PAUL MESCAL TO LEAD CARMEN MUSICAL MOVIE ADAPTATION! INTERGALACTIC SKY'S SF SERIES FIRST LOOK WITH CRAIG PARKINSON, ELEANOR TOMLINSON, SAVANNAH STEYN

  PAUL MESCAL  

TO LEAD CARMEN ADAPTATION

You've seen Paul in Deceived and Normal People

But as far as I've got it, it won't be a direct big screen adaptation of the famous opera by George Bizet, but a musical based on it. Benjamin Millepied, a dancer and a choreographer, is directing this as his first movie with  Paul Mescal in the male lead, Melissa Barrera in the titular role and Spanish icon Rossy de Palma in a supporting role. The film that starts filming over in Australia this January will see Mescal playing Aidan opposite Barrera's Carmen in this tragic love story. Not sure who Aiden is, but in the opera, the male lead was Don José, a naive soldier who is seduced by the wiles of the fiery gypsy Carmen. Written by Oscar winner Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. the film will have an entirely original score and nine new songs! I'm guessing they'er aiming at new Moulin Rouge.

 INTERGALACTIC SF SERIES 

FIRST LOOK AT THE CREW

Sky has released the first photo from their new eight part sf series INTERGALACTIC following fearless young cop and galactic pilot, Ash Harper (Savannah Steyn), who has her glittering career ripped away from her after being wrongly convicted of a treasonous crime and exiled to a distant prison colony. But on the way there, Ash’s fellow convicts stage a mutiny and

Intergalactic will air on Sky and Now TV sometime next year

seize control of their prison transfer ship. With the flight crew dead, mob leader Tula Quik (Sharon Duncan-Brewster), is intent on reaching the free world – Arcadia – with her gang; and Ash is the only pilot who can get them there. Ash is forced to join them on the run towards a distant galaxy and an uncertain future. From the fringes of outer space to the depths of human emotion, Intergalactic is a drama set in space, but with its feet firmly on the ground. Craig Parkinson and Eleanor Tomlinson also star.

SKY ORDERS JUNO TEMPLE STARRING MOROCCO PERIOD SET DRAMA LITTLE BIRDS AND LESBIAN 23RD CENTURY SET SF SERIES INTERGALACTIC

  'LITTLE BIRDS'

JUNO TEMPLE TO LEAD MOROCCO SET 1950'S MINI TV SERIES

Juno Temple will star in the six episode series

British Sky has just cast Juno Temple as the lead star of their new period set series LITTLE BIRDS an adaptation of Anais Nin’s infamous collection of erotic short stories. Set in Tangier in 1955, in the famous international zone, one of the last outposts of colonial decadence, it follows troubled American debutante Lucy Savage (Temple) as she faces a culture shock.Thrilled to escape her controlling parents, Savage arrives full of anticipation for her marriage to her English fiancée, Lord Hugo Cavendish Smythe, little knowing that Hugo has already lost his heart to someone else. As Lucy fights to carve out her independence and identity, her life becomes intertwined with Cherifa Lamour (Yumna Marwan), a Moroccan dominatrix who services the diplomats and foreigners of this colourful, bohemian world and Egyptian Aristocrat Adham Abaza (Raphael Acloque) and they all become entangled with some very

Raphael Acloque will lead the male part of the cast

dangerous characters!

LESBIANS IN SPACE 
Sky has also ordered sf series INTERGALACTIC a 23rd century set action packed ten part drama which will follow a crew of fierce female convicts who break free and go on the run. The series follows Ash, a young flight cadet falsely imprisoned before becoming embroiled in an audacious prison break-out with a disparate gang of dynamic women, who fall in love and betray each other.