VINCENT CASSEL AND EVA GREEN LEAD APPLE TV + NEW HIGH STAKE THRILLER TV SERIES LIAISON ARRIVING THIS FEBRUARY! IT'S A SPOOKY CHRISTMAS IN COUNT MAGNUS BBC FILM WITH MYANNA BURING, JASON WATKINS

   LIAISON TV SERIES   

CONNECTS VINCENT CASSEL AND EVA GREEN AGAIN

After The Three Musketeers which arrive next year, Vincent Cassel and Eva Green will work on another project together: six part thriller series LIAISON which arrives to Apple TV + February 24th! The French and English language high-stakes, contemporary thriller explores how the mistakes of our past have the potential to destroy our future, combining action with an unpredictable, multi-layered plot where espionage and political intrigue play out against a story of passionate and enduring love. Peter Mullan also stars.

   COUNT MAGNUS  

ARRIVES TONIGHT ON BBC TWO

Starting festive weekend tonight on BBC Two is a new scary ghost story from Mark Gatiss COUNT MAGNUS. The half-hour film stars Jason Watkins and MyAnna Buring and is set in 1863 Sweden. It follows Mr Wraxhall, a visiting Englishman whose rummaging through the archives of the noble de la Gardie family takes a sinister turn, as he becomes fascinated by the long-dead founder of the dynasty, the fearsome Count Magnus. 

SEE VINCENT CASSEL, ROMAIN DURIS, EVA GREEN, FRANCOIS CIVIL IN MAGNIFICENT FIRST TRAILER FOR THE THREE MUSKETEERS NEW EPIC MOVIE ADVENTURE

  THE THREE MUSKETEERS 

FIRST TRAILER IS HERE!

While we are waiting for the next spring to bring us the first part of the planned duology THE THREE MUSKETEERS: D'ARTAGNAN and then THE

The first part is out next April in cinemas

THREE MUSKE- TEERS: MILADY in December next year, Pathe has released the magnificent first trailer to wet our appetites! Beside that, together with Disney Plus they are also making two spin off TV series MILADY: ORIGINS which will follow the beginnings of the elegant vilainess and BLACK MUSKETEER which I announced a few years ago. To be shot in French, the series will build on the experience gathered making the $80 million worth historical adventure movie saga based on Alexandre Dumas' work. First film is, meanwhile, out April 5th, the second December 13th!

 

  3 MUSKETEERS: D'ARTAGNAN
will follow D'Artagnan (Francois Civil), a spirited young Gascon, who is left for dead after trying to save a young woman from being kidnapped. When he arrives in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers. He is unaware that

First movie will hit cinemas next April

his quest will lead him to the heart of a real war where the future of France is at stake. Allied with Athos (Vincent Cassel), Porthos (Pio Marmai), and Aramis (Romain Duris), three musketeers of the King (Louis Garrel) with a dangerous temerity, D'Artagnan faces the dark machinations of the Cardinal of Richelieu (Eric Ruf). But it is when he falls madly in love with Constance Bonacieux (Lyna Khoudri), the Queen's (Vicky Krieps) confidante, that d'Artagnan truly puts himself in danger. For it is this passion that leads him into the wake of the one who becomes his mortal enemy: Milady de Winter (Eva Green). 

 

PATHE & DISNEY + TO PRODUCE 'MILADY ORIGINS' AND 'BLACK MUSKETEER' SPIN OFF TV SERIES AFTER THE THREE MUSKETEERS TWO PART MOVIE SAGA NEXT YEAR WITH VINCENT CASSEL, ROMAIN DURIS, EVA GREEN

  PATHE AND DISNEY PLUS 

PREPARING MILADY ORIGINS AND BLACK MUSKETEER SHOWS

First movie will hit cinemas next April

While we are waiting for the next spring to bring us the first part of the planned duology THE THREE MUSKETEERS: D'ARTAGNAN and then THE THREE MUSKETEERS: MILADY in December next year, Pathe has teamed up with Disney Plus in making two spin off TV series MILADY: ORIGINS which will follow the beginnings of the elegant vilainess and BLACK MUSKETEER which I announced a few years ago. As Variety reports, both  “Milady Origins” and “Black Musketeer,” which will shoot in French, will build on the experience gathered making the $80 million worth historical adventure movie saga based on Alexandre Dumas' work.

Two movie saga has a $80 million production budget

Judith Havas and Simon Jablonka are co-creating “Milady Origins” while Thomas Mansuy and Mathieu Leblanc are co-creating “Black Musketeer”! 

 

  3 MUSKETEERS: D'ARTAGNAN
will, meanwhile, follow D'Artagnan (Francois Civil), a spirited young Gascon, who is left for dead after trying to save a young woman from being

The movies will be followed by two spin off TV series

kidnapped. When he arrives in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers. He is unaware that his quest will lead him to the heart of a real war

Vicki Krieps plays French queen Anne in the movies

where the future of France is at stake. Allied with Athos (Vincent Cassel), Porthos (Pio Marmai), and Aramis (Romain Duris), three musketeers of

First look at Eva Green as Milady da Winter in the movie saga

the King (Louis Garrel) with a dangerous temerity, D'Artagnan faces the dark machinations of the Cardinal of Richelieu (Eric Ruf). But it is when he

Vincent Cassel's Athos and Milady in one of the scenes of the movie

falls madly in love with Constance Bonacieux (Lyna Khoudri), the Queen's (Vicki Krieps) confidante, that d'Artagnan truly puts himself in danger. For it is this passion that leads him into the wake of the one who becomes his mortal enemy: Milady de Winter (Eva Green).

SEE ROMAIN DURIS, VINCENT CASSEL, EVA GREEN IN 1ST THREE MUSKETEERS EPIC MOVIE PHOTOS! SEE OLIVER JACKSON COHEN, FREIDA PINTO, THEO JAMES IN 1ST MR. MALCOLM'S LIST COSTUME DRAMA PICS

  THE THREE MUSKETEERS  

FIRST PHOTOS ARE IN

Pathe Films and French movie magazine Premiere have released first photos from next year's biggest historical adventure THE THREE MUSKE-

First movie, D'Artagnan, arrives next April

TEERS, a new big screen adaptation of Alexandre Dumas famous story, with François Civil as young d'Artagnan, Romain Duris as Aramis, Vincent Cassel as Athos, Pio Marmaï as Porthos and the godawful Eva Green as treacherous Milady de Winter. First movie, in the planned super lavish duology, D'ARTA- GNAN will arrive April 5th 2023, while the second one MILADY will arrive December 13th next year. In the rest of the cast Eric Ruf is Cardinal Richelieu, Vicky Krieps is queen Anne, Louis Garrel is King Louis XIII, Jacob Fortune-LLoyd sadly replaces Oliver

Milady will arrive December 2023!

Jackson Cohen as Duke of Buckingham, while Patrick Mille, Lyna Khoudri, as queen's maid Constance, and Ralph Amoussou also star.

COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALSO IN WORKS

The shooting, which started last Autumn and will last till May, will cover Louvre Palace, the Castles of Fontainebleau and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Fort la Latte and Chantilly, as well as the citadel of Saint-Malo. After these 60 million euro worth two movies, Alexandre de la Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte will continue to explore the work of the famous French author as the duo is also preparing a new adaptation of the Count of Monte Cristo.

 

  MR. MALCOLM'S LIST  

FIRST LAVISH MOVIE PHOTOS

If you are, on the other hand, in the mood for something woke, a chokywoky delight with a large pinch of historical revision awaits you in the first photos from MR. MALCOLM'S LIST period set costume drama movie! This Regency era drama, directed by Emma Holly Jones, sees Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù portraying the titular hero. In the film, which you can get an exclusive first look today in the photos from Vanity Fair, Dìrísù plays the dashing Mr. Malcolm, a wealthy and elegant suitor looking for a bride who meets all the qualifications he has on his list. Freida Pinto plays Selina Dalton, a woman who helps her friend Julia Thistlewaite (Zawe Ashton) get revenge on Mr. Malcolm after he rejects her for falling short of his lofty criteria. The film, which arrives to theatres July 12st this summer, is based on the book of the same name by Suzanne Allain and the cast is rounded out by Oliver Jackson-Cohen as the sociable Lord Cassidy; Ashley Park as the bubbly Gertie Covington, and Theo James as the debonair Captain Henry Ossory! The book previously had a short movie adaptation with more or less the same actors. Stay tuned for the first trailer which should come soon, methinks.

FRANCE TO SHOOT TWO PART EPIC MOVIE SAGA ON THE THREE MUSKETEERS WITH VINCENT CASSEL, ROMAIN DURIS, OLIVER JACKSON COHEN, FRANCOIS CIVIL, VICKY KRIEPS, EVA GREEN, LOUIS GARREL

  THE THREE MUSKETEERS 

NEW VERSION FROM FRANCE

The movies will arrive in 2023

From our spotlight on period set projects coming from France this year you already know that we can expect a series on Young Voltaire, Germinal and royal mistress Diane de Poitiers, and a film on Eiffel, but France is already planning projects for the future as well! One of them will be a new movie adaptation of THE THREE MUSKETEERS envisioned as a two movie saga coming from Pathe and director Martin Bourboulon. As Allocine reports, the films, which are to start with the shooting this summer for an early 2023 release, will focus on D'Artagnan and Milady in a story written by Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière.

 

A STELLAR CAST UNVEILED

The best thing is that the lead cast has just been announced by Pathé Films and oh, my, the cast is super stellar: young François Civil will play D’Artagnan, Eva Green will be treacherous Milady, legendary Vincent

Vincent Cassel, Francois Civil, Oliver Jackson Cohen

Cassel will lend his face to Athos, Romain Duris will play Aramis while Pio Marmaï will be Porthos. Lyna Khoudri will play queen's maid Constance

Lyna Khoudri, Vicki Krieps and Eva Green will also star

Bonacieux, Louis Garrel will slip into the skin of Louis XIII, Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps will play Queen Anne of Austria while our dearest Oliver Jackson Cohen will be the smashing dashing Duke of Buckingham.

 

MONTE CRISTO ALSO IN WORKS

The two movies will be shot simultaneously with a staggering budget of 60 million euro! Allocine also reveals that the story will be a rereading of the work of Alexandre Dumas, which has already been adapted more than thirty times

Romain Duris, Louis Garrel and Pio Marmai will also star

for cinema and television. After these two movies, Alexandre de la Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte will continue to explore the work of the famous French author as the duo is also preparing a new adaptation of the Count of Monte Cristo.

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON LUMINARIES EPIC TV SERIES: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NEW SHOW STARRING EVA GREEN, MARTON CSOKAS, CALLAN MULVEY, EVE HEWSON

'THE LUMINARIES'

EPIC SERIES ARRIVES TO BBC

If, for obvious reasons, ITV decides to push Singapore Grip to Autumn, six episode epic drama THE LUMINARIES might very well be the last big historical series we shall enjoy till the new season arrives. The small screen

Luminaries will start on BBC June 21st

adaptation of Eleanor Catton's 2013 Man Booker Prize winning novel has just finished airing over at New Zealand but will hit British BBC next weekend, Sunday June 21st, and, if I'm not mistaken, it will also be available on Starz Play.

1860s Gold Rush
The series tells an epic story of love, murder and revenge, as men and women travelled across the world to make their fortunes. It is a 19th century tale of adventure and mystery, set on the Wild West Coast of New Zealand’s

Luminaries is a small screen adaptation of Eleanor Catton's book

South Island in the boom years of the 1860’s gold rush. The story follows defiant young adventurer Anna Wetherell (Eve Hewson), who has sailed from Britain to New Zealand to begin a new life. There she meets the radiant

The Luminaries will air in six hourlong episodes

Emery Staines (Himesh Patel), an encounter that triggers a strange kind of magic that neither can explain. As they fall in love, driven together and apart by fateful coincidence, these star-crossed lovers begin to wonder: do we make our fortunes, or do our fortunes make us?

What To Expect In Episode 1?

The story unfolds in two storylines. The first begins in 1866, with a mystery: a politician, Alastair Lauderback (Benedict Hardie), arrives at a cottage to find a woman, unconscious with opium; a Māori man, also

Eve Hewson leads the cast of the mini series

unconscious; and a corpse. Lauderback brings the woman to town, where she is arrested for public intoxication and held at the jail. The second storyline takes us back nine months earlier to 1865, beginning on the day of Anna

Eva Green plays evil fortune teller and brothel owner Lydia

Wetherell’s (Eve Hewson) arrival in New Zealand. She is fresh-faced and full of promise. After a romantic first encounter, she agrees to meet with fellow

Marton Csokas is a former convict in the new mini series

passenger, Emery Staines (Himesh Patel), but the scheming fortune-teller Lydia Wells (Eva Green) has other designs. Anna is taken under Lydia’s wing, and Emery under the wing of former convict, Francis Carver (Marton

Hamish Patel and Eve Hewson play the lead love couple

Csokas). In 1866 the corpse is brought back from the cottage and identified, and the town jailer, George Shepard (Callan Mulvey), mounts a murder

Erik Thomson, Richard Te Are, Joel Tobeck, Mark Mitchinson, Yoson An also star

investigation. Back in 1865, Emery and Carver are interrupted by a man shouting in Cantonese, who then tries to kill Carver. Lydia’s husband, Crosbie Wells (Ewen Leslie), returns home from the goldfield with a change in fortune.

TRAILER FOR NEW EPIC TV SERIES LUMINARIES WITH EVA GREEN, MARTON CSOKAS, EVE HEWSON IS HERE! CATE BLANCHETT TO PLAY SUPERWOMAN LILITH IN BORDERLANDS SF ADAPTATION?

'BORDERLANDS' ADAPTATION

WANTS CATE BLANCHETT

Cate Blanchett is negotiating around the lead role

After she played charmingly ruthless Hela in Thor, one of world's best ever actresses Cate Blanchett is currently in option over at Lionsgate for the role of Lilith in the possible new movie adaptation of video game BORDER LANDS. As Variety reports, in this sf western adventure, Lilith is a superhuman 'Siren' and one of only six women in the galaxy who have psychic abilities she also has a power to be invisible. The game is set on the frontier of a sci-fi universe — the planet of Pandora where we follow a group of Vault Hunters who are there in search of a mythical alien vault containing coveted alien technology, battling wildlife and raiders of all types along the way. Eli Roth is directing. You can currently watch Blanchett in Hulu's Mrs. America series and in Australian mini series Stateless.

'THE LUMINARIES' TRAILER

19TH CENTURY NEW ZEALAND

Luminaries will start May 17th in New Zealand

Although we still don't know when it will be launched at BBC, the six episode epic mini series adaptation of Eleanor Catton's 2013 Man Booker Prize-winning novel THE LUMINARI- ES will air first over at New Zealand where the story is set. May 17th is when the series will start airing at their TVNZ 1 starring Eve Hewson, Marton Csokas, Eva Green, Ewen Leslie, Callan Mulvey, Matt Whelan and Himesh Patel. The production of the series wasn't affected by the corona outbreak as the filming wrapped in March 2019.

The Luminaries Epic Series
 tells an epic story of love, murder and revenge, as men and women travelled across the world to make their fortunes. It is a 19th century tale of adventure and mystery, set on the Wild West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island in the

Himesh Patel and Marton Csokas lead the male cast

boom years of the 1860’s gold rush. The story follows defiant young adventurer Anna Wetherell (Eve Hewson), who has sailed from Britain to New Zealand to begin a new life. There she meets the radiant Emery Staines

Eva Green plays the manipulative brothel owner in the new series

(Himesh Patel), an encounter that triggers a strange kind of magic that neither can explain. As they fall in love, driven together and apart by fateful coincidence, these star-crossed lovers begin to wonder: do we make our

The series is based on the Eleanor Catton bestselling novel

fortunes, or do our fortunes make us? Eva Green plays the role of Lydia Wells, the calculating brothel madam. Marton Csokas plays her love interest Francis Carver!