SF SATURDAY: SAM STRIKE IS ROLAND DESCHAIN IN AMAZON'S THE DARK TOWER STEPHEN KING SF SERIES! KRYPTON SF SERIES SEASON 2 TRAILER IS HERE!

Sam Strike will be the young Deschain!

I'm a bit late with this one, but according to this week's news, Amazon has cast young Sam Strike as the lead star of their THE DARK TOWER fantasy series which is getting a pilot order even though the movie version was a rather big flop two years ago. He will play famous gunslinger Roland Deschain in the small screen adaptation of Stephen King's famous sf saga. As Deadline reports, it will be independent from the film and is meant to be a more faithful retelling of the book than the movie was. The story should take place many years before the events in the film focusing on Roland Deschain’s origin story – how he first became a gunslinger and got his guns, his first conflict with the man in black, his first love and his first mission as a gunslinger. As another addition to the cast, Jasper Pääkkönen has been cast as Marten, a man Roland is out to kill.

SyFy has released the trailer for the 2nd season of their KRYPTON epic series which follows the youth of Superman's grandfather back on their home planet. Season 2 brings us back to a changed Kandor, locked in a battle over its

Blake Ritson stars as evil Brainiac who almost destroyed Krypton

freedom and its future. General Dru-Zod (Colin Salmon) is now in control. He’s on a ruthless mission to rebuild Krypton according to his ideals and to secure its future by conquering the universe. Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe) has to unite a dispersed group of resisters in an effort to defeat Zod and restore hope

The new season will probably start this spring, possibly next month.

to their beloved planet. He will first have to escape the Phanton Zone prison, where he’s been trapped with Brainiac (Blake Ritson) There is also the arrival of ultimate villain Doomsday and intergalactic bounty hunter, Lobo (Emmet J. Scanlan).