STEPHEN FREARS TO DIRECT THE ANARCHY 18TH CENTURY SET SERIES ON EAST INDIA COMPANY BASED ON WILLIAM DALRYMPLE BESTSELLING EPIC BOOK

  THE ANARCHY SERIES  

TO BE DIRECTED BY STEPHEN FREARS

Really could not imagine a better director for it: as Variety reports, Stephen Frears is set to direct THE ANARCHY epic series, an adaptation of William Dalrymple's book “The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company”, a historical epic which chronicles how back in the 18th century the East India Company, described as a dangerously unregulated start-up operating from a small London office, executed the takeover of the entire Indian subcontinent, which at the time constituted more than one-fourth of the world’s GDP.  The series will be shot in UK and Asia for Wiip global studios.

TV SERIES ADAPTATION OF WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'S MUGHAL EMPIRE NOVEL THE ANARCHY FINDS A SCRIBE! SEE POSTERS FOR PERIOD SET MOVIES SULIS 1907 FROM NORWAY, SHANGHAI SOJOURNERS FROM CHINA

 DALRYMPLE'S THE ANARCHY 

FINDS WRITER FOR AN EPIC TV SERIES ADAPTATION

Just when we thought this project that I announced three years ago is no longer active, Wiip and Roy Kapur Films have revealed that The Last

Jeremy Brock will pen the adaptation

King of Scotland and Mrs. Brown scribe Jeremy Brock will pen the TV series adaptation of William Dalrymple's bestseller THE ANARCHY! The massive production to be shot in UK, USA and India will tell  the story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires, the Mughal empire, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the British East India Company – a dangerously unregulated private company based thousands of miles away in a small London office just five windows wide. No news on the adaptation of Dalrymple's Koh-I-Noor book which was also announced three years ago.

 PERIOD SET MOVIE POSTERS 

FOR NORDIC SULIS 19O7

We are in the international waters today, spylings, as I have posters to present from two new period set movies. First up is SULIS 1907 from Norway, a historical drama scheduled for release October 6th. Directed by Nils Gaup and starring Otto Fahlgren, Simon J. Berger, Alexandra Gjerpen, Anders Dahlberg and Rune Temte, this period set movie starts in 1907, when the miners in Sulitjelma in Fauske in Nordland made a famous rebellion against greedy mine owners. 

 

CHINA'S SHANGHAI SOJOURNERS 

Shanghai Sojourners is in postproduction

is, meanwhile, currently in the process of post-production over in China under the helm of Leo Shi Young. It stars Xingtong Yao as a Chinese-American woman who falls in love with a Jewish exile in Japanese controlled Shanghai during World War II and must use every resource at her disposal to help him escape before the Nazis implement the Final Solution in China. Michael Koltes, Ketih Shillitoe and Thomas Dorn also star. Since it is a co-production with United States of America, the movie was shot in English.

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'S EPIC SAGA THE ANARCHY ON THE RISE OF EAST INDIA COMPANY TO BECOME HISTORICAL TV SERIES! ANEURIN BARNARD JOINS ALEX PETTYFER ON A TRIP TO CAMBODIA IN HUNTERS IN THE DARK

   'THE ANARCHY' SERIES

ON EVIL EAST INDIA COMPANY

While we wait for A Suitable Boy, Singapore Grip, Black Narcissus and Far Pavilions, the work on another exotic series has been announced yesterday:Siddharth Roy Kapur, the president of the Producers Guild of

Anarchy will be turned into epic TV saga

India, has bought TV rights to THE ANARCHY: The Relentless Rise Of The East India Company,  epic novel by William Dalrymple! Spanning more than 200 years, the 2019 best seller describes how the infamous East India Company rose to prominence against the decline and fall of the storied Mughal Empire. It provides a remarkable account of how a provincial trading start-up, run by thirty people from an office only five windows wide in a nondescript London building, became rulers of an entire sub-continent; in the process establishing the richest and most powerful empire in the history of the world. Kapur is currently in the process of finding a mix of Western and Indian writers for the series.

   'HUNTERS IN THE DARK'

SENDS ALEX PETTYFER AND ANEURIN BARNARD TO CAMBODIA

Aneurin Barnard has join the cast

Speaking of exotic settings, Deadline reports that Aneurin Barnard will join Alex Pettyfer in Cambodia set HUNTERS IN THE DARK movie which is being offered to buyers at this week's Cannes virtual market (new Three Musketeers movie pitch is also in offer there). Elodie Yung will also star in the film which tells the story of 28 year old English school teacher Robert Grieve (Pettyfer), who unexpectedly wins a bag full of cash. Adrift in Cambodia and eager for a way out of his life of quiet desperation, he decides to take a journey deeper into the wilder aspects of the country, coming up against a scheming American, a

Alex Pettyfer is set to take the lead role in the film

crooked police officer and a darker side of Cambodia. Director Simon Evans has also hired famous cinematographer Christopher Doyle to work with him on the movie.