HBO’s Comedy About Superhero MoviesGrabs Some Supervillains for Its Cast

Beyondprestigegenre dramas , HBO also has some fairly funny comedy under its belt ammunition like Barry and Insecure . The next comedy in the work at the web is The Franchise , which will focus on a group of crew members who work together on the set of a popularsuperhero movie franchise .

produce by 1917 ’s Sam Mendes and Avenue 5 ’s Armando Iannucci , and with Succession author Jon Brown as showrunner , the approaching series recently landed a pair of recur Edgar Albert Guest whizz in Richard E. Grant and Daniel Brühl , both of whom have a chronicle with being baddies . Grant played the older evil Loki in Loki last year ( plus X - Men villain Xander Rice in 2017 ’s Logan ) , and Brühl has been scheme and serving looks in the MCU as Baron Zemo since 2016 ’s Captain America : Civil War . ( Zemo , at least at fourth dimension of writing , is n’t yet confirmed for the upcomingThunderboltsmovie , based on a team that hiscomics incarnationusually headline . ) Hopefully , that repeated real world experience allow the two really stretch their comedic chop .

The show also picked up five series regular in Billy Magnussen ( Aladdin ) , Jessica Hynes ( W1A ) , Isaac Powell ( West Side Story ) , Lolly Adefope ( Ghosts ) , and Darren Goldstein ( Ozark ) . No secondary details were given about any of the mold ’s persona , beyond their name : Adam ( Magnussen ) , Steph ( Hynes ) , Peter ( Powell ) , Dag ( Adeforpe ) Pat ( Goldstein ) , a 2nd Peter ( Grant ) , and Eric ( Brühl ) .

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With how superheroes have become the delimit moment in pop culture for the last 10 or 20 days , it ’s not like The Franchise will be lacking in material to mine for its comedy . HBO ’s track record with comedies is generally strong , so hopefully The Franchise does n’t become a one - and - done when it finally premier on the electronic web in the near futurity .

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