WHAT'S THE SPY'S VERDICT
Visually
stunning, the series has one deadly weakness:
John Turturro's almost
scandalously bad acting, his approach to the role has no depth and is as
expressive as a dead stone of a monastery wall. His poor efforts in acting are borderline offensive. Emerson, though, absolutely shines in his
marvellous master class in acting, and young Hardung is an absolute
breath of fresh air and loveliness.
'THE NAME OF THE ROSE'
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| The series starts airing March 4th in Italy! |
EPIC TV SERIES TRAILERS ARE IN!
Rejoice, people! Italian national broadcaster RAI (which gave us magnificent epic series Medici Masters of Florence) has released two gorgeous trailers for their small screen version of
Umberto Eco's famous
THE NAME OF THE ROSE which will start airing from March 4th in Italy. With almost $30
million spent on the production, the eight episode series really should not disappoint the audience. BBC will air the series in UK, Sky in Germany, OCS
in France. Sundance TV will air it in USA and Canada, with local broadcasters airing it around Europe too.
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| Damien Hardung plays young novice Adso |
THE STORY OF THE NAME OF THE ROSE RAI'S EPIC TV SAGA IS
set in good old Mediaeval Italy, more precisely in the year 1327, and revolves around the old Franciscan monk William of
Baskerville (played by American actor
John Turturro) and his kind and innocent young novice Adso von Melk (played by German model & actor
Damian
Hardung) just as
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| John Turturro and Damian Hardung are William and Adso |
they arrive at a secluded monastery in the Alps. There they become witnesses to a
series of mysterious murders. While Baskerville and Melk investigate and
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| The series will later on air on BBC and Sundance as well |
search for the killer, they are hunted themselves by the merciless
inquisitor Bernard Gui (
Rupert Everett), who prosecutes those who
criticize the Pope.
WHO'S IN THE BROTHERHOOD?
The series stars
John Turturro (as William of Baskervillea 14th century Franciscan monk, as he investigates a series of unusual deaths at a remote
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| Rupert Everett plays merciless inquisitor Gui! |
monastery) and
Rupert Everett (as Inquisitor Gui) while
Michael Emerson will play The Abbot, an ambiguous, greedy, over sensitive and
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| Michael Emmerson is the evil Abbot! |
irritable prince of the Abbey! Gorgeous German actor
Damian Hardung will be William's apprentice, Benedictine novice Adso. The cast will also include
Sebastian Kock,
Piotr Adamczyk, James Cosmo, Richard Sammel and our favourite Italian star
Alessio Boni next to Greta Scarano. The series will hit US on Sundance May 1st!
expressive as a dead stone of a monastery wall. His poor efforts in acting are borderline offensive. Emerson, though, absolutely shines in his
marvellous master class in acting, and young Hardung is an absolute
breath of fresh air and loveliness. 
in France. Sundance TV will air it in USA and Canada, with local broadcasters airing it around Europe too.
I liked the original movie, the book was hard to read but would watch it anyway!
ReplyDeleteItalians usually make better series than Americans!
DeleteMystery, religion, and a monastery setting - go well together.
ReplyDeleteUmberto Eco's book was successful, and when the basis is good, even bad actors can hardly prevent the success of a movie/series based on it.
yes, it is very strange casting an actor as bad an inexpressive as Turturro for the lead role. I guess they were desperate.
DeleteHey! I like John Turturro! He's very good at playing oddballs. I'm looking forward to this series. I loved the book although it seems like a million years ago now that I read it. The original movie was a disappointment, although it did have its moments.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen the original one, I think I was too young to try when it came out.
DeleteJohn Turturro isn't my favorite, but it does seem like it could be worth viewing. I might wait to see what the critics say first though.
ReplyDeleteI'm currently watching the second season of Medici, and it is disappointing compared to the brilliance of the first season, especially castvise. The actors in the second season are just terrible.
DeleteI have a cousin who raves about Medici all the time on Facebook. Sad to hear the second season is a disappointment.
Deleteit is sad, because the first season was the bestest series ever! My heart is broken :( They've also ruined Victoria in the third season by kicking out most of the more interesting cast and bringing boring replacements. The only one that is getting better is Last Kingdom.
DeleteHave you watched TWD? I've stopped after nine years :) No Rick,no Dezzy....
We just finished Season 8. I thought it drug on and on. I think it's about time they wrap that series up.
Deletetrue, but they never will :( Now that Michonne is leaving too, nobody will waist their time on moody Daryl and that psycho biatch Carol...
DeleteThe film is excellent. Hope the series can do it justice.
ReplyDeletekeeping our fingers crossed!
DeleteLoved the book, loved the movie...fingers crossed!
ReplyDeleteItalians usually don't do wrong. Is there any new period set French series after Versailles on horizon?
DeleteI'm only familiar with Michael Emerson from Person of Interest. This sounds like a very different role.
ReplyDeletehe is very ebil in this one
DeleteThis had better not tarnish the original movie.
ReplyDeletehaven't seen the original
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