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Aliyah Camacho to Appear on Prime Video’s Graphic Novel Series “Criminal”

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Aliyah Camacho is adding criminal to her resume… Her acting resume, that is!

The Latina actress has joined the cast of Prime Video’s graphic novel series Criminal in a recurring role.

Aliyah Camacho,Camacho is among a crop of new cast additions that includes Gus Halper and Michael Mando.

They join the previously announced cast of Charlie Hunnam, Adria Arjona, Richard Jenkins, Kadeem Hardison, Logan Browning, Pat Healy, Taylor Selé and John Hawkes.

Criminal is an interlocking universe of crime stories based on the multi-Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series created by Brubaker and Sean Phillips.

Camacho will play Angie, Greta’s (Arjona) daughter. Angie is sharp, alert and maybe a little too adult for her age. Having lost her father at a young age, it is only she and her mom making their way through life. She has an idea of the kind of business her mom is in, no matter how much Greta tries to shield her.

Halper will portray Ricky, an unstable guy who likes booze, coke, and speed (and not within moderation), Ricky Lawless has known Leo since they were teenagers. Like Leo, he’s the son of a criminal — only his dad was the most-feared man in the city, Teeg Lawless.

Mando will play Jeff, a plainclothes Vice detective who pretty much hates all of humanity, and he’s looking to make a score screwing over anyone and everyone that is in his way. The kind of bad cop who uses his badge to shove others around and get them to do his bidding.

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden will direct the first four episodes.

Brubaker will co-showrun with crime fiction author Jordan Harper. Brubaker and Harper EP alongside Sean Phillips, Sarah Carbiener and Philipp Barnett. Legendary Television will also serve as an executive producer. The series is produced by Amazon MGM Studios.

Camacho is best known for playing “Young America Chavez” in Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. She will next appear as “Emma Burdon” in the upcoming film Forty-Seven Days.

Adria Arjona to Star in Ed Brubaker’s Graphic Novel Series “Criminal”

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Adria Arjona is getting criminal…

The 32-year-old Puerto Rican actress has joined the cast of Ed Brubaker’s graphic novel series Criminal  in a series regular role.

Adria ArjonaArjona joins previously announced cast member Richard Jenkins.

Criminal is an interlocking universe of crime stories based on the multi-Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series created by Brubaker and Sean Phillips.

Arjona will bring to life Greta, a sharp-tongued top-level car thief and driver and the widowed mother of Angie. Ever since her husband died in a bank job gone bad, Greta has been battling with herself about how to escape the only life she’s ever known – and the only place she’s ever thrived. The problem is, she’s good at this. She’s looking for a big score, a lump of money she can use like a gun to shoot her and Angie out of this life and into another one.

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden will direct the first four episodes.

The series is executive produced by Brubaker and Jordan Harper, alongside Phillips, Sarah Carbiener and Phillip Barnett.

Legendary Television will also serve as an executive producer. The series is produced by Amazon MGM Studios.

Arjona can currently be seen in Richard Linklater’s Netflix movie Hit Man starring alongside Glen Powell. Before that, she starred as “Bix Caleen” in the Disney+ hit series, Andor, a prequel to Star Wars’ Rogue One film.

Arjona played a recurring role in HBO’s True Detective Season 2, Netflix’s Narcos and HBO’s Irma Vep, a limited series based on Olivier Assayas’ 1996 feature film.

Up next, she’ll be seen in Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut film Blink Twice as well as Los Frikis, a film she stars in and executive produces.

Additionally, she will star alongside Wagner Moura in the feature film adaptation of Francisco Goldman’s bestselling book Say Her Name and Jayro Bustamante’s dystopian thriller El Sombreron opposite Edgar Ramirez.

Prior film credits include Father Of The Bride, Sony’s Marvel franchise Morbius, Netflix’s Sweet Girl, Michael Bay’s Six Underground, Marco Perego Saldana’s feature The Absence Of Eden, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Life of the Party and Triple Frontier.

Rivera to Help Launch Four-Part Comic Book Series Titled “The Valiant”

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Paolo Rivera is taking on a valiant project…

The Eisner Award-winning Hispanic American comic book artist has partnered with Matt Kindt and Jeff Lemire to launch a newly-announced four-part series titled The Valiant in December. 

Paolo Rivera

From publisher Valiant Entertainment, the new project will bring together characters from multiple Valiant series to confront what the publisher describes as “a monstrous force of nature [and] civilization killer.”

“It’s a huge thrill for me to now step into the Valiant Universe in a big way with the upcoming four-issue series,” Lemire said in a statement accompanying the announcement of the series. The Valiant, he said, would “not only serve as a great entry point for brand new readers to Valiant, but also enrich the existing universe and shake it up dramatically moving forward.”

“One of the major things that brought me to this project was the epic scale,” added Rivera, best known for his work on Marvel’s Daredevil. “Most of the stories I’ve worked on, even when action-packed, have been on the level of individuals. While our main characters are still the heart, this story spans epochs and realms, with consequences that, quite literally, affect the entire Earth.”

The series has been compared to DC’s Kingdom Come in terms of prestige, suggesting that it’s being created as an essentially standalone work that could be used as a gateway into the larger Valiant line; while the relaunched Valiant line has been receiving many critical plaudits since its 2012 debut, it has maintained a tight continuity across the entire line that could possibly make it seem less inviting to new readers.

The Valiant will be available in comic book stores and digitally this December.