Friday, August 12, 2022

SEE LESLEY MANVILLE, TOM WLASCHIHA IN STARZ 'DANGEROUS LIAISONS' PERIOD SET TV SERIES TEASER! 1ST PICS FROM ARABIA'S MOST EXPENSIVE EPIC TV SERIES EVER RISE OF THE WITCHES! THE AWOKEN DYSTOPIAN NOVEL TO BECOME TV SERIES ABOUT CRYOGENICS

 RISE OF THE WITCHES 
SAUDI EPIC TV SERIES 
Well, twas a long time we had anything from Arabia here, so let us correct that with first photos from new Saudi epic TV series RISE OF THE WITCHES their most ambitious and expensive show ever from MBC Studios. Based on the best-selling Saudi mythology books by Osamah Almuslim, the series, set in ancient Arabia, tells the story of an epic war between two rival witch covens, led by Afsaar and Da’ja’a. Growing up in a world dominated by male magicians who want to prevent women from having any access to magical powers (so kinda the opposite of misandrist Wheel of Time), both witches secretly learn the arts and go on to form their own groups in order to protect themselves and gain power. Ida AlKusay and Sumaya Rida. lead the ten part saga which will stream on pan Arabic streamer Shahid.
 
  THE AWOKEN DYSTOPIA  
TO BECOME A TV SERIES
The Awoken novel is out this week
Speaking of fantasy, Keshet Studios has bought TV series rights on Katelyn Monroe Howes' dystopian novel THE AWOKEN which is out this week at Penguin Random House. When Alabine Rivers, a politically active young woman with a bright career and romance ahead of her, discovers she has terminal cancer, the only thing that gives her solace is the possibility of a second life through the emerging field of cryogenics. A century later, scientists have discovered how to bring the cryogenically frozen back to life, but humanity is locked in a philosophical battle over the ethics of this new God-like power, a battle that has turned violent: those who are resurrected, the Awoken, have been declared illegal and are to be shot on sight. Which means here very life is now a crime!

 STARZ' DANGEROUS LIAISONS 
AIR DATE AND TRAILER
Meanwhile, Starz has unveiled today the first teaser and air date for their eight part TV series version of DANGEROUS LIAISONS which will
The series arrives this November
arrive November 6th starring Alice Englert, Nicholas Denton, Lesley Manville, and Tom Wlaschiha. The series is a bold prelude of Laclos’ classic 18th century novel focusing on the origin story of how his iconic characters, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, met as passionate young lovers in Paris on the eve of the revolution. This modern take on a classic story takes audiences through wonder and terror, beauty and degradation, seduction and deception in pre-revolutionary Paris. Driven to right the wrongs of their past, the young couple’s survival depends on their skills of seduction and manipulation of not only the French nobility but of each other. Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton portray the notorious lovers: Camille who is taken in by the current Marquise de Merteuil (Lesley Manville) navigates her own path in a world of men, using the power of secrets to take back control, and Valmont who will stop at nothing to regain his title that was recently taken from him. Their on- again off-again love story is the heart of the series. It’s not love… it’s war. I must admit those two youngsters look terribly dull and miscast to me, no passion nor talent in them.

10 comments:

  1. Agree, dull and unatractive and I really don't care about their excuses for being such scum. Although I always had a soft spot for Valmont.

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    1. I always prefered Valmont the movie to Dangerous Liaisons and this cast is just terrible, how on Earth someone as bland and dull as Englert can portray passion and make us excited and all hot and bothered? She is terrible even in that first photo, looks like a fugly lass selling potatoes at the green market.

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    2. So did I. My Mom got me the Choderlos de Laclos book for my twelfth birthday. She said “for you to learn not to trust in people” (!!) I immediately gave faces to the characters in my mind. Valmont is the toughest role to fill up because you are supposed to hate-love him. I’ve seen all the versions, except for the Chinese, the Brazilian (it’s supposed to be very good) and the French made for Tv with Catherine Deneuve and Rupert Everett. My favorites are the Colombian, Cruel intentions, and the Milos Forman. The latter has the best Valmont, a young Colin Firth. I think all the Merteuil have been very good, barring this one.

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    3. Twelve? Well, that is a bit early LOL

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  2. Maybe if I were young and felt cheated by a terminal illness I’d want to be “awoken”. But at this point, one trip through this life is enough for me. Let me rest.

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    1. I'd gladly cryonise myself if I had the monies. But there is always that possibility that we would be awaken in some future even nastier than our present.

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    2. I imagine every 50 years from now it would be hard to adjust. Just thinking about my kids living in the 80's right now, or us sleeping from the 80's and waking up now would be scary. I mean, the technology alone would send me into a tizzy. Hell, it still does most days when I can't figure it out LOL

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    3. And I am even less versed in technology than you LOL

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  3. Yeaaa, It's a hard pass for Awoken. That sounds like a full on nightmare! Not to mention, she still has the cancer to deal with. And, if they are to be shot on site, why wake them up at all?

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    1. Probably woken up by the resistance who has cancer pills.

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