Sons of Anarchy creator/executive producer Kurt Sutter took to Instagram to assure his followers that he is OK with series star Charlie Hunnam and FX doing a meta take on his motorcycle gang drama with new limited series Legends.

“I’m not involved with Legends at all, nor should I be,” Sutter, wearing a yellow beanie, said in the video filmed in a “hot box”. “It has nothing to do with the characters I created or the mythology. It is really about the show and the legacy of the show, and quite frankly, there are thousands of people who are responsible for that legacy.”

Developed and executive produced by Hunnam, Legends stars Hunnam and fellow SoA cast members Ron Perlman, Sutter’s wife Katey Sagal, Maggie Siff, Mark Boone Junior, Tommy Flanagan, Kim Coates and Theo Ross.

Legends draws parallels to Galaxy Quest. In it, when the cast of Sons of Anarchy (who will all play themselves) reunites at a fan convention after more than a decade, the line between life and art blurs as the fractured brotherhood finds itself up against a real-world threat more dangerous than anything they ever faced in their show.

“Just want folks to know that Charlie came to me early on, when he was in the process of pitching this to the network, to ask for my blessing, knowing that the IP would probably not be able to be invoked for various reasons of legalese stuff, and I gave Charlie my full blessing,” Sutter said. “I wish nothing but the best for him in this project. My wife is in the project.”

Sutter, who had a recurring role on SoA, was creator executive producer and showrunner of the series, which ran on FX for seven seasons, and co-creator/executive producer of the spinoff Mayans M.C. Sutter was fired from the latter in October 2019 and had some pointed parting words at the time for the bosses who let him go after an internal investigation into cast and crew complaints, longtime collaborators John Landgraf and Dana Walden.

Time tends to heal wounds.

“I have nothing but love for John Landgraf and the folks at FX who have been so good to me, so generous,” Sutter said tonight before giving Legends thumbs-up.

“It has my full-blown watch this motherf*cker because I’ve taken a peek at the script that was perhaps just lying on my wife’s knitting table, and it’s so well done, and I think you’ll dig it,” he said. “I love Charlie to death, and I think you will have mad love for this project as well.”

Legends is developed and executive produced by Hunnam and Jonathan Groff, who serves as showrunner, with Rob Mac, Nicholas Frenkel and Jackie Cohn also serving as executive producers. The series is produced by FX Productions and 20th Television and will be available to watch on FX and Hulu.

The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) will honor two-time Oscar nominee Naomi Watts this year with a Golden Eye Award for her performance in Ben Shirinian’s The Housewife.

In the ’60s-set drama, based on a true-story, a young New York Times journalist, played by Tye Sheridan, tracks down a man he suspects of being a Nazi officer living secretly in Queens (Luke Evans). But when the reporter befriends the suspect’s elegant and enigmatic wife (Watts), the implications of his investigation become much more unsettling.

The Housewife will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival before heading to Zurich. Watts will accept her Golden Eye honor in person in Zurich on Sept. 26 and take part in a ZFF masterclass.

“Since her breakthrough in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts has been one of the most fascinating actresses of our time,” said Zurich Festival CEO Christian Jungen, announcing the honor on Thursday. “Her greatest performances thrive on the tension between glamour and darkness, between what a character reveals and what she conceals — making her the kind of character actress Hitchcock would have loved.”

In The Housewife, said Jungen, Watts “masters this ambiguity as an elegant and mysterious woman [and] delivers one of the most compelling performances of her career.”

Watts is a two-time Academy Award nominee, nominated for best actress in 2004 for her turn as a grieving mother in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 21 Grams; and in 2013 for her role as a survivor of the 2004 tsunami in J.A. Bayona’s The Impossible. On the small screen, her performance as Baby Paley in the second season of Ryan Murphy’s Feud earned her an Emmy nomination for best actress in a limited/anthology series or TV movie.

Previous winners of Zurich’s Golden Eye Award include Kristen Stewart, Jude Law, Benedict Cumberbatch and Dakota Johnson. The 2026 Zurich Film Festival runs Sept. 24 – Oct. 4.

As Hollywood and fans mourn the death of Hayden Panettiere, her Heroes onscreen dad is recalling the late actress’ talent and heart.

Jack Coleman, who starred as Claire’s (Panettiere) father Noah Bennett on the NBC superhero drama, remembered Panettiere as a “prodigious talent” and “extraordinary young woman” in a heartfelt statement after her death at age 36.

“I’m heartbroken. I couldn’t begin to put my thoughts into words until now, and they will be inadequate,” he began on Instagram. “I’ve loved Hayden since day one of the pilot of Heroes, 20 years ago, when she introduced herself by shouting ‘daddy’ and throwing her arms around me. From that day on, she called me daddio. She was Haydini, because she was a magician.”

Coleman continued, “She was a prodigious talent. During an early scene, a tear rolled down her cheek on the same line, take after take. I marveled at her technique. ‘It’s not technique,’ she corrected me. ‘I’m not a trained seal. I feel it and the tears just happen to come at that moment.’ She was 16.”

The actor took aim at the members of the press who “routinely asked obnoxious questions, mostly some version of ‘when are you going to go off the rails?’ Today, we’d recognize those questions for the misogynistic provocations they were.”