'BARKSKINS' EPIC SERIES
HIRES CHRISTIAN COOKE AND JAMES BLOOR AS WOOD CUTTERS
Earlier this week your spy has informed you that National Geographic is turning BARKSKINS historical novel into new TV series with David
Thewlis leading the cast, and now they've added two more names: Christian Cooke and James Bloor. It is based on Annie Proulx novel which spans over 300 years: It chronicles the deforestation of the New World from the arrival of Europeans into the contemporary era of global warming through the stories of two immigrants to New France, René Sel (Christian Cooke) and Charles Duquet (James Bloor), who work as wood cutters — BARKSKINS — and of their descendants.
René Sel is a strong
willed, morally sound indentured servant, signed to Monsieur Claude Trepagny (Thewlis), a wealthy landowner with grand visions for New France.
Duquet is a scrappy, industrious scoundrel, also signed to servitude under Trepagny.
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| We've seen Christian Cooke in Ordeal by Innocence |
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| James Bloor starred in The Pagan King epic movie |
BARKSKINS
will start shooting later this year to air next year in more than 170 countries around the world following a disparate group of outcasts who must navigate the brutal hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization — 1600s New France, where the war to escape their past and re-make themselves is cast against the vast and unforgiving wilds of North America.
will start shooting later this year to air next year in more than 170 countries around the world following a disparate group of outcasts who must navigate the brutal hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization — 1600s New France, where the war to escape their past and re-make themselves is cast against the vast and unforgiving wilds of North America.
I'll admit to being a pig! I initially got stuck on the blue eyes...WOW! But after reading the post, the stories sound interesting. Do you know when the series is supposed to air?
ReplyDeleteSometime next year, we will post the first photos, trailers and airing dates when we know them but it won't be any time soon. They're both gorgeous as hell :)
DeleteDezzz, how come we don't have such blue eyes?
DeleteI have green ones, prettier than those four above!
DeletePlus you look more intelligent. I have black eyes, but that's temporary. Angie was too enthusiastic.
DeleteOh, my! At least there was enthusiasm...
DeleteBoth actors are good physical representatives of their characters from the novel! I must read, read, READ and finish this novel before the mini-series comes out, LOL.
ReplyDeleteYou have a whole year, Debs :) that should be enough ever for you :P
DeleteI haven't read the novel, but it does sound like one that I wouldn't mind watching.
ReplyDeleteDebs above says the novel is as fat as timber!
DeleteThen this is one I'll have to stick to watching instead of reading, as you know we don't have much leisure time these days. I find myself nodding off within 5 minutes of tucking myself into bed and grabbing my book. I used to be able to squeeze in 30-45 minutes so it's taking me forever just to finish a 300 page book :(
DeleteI've never read in bed in my life :) I read only when I can read all day long, during breaks between jobs, and then it is like breaky-book-lumch-book-dindins :) What I can't deal with these days is movies longer than 90 minutes, which is basically all movies :)
DeleteI'm thinking "Wood Wars"?
ReplyDeleteHope they don't have Jaba the Wooden Hut!
DeleteJaba the Wooden Hutt sounds like a naughty movie.
ReplyDeleteHutt will need a slut or too as well!
DeleteDon't we all? I mean.... if we're being honest.
DeleteWe do indeed. Even if we're slutty ourselves like moiself.
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