Remember Ray Donovan? He’s back! In movie form
Showtime will premiere Ray Donovan: The Movie this January
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American television is losing all its heroes, and there’s very little we can do about it. Titus Welliver hung up the signature Bosch aviators in June. Then, last month, Billy Bob Thorton sent his wrinkly suit from Goliath to the cleaners. Not even the MacGuyver reboot could turn a piece of chewing gum and a paperclip into a sixth season. Isn’t there room for a tough guy in a blazer who refuses to wear a tie this Yellowstone-centric modern age?
But the night is always darkest before dawn. From the past, a hero emerges not because he wants to but because he needs to. Ray Donovan: The Movie will answer the call.
In the long tradition of television shows getting another two hours to fill in any holes or feel out a potential spin-off franchise, Showtime and Liev Schreiber are bringing their famed fixer back for one more job. Ray Donovan: The Movie will pick up where the show left off while diving into the past in a kind of mashup of Deadwood: The Movie and The Many Saints Of Newark. It’s a sequel-prequel, a sprequel.
Here’s the synopsis:
The new film picks up where season seven left off, with Mickey in the wind and Ray determined to find and stop him before he can cause any more carnage. It will also weave together the present-day fallout from the Donovan/Sullivan feud with Ray and Mickey’s origin story from 30 years ago.
Emmy-nominee and star Liev Schrieber will co-write and star in the film. Schrieber wrote the movie with Donovan showrunner David Hollander, who will also direct. In addition to Schrieber beating a man with a baseball bat, the movie also features most of the show’s stars reprising their roles, including Jon Voight, Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok, Pooch Hall, Kerris Dorsey, Katherine Moennig, and Kerry Condon.
Ray Donovan was a long-running hit for Showtime throughout the 2010s, running for seven seasons between 2013 and 2020. But after two years in the shadows, Donovan is ready to bring his bad attitude and paternal hatred back to Showtime.
Ray Donovan: The Movie premieres on Showtime on January 14 at 9 p.m.
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If I remember this correctly about a show I’ve never seen, the makers wanted to wrap this show up after 7 seasons but the studio/channel/whatever talked them into planning a Season 8 but then after they did this, they cancelled the show and they’re like seriously?So if the above is more or less correct, this seems like the least they could do to help wrap things up.
My head hurts from reading that.
Whenever Pooch Hall’s not on screen, all the other characters should be asking “Where’s Pooch Hall?”
No-one will ever convince me that “Dash Mihok” is not a minor character from a Star Wars novelization.
I was actually happy to see Dash mentioned, I have never watched Ray Donovan but I’m glad he apparently had a steady gig for a few years. I have liked him ever since Romeo+Juliet and Whiteboyz.
Oh shit, that’s who he is. Yeah, he was great in Romeo + Juliet. And as the Old Republic pilot in Star Wars: Jedi Chronicles: X-Wing: Andean Promises.
Not trading any of my Alf pogs for that.
I’ve watched the show since day 1, and honestly, I have no great desire to watch this. Its been a drag the past couple of seasons, they should have just let it go.
I tried getting into, really I did. It was great when it was Shrieber doing his Hollywood Fixer thing. The family stuff? No. Just no.
I was way more into this show when it looked like it would focus more heavily on his “fixer” role helping rich attractive people out of jams (and occasionally having sex with them) but then when it got into the darkness of his back story and his family, it became more of a chore to watch, like the last few years of ER that I wish I could have back. And “ice-boxing” his wife just made no sense to me at all (and apparently not to the actress who played his wife either).
Agreed. And I never understood why they got rid of Avi, who was far more interesting a character including Ray himself. Especially the way they got rid of him.Lena, too, was crucial to this show, though at least the actress leaving made sense since she’s on another show.
you’ve obviously never had ice cubes inserted into your vagina before
that deserves a rim shot (no I didn’t say rim *job*)
I kept watching in hopes Terry would die embarrassingly and Conor would get run over by a zamboni.
Isn’t he at the bottom of the ocean?
Wasn’t this just a show for Katherine Moennig to do in between L Word series?
Oh, I’m sure every retiree in my life will be thrilled about this.
finally make up for cancelling that delightful Everybody Loves Raymond, huh? LOL
No one remembers Ray Donovan
Who would want this? Seriously. I wanna know who wants more Ray Donovan.
i hope this and dexter: new blood will teach them to not do this shit anymore, but i doubt it will.