icon’s tackle Tevis’ work.

The new Man Who Fell to Earth sequence is co-produced, co-written, and co-directed by Star Trek architect Alex Kurtzman, who simply appears preposterously busy even simply with Star Trek shenanigans alone. Jenny Lumet is co-producing and co-writing the sequence with Kurtzman, and each will showrun the sequence, which is predicted to launch a while in 2022.

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