Wednesday, June 14, 2017

JACK LOWDEN IS LORD DARNLEY IN 'MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS' NEXT TO SAOIRSE RONAN & MARGOT ROBBIE! MICHIEL HUISMAN TO LEAD 'HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE' NETFLIX SERIES

JACK LOWDEN TO WED 
'MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS'!
You will watch Lowden in 'Dunkirk' as well
Well. this we certainly like! After he played a Russian count in War and Peace, our dearest Jack Lowden will go royal again in new MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS movie in which Saoirse Ronan plays the tragic queen, while Margot Robbie is her enemy cousin Elizabeth of England. Lowden will be famous Lord Darnley!
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS will be based on John Guy's The True Life of Mary Stuart which shows her not as a woman who uses her feminine charms to achieve her goals (she was first married to the French king, then to a couple of other aristocrats in Scotland, before being forced to give her throne to her son James after which she was executed by Elizabeth) but as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I. CW's series Reign, which also follows Mary's life, ends with the final ever episode next Friday after four seasons. She married Darnley thinking he will strengthen her claim to the English throne but he got killed in the end.

MICHIEL HUISMAN TO LEAD 
'THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE'
You will watch Michiel in 'Guernsey' as well
In the world of the small screens, The Hollywood Reporter writes today that Netflix has hired Age of Adaline and Game of Thrones star Michiel Huisman as the lead in their new THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE ten episode series. The series will be a modern re-imagining of Shirley Jackson's classic 1959 novel of the same name. The story revolves around four people living in an 80 year old mansion. Michiel Huisman will take on the role of Steven Crane, the oldest Crane sibling and a published writer of supernatural books — including a memoir about his family's time living at Hill House. There was a movie version of this story twenty years ago with Catherine Zeta Jones and Liam Neeson.

8 comments:

  1. Mary and Elizabeth -- real life Game of Thrones!

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  2. I rented the movie and wasn't impressed. We'll see if the series is any better.

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    1. if I remember, the movie was a kind of a comedy, right?

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    2. Honestly, I don't remember much about the film. I just knew that I didn't like it. I'm sure Jason's like for it was higher than mine since his woman Catherine was in it.

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    3. we do love her! She is very active on Facebook where I follow her

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  3. I have developed an interest in Mary in my older years. But Elizabeth is still one of my top intriguing queens in history.

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    1. my fave novel on Mary is the one from Stephan Zweig, famous German writer. I think Margot will be good as Elizabeth, but I'm not sold on Saoirse as Mary at all

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