Aeon Flux Joins ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT'' Hannibal Lecktor In DEADWOOD''

I am – Hercules!!

The Hollywood Reporter checks in Tuesday morning with two keen pieces of casting news.

“Aeon Flux” star Charlize Theron will appear on five episodes of “Arrested Development” this coming season. She’ll play a Brit and potential love interest for Michael Bluth. It’s her first regular TV role. Read more here.

Brian Cox, the actor who – among many, many other things – was the first to play Hannibal the Cannibal (in Michael Mann’s “Manhunter”), is joining the cast of “Deadwood” for seven episodes. He’ll be playing a theatrical producer named Jack Langrishe. Read more here.

Look! If you can hold off another another few weeks, retailers will make available on Sept. 20 what’s said to be a better, less-expensive season-one “Galactica” set, one that contains not only all 13 episodes of the first 2005 regular season but also the entire 2003 miniseries. Plus? Commentaries by series creator Ron Moore on the miniseries and nine of the first season’s 13 hours. The five-disc Sept. 20 version is said to contain also deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes material, sketches, art and other extras.

Look! Were Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader two different people in the early drafts of “The Empire Strikes Back”? All is revealed in The Annotated Screenplays (Star Wars, Episodes IV-VI)!!

Look! A fabulous new book co-edited by big-deal "Buffy"-"Firefly"-"Gilmore Girls" TV writer Jane Espenson. She introduces each of the essays, and the whole book besides:
Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly!!

Look! The comic book Joss Whedon wants to see on TV: Global Frequency Vol. 1 and Global Frequency Vol. 2!!

Look! Original casting tapes! Deleted scenes!
Audio commentaries! Backstage with Drive Shaft!
Lost: The Complete First Season on DVD!!