1ST ALICIA VIKANDER IMAGE
AS QUEEN KATHERINE PARR IN FIREBRAND MOVIE
First image of Alicia Vikander as Katherine Parr in new historical movie FIREBRAND is here. Jude Law stars as Henry VIII in the psychological thriller that explores how Katherine, the last of Henry’s six wives, endured her 
union with the monstrous monarch and kept her head in the 16th Century. Patsy Ferran portrays princess Mary and Junia Rees portrays Elizabeth. The movie will be screened at Cannes when we can expect first look at Law too.
union with the monstrous monarch and kept her head in the 16th Century. Patsy Ferran portrays princess Mary and Junia Rees portrays Elizabeth. The movie will be screened at Cannes when we can expect first look at Law too. NEIL MORRISSEY TO LEAD
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| Neil Morrissey will lead The Hoard |
Channel 5 has announced a new four part drama and they already have a cast set for it: Neil Morrissey will lead THE HOARD mini series. It will be the story of keen detectorist Martin (Morrissey) and his wheeler dealer soon to be son-in-law Ashley (James Buckley) who, while on a boys bonding trip in the idyllic fields of rural Somerset, discover a hoard of buried Saxon treasure worth millions.
Legally, they should declare it, but Ashley spots an opportunity to look after number one, and as pressures are building at home with his wife Anne (Fay Ripley), straight arrow Martin can’t help but have his head turned. It’s tempting. If they sell it on the black market, they could be set for life and Ashley has the connections to make it happen. But with a hoard this good, could it really be that easy? After all, they might not be the only ones out for its spoils. The series will air towards the end of the year on the British channel.
THE LEOPARD SERIES
NETFLIX STARTS PRODUCTION!
Netflix Italia has released a very teasing teaser celebrating the start of the production on THE LEOPARD historical series which will shoot till September as the adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's 
famous classic novel Il Gattopardo. Tom Shankland is directing the six episode saga! While Sicily is struggling in the turmoil of the Risorgimento in 1860, the Prince of Salina Fabrizio Corbera (Kim Rossi Stuart) reigns over
his family and his possessions, convinced that even these disorders are destined to pass. He hasn’t come to terms with the idealism of young people like his nephew Tancredi (Saul Nanni), who joins the rebels risking his own
life, or the ambitions of men like Sedara, a vulgar man who rides change by pandering to the nascent power of mafia criminal organizations and intends to use his beautiful daughter Angelica (Deva Cassel) to get what he wants. At 
Don Fabrizio’s side remains Concetta (Benedetta Porcaroli), his favourite daughter, who shares his intelligence and foresight. Her happiness will eventually be sacrificed in an attempt to ensure the survival of the power and of the name of the lineage.
famous classic novel Il Gattopardo. Tom Shankland is directing the six episode saga! While Sicily is struggling in the turmoil of the Risorgimento in 1860, the Prince of Salina Fabrizio Corbera (Kim Rossi Stuart) reigns over
his family and his possessions, convinced that even these disorders are destined to pass. He hasn’t come to terms with the idealism of young people like his nephew Tancredi (Saul Nanni), who joins the rebels risking his own
life, or the ambitions of men like Sedara, a vulgar man who rides change by pandering to the nascent power of mafia criminal organizations and intends to use his beautiful daughter Angelica (Deva Cassel) to get what he wants. At 
Don Fabrizio’s side remains Concetta (Benedetta Porcaroli), his favourite daughter, who shares his intelligence and foresight. Her happiness will eventually be sacrificed in an attempt to ensure the survival of the power and of the name of the lineage.
Oddly enough what we now know as Sicilian Mafia was part of the clandestine world of revolutionaries during Il Risorgimento. I'm glad they have expanded Concietta'role, but Netflix will conveniently forget that like her father she was onservative and unlike him she was very pious.
ReplyDeleteThe only redeeming factor is Kim Rossi in the lead role.
DeleteI'd sell that treasure on the black market myself. I think it would be a lot less dangerous than letting the government get their hands on it. We all know how they like to confiscate things like that for themselves and leave the finders with little to nothing in exchange.
ReplyDeleteWell, it is not like it is yours, it does belong to the country and the nation, no? LOL I think most of the laws do give you some kind of compensation if you are a finder or it is on your land.
DeleteNo, I do not agree that it automatically belongs to the country. Finders keepers. Why should something that I lost immediately belong to the government? If I lose $20 on the ground, good for the fortunate person who profited from my loss. I’d rather whoever found it keep it. Why does the government automatically assume it belongs to them? I’d still take my chances in the black market. Eff the government always having their hand out taking from the people.
DeleteBecause we are talking about Saxon treasure which is a part of the country's national heritage, not your family's LOL If it would be as you say, some, let us say, Russian guy could come to UK, find a ton of Tudor gold and take it home with him even though it is part of English history. You and the Russian guy would sell it, the state would put it in a museum for safe keeping.
DeleteThe Hoard sounds interesting. I'd like to think I'd give it to the government but I know I'd be like Theresa and sell it on the black market. Or be like Scrooge McDuck and keep it in a room so I could appreciate it myself at least a little while until I sold it. lol
ReplyDeleteYes, the two of you have always had a criminal streak in you LOOOL
DeleteI think that according to British law you get a certain percent of the value of the hoard, I am just not sure whether it is 20% or more. It also depends on whether you found it on your own property.
I must have known this Neil Morrissey from some detective series...can't remember which exactly though.
ReplyDeleteHe is a comedy legend, often stars in their humorous shows, he actually became famous with Men Behaving Badly classic sitcom.
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