From International Business Times:
The producers of the upcoming TV show “The Messengers” have released another trailer titled “Faith.” The video gives more hints about what to expect in the series. The lead characters in the series discover that they are the angels of the apocalypse in the trailer. [Warning: Spoilers Alert]
Five people from earth will be chosen from earth to fight the devil, after a mysterious comet hits the earth. Vera Buckley, Erin, Joshua Silburn Jr., Raul Garcia and Peter Moore are the five characters who will each get a superpower to help them with their task.
The new trailer of “The Messengers” shows the comet impacting the earth and the devil rising at the place of impact. The previous trailer of the show had revealed that the comet hit the earth near the “Trinity Site,” a place where the world’s first atomic bomb was tested.
The comet will release a strange energy that will lead to the momentary death of the lead characters in the movie. They however come alive again after sometime with their new powers. The video shows that the reason for the event is that “God is angry” and he is giving the people of earth “a test.”
The angels of the apocalypse will have to find and stop the devil and the trailer shows the lead characters coming together for that purpose. The role of the devil in “The Messengers” is played by Diogo Morgado. The actor had previously played the role of Jesus in the 2014 movie titled “Son of God.”
Some of the other cast members in the TV series are Shantel VanSanten as Vera Buckley, J.D. Pardo as Raul Garcia, Sofia Black-D’Elia as Erin, Joel Courtney as Peter Moore, Jon Fletcher as Joshua Silburn Jr. and Anna Diop as Rose Arvale. The character Rose Arvale can also be seen in the trailer, she is standing alongside the other lead characters in a scene from a bar.
Commenting on the trailer of “The Messengers,” many of the viewers expressed their excitement for the show and some of them said that they would add it to their watch list. The premiere episode of the show is slated to air on April 10, 2015.
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From Deadline:
Winston Duke (Person Of Interest) has booked an arc on CW drama The Messengers, from writer/co-exec producer Eoghan O’Donnell and exec producer Basil Iwanyk. When a mysterious object crashes down to earth, some seemingly unconnected strangers die from the energy pulse but then awaken to learn that they have been deemed responsible for preventing the impending Apocalypse. Duke, repped by SDB Partners, Judy Boals and Frontline Management, will play Zahir Zakaria, a fiery journalist from Mali who is determined to seek justice after an agricultural experiment by Plowman Family Farms goes wrong in a West African village. Duke will appear in the final three episodes with the potential to return next season.
Joel Courtney at the T.J. Martell Foundation's 6th Annual Family Day LA event at CBS Studios on 16 Nov. 2014.
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From The Hollywood Reporter:
Canadian streamer Shomi has acquired the exclusive streaming rights to The CW's sci-fi drama The Messengers and the whimsical Jane the Virgin series in a deal that bypasses broadcast.
"Once our exclusive period is up, the studio is free to license these titles for linear broadcast exhibitions on a second window, but no Canadian broadcaster will have these titles before us, or during our exclusive window," Marni Shulman, head of content and programming at Shomi, told The Hollywood Reporter about the CBS distribution deal.
The Canadian streamer, a joint venture between Rogers Media and Shaw Media, launched last week as Canadian broadcasters compete against streaming goliath Netflix Canada. Shomi earlier did a deal with Sony Pictures Television to acquire the exclusive streaming rights to The Blacklist, which landed on Netflix stateside as a first window.
Shomi is also streaming repeats of U.S. TV hit shows like 2 Broke Girls, Two and a Half Men, DaVinci's Demons and Black Sails. It also has content deals signed with Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Starz Digital Media and BBC Worldwide North America.
Via The Messengers TV. Starring:
- Shantel VanSanten as Vera Buckley
- Jon Fletcher as Joshua Silburn, Jr.
- Sofia Black-D’Elia as Erin Calder
- JD Pardo as Raul Garcia
- Joel Courtney as Peter Moore
- Anna Diop as Rose Arvale
- Craig Frank as Alan Harris
- Diogo Morgado as The Man
In the white-hot sun of the New Mexico desert, scientist Vera Buckley watches in fascination as a mysterious object plummets to Earth and explodes in a blinding flash, sending out a shock wave that briefly stops Vera’s heart and panics her techie coworker, Alan Harris.
Vera is not the only one affected by the blast; she is instantly and mysteriously connected to four other strangers, who also collapse only to miraculously come back to life: Erin Calder, a young mother desperate to protect her 7-year-old daughter from an abusive ex-husband; Peter Moore, a troubled high school student who finally lashes out to end the constant bullying he can no longer endure; Raul Garcia, a federal agent looking to escape his undercover assignment in a violent Mexican drug cartel; and Joshua Silburn Jr., a charismatic second-generation televangelist following in his father’s footsteps – all awaken after the pulse with extraordinary gifts they can barely believe, from inexplicable strength to the ability to heal others.
Most mysterious of all is the figure known only as The Man, who offers Vera the one thing she wants most in life – to be reunited with her kidnapped son – if she will help him with one morally complicated task. That task puts Vera on a collision course with nurse Rose Arvale who, after a seemingly random act of violence left her in a coma for seven years, suddenly begins to stir. As Joshua, Jr. prophesied, the wheels of Revelation have begun to turn, and these five newly christened Angels of the Apocalypse may be the only hope for preventing the impending Rapture.
