What is Ray Donovan?
Ray Donovan is an American crime drama television series created by Ann Biderman for Showtime. The twelve-episode first season premiered on June 30, 2013.[1][2][3] The pilot episode broke viewership records, becoming the biggest premiere of all time on Showtime.[4] On February 4, 2020, Showtime canceled the series after seven seasons, though on February 24, 2021, the network announced a feature-length film to conclude the storyline, to premiere in 2022.
When will the Ray Donovan movie release?
Unfortunately, there’s no specific release date for the “Ray Donovan” movie yet. And it’s a little bit difficult to speculate on the exact date that fans should plan on. For one, production and release dates for the episodes themselves were sporadic during later seasons of the show. Secondly, COVID-19 still hasn’t been completely eliminated yet — which may affect production times, especially with news of Delta variants spreading across the U.S. (according to The Atlantic).
However, if this under-construction IMDb page is to be believed, fans will be getting their closure sooner rather than later. If you look closely, you can see that the page states that the movie is “in production” and is expected to have a 2022 release date, though when in 2022 is hard to say. Early or mid-July would be a comfortable prediction seeing as how the first several seasons of the show premiered like clockwork during that time frame. Then again, if the network is working hard to produce the movie and get it out as soon as possible, fans could get it even earlier than that. There’s no way to know for sure right now.
What is the plot of Ray Donovan?
Touching back on that Entertainment Weekly article, the official synopsis for the movie notes that “the film picks up where Season 7 left off, with Mickey in the wind and Ray determined to find and stop him before he can cause any more carnage. It will also weave together the present-day fallout from the Donovan/Sullivan feud with Ray and Mickey’s origin story from 30 years ago.” Hollander also teased fans during an interview with Vulture that all the unanswered questions that left fans agape at the end of Season 7 will be answered, “in honest, and also, I believe, in very surprising ways.”
There’s no doubt that the Season 7 cliffhanger has left a lot of fans with unanswered questions. TV Line gathered up the 10 most burning questions that fans have, such as “Is Smitty really dead?” “Will Darryl turn himself in?,” and “Will Dr. Amiot disclose to Ray that he’s also treating his brother Terry?” Based on what Hollander said in previous interviews, it’s likely that fans of the show will finally get answers to these mysteries and more. But none of us will know for sure until the movie is released in 2022.
Who will be in the cast of the Ray Donovan movie?
Five of the confirmed cast members so far have been identified in a recent Instagram post from Liev Schreiber himself. The photo shows a semicircle with stars (from left to right) Kerris Dorsey, Schreiber, Dash Mihok, Pooch Hall, and Eddie Marsan. The caption reads, “I will miss this particular gaggle of actors very very much.”
Entertainment Weekly also reports that Jon Voight will be a part of the final movie and, according to the movie’s IMDb page, AJ Michalka will be coming on to play Young Abbey in flashbacks of her and Ray’s relationship. When comparing the show’s IMDb page to that of the movie, they seem to be the only cast members to overlap (minus Michalka as young Abby, of course). It does not appear as though big stars like Susan Sarandon or Katherine Moennig will be reprising their former roles for the movie.