According to Variety, O’Donnell will lead 9-1-1-: Nashville as Captain Don Sharpe, “a rugged fire captain and rodeo rider who runs Nashville’s busiest firehouse with his beloved son. Don’s a devoted husband and family man but he has his secrets.”
According to Deadline, Colin Farrell is in talks to join Luca Guadagnino’s Sgt. Rock, an action period piece set during World War II. After Daniel Craig pulled out of the starring role, it seems the studio moved quickly to attach another actor, this time someone familiar with the superhero genre. Farrell will now be starring in both Gunn’s DCU and in the Elseworlds universe established by Matt Reeves’ The Batman as completely unrelated characters. Of course, it certainly helps that he is almost unrecognizable in the latter franchise. It’s unclear if Sgt. Rock will lead into further appearances in the DCU, but the character did pop up briefly in Max’s Creature Commandos.
The episode opens with the actor behind bars for allegedly carving a… we’ll just say “lewd body part” in his neighbor’s shrubbery. He calls on his new attorneys, Rick Dodsen (Bryan Greenberg) and Stuart Lane (Josh McDermitt), to help him out of the situation. The reason he gets two of the firm’s best is that, well, the fictionalized version of Colantoni has a reputation for being a bit of a pill and demanding preferential treatment due to his role in movies like Galaxy Quest.
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His reaction was one of “Whoa,” as he recalls. “So that’s where this stuff is coming from,” he thought. It became his gateway into classic and heady science fiction from not just Dick but authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlin, Kurt Vonnegut and others.