EXCLUSIVE: Joshua Johnson-Lionel is set to star opposite Ethan Hawke in the forthcoming Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird from Blumhouse Television. Based on the National Book Award-winning novel of the same name by James McBride, Johnson-Lionel will step into the lead role of Onion (aka Henry Shackleford), a…

In his first major foray into television, filmmaker Albert Hughes (Alpha, Menace II Society) has signed on to executive produce and direct multiple episodes of Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird, starring Ethan Hawke. The Good Lord Bird, based on James McBride’s 2013 novel, is told from the point of view of…

Few match-ups of this Broadway season seemed more right from the get-go than the Roundabout Theatre Company’s True West, director James Macdonald’s staging of Sam Shepard’s 1980 play starring Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano. The two actors not only stand among the finest of their generations, but each has, for better or…

During SXSW in 2016, Ethan Hawke and Jason Blum were riding together in Austin's dizzying traffic when Hawke told Blum about a book he had just read with his wife. It was called The Ggod Lord Bird, and he thought they should bring it to the screen. From there, Hawke said, "dominoes started falling." And Monday…

Ethan Hawke and Jason Blum are certainly going to have some The Good Lord Bird to talk about today on-stage at SXSW now that Showtime has officially ordered the limited series. His deal having just closed in the past few days, multiple Oscar nominee Hawke will play pivotal 19th-century abolitionist John Brown in the Bl…