IOAN GRUFFUDD TO LEAD
THE REUNION TV SERIES
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| Welsh star Ioan Gruffudd will lead the cast |
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| French star Gregory Fitoussi will also star in Reunion |
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
BBC WORKING ON TV ADAPTATION
Speaking of new series, BBC is apparently in early stages of adapting Michael Ondaatje's THE ENGLISH PATIENT into a period set TV series. As Deadline reports, it will offer a new vision of the story about four dissimilar
people brought together at an Italian villa during World War II! Emily Ballou (who also wrote Becoming Elizabeth for Starz) is penning the script which follows a unrecognisably burned man — the eponymous patient, presumed to be English — his Canadian Army nurse, a Sikh British Army sapper and a Canadian thief. Set behind the North African and Italian campaigns of the Second World War, the book is told out of sequence and moves back and forth between the patient’s memories before his accident and the current evens at the bomb-damaged Italian monastery.
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| The series is in early stages of production |
The English Patient sounds like a good one, but I'm not sure about the shifting timelines. I've been super scatter brained lately and may find it difficult to follow along.
ReplyDeleteI've never actually seen the Oscar winning movie, it always seemed boring to me.
DeleteIt was boring to me. Idk why it got such praise.
DeleteThen I won't like it either! I generally find all Kristin Scott's films boring and Fiennes ain't exactly thrilling either, unlike his brother.
DeleteI would like to read Micheal Ondaatjes's book then watch this film. Looks interesting.
ReplyDeleteThat's the best way to go.
DeleteWatched the film English patient a couple of times and would love to watch it in TV series again! Have a marvelous weekend, Dezzy!
ReplyDeleteSo it is not boring then? I will have to check it out!
DeleteHaven't seen him since Fantastic Four, I think 😏🤷♂️
ReplyDeleteHe mostly starred in smaller shows, I missed most of them myself as they did not interest me.
DeleteZzzz. Now, if this were the American patient starring Nicole Kidman...
ReplyDeleteThe look on your face!
Poker face.
DeleteI'd watch the French one, but would skip The English Patient. The movie was enough to put me to sleep, I don't need a series to expand on that.
ReplyDeleteUnless they cast someone very hot.
DeleteI don't even think a hot actor would make me tune in. Unless there was nudity. Lots and lots of nudity ;)
DeleteI can think of a dozen of English actors that would make me tune in. David Oakes for example, Jack Lowden...
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