Saturday, September 29, 2018

KATE BOSWORTH, ALEX PETTYFER, NATALIE MARTINEZ TO LEAD NETFLIX SF SERIES 'THE I LAND'! HELEN MIRREN'S 'CATHERINE THE GREAT' FINDS A PRINCESS AND A GENERAL

  NETFLIX 'THE I LAND' SF SERIES
ADS KATE BOSWORTH AND ALEX PETTYFER AS LEADS
Alex Pettyfer will star for the first time on the telly
In the whole slate of new science fiction series, Netflix has just ordered a seven episode sf mini series THE I LAND and has hired Alex Pettyfer, Kate Bosworth and Natalie Martinez. Bosworth is also producing the series to be directed by Neil LaBute who is also the showrunner and writer.

THE I LAND
will be a new sf action adventure series. When ten people wake up on a treacherous island with no memory of who they are or how they got there, they set off on a trek to try to get back home. They soon discover this world is not as it seems. Faced with the island’s extreme psychological and physical challenges, they must rise to their better selves or die as their worst ones.

  'CATHERINE THE GREAT' 
FINDS A PRINCESS & A GENERAL
Over at Sky and HBO, they've added a few more faces to the cast of their epic mini series CATHERINE THE GREAT which will see Helen Mirren playing the empress in her older years, Joseph Quinn will be her son Grand
Antonia Clarke will be the empresses daughter in law
Prince Paul, Jason Clarke her lover Prince Grigory Potemkin! Antonia Clarke has now been added as Paul's wife Princess Sophia and Adam El Hagar as general Valerian Zubov who had an affair with the much older empress.

CATHERINE THE GREAT the four part saga is set against the politically tumultuous and sexually charged court of Russian empress Catherine the Great who wielded supreme power throughout Russia for nearly half of the 18th century; strong minded, independent, brilliantly intelligent and sexually liberated! It will depict the end of her reign and her passionate affair with Grigory Potemkin, a Russian military commander who became Catherine’s lover, favoured statesman and life long friend. Amid scandal, intrigue and immense conflict, they develop a unique and devoted relationship, overcoming their adversaries and together serving as the architects of modern-day Russia.

10 comments:

  1. I like the sound of Catherine the Great!

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    1. should be good unlike the other project on the same topic with Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult.

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  2. Probably won't do The Land of I, but Catherine the Great is a yes.

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    1. Hope they don't disappoint us! I never trust HBO, but Sky's sometimes good.

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  3. Okay... so skinny ties are out of fashion again? Good.

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    1. this is, admittedly, a very old photo. I wanted to put a shirtless Pettyfer photo, which is the way he should always go by law, but I knew you would complain....

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    2. Skinny ties don't go with my impressive chest. Just so you know. Now laugh.

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    3. it is well matched colourwise, though

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