REBECCA FERGUSON TO LEAD
WOOL DYSTOPIAN TV SERIES
After The White Queen,
Rebecca Ferguson will lead another small screen series: the TV adaptation of
WOOL dystopian novel by
Hugh Howey over at
Apple TV + and she will also executive produce it. Self published by
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Rebecca will both star in and produce the series
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the author himself back in 2011, the book is a set in a ruined and toxic future where a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Rebecca Ferguson will star as Juliette, an independent and hardworking engineer. There were at least two previous efforts to adapt the book at other studios. Speaking of epic TV series,
Amazon has just renewed
The Wheel of Time epic fantasy series for a second season even though the first one has not been released yet.
DANGEROUS LIAISONS SERIES
STARZ CASTS LEAD STARS
Earlier last year I told you that
Starz is preparing a prequel TV series to famous
DANGEROUS LIAISONS and now they have set the stars for it. As
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Nicholas Denton will be young Valmont
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Deadline reports,
Alice Englert and
Nicholas Denton will play the notorious lovers Merteuil and Valmont in this reimagining of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ classic 18th century novel! It tells the origin story of how the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont meet as passionate young lovers in Paris on the eve of revolution. Driven to right the wrongs of their past, the couple rises from the slums of Paris and scales the heights of the French aristocracy, seducing and manipulating both the nobility and each other to survive.
Marquise Camille is a beautiful young
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Alice Englert will play the female lead
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woman from nowhere with a mysterious past who seeks revenge on the wealthy aristocrats who led her to ruin. Betrayed by her lover, Valmont, she turns heartbreak into empowerment as she strategizes to gain status, power and freedom. Pascal Valmont was driven to regain the title and status stolen from him by his stepmother after his father’s death. Without status or money, he must seduce and blackmail to get what he wants, even if it risks losing the one he loves most – Camille. The series has already started its preproduction down in Czech republic.
EWAN HORROCKS JOINS
LAST KINGDOM FINAL SEASON
Speaking of epic shows, the fifth and sadly the final season of everybody's favourite mediaeval series
THE LAST KINGDOM at
Netflix has added
Ewan Horrocks to the cast. The youngster who is currently
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starring in Sky's Domina series will play a character named Aelfweard! Filming is underway in Hungary on the final ten episodes, which will continue to follow the adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg (
Alexan-der Dreymon) a warrior born a Saxon but raised as a Dane, in ninth and tenth-century England. Charged with training King Edward’s first born son Aethelstan as a warrior, Uhtred’s ambition will have an even higher purpose. But to achieve this destiny, Uhtred will have to face down his greatest enemy and suffer his greatest loss. New cast members also include
Patrick Robinson as Father Benedict, a holy man with a troubled past;
Sonya Cassidy as Eadgifu, a smart and openhearted Saxon who arrives in Winchester; and
Harry Gilby as Aethelstan, a young man trained by Uhtred to follow in his footsteps.
the 1970s, gazing down on her sprawling empire from a luxury
New York penthouse. Emmett J Scanlan stars as Adam Fairley, Lydia Leonard as
Olivia Wainwright, Leanne Best as Adele Fairley, Ewan Horrocks as Edwin Fairley, Harry Cadby as Gerald Fairley, Will Mellor as Jack Harte,
Lenny Rush as Frank Harte, Niall Wright as Mac, Robert Wilfort as Murgatroyd, Toby Regbo as Jim Fairley, Hiftu Quasem as Priya Chandra, Sophie Bould as Elizabeth Harte and Georgina Sadler as Polly. 
the 1970s, gazing down on her sprawling empire from a luxury
New York penthouse. Emmett J Scanlan stars as Adam Fairley, Lydia Leonard as
Olivia Wainwright, Leanne Best as Adele Fairley, Ewan Horrocks as Edwin Fairley, Harry Cadby as Gerald Fairley, Will Mellor as Jack Harte,
Lenny Rush as Frank Harte, Niall Wright as Mac, Robert Wilfort as Murgatroyd, Toby Regbo as Jim Fairley, Hiftu Quasem as Priya Chandra, Sophie Bould as Elizabeth Harte and Georgina Sadler as Polly. 
