1ST DISNEY + BLACK BEAUTY PHOTOS WITH MACKENZIE FOY, KATE WINSLET! NETFLIX SETS CAST FOR ITS FANTASY ADVENTURE SERIES SWEET TOOTH ABOUT A DEER BOY HYBRID!

  'SWEET TOOTH' SERIES

GATHERS CAST AT NETFLIX

One of Netflix' new TV series which is looking to start shooting soon over at New Zealand SWEET TOOTH certainly has an original plot: the eight

Will Forte will reoccur as Gus' father

 episode fantasy drama follows the adventures of Gus (Christian Convery), part deer, part boy, who leaves his home in the forest to find the outside world ravaged by a cataclysmic event. He joins a ragtag family of humans and animal children hybrids like himself in search of answers about this new world and the mystery behind his hybrid origins. Dania Ramirez will be playing Aimee, a pioneer in the middle of dystopic America, a lone scavenger in an abandoned city, rebuilding a sustainable habitat and giving orphaned hybrids a home. Nonso Anozie will be Tommy Jepperd, a former professional athlete who becomes Gus’ protector, while Adeel Akhtar is Dr. Singh, a scientist seeking a cure for

Little Christian Convery will play the deer boy hybrid hero.

his wife, which Gus may be the key to. Will Forte will reoccur as Gus’ father. The series, narrated by James Brolin, is based on DC Vertigo's comic. The crew will self isolate itself during the shooting which should start in September.

  FIRST 'BLACK BEAUTY'

 PHOTOS FOR DISNEY + MOVIE

Disney + has unveiled first photos from the new contemporary movie adaptation of Anna Sewell's BLACK BEAUTY in which Kate WInslet is lending her voice to the beautiful horse. It tells the story of a wild mustang

Mackenzie Foy leads the cast of the new movie to air later this year on Disney +

born free in the American west. She is captured and taken away from her family. The horse's story is intertwined with that of a 17-year old named Jo

Ashley Avis has directed the new adaptation of the 19th century novel

Green (Mackenzie Foy), who similarly lost her parents. The two end up developing a bond that is built on love, respect and mutual healing. Iain Glen and Claire Forlani also star. The film will stream later this year.

1ST MISS MARX PERIOD SET MOVIE PHOTOS WITH ROMOLA GARAI! ALVARO MEL, STANLEY TUCCI TO LEAD ALEJANDRO AMENABAR'S ADVENTURE SERIES LA FORTUNA

  'LA FORTUNA' SERIES

FINDS ITS HERO AND VILLAIN

Alejandro Amenabar's first television series to be produced by Spanish Movistar+ and American AMC LA FORTUNA has found its lead in Spanish actor Alvaro Mel with Stanley Tucci set to play the main villain. A small screen adaptation of Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral’s graphic

Alvaro Mel and Stanley Tucci will take the lead roles in the six episode series

novel El Tesoro del Cisne Negro (The Treasure Of The Black Swan), the series will follow young diplomat Alex Ventura (Mel) who teams with a combative public official and a brilliant American lawyer to recover treasure stolen by Frank Wild (Tucci), who travels the world plundering historic items from the ocean.

  1ST 'MISS MARX'

PHOTOS WITH ROMOLA GARAI

Over in Italy they are crazy enough to plan the real physical edition of Venice Film Festival in the time when all other festivals have been cancelled, and one of the films that will compete for the main prize is MISS MARX, a period set drama by Susanna Nicchiarelli. Today you can check out first

Romola Garai plays the title role in Miss Marx

two photos from the film  about bright, intelligent, passionate and free Eleanor (Romola Garai), Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. Among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism, she takes part in the

Patrick Kennedy will play her love interest Edward Aveling

workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights and the abolition of child labour. In 1883 she meets Edward Aveling (Patrick Kennedy) and her life is crushed by a passionate but tragic love story. John Gordon Sinclair plays Friedrich Engels with Philip Groning as Marx himself.

THE BAY OF SILENCE TRAILER WITH OLGA KURYLENKO, BRIAN COX, CLAES BANG! HISTORIAN DAN JONES TO HAVE HIS BOOKS TURNED INTO TV SERIES BY SONY TV

  DAN JONES' BOOKS

TO BE ADAPTED BY SONY 

As Deadline reports today, famous historian and writer Dan Jones has closed a deal with Sony Pictures Television for the small screen adaptation of his works. It is not currently known which of his popular histories will be

Dan Jones' books have sold in over million copies so far

turned into series but they've been sold in more than million copies so far and include titles such as THE PLANTAGENETS, a New York Times bestseller,

Dan will also work at Sony as their history consultant

and THE TEMPLARS. He hosted historical documentaries at Netflix and Channel 5 before and was a consultant on History's epic show Knightfall. Last year he published his sixth book, this one dealing with the Crusaders. 

  'THE BAY OF SILENCE'

THRILLER TRAILER RELEASED!

In the trailer department, check out the first trailer for thriller movie THE BAY OF SILENCE which is out late September. When Will (Claes Bang)

The Bay Of Silence is out this September

discovers his wife Rosalind (Olga Kurylenko) and their three children have suddenly disappeared, his perfect world begins to unravel. Will sets off on a frantic search across Europe, finally locating them in a remote village in northern France. Relief soon turns to horror when he discovers his baby son has mysteriously died. Not knowing who he can trust, Will sets out to discover the truth about his wife’s disappearance and the death of his son, complicated by Rosalind’s mother (Alice Krige) and former stepfather (Brian Cox), who want to ‘protect’ Rosalind for their own reasons.

NETFLIX ORDERS THE WITCHER EPIC PREQUEL SERIES BLOOD ORIGIN SET IN THE WORLD OF ELVES BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF HUMANS!

  'BLOOD ORIGIN'

ORDERED AS WITCHER PREQUEL!

After the massive success of The Witcher series, which is currently shooting its second season, Netflix has given the green light to a six part mini series prequel THE WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN which will be set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, telling a story lost to

The story of the series will follow the rise and fall of the Elven civilisation

time - the origin of the very first Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one. Declan de Barra (who wrote some of the

Andrzej Sapkowski will serve as the consultant in the series based on his saga

scripts in the original series) will be the show runner, and will executive produce it with The Witcher's creator Lauren Schmidt Hissrich with Andrzej Sapkowski, on whose books these series are based upon, as a creative consultant. Just like the original series with Henry Cavill, this one will also be shot over in the United Kingdom!

DOMINIC ANDERSEN TO LEAD WILDLY LAVISH 13TH CENTURY TV SAGA GLOW AND DARKNESS. JOAN COLLINS ALSO JOINS JANE SEYMOUR, DENISE RICHARDS, STEVE BUYERS IN THE CAST

  'GLOW AND DARKNESS'

EPIC SAGA FINDS ITS STAR

Stunning Dominic Andersen takes the lead in the series

A few months ago when I first informed you about the marvellously lavish new epic TV series GLOW AND DARKNESS (Resplandor y Tinieblas) we did not know who would lead the cast, and now it has been revealed that hunky (the cast generally has the highest level of hunkiness we've seen in decades) Dominic Andersen will take the role of Francis of Assisi in this nine episode English language Spanish series which will, produced by José Luis Moreno, cover the life and times of some of the most important figures of the Middle Ages who met the protagonist Saint Francis of Assisi, during the 13th century, a spectacular period of history ruled by ambition, cruelty, religion and the clash of Christian and Saracen cultures. It has also been revealed this month that legendary Joan Collins will also play one of the historical figures

Denise Richards and Jane Seymour will play female rulers in the series

he met during his life among which are also Richard the Lionheart (Steve Buyers), queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (to be played by Jane Seymour) and

Jane Seymour is famous Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of England

Pope Urban II (to be played by Oscar nomine Bruce Davison), Ferdinand of Navarre (Daniel Lundh), Frederick I Barbarossa (Adrian Bouchet),

Steve  Buyers is Eleanor's son King Richard the Lionheart

Frederick of Swabia (Callum Kerr), Hermann of Thuringia (Sander Jan Klerk), Raymond III of Tripoli (Joe Layton), Henry VI (Robert Maaser),

Wildly dashing Myles Clohessy will also star as Walter of Brienne

Saladin (Adam Bond), King Baldwin (Landher Iturbe), Maria of Champagne (Denise Richards), King of Jerusalem Guy de Lusignan (Marc

Itziar Fay plays Richard's wife, Berenguela of Navarre

Hughes), prince of Antioch Reynald De Chatillon (Bart Edwards), famous knight Roger of Moulins (Aron von Adrian), Walter of Brienne (Myles Clohessy), John I Lackland (James Cartwright), Balian of Ibelin

Landher Iturbe is scarred king of Jerusalem Baldwin

(Fernando Gil) and many others. Jose Luis Moreno is the executive producer, director and writer of the series for Dreamlight International production. Opulent costumes, lavish sets, spectacular battles will fill the

Daniel Lundh will play Ferdinand of Navarre

project which is planned as a three season series. The shooting, which has started back in December involving more than 1500 actors, halted during corona and will continue in Italy, France, Morocco, Egypt and Spain.

A COUPLE TRAPPED UNDER THE SNOW IN CENTIGRADE THRILLER TRAILER AND A COUPLE FALLING IN LOVE IN A CHATEAU IN AROUND THE SUN ROMANTIC TRAILER

  'CENTIGRADE' TRAILER

BASED ON TRUE EVENTS

Two small and entirely different films for you today: first up an isolated space thriller CENTIGRADE which is out 31st August in UK. In 2002, a young American couple, Matthew and Naomi (Genesis Rodriguez and

The film is based on chilling true events!

Vincent Piazza), travel to the Arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and Ice. As if the stakes aren’t high enough, it is revealed that Naomi is eight months pregnant in their frozen prison. With few resources, a dwindling food supply, and nothing but time, tension, blame, and personal secrets bubble to the surface. Matthew and Naomi realize they must work together to survive in a crippling battle against the elements, hypothermia, disturbing hallucinations, and plunging temperatures reaching as low as -30C. Will they all make it out of this alive?

  'AROUND THE SUN' TRAILER

A LOVE STORY ABOUT NOT BEING THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE

The film was written by Jonathan Kiefer

The second one is also out in UK this August, but it is an endearing and simple love story. AROUND THE SUN  is the feature debut for UK/ Greek director Oliver Krimpas, a romantic drama with a sci-fi twist. It’s an intimate tale of love, reason and realising you’re not the centre of the universe. Bernard (Gethin Anthony), a film location scout, tours a repossessed and crumbling French château. Over the course of an afternoon, he falls for both the place and its owner’s flirtatious representative, Maggie (Cara Theobold), who recounts the story of an influential popular-science book written and set there. But is their present-tense connection for real, or just a projection of the book’s 17th-century characters?

1ST PHOTOS FROM NETFLIX GERMAN EPIC TV SERIES BARBARIANS ABOUT THE FAMOUS HISTORICAL BATTLE OF TEUTOBURG AND SF ADVENTURE TRIBES OF EUROPA

  NETFLIX' GERMAN SERIES

BARBARIANS FIRST PHOTOS 
Updates from two of Netflix German language epic series that I've announced before with the first photos from the sets so that you can catch a glimpse of what to expect from them. THE BARBARIANS was shot last winter in Budapest,  a historical series depicting the famous Battle of the

Jeanne Goursaud in the first set photo courtesy of Monocle

Teutoburg Forest in 9ad through stories of three people whose fates get interwoven in the legendary Battle, during which Germanic warriors halted the spread of the Roman Empire. The bloody encounter of two worlds is

The series was shot in January in a massive studio near Budapest

interwoven with the destinies of three young people who journey from innocence to guilt, loyalty to betrayal, and love to hate! The series stars David Schütter, Bernhard Schütz, Sergej Onopko, Nikolai Kinski, Jeanne Goursaud, Laurence Rupp!

FIRST TRIBES OF EUROPA PHOTO

Tribes Of Europa is another German series that will come to Netflix this year, but it is sf and it follows three siblings in the year 2070 who fight to

Emilio Sakraya, Henriette Confurius and David Ali Rashed lead the cast

survive in an apocalyptic Europe that has been fractured into countless micro-states after a mysterious global catastrophe. The six episode series was shot last Autumn and will air in 190 countries through Netflix.

1ST PHOTOS FROM I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS THRILLER WITH TONI COLLETTE, DAVID THEWLIS, JESSIE BUCKLEY AND CIARAN HINDS' MOSTLY SILENT COMEDY THE MAN IN THE HAT

  I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS

TONI COLLETTE & DAVID THEWLIS

First photo for you today from new drama movie with the elements of thriller I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS in which Jessie Buckley plays a young woman who, full of misgivings, travels with her new boyfriend

The film hits Netflix September 4th directed by Charlie Kaufman

(Jesse Plemons) to his parents' (Toni Collette and David Thewlis) secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself. Based on Iain Reid's acclaimed novel.

  THE MAN IN THE HAT

FIRST CIARAN HINDS POSTER

There is also the first poster and a photo from a British comedy movie THE MAN IN THE HAT directed and written by John Paul Davidson

The Man in the Hat has no release date yet

and Stephen Warbeck, in which The Man in the Hat (Ciarán Hinds in the lead role of the title character) journeys through France in a Fiat 500 accompanied by a framed photograph of an unknown woman. He is pursued by five angry men in a Citroën Dyane. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off? As he travels North through France, he encounters razeteurs, women with stories to tell, bullfights, plenty of delicious food, a damp man, mechanics, nuns, a convention of Chrystallographers and much more. And always, on his tail, the Five Bald Men. Though largely silent, the film is interrupted by regular bursts of music, with new songs from Stephen

Ciaran Hinds takes the lead role in The Man in The Hat

Warbeck, Schubert Lieder sung by the incomparable Mark Padmore, Canteloube aria from the Cevennes, and Try a Little Tenderness, amongst others. As the Fiat 500 wends its way across the mountains, gorges and bridges of France, the 2CV hard behind him, the Thin Man (Ciaran Hinds) comes face to face with the vivid eccentricities of an old country on an old continent.

COLIN MORGAN TO PLAY CON ARTIST JOHN MYATT IN GENUINE FAKES DRAMA! PLUS A TRAILER FOR HIS GAY ROMANCE MOVIE BENJAMIN!

  COLIN MORGAN TO LEAD

GENUINE FAKES DRAMA MOVIE

Colin Morgan will do some painting!

If you are wondering where has that sweet chap Colin Morgan disappeared after Merlin and Humans, and that stint in The Crown, he is preparing to lead GENUINE FAKES, a drama movie directed by Pat Holden. In the 1980's and 1990's the world witnessed a dramatic increase in the price of works of art. As prices soared so did the potential for fraud.

  
GENUINE FAKES
is based on a true story of how two different men from different social settings meet in the strangest of circumstances and proceed to Mastermind possibly the largest Art Fraud of the 20th Century. The film is based on the life of the brilliant artist John Myatt, who was involved in the biggest art con in the UK, but is now one of the country’s fastest selling artists.

  'BENJAMIN' TRAILER

AN UNEXPECTED ROMANCE

Speaking of Colin Morgan, another of his movies, gay romantic drama BENJAMIN is due to be released on DVD and Bluray this August.  In Simon Amstell's affecting, bittersweet comedy, he plays a rising young

Benjamin played in cinemas around Europe last year

filmmaker who is thrown into emotional turmoil by a burgeoning romance and the upcoming premiere of his second feature. 

RUPERT PENRY JONES, ELLIE BAMBER TO LEAD MAURITIUS SET EXOTIC COSTUME DRAMA PRISONERS OF PARADISE! BRITBOX, PBS TO ADAPT MAGPIE MURDERS INTO TV SERIES

  'PRISONERS OF PARADISE'

 SENDS RUPERT PENRY JONES, ELLIE BAMBER TO MAURITIUS

Ellie Bamber will take the female lead

Deadline reports that late this September a shooting will start over among the stunning landscapes of the island of Mauritius of period set movie PRISONERS OF PARADISE with Ellie Bamber, Rupert Penry Jones, Mehdi Dehbi and Edward Akrout in the cast. To be directed by Mitch Jenkins and set in 1925, the film follows 17 year old orphan Lucy Gladwell (Ellie Bamber) who is sent from England to live under the guardianship of her uncle George Huyton (Rupert Penry Jones). Initially seduced by the sumptuous beauty of her

Rupert Penry Jones and Mehdi Dehbi will play the male leads

surroundings, Lucy finds herself at odds with her violent uncle who is not the benign influence he pretends to be, and she soon falls in love with Krishna (Mehdi Dehbi), a labourer working on a nearby plantation.

  'MAGPIE MURDERS'

TO BECOME PBS TV SERIES

If you are a fan of a good murder mystery you will be thrilled to hear that Britbox and PBS Masterpiece will adapt Anthony Horowitz's MAGPIE MURDERS novel into a six episode mini series. The novel within a novel

Magpie Murders was a worldwide bestseller

revolves around Susan Ryeland, an editor who is given an unfinished manuscript of author Alan Conway’s latest novel, but has little idea it will change her life.

THE BOOK OF VISION PERIOD SET MOVIE TRAILER IS HERE MIXING PRESENT AND PAST WITH CHARLES DANCE AND LOTTE VERBEEK

  'THE BOOK OF VISION'

MOVIE TRAILER IS HERE!

Present combined with past and some very nasty swamp creatures is what you will see in the first melancholic trailer for period set movie THE

The film will air at Venice Critics Week this September

BOOK OF VISION which will open this year's Venice Critics Week starring Charles Dance, gorgeous Lotte Verbeek and Filippo Nigro and  Sverrir Gudnason! 

What's The Story Of The Film About?
The co production between Italy, Germany, United Kingdom and Belgium sees Lotte playing Eva, a mysterious doctor, who is searching for an answer to her urgent dilemma, as she unravels the secrets of 18th century physician Dr.

First look at Charles Dance and Lotte Verbeek in the film

Anmuth and his patients through studying his Book of Vision. Her supervisor Henry gets more involved in her life than he expected and is forced to confront

Carlo Hintermann directed the period set drama movie

his own nature, as Eva faces the biggest decision of her life. I shall update you on the project as soon as we get any new information on the Carlo Hintermann directed costume drama.

TRAILER AND PHOTOS FROM THE ONLY PILOT NBC ORDERED TO SERIES THIS SEASON - SF FALLEN ALIEN SPACECRAFT SERIES DEBRIS

  'DEBRIS' SF SERIES

 ALIEN SPACECRAFT MYSTERY

Autumn 2020 landscapes on the small screens won't be overly pretty, as you already know, as we will be faced with only what networks managed to stash of the finished programmes before the corona outbreak, but hopefully

The series is written and executive produced by J.H. Wyman

there will be interesting things in that offer too. DEBRIS is the only NBC drama that got its pilot shot before the lockdown, and thanks to that, it got the whole season order. Other pilots (more than 10 of them) will be done for next seasons when the situation allows.

Debris Science Fiction Series
follows two agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets,

If the shooting does not start soon the show will probably hit midseason

who must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.

Who Is In The Cast?

Jonathan Tucker plays one of the agents Bryan Beneventi, who is described as a headstrong, smart CIA operative currently working on the investigation of

The series managed to finish about 80% of its pilot episode before the outbreak

strange occurrences. British actress Riann Steele plays the other - Finola Jones. Her character is a classic rule following MI6 agent who is partnered with Beneventi.

GREG KINNEAR AND COURTENEY COX TO LIVE IN A HAUNTED VICTORIAN MANSION IN HORROR COMEDY SITCOM SHINING VALE AT STARZ!

  'SHINING VALE' SITCOM

SENDS GREG KINNEAR AND COURTNEY COX AMONG GHOSTS

Greg Kinnear will play the male lead

Starz is certainly preparing a new comedy series with an interesting plot: Greg Kinnear and Courteney Cox will be paired up in SHINING VALE a half hour horror comedy pilot about a dysfunctional family that moves from the city to a small town into a house in which terrible atrocities have taken place. But no one seems to notice except for Pat (Cox), who’s convinced she’s either depressed or possessed – turns out, the symptoms are exactly the same.

Greg Kinnear will play Terry Phelps, Pat’s sweet, sensitive husband. He assumed he was married to the perfect wife until she had an affair with their young handyman, destroying the kitchen island, and maybe his marriage. Ever the

Courteney Cox will play the crazy wife

optimist, Terry is willing to do whatever it takes to keep his family together, including intensive couples therapy and cashing in all his assets to buy an Old Victorian house in the suburbs of Connecticut, trading his 12-minute commute for a 90-minute train ride into the city. Despite his brave face and can-do spirit, it is clear that he has some deep-seated resentment, which occasionally peeks out as rage. Especially when his wife tells him she believes their new house is haunted. Terry’s challenge will be to ride out whatever is going on with Pat, without completely losing his own mind in the process.

1ST PHOTOS FROM UPCOMING NEW TV SERIES UNDOING WITH NICOLE KIDMAN, HUGH GRANT, FILTHY RICH WITH KIM CATTRALL, THE SISTER WITH RUSSELL TOVEY, US WITH TOM HOLLANDER

  AUTUMN 2020 SHOWS

The Undoing at Sky

Coming from Sky, this is a small screen adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz's novel You Should Have Known. Nicole Kidman leads this

The new show will air on Sky in Europe

suspenseful series about a woman whose world starts to disintegrate when her husband (Hugh Grant) goes missing – leaving behind a string of terrible revelations as questions are raised about his true identity.

The Sister at ITV

Is equally suspenseful, and will air on ITV this year starring Russell Tovey as a man with a terrible secret who is trying to escape the ghosts of his past.

Russell Tovey's new series will have ghosts in the story as well

Almost a decade into his new devoted married life Nathan is rocked to the core when Bob (Bertie Carvel), an unwelcome face from the past, turns up on his doorstep with shocking news, triggering a series of catastrophic decisions!

Us at BBC

Douglas Petersen (Tom Hollander) is an apparently happily married man who is blindsided when his wife Connie (Saskia Reeves) tells him she

The show was shot in London, Amsterdam, Venice, Barcelona and Paris

has fallen out of love with him. But it’s not over yet! Because the couple and their son have already planned a big family holiday together across Europe, and they’re still determined to go. The series is based on a book by David Nicholls!

Filthy Rich at Fox

Will be airing on Tuesday nights this Autumn,  with the story following a mega rich Southern family after the patriarch (Gerald McRaney) dies and they learn he'd written his three illegitimate children into the will. With Kim

Filthy Rich will be airing on Tuesday nights on Fox this Autumn

Cattrall as the mother of the family, the juicy soap also stars Melia Kreiling, Aubrey Dollar, Corey Cott, Benjamin Levy Aguilar, Mark L. Young, Olivia Macklin, with Steve Harris and Aaron Lazar.

NEW PHOTOS FROM ITALY SET EPIC TV SAGAS DOMINA ON ROMAN EMPRESS LIVIA DRUSILLA AND LEONARDO WITH AIDAN TURNER AS THE FAMOUS PAINTER

     'DOMINA' EPIC TV SERIES

1ST PHOTO OF LIVIA DRUSILLA

Set photos from two Italy set epic series today, starting with Sky Atlantic's DOMINA. The first photo isn't much but it shows Kasia Smutniak as Livia Drusilla, the mother of the emperor Tiberius who overcame adversity to

First set photos show Kasia Smutniak on a horse as Livia Drusilla

become the most powerful woman in the world! Beside Kasia, the cast also includes Liam Cunningham, Lex Shrapnel, Isabella Rossellini, Matthew McNulty, Ben Batt, Tom Forbes and Claire Forlani. Read more about the show here.

     'LEONARDO' TV SERIES

NEW PHOTOS OF AIDAN TURNER

After first four episodes that were shot prior to corona outbreak, historical series LEONARDO is back to Italy to shoot the rest of the first season and you can see new photos from the yesterday's set showing Aidan Turner as a

During the corona lockdown, Aidan has grown hair and beard for the series

bit older Leonardo da Vinci with a longer hair, courtesy of Tuscia Web. Frank Spotnitz, who also brought us Medici, is shooting this series which will air on

The series is currently shooting in mediaeval Italian town Viterbo

Rai in Italy and also in France, Spain and Germany. The series also stars James D'Arcy as Ludovico Sforza and Max Bennet as Cesare Borgia with Giancarlo Gianninni as famous Verrocchio!

Eight Part Limited Series 
will tell the incredible true story of the definitive ‘Renaissance man’. Born the illegitimate son of a notary in the rural town of Vinci, Leonardo’s lonely childhood leaves him with a relentless, near superhuman drive to understand

Aidan Turner and Carlos Cueavas at the set yesterday in Italy

everything. Under questioning by a Milanese investigator (Freddie Highmore) who holds Leonardo’s life in his hands, we come to see the terrible personal sacrifice that led him to create masterpieces that changed the

James D'Arcy has a new image as Ludovica Sforza

way we see the world forever. The series will portray him as a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of

Leonardo will allegedly be openly gay in the new series

da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a tortured artist struggling for perfection. Freddie Highmore, who is also producing, will play Stefano Giraldi, a fictional police detective who frames the narrative, investigating da Vinci as the suspect in a murder case and digging into his past.