Hap and Leonard are poised to remain best friends, if not forever then at least for another season.
SundanceTV has renewed the James Purefoy-Michael Kenneth Williams dramedy for a third season, the cabler announced on Monday. Season 3, like Seasons 1 and 2 before it, will consist of six episodes.
RelatedCable/Streaming Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Cancelled? What’s On the Bubble?
The third season — slated to premiere in 2018 — will draw inspiration from The Two-Bear Mambo, the third installment of author Joe R. Lansdale’s book series. (Season 1 and 2 were based on Savage Season and Mucho Mojo,...
SundanceTV has renewed the James Purefoy-Michael Kenneth Williams dramedy for a third season, the cabler announced on Monday. Season 3, like Seasons 1 and 2 before it, will consist of six episodes.
RelatedCable/Streaming Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Cancelled? What’s On the Bubble?
The third season — slated to premiere in 2018 — will draw inspiration from The Two-Bear Mambo, the third installment of author Joe R. Lansdale’s book series. (Season 1 and 2 were based on Savage Season and Mucho Mojo,...
- 5/1/2017
- TVLine.com
Earlier today, the brand-new Hap and Leonard teaser dropped to promote the forthcoming series from Sundance TV. Based off the best-selling books from author Joe R. Lansdale (Cold in July, Bubba Ho-Tep), the series is slated to premiere in March 2016.Starring Christina Hendricks (Mad Men, The Neon Demon), James Purefoy (The Following, High-Rise), and Michael K. Williams (Boardwalk Empire, Inherent Vice), the series is brought to life by Jim Mickle and his writing partner/actor Nick Damici (both also Cold in July, Stake Land, We Are What We Are).Starting off adapting Lansdale's book Savage Season, the story follows best friends Hap Collins (Purefoy), a white working-class guy who was jailed for dodging the Vietnam draft, and Leonard Pine, an African-American war veteran. Hap's ex-wife Trudy (Hendricks) re-enters the picture with...
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- 12/17/2015
- Screen Anarchy
We’re back with another round-up, this time with news on the horror, sci-fi, and thriller fronts. There’s a possibility that we could see a key character from the upcoming The Walking Dead companion series pop up in the current series. Meanwhile, Babylon 5 fans should be excited by who’s scribing Spike TV’s upcoming Red Mars show and a new writer/producer has been added to SundanceTV’s in-development Hap and Leonard series.
While we eagerly await the return of The Walking Dead Season 5 on February 8th, news about the companion series has helped sate our appetites for more onscreen depictions of Robert Kirkman’s living dead landscape. With most of the core cast now in place and cameras set to roll for the second Walking Dead show, another news item regarding the companion series has come to light, and it might be the biggest one yet.
While we eagerly await the return of The Walking Dead Season 5 on February 8th, news about the companion series has helped sate our appetites for more onscreen depictions of Robert Kirkman’s living dead landscape. With most of the core cast now in place and cameras set to roll for the second Walking Dead show, another news item regarding the companion series has come to light, and it might be the biggest one yet.
- 1/23/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
My favorite writers are the ones that can create a universe where the viewer/reader become so immersed in the storytelling that they not only buy into the rules of that fictional place but also want to revisit every time a new entry in the franchise is presented. My absolute favorite alternate universe is not located on the swamps of Degoba, isn’t located in the zombie ridden wasteland created by Brian Keene, or even J.R. Tolken’s Shire, it’s in a place right here in the good ole U.S. of A, the strange land of East Texas. For over the past twenty years, Joe R Lansdale has crafted a Texas that has included redneck mummies (later adapted in Don Coscarelli’s Bubba Ho Tep), midget cowboys, carnies, and a multitude of other characters.
Two of the most loveable goons to come out of this world are Hap Collins and Leonard Pine.
Two of the most loveable goons to come out of this world are Hap Collins and Leonard Pine.
- 5/24/2011
- by Chris Sandrin
- Destroy the Brain
There are writers whom readers love. There are writers whom writers admire. And then there are the precious few: writers who can captivate a reader with the telling of their tale and with their characters as well as being able to astound their peers – the people who know the mechanics of what he does – and earn their respect by the journeyman-like talent displayed on every page of every book.
Joe R. Lansdale is one of those writers. Since the publication of his first novel, Act of Love, his unique voice has captured both the hearts and the imaginations of readers and wordsmiths alike.
And now, roughly three decades since, he continues to craft engaging, well written novels that spellbind an eager and voracious audience. With titles like The Drive-In, The Bottoms, Dead in the West, Nightrunners, the majestic Fine Dark Line, and the riotous Hap & Leonard Mysteries (Savage Season, Mucho Mojo,...
Joe R. Lansdale is one of those writers. Since the publication of his first novel, Act of Love, his unique voice has captured both the hearts and the imaginations of readers and wordsmiths alike.
And now, roughly three decades since, he continues to craft engaging, well written novels that spellbind an eager and voracious audience. With titles like The Drive-In, The Bottoms, Dead in the West, Nightrunners, the majestic Fine Dark Line, and the riotous Hap & Leonard Mysteries (Savage Season, Mucho Mojo,...
- 1/20/2011
- by Carnell
- DreadCentral.com
After four days of guest blogs from author Joe R. Lansdale, the time has come to reveal the details of the contest tie-in for his new book collection The Complete Drive-In.
Dread Central, in association with Underland Press, is offering one lucky winner a "drive-in" pack that includes a copy of The Complete Drive-In plus the two movies that are playing at the Orbit Drive-In in the novels: The Toolbox Murders and Night of the Living Dead, along with a pack of microwave popcorn.
Synopsis:
Friday night at the Orbit Drive-in: a circus of noise, sex, teenage hormones, B-movie blood, and popcorn. On a cool, crisp summer night, with the Texas stars shining down like rattlesnake eyes, movie-goers for the All-Night Horror Show are trapped in the drive-in by a demonic-looking comet. Then the fun begins. If the movie-goers try to leave, their bodies dissolve into goo. Cowboys are reduced to tears.
Dread Central, in association with Underland Press, is offering one lucky winner a "drive-in" pack that includes a copy of The Complete Drive-In plus the two movies that are playing at the Orbit Drive-In in the novels: The Toolbox Murders and Night of the Living Dead, along with a pack of microwave popcorn.
Synopsis:
Friday night at the Orbit Drive-in: a circus of noise, sex, teenage hormones, B-movie blood, and popcorn. On a cool, crisp summer night, with the Texas stars shining down like rattlesnake eyes, movie-goers for the All-Night Horror Show are trapped in the drive-in by a demonic-looking comet. Then the fun begins. If the movie-goers try to leave, their bodies dissolve into goo. Cowboys are reduced to tears.
- 5/21/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Joe R. Lansdale has been called a Mojo storyteller, a cult figure, a gifted storyteller, a folklorist, and an American original. I prefer to think of him as a purveyor of the Southern Gothic genre with stops to deliver some of the best crime stories through his recurring characters Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. (If you haven’t read a Hap and Leonard story, you need to get with the program and pick up a copy of Savage Season, their first adventure.)
Joe has also delighted horror fans with film versions of his short stories Bubba Ho-Tep and Incident On and Off a Mountain Road.
Dread Central recently spoke with the laconic Texan about how he feels being a cult icon as well as what’s up next.
DC: Thank you so much for taking time to speak with Dread Central, Joe. With your prolific writing schedule, I’m surprised you had the time.
Joe has also delighted horror fans with film versions of his short stories Bubba Ho-Tep and Incident On and Off a Mountain Road.
Dread Central recently spoke with the laconic Texan about how he feels being a cult icon as well as what’s up next.
DC: Thank you so much for taking time to speak with Dread Central, Joe. With your prolific writing schedule, I’m surprised you had the time.
- 2/4/2010
- by thebellefromhell
- DreadCentral.com
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