Thursday, March 2, 2023

GLENN CLOSE TO LEAD THE SUMMER BOOK MOVIE ADAPTATION! BBC ORDERS MEN UP VIAGRA TRIALS TV MOVIE WITH IWAN RHEON, ANEURIN BARNARD, PRIME VIDEO TO ADAPT SF CLASSIC DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS INTO SERIES

  GLENN CLOSE TO LEAD  
SUMMER BOOK ADAPTATION
The latest news coming from Deadline today is that Charlie McDowell has cast Glenn Close in his movie adaptation of beloved Finnish classic book THE SUMMER BOOK by Tove Jannson. Released 50 years ago, it tells the life affirming story of a young girl and her grandmother as they spend a summer on a tiny, unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The novel has been translated into 35 languages. 

 THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS 
NEW AMAZON ADAPTATION
Two new series to announce today, starting with Prime Video which will do another series adaptation of John Wyndham's THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. Johan Renck is set to direct the sf classic in which most people in the world are blinded by a meteor shower, and triffids, tall venomous, carnivorous plants, start killing the rest. The story centers on Bill Masen, a biologist who specializes in triffids. He leads survivors in their fight against the killer plants and at some point rescues a young sighted girl and travels with her for several days. 

   BBC MEN UP SERIES  
ABOUT FIRST VIAGRA TRIALS
BBC has announced their work on a TV movie inspired by the true story of one of the world's first medical trials for the drug that became Viagra, held in Swansea’s Morriston Hospital in 1994. Meurig Jenkins (Iwan Rheon), Colin White, Tommy Cadogan, Peetham 'Pete' Shah and Eddie O’Connor all have one thing in common. Impotency. It’s affecting them in every aspect of their lives, as they are drowning in shame and silence. Left feeling as failures as men, questioning their manhood, and having attempted their own fixes to no avail, the group is presented with a lifeline: a place on a trial for an unknown drug thought to cure impotence led by the ambitious Dr Dylan Pearce (Aneurin Barnard). As each man grapples with their own insecurities and hiding the truth from their loved ones - will this little pill be able to bring back their spark?

2 comments:

  1. I know why Amazon went for the triffids, because it shares similar themes with "The Last of Us".

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    1. Or with their massive hit The Rig, which also has some alien organisms attacking Earth.

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