Industry News: Kaley Cuoco, Amazon, The Witcher and More!

KALEY CUOCO FILM SNAGS DRECTOR THOMAS VINCENT: The Kaley Cuoco film Role Play, from Studiocanal and The Picture Company, has snagged Thomas Vincent to direct, with a start date in May of 2022. The action-thriller is being framed as a potential franchise featuring a young married couple whose life is upturned when secrets are revealed about their past.

AMAZON IS PREMIERING BURNING AT CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE: Amazon is debuting its feature documentary Burning at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on November 8^th. Oscar and Emmy winner Eva Orner directs the study of catastrophic Australian bushfires in 2019-20.

THE WITCHER TRAILER DROPS: Netflix has released a new trailer for season 2 of The Witcher, starring Henry Cavill as the monster hunter Geralt. The second season opens December 17^th and has already been renewed for season 3, with spinoffs in the works as well.

X-MEN‘S JAMES MCAVOY TO TAKE ON CYRANO DE BERGERAC: James McAvoy is set to reprise his title role in the Cyrano de Bergerac, with a pandemic-delayed staging at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The show bows April 5^th. The production won the Olivier for Best Play Revival for a 2019 staging in London. It was supposed to open at BAM in the spring of 2020, but COVID closed theaters around the world before the first show opened.