Haley Joel Osment Joins Amazon Series THE BOOK OF STRANGE NEW THINGS
Haley Joel Osment has been cast in the upcoming Amazon series The Book of Strange New Things according to THR. The series is based on the hit novel of the same name by Michael Faber. Osment will join Richard Madden, who will play the series lead. Here's a description for the book...
Peter Leigh, an English pastor decides to leave his wife Beatrice in order to be a missionary. It is gradually revealed that rather than being a missionary on a different country he has been hired by a private American corporation called USIC to preach to the native population of a distant planet called Oasis. Peter expects to find hostility when meeting the native population but finds instead that they are extremely welcoming, already speak English very well and are passionate devotees of the Christian faith, referring to themselves as Jesus Lover One, Two, etc.
Well, that's not at all what I was expecting! You read a title like The Book of Strange New Things, and think it's going to be something out of the same realm as Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, not a sci-fi show with a Christian twist. At least it's original!
Osment will play a colony worker who used to grow lots of marijuana but has since found religion. No date has been set for the series.