TUDORS & VIKINGS CREATOR MICHAEL HIRST TO ADAPT DOCTOR ZHIVAGO INTO EPIC TV SERIES! ALLISON PATAKI'S NOVELS ON SISI THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA TO BECOME EPIC TV SAGA!

  NEW EPIC TV SERIES

 BASED ON DOCTOR ZHIVAGO!

We continue with our epic weekend (stay tuned for tomorrow's jaw dropping spotlight) with two super exciting new projects: Tudors and Vikings creator

Michael Hirst is producing the eight part saga

Michael Hirst is preparing a new epic TV saga DOCTOR ZHIVAGO! Together with Hartswood Films and Wild Bunch TV he will turn Boris Pasternak's legendary classic into an eight part series.

The epic tale of love, war and revolution, depicts the immense scope of the Russian Revolution through the story of the gifted physician and poet, Zhivago, the revolutionary, Strelnikov, and Lara, the passionate woman they both love. Caught up in the overwhelming events of politics and war that will eventually destroy him and millions of others, Zhivago clings to the private world of family life and love, embodied by the magical Lara. They will be looking for a broadcaster at this month's Mip in Cannes.

  NEW EPIC TV SERIES

ON EMPRESS SISI OF AUSTRIA!

Meanwhile, Picture Perfect Federation and Federation Entertainment have bought rights on Allison Pataki’s novels The

Both Pataki's novels on Sisi were bestsellers

Accidental Empress and Sisi: Empress on Her Own on Europe's beloved Empress Elisabeth of Austria and will turn them into historical series SISI. Spanning from 1853 up until the start of WWI it will offer a captivating glimpse into the bedrooms and staterooms of one of history’s most intriguing eras and Europe’s most powerful royal family. The story which was already turned into Germany's most popular period set saga ever decades ago, will now get an international adaptation following the girl who was unexpectedly thrust into the centre of Europe’s most treacherous imperial court at the age of 15 when she unwittingly stole the heart of her sister’s fiancé, Emperor Franz Joseph. It will be a series about a woman ahead of her time who indelibly made her mark with dignity and grace!

NEW EPIC TV SERIES PROJECTS 'DOCTOR ZHIVAGO', SF 'SILO' AND 'LAST AMAZON' ON AMAZON QUEENS! 'MOWGLI' TRAILER WITH CATE BLANCHETT, CHRISTIAN BALE, JACK REYNOR, FREIDA PINTO, ANDY SERKIS

  NEW EPIC TV SERIES

 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO & THE LAST AMAZON FOR SMALL SCREENS?

Doctor Zhivago is among the possible new projects

Amazing news from the epic genre. Atrium TV group, which develops ideas for new projects and offers them to their members among networks and producers, has a stunning slate of new projects which includes Michael Douglas produced sf series SILO , set in a future San Francisco which has become, because of diminished resources and over population, a gated community behind a massive wall!

  They also have a pitch for eight part DOCTOR ZHIVAGO epic saga from Sherlock producers which would adapt Boris Pasternak's sweeping political and romantic drama set in Russia before WWI!

Coming from Narcos producers and written by Rafe Judkins, with Ava DuVernay as executive producers, is also THE LAST AMAZON character driven series which will focus on the great Amazon Queens such as Antiope and Hippolyta, portraying their loves and major battles, notably, their campaign against the Ancient Greeks. Atrium's Quasimodo from their first slate of projects is already eyeing production!

  'MOWGLI' TRAILER

IS SADLY NOT THE WARM STORY FROM YOUR CHILDHOODS

Speaking of epic, Andy Serkis has released the first trailer for his version of Jungle Book's MOWGLI which is out this October following a human child

Mowgli arrives to the cinemas this October

raised by wolves, which must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins. Cate Blanchett lends her voice to snake Kaa, Benedict Cumberbatch is evil tiger Shere Khan, Andy Serkis is Baloo the bear, Christian Bale is panther Bagheera, with Jack Reynor, Tom Hollander, Matthew Rhys, Eddie Marsan, Peter Mullan, Freida Pinto, also in the super stellar voice cast of the upcoming adventure. This version will be darker and more serious than the previous ones and certainly much more so than the beloved book by Rudyard Kipling. The actors don't just lend their voices but also play their characters in action capture technique.