HEAR LUKE EVANS SINGING IN NETFLIX FESTIVE ANIMATED ADVENTURE SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL TRAILER! KATE DICAMILLO'S FANTASY BESTSELLER THE BEATRYCE PROPHECY GETS MOVIE ADAPTATION

 THE BEATRYCE PROPHECY 

GETS A MOVIE ADAPTATION

Amazon Studios are to make a movie out of Kate DiCamillo's THE BEATRYCE PROPHECY fantasy book with Brad Copeland penning the script.  In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl,

Amazon Studios is adapting the book

Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils them all, for the king of the land seeks just such a girl, and Brother Edik, who penned the prophecy himself, knows why. And so it is that a girl with a head full of stories, powerful tales-within-the-tale of queens and kings, mermaids and wolves, ventures into a dark wood in search of the castle of one who wishes her dead. But Beatryce knows that, should she lose her way, those who love her, a wild-eyed monk, a man who had once been king, a boy with a terrible sword, and a goat with a head as hard as stone, will never give up searching for her, and to know this is to know everything.

 SCROOGE: CHRISTMAS CAROL 

NETFLIX ANIMATED TRAILER

Speaking of tales for kids, Netflix has released a trailer for their new festive animated adventure SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL which will stream from December 2nd with Luke Evans leading the voice cast of this

Scrooge will sing December 2nd

supernatural, time-travelling, musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's cult Christmas story, which also features voices from Jessie Buckley, Jonathan Pryce, Johnny Flynn! Charles Dickens’ ageless legend is reborn in this supernatural, time-travelling, musical adaptation of the definitive Christmas story. With his very soul on the line, Scrooge has but one Christmas Eve left to face his past and build a better future. Featuring re-imagined songs from the legendary and two-time Academy Award winner Leslie Bricusse, Scrooge: A Christmas Carol is one for a new generation to sing.

BBC ANNOUNCES MINI SERIES ADAPTATION OF 'CHRISTMAS CAROL' BY TOM HARDY & STEVEN KNIGHT & CARIBBEAN SET 19TH CENTURY DRAMA 'THE LONG SONG'

  'A CHRISTMAS CAROL' 

BBC TO START ADAPTATIONS OF CHARLES DICKENS' CLASSICS

You've seen first pics from their new period set drama The Miniaturist yesterday, and today we have more news coming from BBC who are now

It will be the first of a series of Dickens' adaptations

looking to adapt a series of Dickens' works beginning with A CHRISTMAS CAROL which will be adapted into three part mini series by Tom Hardy's production house, Ridley Scott and Steven Knight of Peaky Blinders. The story of Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly cold hearted boss, who is visited by four ghosts from the past, present and the future, on a freezing Christmas Eve, and must face up to how his self interested, penny pinching behaviour has impacted his own life and those around him, leaving him in a paranoid bubble of fear, will air on Christmas 2019! This Christmas, meanwhile, will see The Miniaturist and new Little Women mini series airing on the small screens in Britain.

  'THE LONG SONG' 

BBC TO MAKE 19TH CENTURY JAMAICA SET MINI SERIES
BBC One has also announced a three part adaptation of Andrea Levy’s epic and award winning novel THE LONG SONG about the dying days of slavery

The book was shortlisted for Man Booker Prize

in Jamaica. It follows a strong willed young female slave July on a Jamaican plantation in the 19th century. She is a natural survivor, who begins her story as a slave, but ends it as the mother of a gentleman. Told from July’s perspective as she looks back over her life, the tone is funny, defiant and indomitable. Above all, it’s a powerful story about love and survival, with vivid set pieces of social unrest and turmoil, and characters who change and develop in unpredictable ways. It’s also a story about the injustices which humans inflict upon each other, and the unexpected ways in which people’s humanity sometimes overrules their prejudices.