Pint-sized theatre critic Iain Armitage has been tapped to lead a potential spin-off of The Big Bang Theory. According to The Wrap, the eight-year-old actor and web personality would play a young Sheldon Cooper—the socially inept physicist portrayed by Emmy winner Jim Parsons in the long-running CBS comedy.
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The new series, which has yet to pick up an official pilot order from the network, is tentatively titled Sheldon and would follow Sheldon growing up in Texas. Broadway alum Zoe Perry (The Other Place) is in negotiations to play Sheldon’s mother Mary—a role played in the original series by her own mother, Tony nominee Laurie Metcalf.
The play is also eyeing a Broadway transfer next season.
Emmy winner Paul Walter Hauser will play the late Saturday Night Live actor.
The Emmy-winning actor will play Dr. Dillamond in Jon M. Chu's screen adaptation of the Broadway hit.
The film will be helmed by Todd Phillips, who produced A Star Is Born.
The Hulu comedy mystery series has featured a host of Broadway favorites since 2021.
Dreamgirls and Beauty and the Beast director Bill Condon will direct the Kander and Ebb musical on screen.
The Peter Shaffer West End and Broadway play is getting a new adaptation.
Written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winner Baker, the cast features Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, Elias Koteas, Will Patton, and Sophie Okonedo.
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