True Blood (TV series)
... as Alcide Herveaux
Returning in Summer 2011
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Set in the fictional town of Bon Temps, Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress, discovers a new world of creatures when she falls in love with Bill Compton, a vampire.
The first person rumored to be playing Clark Kent in Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot was True Blood’s Joe Manganiello, and a lot of fans agreed with this casting idea. But the part eventually went to Henry Cavill, and we never quite heard what happened to Joe Manganiello, who many thought would make a perfect Man of Steel.
This weekend at Paleyfest, Joe Manganiello finally spoke out on the reasons why he is not Superman, and it all came down to his True Blood Season 4 schedule. The actor simply did not have time to go to Warner Bros. for the screen test, where he would have put on Kal-El’s infamous red, blue and yellow super suit.
“At the end of the day they wanted me to screen test and they actually asked for my measurements for the suit and everything…Their shoot date switched and it would have taken up 11 weeks out of my True Blood ‘ schedule. At the end of the day, we couldn’t get the schedule to work so that I could go off and screen test. So, regrettably, I never go to screen test, I never got to put the suit on.”
Joe Manganiello is currently in the middle of filming Season 4 of True Blood.
Superman comes to theaters in 2012 and stars Henry Cavill, Diane Lane. The film is directed by Zack Snyder.
Source: MovieWeb
Zack Snyder recently handed The Tudors star Henry Cavill the high-profile role of Superman in his upcoming reboot, but it turns out that he came close to casting another star of another nudity-filled premium-cable show: True Blood’s Joe Manganiello. The six-foot-five actor had been rumored as a front-runner for the role for months, and in the new issue of EW (not yet online), Snyder confirms that it was a Cavill-Manganiello race until the end of last month. “Joe’s a great guy,” says Snyder, who attributes his final pick to a gut decision. “I really liked him. It was about seeing a quality that inspires this inexplicable, mysterious, cool emotion that says, ‘That’s my guy.’” Although, when it comes to Christian Bale, maybe Cavill is a little too mysterious.
Source: NY Mag
Daniel Buran (Level 26: Dark Origins) has joined the cast of Alan Ball’s vampire drama True Blood for a meaty seven-episode arc on the upcoming fourth season. The actor, repped by Rebel and Leverage, will play Raoul, the werewolf packmaster of Shreveport.
Source: Deadline
Director Zack Snyder and Warner Bros. have announced their pick to be Superman in an upcoming adaptation of the franchise — and much to the disdain of many “True Blood” fans, it is not Joe Manganiello.
Rather, production has decided to go with British actor Henry Cavill — a man best known here in the United States for his role on Showtime’s “The Tudors.” Casting people new to the American film world has largely been a tradition for the “Superman” franchise over the years — beginning with TV star Christopher Reeve and then going on to Brandon Routh.
Will this project ultimately be good? With the talent of both Snyder and executive producer Christopher Nolan, you have to believe there is at least promise to bring the franchise back to the days of old.
What do you think about this casting?
Source: Examiner
Joe Manganiello must be howling at the moon — the “True Blood” werewolf is definitely in the running for the new “Superman.”
The Ministry hassled its fanboy brother Hero Complex for details, as Hero tweeted Tuesday that the actor was high on a list of potentials to play the Man of Steel.
Here’s what we know: At last week’s Academy Bake Off, a celebration of visual effects in film, talk around the room (especially from the team working on the new “Superman”) said Manganiello kept popping up in serious talks about a new face for the franchise.
He’d fit right in — director Zack Snyder is no stranger to ab-tastic leading men (as he made Gerard Butler a star with “300″), and producer Christopher Nolan also has experience molding breakout hotties (ahem, Tom Hardy).
Many hearts will be broken upon hearing that Joe Manganiello is officially off the market.
The “True Blood” star popped the question to his girlfriend, actress-model Audra Marie, while the couple was on a recent vacation in Italy, his rep told People.com.
Though they are now looking forward to their future together, things weren’t always so lovey-dovey when the pair first met at a 2009 Super Bowl party.
“She wouldn’t go out with me for six months,” Manganiello told the mag. “We started dating a few months before I got cast [on 'True Blood'].”
In September, the couple couldn’t resist from gushing about each other’s best qualities.
Joe Manganiello, who plays nice-guy werewolf Alcide Hervieux on True Blood, faced the daunting prospect of bringing to the screen a character already beloved by fans of Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire Mysteries novels. Viewers haven’t yet seen much of the romance between Anna Paquin’s Sookie Stackhouse and Manganiello’s Alcide, which takes up much of the third book, Club Dead. But, as Manganiello tells us, more is on the way.
Mike Ryan: In the third book, Alcide and Sookie’s romantic relationship seems more advanced than it does in the series.
Joe Manganiello: Well, the way that it’s been depicted so far in the series is almost exactly in line with the way that the book is. Alcide is in all of the books from the third one on, so the relationship builds from there. But we’re still in the infancy stage—them getting to know each other.
On Sunday night, Alcide spared the life of Debbie Pelt (Brit Morgan). Does Alcide still harbor feelings for Debbie?
Is Alcide going to get back with Debbie? No way in hell. I think she’s psychotic. He didn’t want to get back together with her; he didn’t even want to go back in there. It was really and truly Sookie dragging Alcide back in there. Sookie’s been the catalyst for the emerging leader that comes out of Alcide, which winds up being his arc. In the book, he’s a construction worker who wants to have nothing to do with politics or anything—and really doesn’t want to have much to do with being a werewolf. It’s the unlikely story of how that unlikely hero becomes King of the Wolves, basically.