While we are waiting for Lux Vide to bring us new Sandokan series with Can Yaman, the news comes that after Leonardo series in which Aidan Turner played famous Da Vinci, they are planning to also make two epic series about his fellow painters CARAVAGGIO and MICHELANGELO! Minamata and The White Crow director Andrew Levitas is already
These two new series will continue trilogy started with Leonardo
developing these new projects. Michelangelo and Caravaggio represent the completion of a trilogy on the great Renaissance artists that began with Leonardo. The stories of larger-than-life artists and characters will be told with a modern cut and language! Michelangelo actually appeared in Leonardo series as they were rivals, while Caravaggio worked in the 16th century Rome.
FRANKENSTEIN EPIC TV SERIES
UNDER OTTO BATHURST'S HELM
Otto Bathurst is producing and helming
Speaking of epic series, Otto Bathurst from Peaky Blinders, Robin Hood and Halo will direct FRANKENSTEIN TV series adaptation for Black Box and Stone Village. Penned by Bradley McManus, it will have the story set in pre Victorian Europe, and focusing on the behaviors and obsessions of a scientist exploring the fine thread between life and death, all set against the context of a year in which dependence on scientific breakthroughs has been paramount. The series is envisioned as a returning one, not an event mini series.
Now this is probably the best news of the week: not only that Slingshot Global Media has announced their work on CLEOPATRA epic TV series, but it has also been revealed today that our absolute favourite director Shekhar Kapur (ELIZABETH, ELIZABETH GOLDEN AGE, FOUR FEATHERS) will helm it and write it! Instead of focusing on the arch seductress made famous by her affairs with men like Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the show will highlight the opposite – that these men were famous because of her. It will follow the narrative of an 18-year-old girl who came to be a Pharaoh and a queen – a woman who was brighter, more intelligent, richer and a better ruler than the men of her time. The series will reinvent her as the modern woman, a woman that understood the power of myth and turned herself into a myth, constantly reinventing herself. It will highlight her great loves and her survival in the face of repeated assassination attempts, which made her one of the most dangerous, yet most powerful, thrones of all time.
'THE DURRELLS' PERIOD SERIES
CASTS KEELEY HAWES, LESLIE CARON AND ALEXIS GEORGOULIS Earlier this year I announced that British ITV is making a television
series out of MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS memoir by Gerald Durrelland
THE DURRELLS now have the cast! Our beloved Keeley Hawes will lead it
alongside legendary Leslie Caron and Greek star Alexis Georgoulis. The
1930's six part series focuses on Louisa Durrell (KeeleyHawes), whose
husband died years before and his money has almost run out. Her four
children Larry (Josh O'Connor), Leslie (Callum Woodhouse), Margo (Daisy
Waterstone) and Gerry (Milo Parker) are running riot and making life
very difficult.
Louisa decides to escape from Britain for a new adventure in Corfu,
taking her family with her. Alexis Georgoulis will play the dependable
Spiro Halkiopoulos, while Leslie Caron will be shrewd Countess
Mavrodaki, who hires Margo as her companion.
VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN TRAILER
AND POSTER WITH JAMES MCAVOY & DANIEL RADCLIFFE
20th Century Fox has released the first trailer and poster for this November's horror drama VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN following radical scientist Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy) and his equally brilliant protégé Igor Strausman (Daniel Radcliffe) who share a noble vision. They want to aid humanity through their ground breaking research into immortality. But Victor's experiments go too far, and his obsession has horrifying consequences. Only Igor can bring his friend back from the brink of madness and save him from his monstrous creation. Paul McGuigan from BBC's SHERLOCK is directing!
A bunch of photo updates for you today coming from 'Entertain- ment Weekly'. We first start with the first photos from the second season of Starz' epic drama series OUT- LANDER showing both Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) in their new French costumes (the yellow gown was created by costume designer Terry Dresbach, the wife of Ronald D. Moore, the show's creator) since the second season, which arrives only next year, will see them in France where they fled and are now trying to stop the Jacobite
rebellion from ravaging Scotland. As I reported before a number of stars has joined the new season with Stanley Weber playing Comte St Germain the main rival of Jamie's cousin who is the leading wine seller in France. VICIOUS star Frances de la Tour will play Mother Hildegarde, woman who comes from an aristocratic and well-connected family.
When Claire begins volunteering at L'Hopital des Anges, she encounters and soon earns the respect of Mother Hildegarde. Andrew Gower will be Prince Charles Stuart who wants the throne, while Margaux Chatelier will play an old flame of Jamie's.
FIRST PHOTOS FROM
'PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES' New pics have also been released for a classic drama with an
unexpected twist - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES which arrives into
cinemas next Valentines turning Austen's dull love lemonade into something
more apocalyptic. Lily James will portray Lizzy, who has become
romantically entangled with Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley). Sadly, their love
will be challenged by zombie virus in which the 'sorry stricken' (aka
zombies) are rising from the grave to cause Victorian zombie mess. The
victims of this mysterious plague have been roaming around for the past
70 years, and it's up to Lizzy, her sisters, and her lover to stop the
madness! Douglas Booth, Matt Smith and Jack Huston also star.
'VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN'
NEW PHOTO WITH JAMES MCAVOY AND DANIEL RADCLIFFE
And there's also a new photo from long delayed Victorian horror adventure VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN in which Daniel Radcliffe plays Igor and the film is told from his perspective, showing the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein (James McAvoy), and him becoming eyewitness to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.
SAM CLAFLIN AND RIZ AHMED JOIN FELICITY JONES IN THE SPINOFF
While the geekdom is in frenzy, anxiously awaiting December premiere of STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS, the spinoff to the popular science fiction saga STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE is already casting its stars. Set between 'Episode III Revenge of the Sith' and the original 'Star Wars' movie 'A New Hope', ROGUE ONE will revolve around a group of rebels looking to steal blueprints to the Death Star. Due to be released December 2016, it will have Oscar nominee Felicity Jones in the lead roles alongside rising star Sam Claflin! Ben Mendelsohn and another of our fave British stars Riz Ahmed will also star in the Gareth Edwards directed movie! After that, December 2017 will bring STAR WARS VIII to the cinemas.
'VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN'
FIRST PHOTO WITH JAMES MCAVOY AND DANIEL RADCLIFFE Although it is out this October in USA and September in Europe, we
haven't seen any photos nor a trailer for VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN ... but now
we have the first set picture of James McAvoy as the lunatic scientist
who wants to create a monster and Daniel Radcliffe as his assistant
Igor.
