GRADING THE TRADES
Bryan Cranston to Be Eaten by Zombies
By Lane Brown on
The stars of AMC shows that aren't Walking Dead are getting their piece of the zombie action: Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston is negotiating to join the already cast Mireille Enos (The Killing) and James Badge Dale (Rubicon) in Marc Forster's World War Z, the Brad Pitt-starring adaptation of Max Brooks' zombie-apocalypse novel. Not much is known yet about the role Cranston would play, except that it's "small but flashy." Translation: He will play zombie food. Grade: A [HR]
As if Batman didn't already have enough loathsome villains to deal with in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers shot a scene for the movie on Saturday. Grade: C [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
FX has ordered one new season of Louie and Wilfred each, and two new seasons of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Grade: A [Variety]
Stacy Keach has joined Tony Gilroy's Matt Damon-less The Bourne Legacy — in which Jeremy Renner stars as an assassin trained in the same program as Jason Bourne — in an unspecified role. More important, though, did you know Stacy Keach has an official website? Grade: B+ [Variety]
The agents of Diana Maria Riva and Claudia Bassols thought that if they announced it on a Friday night, nobody would notice they'd joined the cast of Rob Schneider's untitled comedy pilot for CBS. Nice try, guys! Grade: C [Deadline]
Former Laker Rick Fox will guest star on ABC's Body of Proof as a guy suspected of murdering his neighbor. Grade: B [HR]












