BLAKE LIVELY, JUSTIN BALDONI TO LEAD IT ENDS WITH US ADAPTATION, NICOLE KIDMAN HBO'S PERFECT NANNY TV SERIES! DARA OF JASENOVAC DIRECTOR GAGA ANTONIJEVIC TO HELM 14TH CENTURY EPIC MOVIE BATTLE OF KOSOVO!

  NEW BOOK ADAPTATIONS 

BLAKE LIVELY IN IT ENDS WITH US MOVIE ADAPTATION

A couple of adaptations today, beginning with Justin Baldoni who will direct the movie adaptation of Coleen Hoover's IT ENDS WITH US with Blake Lively as s girl named Lily who has just moved and is ready to start her life after college. Lily then meets a guy named Ryle and she falls for him. As she is developing feelings for Ryle, Atlas, her first love, reappears and challenges the relationship between Lily and Ryle. Baldoni will also star in his film.

 

THE PERFECT NANNY AT HBO WITH NICOLE KIDMAN

Meanwhile, Nicole Kidman is returning to HBO where she will star, together with Maya Erskine, in the six episode TV series adaptation of THE PERFECT NANNY from Leila Slimani. In this high profile limited series, a seemingly perfect nanny goes to work for a couple with two young children, but her helpful personality eventually deteriorates into something sinister. 

   BATTLE OF KOSOVO   

NEW HISTORICAL EPIC MOVIE

Director of War World II epic drama Dara of Jasenovac which was one of the biggest contenders for best foreign film during the nominations race for Oscars last year, Gaga Antonijević, is preparing another massive historical drama: this time he will helm a sweeping historical epic BATTLE OF KOSOVO which will follow the famous battle between Serbian defenders and Turkish invaders that happened in 1389 at Kosovo field. The battle which

Beloved Serbian actor Nenad Jezdić will play knez Lazar

saw around 10,000 Serbs fighting against close to 40,000 Ottomans, was celebrated as Serbian victory around Europe of that time, but both Serbs and Turks consider it their personal defeat as Serbs lost all their knights and nobles together with their leader knez Lazar, while the Ottomans lost their sultan Murad who was killed by Serbian hero Milos Obilic and his courageous

Nataša Ninković is set to play Serbian kneginya Militza

knights. It is interesting that some of the lead roles are already known: Nenad Jezdić will play knez Lazar himself, while Nataša Ninković is set to play his wife kneginya Militza who had to take over the throne with her son prince Stefan after the demise of her whole family, including her husband, nine brothers and father, in the tragic battle. The shooting will start this summer.

DARA OF JASENOVAC DIRECTOR PREDRAG ANTONIJEVIC PREPARING SERBIA'S FIRST EPIC FANTASY HIGH END TV SERIES BASED ON BASH TCHELIK FAIRY TALE

 BASH TCHELIK EPIC TV SERIES

BASED ON SERBIAN FAIRY TALE

Last week I informed you that Predrag Gaga Antonijevic, the director of Serbia's Oscar representative Dara of Jasenovac, is planning a

The series will shoot in 2023

historical adventure movie Janissary with Christian Bale and Sharon Stone, but he is also preparing first ever high end Serbian epic TV series based on their popular fairy tale BASH TCHELIK (in Serbian True Steel). The start of the shooting is planned for 2023. 

IN BASH TCHELIK

A king has three sons and three daughters. On his deathbed he makes his sons swear that they will marry off their sisters to the first person who asks. One night a booming voice demands that one sister be given to him. The two older brothers are reluctant, while the youngest (the Least of Three) heeds his father's dying request and hands her over. The same thing

These gorgeous pics come from Petar Meselgia

happens for the next two nights, until all the sisters are given away to mysterious strangers. The three brothers then decide to go and search for their sisters. Throughout their travels, each brother fights many headed serpents, the youngest tossing the serpent into a lake putting out their camp fire; so he has to go out alone to find fire, and using his wits he defeats nine giants that were terrorizing the region. Finally, he rescues a princess from the giant's village and is allowed to marry the princess. He lives in her castle and is allowed to visit any of the rooms, except one which is bound with chains (the One Forbidden Thing). When his wife is away from the castle, he goes inside the room and finds a man bound in chains. The man calls himself BASH TCHELIK and he begs for three glasses of water. Every time BASH TCHELIK drains a glass, the prince receives an extra life. When the third glass is handed to him, BASH TCHELIK regains

Series will be done with the help of Serbian Telekom

his massive strength, breaks the chains, spreads his wings, and flies away with the youngest son's wife. Now the prince sets out on a new quest to rescue his wife. On the way, he discovers that his sisters were married to the Lords of Dragons, Hawks and Eagles. He visits their castles and is welcomed. But when he tells each Lord of his plans to defeat BASH TCHELIK, they try to stop him, telling him its impossible. The young prince refuses to listen, so each Lord gives him a magical feather that when burned will summon their armies. He tries to rescue his wife but each time, fails and loses his life. On the fourth time he fails again and dies, but not before he burns the feathers and his body is saved by his brothers-in-law. They resurrect him using the magical water from River Jordan. At this point the prince's wife learns that BASH TCHELIK cannot be killed, because his life is in a bird that is in a heart of fox in a forest of a high mountain. Helped by the Lords, the prince finally slays BASH TCHELIK and rescues his wife.

CHRISTIAN BALE TO LEAD HISTORICAL ADVENTURE JANISSARY FROM DARA OF JASENOVAC DIRECTOR, SHARON STONE IN TALKS TO JOIN! SAMARA WEAVING JOINS KELVIN HARRISON JR IN CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES MARIE ANTOINETTE COURT SET MOVIE

  CHRISTIAN BALE TO LEAD  

JANISSARY HISTORICAL MOVIE

I think we are the first ones to break this news in English, but Gaga Antonijevic, who directed last year's Serbian Oscar representative

The production should start next year

Dara from Jasenovac, is preparing a massive new historical adventure JANISSARY based on real historical custom of the Ottoman empire to steal babies from occupied lands and then raise them as killer Janissaries who would then be sent to pillage their own villages often unknowingly killing their own mothers and sisters in the process. He has already set Christian Bale as the male lead in the film that he has been preparing for twenty years now. 

 

    Set at the end of the 16th century, the film will see Bale playing a Serb taken as a child to Istanbul where he becomes a pasha in their army. The sultan eventually sends him to his fatherland to end the Serbian rebellion and this is where he gets faced both with his past and with a moral dilemma of what to do.

 

Gaga has also revealed that he is currently negotiating with Sharon Stone to take the role of Bale's mother in the film. Bale, who is married to a Serbian woman in real life, has worked with the director on the script which should start shooting sometime next year in Serbia and Turkey.  

 SAMARA WEAVING TO JOIN 

CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES

We mentioned the movie a few months ago, and now Hollywood Reporter writes that Samara Weaving has joined CHEVALIER DE SAINT GEORGES historical drama as opera singer! Kelvin Harrison Jr plays the

Samara Weaving will take the female lead

lead as Joseph Bologne, or the Chevalier de Saint Georges, also known as the Black Mozart. Born in the Caribbean, Bologne was the illegitimate son of a plantation owner and a slave who was then educated in France and became a fencing master, which served as an entrée into French high society. With his music and operas, he ascended to the upper echelons of Marie Antoinette’s Paris society until a court scandal laid him low. Weaving will play Marie Josephine, a woman who yearns for creative fulfillment outside of her empty, loveless marriage and defies her controlling husband to become the voice of Bologne’s opera. Stephen Williams is directing for Searchlight.