We have been waiting for this one for over two years now and it still does not have a clear airing date but BBC has announced that it will air this Autumn on BBC 2 (I'm guessing that does not tell us anything good about the
The series will air in five hourlong episodes
quality of the series) together with releasing a few new photos from THE NORTH WATER historical thriller series which stars Jack O’Connell as Patrick Sumner, Colin Farrell as Henry Drax, and Stephen Graham as
The North Water will air this Autumn on BBC 2 not One
Captain Brownlee, alongside Tom Courtenay as Baxter, seen here in character for the first time. The North Water also stars Peter Mullan, Sam Spruell and Roland Møller. While the series will air sometime in Autumn on BBC, the July 15th date has been set for US audience over at ACM!
THE FIVE PART SERIES
based on the acclaimed novel by Ian McGuire, tells
the story of Patrick Sumner (Jack O’Connell), a disgraced ex-army
surgeon who signs up as ship’s doctor on a whaling expedition to the
Arctic. But the ferocity of the
Jack O'Connell leads the cast as ex army surgeon
elements is matched by the violence of
his crew mates, with Drax (Colin Farrell), a harpooner and distinctly
brutal force of nature. As the true
Collin Farrell plays the main villain in the new series
purpose of the expedition becomes
clear, confrontation between the two men erupts, taking them on a
journey far from solid ground and beyond the safe moorings of
civilisation.
The series was shot up in the frozen Northern seas
Set in Hull and on the ice floes of the Arctic in the late 1850s, The
North Water’s location work took place primarily in the Arctic, shooting
on the
Tom Courtenay also stars in the ensemble cast
frozen seas north of the Svalbard Archipelago. The cast and
production team sailed as far as 81 degrees north to film sequences in
the pack ice, the furthest point north it is believed a drama series has
ever filmed before.
HAMNET HISTORICAL NOVEL
TO GET MOVIE ADAPTATION
Sam Mendes will produce the film
Well, Kenneth Branagh already covered the topic with Judi Dench last year, but Sam Mendes is going to produce a big screen adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's award winning book HAMNET. This historical fiction novel imagines the story of Agnes, the wife of Britain’s most famous writer William Shakespeare, as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of their only son, Hamnet. The novel charts the emotional, familial and artistic consequences of that loss, bringing to life a human and heart-stopping story as the backdrop to the creation of Shakespeare’s most famous play, Hamlet. Chiara Atik is penning the script for the movie adaptation.
It played over in Norway two years ago, but thanks to Samuel Goldwyn films AMUNDSEN: THE GREATEST EXPEDITION will arrive to USA on VOD and in theatres this April. Pal Sverre Hagen leads the film set in
Norway,1926. The Norwegian and English language film charts Roald Amundsen’s dream of
reaching the North Pole which haunts him throughout his life. He is
obsessed with the idea of discovering the last unchartered lands of the
world. While he wins the race against Robert Scott and becomes the first
man ever to conquer the South Pole, Amundsen will sacrifice everything
to be the first to explore the icy wastelands of the North Pole.
THE STORY OF THE MOVIE
After reading in a newspaper about Roald Amundsen's missing in the North
Pole, his brother Leon (Christian Rubeck) leaves his house to walk next door to the Roald's house, to await news. Taking him wrongly as a
thief,
The movie was directed by Espen Sandberg
Leon is hit by Bess Brigads (Katherine Waterston), Roald's
younger love interest. Introducing each other, Bess learns from Leon
about the childhood of Roald Amundsen, who rose with a happy family with
his parents and other three brothers fascinated by North and South
Pole, after the unknown and uncharted lands due to the extreme
conditions of survival by the so much below zero temperatures. When
their father died during one of his usual sea voyages and their mother
died by disease some time later, Roald and Leon strengthened their bond
in their wish to be the first men to arrive to North Pole, where Roald
would be the explorer and Leon the financier to get a team and the
enough money for the travel. But in 1908 Frederick Cook's claiming to
have arrived North Pole forced them to change the plans.
Here's a new period set series for us: as Deadline reports, Ben Berkowitz and Max Berkowitz have bought the book rights to the storied
A photo of Peter with one of the three wives he had
life of Danish renaissance man Peter Freuchen (1886-1957) and will turn it into a mini series. Freuchen was a peg legged two meters tall Danish man who explored the Arctic, travelled to Africa and Siberia, battled the Nazis, won a game show, starred in the Oscar winning 1933 film Eskimo — and that was just a handful of his accomplishments. It will be a dark, funny, and deeply moving story, highlighting the complexities of a man who was always at odds with his surroundings, but never feared being the outsider. The Berkowitz Brothers and Freuchen’s grandson have done extensive research and secured the rights to several of Freuchen’s autobiographies detailing the story of a man who many said was ahead of his time.
Spruell and Roland Møller. While the series will air sometime in Autumn on BBC, the July 15th date has been set for US audience over at ACM! 
Spruell and Roland Møller. While the series will air sometime in Autumn on BBC, the July 15th date has been set for US audience over at ACM! 
