PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON NEW MOONHAVEN SF SERIES WHICH STARTS THIS WEEK ON AMC PLUS WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN AND JOE MANGANIELLO

  MOONHAVEN SF SERIES  

STARTS THIS WEEK ON AMC

Moohaven starts 7.7. with six episodes

The only premiere we have this week when it comes to period set and fantasy series is MOONHAVEN science fiction drama arriving to AMC Plus this Thursday, July 7th set on a Utopian society on Moon with Joe Manganiello and Dominic Monaghan leading the cast.

 

  MOONHAVEN centers on Bella Sway (Emma McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smugger 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven’s miracles and teams with a local detective to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth’s last hope before they are destroyed themselves.

THE FIRST EPISODE

which airs this week, will start with a murder on Moonhaven which puts Earth's last hope in jeopardy; during what should be a routine cargo loop to the moon, pilot Bella finds herself the subject of detective Paul Sarno's investigation. Moonhaven leads the pack of new series on AMC Plus which will continue with Interview With The Vampire later this year. But before that one arrives, you can check out the trailer for Moonhaven and tell us what you think? Will you tune in on Thursday for a double episode premiere?

SEE DOMINIC MONAGHAN, JOE MANGANIELLO IN AMC PLUS SF SERIES MOONHAVEN TRAILER & POSTER! ANEURIN BARNARD, JONAH HAUER KING, SAM HAZELDINE TO STAR IN CASANOVA COSTUME DRAMA A BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION

 A BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION 

A CASANOVA MOVIE DRAMA

Screen Daily reports today that Dutch director Michiel Van Erp is preparing a costume movie drama A BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION about Casanova and one of the women he loved. With Aneurin Barnard and Dar

Aneurin Barnard, Jonah Hauer King, Dar Zuzovsky

Zuzovsky in the lead roles, the cast will also have Jonah Hauer King and Sam Hazeldine. Based on the novel In Lucia’s Eyes by Arthur Japin it follows the love affair between Casanova and a courtesan who becomes disfigured by smallpox and flees Italy for Amsterdam.  

   MOONHAVEN TRAILER  

FOR NEW AMC'S SF SERIES

Now I thought it won't look this cheap, but you can check it out yourself as AMC Plus has released a trailer for their new six part series MOONHAVEN which will

Moonhaven sf series arrives July 7th to AMC

arrive July 7th! It centers on Bella Sway (Emma McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven's miracles and teams with a local detective to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth's last hope before they are destroyed themselves. Dominic Monaghan and Joe Manganiello also star. 

SEE JOE MANGANIELLO, DOMINIC MONAGHAN IN MOONHAVEN SF SERIES TEASER! BBC' NEW FANTASY MINI SERIES LIFE AFTER LIFE TRAILER AND AIRING DATE REVEALED

   MOONHAVEN TEASER  

FOR NEW AMC SF SERIES

Joe Manganiello plays one of the lead roles

AMC Plus has released a teaser for their new science fiction series MOONHAVEN to announce the premiere date: the series will arrive to the small screens June 30th taking viewers over to the Moon. The six episode series set in a utopian colony on the Moon that may hold the keys to preserving life on Earth, which has become increasingly perilous, will star Dominic Monaghan and Joe Manganiello! It centers on Bella Sway (Emma McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven's miracles and teams with a local detective to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth's last hope before they are destroyed themselves.

 

  

 LIFE AFTER LIFE SERIES 

COMING TO BBC NEXT WEEK

Life After Life starts next Tuesday on BBC 2

Amazon and BBC Two's four part series LIFE AFTER LIFE will arrive April 19th, Tuesday next week to BBC Two and will then be available for streaming on BBC iPlayer based on a novel by Kate Atkinson.

In the series Thomasin McKenzie plays Ursula Todd, who is born to Sylvie and Hugh (Sian Clifford and James McArdle) one night in 1910, but dies before she draws her first breath. On that same night in 1910, Ursula is reborn and survives. Time and time again, living and dying in different circumstances, Ursula is reborn into a new, alternative iteration of life once more. This compelling story follows Ursula as she navigates each new life, through a critical era which spans two world wars, an encounter with Hitler and major life events. But what is it that Ursula so desperately needs to stay alive for? Can a perfect life ever be lived? Can the course of history ever be changed? Can Ursula save the world? What if we could live life again and again? Jessica Brown Findlay, Jessica Hynes, Patsy Ferran, Sean Delaney, Harry Michell, all star as well in the new series.

JOE MANGANIELLO TO LEAD AMC'S MOONHAVEN TV SERIES WITH DOMINIC MONAGHAN! STUDIOCANAL TO TURN CULT GRAPHIC NOVELS CORTO MALTESE INTO A PERIOD SET TV SERIES

  JOE MANGANIELLO TO LEAD 

AMC'S MOONHAVEN SF SERIES

The utopian series focuses on Bella Sway (Emma McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds

Joe Manganiello will lead Moonhaven series

herself accused of a crime and marooned on MOON HAVEN, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven’s miracles and teams with a local detective, Paul Serno (Dominic Monaghan), to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth’s last hope before they are destroyed themselves. Joe Manganiello will play Tomm Schultz. An ex-military with a philosophical bent, Tomm is the right hand of the lead Earth diplomat to the Moon, who finds his ambitions changed when he’s injected with a mind-altering Moon drug.

 

  CORTO MALTESE TV SERIES  

IN WORKS AT STUDIOCANAL

Speaking of new television projects, your trusted spy has recently heard rumours that one of our favourite European studios Studiocanal is

There were a few movie adaptions before

preparing a small screen TV series adaptation of famous cult comic book CORTO MALTESE. Based on the graphic novels by Hugo Pratt it will follow the stylish sea adventurer who has become something of a sex symbol over the decades. Corto Maltese is an enigmatic and laconic sea captain who lives in the first three decades of the 20th century. Born in Valletta on the island of Malta on 10 July 1887, the son of a sailor from Cornwall, and a gypsy from Seville. In his adventures full of real world references, Corto has often crossed with real historical characters like the American author Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Hermann Hesse, the American outlaw Butch Cassidy, the German World War I flying ace Red Baron, and many others.

FIRST LOOK AT ROSAMUND PIKE, DANIEL HENNEY IN AMAZON PRIME'S WHEEL OF TIME EPIC TV SERIES! WITCHER SEASON 2 TRAILER, AIRING DATE AND POSTER ARE HERE! DOMINIC MONAGHAN TO STAR IN AMC'S MOONHAVEN SF SERIES

WITCHER SEASON 2 TRAILER

AND AIRING DATE ANNOUNCED

Witchercon has brought us the first trailer for season two of epic TV series THE WITCHER which will arrive to Netflix December 17th

Witcher returns December 17th to Netflix

with six brand new episodes. We also got a new poster announcing the return of world's favourite epic saga. Burdened with covid outbreaks and cast injuries, the Witcher team has managed to finish the production in April.

 

  Season two will follow Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill), convinced Yennefer’s life was lost at the Battle of Sodden, who seeks to bring Princess Cirilla (Freya Allan) to the safest place he knows, his childhood home of Kaer Morhen. While the Continent’s kings, elves, humans and demons strive for supremacy outside its walls, he must protect the girl from something far more dangerous: the mysterious power she possesses inside.

BRAND NEW CAST MEMBERS

The adventures of Geralt, a monster hunter, based on the super popular novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, will have some new cast

Princess Ciri will be practicing new skills in the new season

additions in the second season: Adjoa Andoh, Cassie Clare, Liz Carr, Graham McTavish, Kevin Doyle, Simon Callow and Chris Fulton are new

Jaskier is back and will sing many merry songs again

names in the cast. Joey Batey as minstrel Jaskier and MyAnna Burning as high witch Tissaia are back again from the first season.

 

   MOONHAVEN SF SERIES  

CASTS DOMINIC MONAGHAN

We're sf all the way today, continuing with news coming from AMC who are making a MOONHAVEN sf series and have cast Dominic Monaghan as lead. The story follows Bella Sway, a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100

Dominic Monaghan will take one of the lead roles

years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moon haven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven’s miracles and teams with a local detective to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth’s last hope before they are destroyed themselves. Monaghan will be Paul Serno, a detective on the Moon in a utopian community tasked with solving the problems of Earth.

 WHEEL OF TIME EPIC SERIES 

FIRST LOOK AT THE HEROES

Next Friday is bringing us the start of a new Comic Con and one of the exciting things presented there will be Amazon Prime's epic TV adaptation of famous saga WHEEL OF TIME which might mean we will get photos,

The Wheel of Time will air sometime later this year on Amazon

posters or maybe even a trailer? Set in a high fantasy world where magic exists, but only some can access it, the eight episode saga follows a woman named Moiraine who embarks on a dangerous, world-spanning journey with five young men and women. 

 

FIRST CHARACTER TEASERS!

A few days ago Amazon has released a logo for the series and two teasers which, although extremely short, show two characters from it: Rosamund Pike's Moiraine Damodred and Daniel Henney's al’Lan Mandragoran! The

Rosamund Pike takes the lead role of sorceress Moiraine

series follows Rand al'Thor (Josha Stradowski), who leads a small and humble life in a small town called the Two Rivers. There is danger lurking,

Daniel Henney plays al'Lan Mandragoran in the new saga

however, in the potential attacks from the Dark One, an evil entity that wants to destroy everything. A sorceress by the name of Moiraine (Rosamund 

 

 

Pike) takes Rand and his friends away from their home, as she believes one of them might be the reincarnation of the Dragon, an ancient hero who is prophesized to either save or destroy the world.

JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS IS THE WHITE RAJAH IN THE FIRST TRAILER FOR HISTORICAL ADVENTURE EDGE OF THE WORLD SET IN 19TH CENTURY SARAWAK

 EDGE OF THE WORLD TRAILER 
WITH JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

Edge of the World will hit VOD later this June

Over at Digital Spy we spied today the first trailer for historical adventure which will hit UK streaming platforms in late June, EDGE OF THE WORLD (formerly known as The White Rajah) a new historical movie from director Michael Haussman in which Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays Sir James Brooke, the British adventurer who became King of Sarawak in the 1840's and embarked on a lifelong crusade to end piracy and head hunting - only to face charges of

Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Dominic Monaghan lead the cast

murder and piracy himself. He was the real-life 19th century inspiration behind Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King and also Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim!

THE RULER OF SARAWAK
Born in Bengal to a British expatriates, Brooke would join the Bengal Army of the British East India Company before being seriously wounded and

The film was helmed by Michael Haussman, director of music videos

sent to England to recover. Having inherited a small fortune, he later bought a 142-ton boat and set sail for Borneo in 1838 in order to escape a certain

The movie was filmed in English and a mix of local Sarawak dialect

romantic scandal. After falling in love with this tropical paradise, he fought pirates and the Sultan’s enemies to win, in 1841, a crown as Rajah of Sarawak,

Dominic Monaghan plays Rajah's right hand and friend

where he ruled a jungle kingdom larger than England until his death in 1868. Brooke was knighted by Queen Victoria for his bravery, but went on to defy the monarch when the British Empire tried to colonize Sarawak. The reign of

The first idea to make this movie appeared back in 2010.

the White Rajah lasted three generations across a century, and the family's legacy is now immortalised in the recently opened Brooke Gallery at Fort Margherita in Kuching, Sarawak.

Who Is In The Rajah's Cast?

Beside Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the lead role, the cast also includes Hong Kong singer-turned-actress Josie Ho as Madame Lim, the explorer's former lover and Chinese leader, and Dominic Monaghan who is playing

The movie written by Rob Alyn was shot last year at  Borneo

Colonel Arthur Crookshank, Brooke’s cousin and comrade-in-arms. Ralph Ineson plays Sir Edward Beech with Hannah New as Elizabeth Crookshank. The rest of the cast is made of native actors.

1ST IMAGES FROM JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS' SWASHBUCKLING ROMANTIC EPIC ADVENTURE THE WHITE RAJAH IN WHICH HE RULES 19TH CENTURY SARAWAK

  1ST 'THE WHITE RAJAH'

EPIC MOVIE PHOTOS WITH JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

If you ask me, the most interesting movie project offered to the buyers at this year's Cannes Virtual Market, was THE WHITE RAJAH (I hear they will turn it into just Rajah to avoid the pressure of the racist part of the

The first idea to make this movie appeared back in 2010.

public), a new historical movie from director Michael Haussman in which Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays Sir James Brooke, the British adventurer who

Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Dominic Monaghan lead the cast

became King of Sarawak in the 1840's and embarked on a lifelong crusade to end piracy and head-hunting - only to face charges of murder and piracy

The movie was filmed in English and a mix of local Sarawak dialects

himself. He was the real-life 19th century inspiration behind Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King and also Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim!

The Ruler Of Sarawak 
Born in Bengal to a British expatriates, Brooke would join the Bengal Army of the British East India Company before being seriously wounded and

The film was helmed by Michael Haussman, director of music videos

sent to England to recover. Having inherited a small fortune, he later bought a 142-ton boat and set sail for Borneo in 1838 in order to escape a certain

Hong Kong actress Josie Ho plays one of the female roles

romantic scandal. After falling in love with this tropical paradise, he fought pirates and the Sultan’s enemies to win, in 1841, a crown as Rajah of Sarawak,

Dominic Monaghan plays Rajah's right hand and friend

where he ruled a jungle kingdom larger than England until his death in 1868. Brooke was knighted by Queen Victoria for his bravery, but went on to defy

The movie was shot over at the island of Borneo

the monarch when the British Empire tried to colonize Sarawak. The reign of the White Rajah lasted three generations across a century, and the family's

All of the characters who are not English or Chinese are played by Sarawak actors

legacy is now immortalised in the recently opened Brooke Gallery at Fort Margherita in Kuching, Sarawak.

Who Is In The Rajah's Cast?

Beside Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the lead role, the cast also includes Hong Kong singer-turned-actress Josie Ho as Madame Lim, the explorer's former lover and Chinese leader, and Dominic Monaghan who is playing

The movie written by Rob Alyn was shot last year at  Borneo

Colonel Arthur Crookshank, Brooke’s cousin and comrade-in-arms. Ralph Ineson plays Sir Edward Beech with Hannah New as Elizabeth Crookshank. The rest of the cast is made of native actors.