Phoebe Buffay is swapping Central Perk for travelling through time, because Lisa Kudrow has joined Taika Waititi’s TV series adaptation of Terry Gilliam’s 1981 fantasy movie Time Bandits.
Kudrow, who won an Emmy for Friends, will head the cast for Apple TV series. The show has also cast seven other actors; Charlyne Yi (Knocked Up, This is 40, The Disaster Artist), Kal-El Tuck, Tadhg Murphy, Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, Rune Temte, Kiera Thompson and and Waititi regular Rachel House.
Waititi is the co-writer of the series and will direct the first two episodes. Waititi has his fingers in many TV pies at the moment – he’s an executive producer of fantasy series What We Do in the Shadows (which is based on Waititi’s 2014 movie), he created Reservation Dogs for Hulu, and stars in the comedy series Our Flag Means Death for HBO Max.
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