DWAYNE JOHNSON IS HAWAIIAN KING KAMEHAMEHA IN ROBERT ZEMECKIS EPIC ADVENTURE MOVIE! 1ST PHOTO FROM PAUL VERHOEVEN'S 17TH CENTURY DRAMA 'BENEDETTA' STARRING VIRGINIE EFIRA, LAMBERT WILSON, CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

 DWAYNE JOHNSON TO PLAY

KING KAMEHAMEHA OF HAWAII

Dwayne Johnson will play the king of Hawaii

I'm guessing he has waited for this role all his life: as 'Deadline' reports Dwayne Johnson will play Hawaiian king Kamehameha in Robert Zemeckis directed epic adventure THE KING based on the script from Braveheart's Randall Wallace!

Kamehameha is the legendary king who was the first to unite the warring Hawaiian islands, which fulfilled the prophecy that surrounded his fabled life since birth. He took control of Hawaii’s destiny, and gave the islanders leverage in advancing the culture in trading with the foreign ships from Europe that began showing up on the shores of islands that must have seemed like paradise, albeit a sometimes dangerous one as explorers like Simon Metcalfe and Captain James Cook discovered before Kamehameha forcibly unified the islands.

 1ST 'BENEDETTA' PHOTO

FROM PAUL VERHOEVEN'S 17TH CENTURY LESBIAN NUNS DRAMA

You can also check out the first photo of Virginie Efira in Paul Verhoeven's historical drama BENEDETTA (aka Blessed Virgin) also starring Charlotte Rampling and Lambert Wilson. Efira plays Benedetta

The movie should cinemas next year, currently shooting!

Carlini, a novice nun capable of performing miracles, who joins an Italian convent in the late 17th century, as plague is ravaging the land. While at the convent she begins a love affair with another woman.

CHARLOTTE RAMPLING JOINS LAMBERT WILSON, VIRGINIE EFIRA IN VERHOEVEN'S 17TH CENTURY EROTIC THRILLER 'BLESSED VIRGIN'! BBC TO TURN 'DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES' NOVEL INTO 19TH CENTURY MINI SERIES

'DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES'

 NEW BBC PERIOD SET SERIES

In the news from the epic front today, BBC Two is going to adapting Eugene McCabe’s Irish novel DEATH AND NIGHTINGALES into a

The series will have three hourlong episodes

three part historical mini series! It is a story of love, betrayal, deception and revenge, set in the beautiful, haunting countryside of Fermanagh in 1885. It is set in a world of spies, confessions and double dealing; where a pervading sense of beauty is shot through with menace and impending doom, centred around the 25th birthday of Beth Winters - the day she has decided to join the charming Liam Ward and escape from her limited life and difficult and complex relationship with her Protestant landowner stepfather Billy. As decades of pain and betrayal finally build to a devastating climax, this powerful and gripping drama illuminates tensions that tear both families and nations apart.

 'BLESSED VIRGIN' 17TH CENTURY

DRAMA CASTS LAMBERT WILSON AND CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

Lambert Wilson will lead the male part of the cast

We've had quite a few lesbiefriendly projects announced this week, and here's another one and it is period set too! 'Deadline' reports that Charlotte Rampling and Lambert Wilson have joined young actresses Virginie Efira and Daphne Patakia in 17th century erotic thriller BLESSED VIRGIN

To be directed by famous Paul Verhoeven, it will see gorgeous Virginie Efira playing Benedetta Carlini, a novice nun capable of performing miracles, who joins an Italian convent in the late 17th century, as plague is ravaging the land.

Virginie Efira and Charlotte Rampling will star in Blessed Virgin

While at the convent she begins a love affair with another woman. Steamy and scandalous and delightfully sinful :) The story is, apparently, based on historical facts about the abbess Carlini.