NEW SHAKESPEARE SERIES
FROM SARAH LANCASHIRE AND STEVEN KNIGHT
Julia star Sarah Lancashire and Steven Knight are teaming up on making a drama series on WILLIAM SHAKE SPEARE, which will tell the
complete story of the glove-maker’s son who became the greatest storyteller in history and how his genius survived and thrived in an age of turmoil and terror, danger and disease. As Variety reports, it aims to be the first full account of the passion, people and politics that made William Shakespeare the world’s most famous dramatist and the men and women around him who loved and labored, schemed and plotted, killed and connived in one of the most dangerous periods in history. Sarah Lancashire, who came up with the idea for the series, will produce through her production company.
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| Lancashire will produce via her production company |
EMPIRE MOVIE TRAILER
FROM COLONIAL DENMARK
Available for viewing to the Danish cinemagoers as of this weekend is their sprawling historical movie drama EMPIRE (Viften) which already had its
world premiere earlier this January at Goteborg Film Festival in the neighbouring Sweden. Coming from Meta Film studio, the movie was directed by Frederikke Aspock and delves deeply into Denmark’s colonial past in the Danish West Indies in 1848.
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| Empire is out as of April 20th in Denmark |
EMPIRE FOLLOWS
Anna Heegaard and Petrine (Sara Fanta Traore) who are close
friends. Both women are colored, but their living conditions are very
different – Anna is free and owns the enslaved Petrine. Anna lives
with Governor-General Peter von Scholten (Claus Riis Østergaard) at his
country house, where she manages the 
home, the fortune and her beloved
and trusted housekeeper Petrine. Everything seems to be as it should be,
until rumors of a rebellion begin to 
swirl. Which side are Anna and
Petrine really on – and is it the same? This absurdist satire drama was
written by Anna Neye who also plays the lead role.
home, the fortune and her beloved
and trusted housekeeper Petrine. Everything seems to be as it should be,
until rumors of a rebellion begin to 
swirl. Which side are Anna and
Petrine really on – and is it the same? This absurdist satire drama was
written by Anna Neye who also plays the lead role.
it sounds fun. I was just thinking that nobody has thought of making something about Danish presence in the Caribbean. They even had Danish pirates! tHis seems like a start.
ReplyDeleteWe often forget that other European nations were slavers and colonisers not just Brits and Spaniards. And I think those nations like to forget it as well LOL Especially the vicious Belgians. Such a small country and so many atrocities behind their kings.
DeleteShakespeare could be a good one. I hope they have good casting in it. I'll await the trailer!
ReplyDeleteCasting is everything, Laurie Davidson was brilliant young Will.
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