STEVEN SPIELBERG'S "NAPOLEON" EPIC MINI SERIES! ELIZA TAYLOR IN "HUNDRED" SF SHOW, MICHAEL MALARKEY IS SF PRINCE IN "THE SELECTION" TV EPIC! TAYLOR KITSCH & JIM PARSONS IN "THE NORMAL HEART"! MICHAEL EALY IS ROBOT IN J.J. ABRAMS NEW SF SHOW

Since your trusted HOLLYWOOD SPY is one of web's leading places for all things historical, we are ever so excited with the number of epic

 movies and series which await us in the future. Another one on this list is a television series on NAPOLEON! According to "Digital Spy" legendary Steven Spielberg will helm this new show based on the materials which are deemed to be Stanley Kubrick's unfinished life's work! Instead of a movie, the material on the infamous French general and ruler who covered half of Europe with blood and death, will be turned into TV series! Kubrick wrote the script back in the 1960's but didn't produce it due to high costs so this will now be second of his projects to be finished by Spielberg since Steven also directed and finished Kubrick's last film A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE after Kubrick died in the 90's!

  HUNDRED & SELECTION SF SHOWS CAST ADDITIONS 

In other TV news today, CW's upcoming sf pilot THE HUNDRED has found its lead star in Australian actress and beauty Eliza Taylor. In the show set almost a century after a nuclear war devastated the Earth she will play a young rebel who is part of a 100-strong spaceship crew sent back to the planet to rebuild the human race. I've reported earlier last week that Australian boys Bob Morley and Eli Goree will also play members of the spaceship crew! They are just some of the many Australian actors who are scoring roles in new US TV pilots, and you already know that

another Oz girl, Adelaide Kane will play Mary Queen of Scots in CW's new historical drama REIGN! CW has also found their male lead for another sf teen project - THE SELECTION which is set 300 years in the future and follows an epic romance centring on a young woman named America Singer (I reported last week that Israeli actress Yael Grobglas has been picked for the role) chosen by lottery to participate in a competition with 25 other women for the Royal Prince Maxon's hand to become the nation's next queen.

Balancing her loyalty to family, true love and the kingdom, she must attempt to remain true to herself as she navigates the cutthroat competition and palace intrigue, all while a budding rebellion threatens to topple the crown. The update is that young Michael Malarkey will play prince Maxon, the charming, self-serving and untrustworthy son of the king and queen who are not pleased with his reckless behaviour. He's thrilled to have a group of young women competing for his affections and is intrigued by the feisty labor class girl America. Another cast member is Lucien Laviscount who will play Aspen Leger, a handsome and brave man from the servant class who is having a secret and illegal relationship with America!

  J.J. ABRAMS ROBOT SERIES 

Meanwhile, over at HBO their upcoming mini series THE NORMAL HEART which already has Matt Bomer, Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo in the cast, has just added JOHN CARTER's Taylor Kitsch and BIG BANG THEORY's Jim Parsons. The series tells the story of the AIDS crisis in New York City during the early 1980s! THR reports that Fox has also found an actor for their upcoming sf pilot! Michael Ealy will star in the untitled robot drama produced by J.J. Abrams. This action packed buddy cop show set in the near future, when all LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved humanlike androids, will see Ealy playing Dorian, the android partner of LAPD officer John Kennex who understands humanity more than his human counterpart.