FIRST TRAILER WITH PAUL MESCAL & JESSIE BUCKLEY IN HAMNET MOVIE ADAPTATION AS SHAKESPEARE AND HIS WIFE!

   1ST HAMNET TRAILER  

WITH PAUL MESCAL AND JESSIE BUCKLEY

More than a year ago I told you that Oscar winner Chloe Zhao will helm the movie adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's HAMNET but now we have the first trailer with Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley in the leads. This historical fiction novel imagines the story of Agnes, the wife of the world’s most famous writer, William Shakespeare, as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet. It charts the emotional, familial and artistic consequences of that loss, bringing to life a human and heart-stopping story as the backdrop to the creation of The Bard’s Hamlet. Joe Alwyn also stars in the movie out December 12th.

 

FIRST LOOK AT PAUL MESCAL & JESSIE BUCKLEY IN HAMNET MOVIE ADAPTATION AS SHAKESPEARE AND HIS WIFE!

   1ST HAMNET IMAGE 

WITH PAUL MESCAL AND JESSIE BUCKLEY

More than a year ago I told you that Oscar winner Chloe Zhao will helm the movie adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's HAMNET but now we have the first image with Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley in the leads. This historical fiction novel imagines the story of Agnes, the wife of the world’s most famous writer, William Shakespeare, as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet. It charts the emotional, familial and artistic consequences of that loss, bringing to life a human and heart-stopping story as the backdrop to the creation of The Bard’s Hamlet. Joe Alwyn also stars in the movie out December 12th.

BBC CELEBRATES 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST FOLIO WITH NEW STAR STUDDED DOCUDRAMA SHAKESPEARE: RISE OF A GENIUS

  BBC'S SHAKESPEARE  

RISE OF A GENIUS DOCUSERIES

Marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of William Shakespeare's First Folio, gripping three-part docuseries SHAKESPEARE: RISE OF A GENIUS tells the incredible story of how a glover’s son from rural Stratford became the greatest writer who ever lived. Taking a deep dive into Shakespeare’s life story, the place and time he inhabited and the work he produced, the three part series reveals a dangerous and exciting world filled with bitter rivalries, rebellion, murder and deadly plague, that ignited and nourished his creative genius. Cinematic drama vignettes depict Shakespeare’s life alongside a host of stars and experts, including Dame Judi Dench, Brian Cox, Adrian Lester, Helen Mirren, Martin Freeman and Jessie Buckley, alongside academics and writers bringing fresh insights into the story of Britain's greatest writer. Tracing Shakespeare’s life story, each episode follows the triumphs and setbacks of his writing life, revealing how the people he met and the world he witnessed found their way into his work. The series starts on BBC Two from November 8th. Daniel Boyarsky plays Shakespeare himself in the series.

Shakespeare - Rise of a Genius' this Tuesday on BBC2https://t.co/8I2UyZ8eIR

— Film Warwickshire (@filmwarks) October 29, 2023

PAUL MESCAL & JESSIE BUCKLEY IN TALKS TO LEAD HAMNET MOVIE ADAPTATION AS SHAKESPEARE AND HIS WIFE! SEE JONAH HAUER KING AS CASANOVA IN A BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION COSTUME DRAMA

   HAMNET ADAPTATION  

TO BE LED BY PAUL MESCAL AND JESSIE BUCKLEY?

A few weeks ago I told you that Oscar winner Chloe Zhao will helm the movie adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's HAMNET but now the word around the town is that Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley are in talks to take the leads. This historical fiction novel imagines the story of Agnes, the wife of  the world’s most famous writer, William Shakespeare, as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet. It charts the emotional, familial and artistic consequences of that loss, bringing to life a human and heart-stopping story as the backdrop to the creation of The Bard’s Hamlet. 

1ST A BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION

IMAGE FROM CASANOVA MOVIE

I also have from Screen Daily the first image from Michiel van Erp’s A BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION, a romantic costume drama about the love affair between the notorious Italian adventurer and womaniser Giacomo Casanova (Jonah Hauer King) and a beautiful courtesan Galathée (Dar Zuzovsky). Global Screen will be selling this period set movie at Cannes market!

HEAR LUKE EVANS SINGING IN NETFLIX FESTIVE ANIMATED ADVENTURE SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL TRAILER! KATE DICAMILLO'S FANTASY BESTSELLER THE BEATRYCE PROPHECY GETS MOVIE ADAPTATION

 THE BEATRYCE PROPHECY 

GETS A MOVIE ADAPTATION

Amazon Studios are to make a movie out of Kate DiCamillo's THE BEATRYCE PROPHECY fantasy book with Brad Copeland penning the script.  In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl,

Amazon Studios is adapting the book

Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils them all, for the king of the land seeks just such a girl, and Brother Edik, who penned the prophecy himself, knows why. And so it is that a girl with a head full of stories, powerful tales-within-the-tale of queens and kings, mermaids and wolves, ventures into a dark wood in search of the castle of one who wishes her dead. But Beatryce knows that, should she lose her way, those who love her, a wild-eyed monk, a man who had once been king, a boy with a terrible sword, and a goat with a head as hard as stone, will never give up searching for her, and to know this is to know everything.

 SCROOGE: CHRISTMAS CAROL 

NETFLIX ANIMATED TRAILER

Speaking of tales for kids, Netflix has released a trailer for their new festive animated adventure SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL which will stream from December 2nd with Luke Evans leading the voice cast of this

Scrooge will sing December 2nd

supernatural, time-travelling, musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's cult Christmas story, which also features voices from Jessie Buckley, Jonathan Pryce, Johnny Flynn! Charles Dickens’ ageless legend is reborn in this supernatural, time-travelling, musical adaptation of the definitive Christmas story. With his very soul on the line, Scrooge has but one Christmas Eve left to face his past and build a better future. Featuring re-imagined songs from the legendary and two-time Academy Award winner Leslie Bricusse, Scrooge: A Christmas Carol is one for a new generation to sing.

RHONA MITRA JOINS RUPERT PENRY JONES, ELLIE BAMBER IN PRISONERS OF PARADISE PERIOD SET EPIC DRAMA! I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS TRAILER WITH JESSIE BUCKLEY, TONI COLLETTE, DAVID THEWLIS

  'PRISONERS OF PARADISE'

Rhona Mitra will play aunt Betty in the film

SEND RHONA MITRA TO MAUR ITIUS

A few weeks ago your trusted spy informed you that Rupert Penry Jones will play Ellie Bamber's uncle in period set drama PRISONERS OF PARADISE and now she's getting a hot aunty too in Rhona Mitra! The movie, set to start shooting next month at Mauritius, is set in 1925, and follows 17 year old orphan Lucy Gladwell (Ellie Bamber) who is sent from England to live under the guardianship of her uncle George Huyton (Rupert Penry Jones). Initially seduced by the sumptuous beauty of her surroundings, Lucy finds herself at odds with her violent uncle who is not the benign influence he pretends to be, and she soon falls in love with Krishna (Mehdi Dehbi), a worker from a nearby plantation.

  I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS

 UNLEASHES A BIZARRE TRAILER

And if you are in the mood for something extremely weird here is the trailer for I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS movie which hits

The film hits Netflix September 4th

Netflix September 4th! Despite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to his family farm. Trapped at the farm during a snowstorm with Jake's mother (Toni Collette) and father (David Thewlis), the young woman begins to question the nature of everything she knew or understood about her boyfriend, herself, and the world. This exploration of regret, longing and the fragility of the human spirit, is inspired by Iain Reid's bestselling namesake novel. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.

1ST PHOTOS FROM I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS THRILLER WITH TONI COLLETTE, DAVID THEWLIS, JESSIE BUCKLEY AND CIARAN HINDS' MOSTLY SILENT COMEDY THE MAN IN THE HAT

  I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS

TONI COLLETTE & DAVID THEWLIS

First photo for you today from new drama movie with the elements of thriller I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS in which Jessie Buckley plays a young woman who, full of misgivings, travels with her new boyfriend

The film hits Netflix September 4th directed by Charlie Kaufman

(Jesse Plemons) to his parents' (Toni Collette and David Thewlis) secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself. Based on Iain Reid's acclaimed novel.

  THE MAN IN THE HAT

FIRST CIARAN HINDS POSTER

There is also the first poster and a photo from a British comedy movie THE MAN IN THE HAT directed and written by John Paul Davidson

The Man in the Hat has no release date yet

and Stephen Warbeck, in which The Man in the Hat (Ciarán Hinds in the lead role of the title character) journeys through France in a Fiat 500 accompanied by a framed photograph of an unknown woman. He is pursued by five angry men in a Citroën Dyane. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off? As he travels North through France, he encounters razeteurs, women with stories to tell, bullfights, plenty of delicious food, a damp man, mechanics, nuns, a convention of Chrystallographers and much more. And always, on his tail, the Five Bald Men. Though largely silent, the film is interrupted by regular bursts of music, with new songs from Stephen

Ciaran Hinds takes the lead role in The Man in The Hat

Warbeck, Schubert Lieder sung by the incomparable Mark Padmore, Canteloube aria from the Cevennes, and Try a Little Tenderness, amongst others. As the Fiat 500 wends its way across the mountains, gorges and bridges of France, the 2CV hard behind him, the Thin Man (Ciaran Hinds) comes face to face with the vivid eccentricities of an old country on an old continent.

SANDRA BULLOCK TO WORK WITH NETFLIX AGAIN AND LIVE AFTER DEATH IN THE ADAPTATION OF MARK MILLAR'S REBORN FANTASY SAGA! WILD ROSE TRAILER WITH SINGING JESSIE BUCKLEY AND JULIE WALTERS

SANDRA BULLOCK TO BE

REBORN ON NETFLIX AGAIN!

After almost 80 million people have seen their previous collaboration in Bird Box, Sandra Bullock and Netflix are teaming again on another sf feature!

Sandra Bullock might also star in the movie

She will produce, and possibly star, in the adaptation of Mark Millar's comic book REBORN.

Chris McKay will helm the story that follows an eighty year old woman who dies in a Manhattan hospital only to find herself reborn in the prime of life in the afterlife world of Adystria, a magical land of monsters and dragons where good and evil are waging an eternal war. There, she finds old friends and loved ones waiting, except the husband who died before her. Armed with a sword and partnered with her late father, she sets off through the battle-torn landscape on a quest to find out where he is.

'WILD ROSE' TRAILER

IN WHICH JESSIE BUCKLEY AND JULIE WALTERS GO COUNTRY

Over from Great Britain comes the first poster and trailer for music drama WILD ROSE which sees War and Peace and Taboo star Jessie Buckley

War and Peace director Tom Harper is helming this one as well

playing a musician from Glasgow who dreams of becoming a Nashville star. Our dear Julie Walters also stars in the film that should sing its way into cinemas on your spy's birthday, April 12th!

PERIOD SET MONDAY: NEW CHARACTER PHOTOS FOR BBC'S VICTORIAN DRAMA 'WOMAN IN WHITE' WITH BEN HARDY, JESSIE BUCKLEY, DOUGRAY SCOTT, CHARLES DANCE! JULIAN FELLOWES WRITING 'THE ROTHSCHILDS' 19TH CENTURY SAGA

  'THE WOMAN IN WHITE'

NEW BBC SERIES WITH BEN HARDY AND JESSIE BUCKLEY

BBC has revealed new character photos from their five part TV adaptation of Wilkie Collins' THE WOMAN IN WHITEwhich starts airing this Sunday, April 22nd!

  IN THE WOMAN IN WHITE
 Walter Hartright (Ben Hardy), a young drawing master, encounters a ghostly woman dressed all in white on Hampstead Heath. He offers her

Young Ben Hardy leads the cast of the Victorian drama

assistance, but is later shocked to discover she has escaped from a lunatic asylum. The next day, Walter leaves London to take up a teaching post in the

Olivia Vinall and Jessie Buckley play the female leads in the series

village, working for Mr Frederick Fairlie (Charles Dance), where he learns of a connection between his charming pupils, Laura Fairlie (Olivia Vinall) and

Jessie Buckley returns to BBC after War and Peace and Taboo

Marian Halcombe (Jessie Buckley), and the mysterious woman in white: she’s known to the household as Anne Catherick, a mentally handicapped

We haven't seen Dougray Scott on BBC in a very long time!

child who grew up in the village. Over the next few months, Walter and Laura Fairlie fall deeply in love, however she is already promised in marriage to a

Charles Dance is Mr Frederick Fairlie in the series

baronet - Sir Percival Glyde (Dougray Scott). When Laura receives a vicious letter attacking Sir Percival, Walter thinks Anne, who has recently returned to

Art Malik plays Erasmus Nash in the series

the village, might be responsible. He confronts her, only to uncover a chilling truth about Laura’s betrothed – that it was he who put Anne in the asylum.

  'THE ROTHSCHILDS'

 JULIAN FELLOWES PENNING SERIES ON  THE RICHEST FAMILY

Downton Abbey's Julian Fellowes is going to produce a series on the richest family on Earth THE ROTHSCHILDS (they could apparently feed all

Sky Atlantic will produce the series

the starving people in the world and cure all the ill ones if they weren't evil, as they, allegedly own about 80% of all world's wealth! As 'Deadline' reports, he is writing the 19th century saga set against the backdrop of war and revolution. It tells the story of how the family became to possess the largest private fortune in the world. They gained pre-eminence in the bullion trade during the Napoleonic Wars between 1803 and 1815 and Nathan Mayer Rothschild almost single handedly financed the British war effort. It will also portray a story about human relationships, fraternal struggles for dominance, of brilliant but disenfranchised women, of generational conflict, of incestuous alliances and of forbidden love with outsiders.

PERIOD SET THURSDAY: EXCITING TRAILERS FOR HISTORICAL SERIES 'THE WOMAN IN WHITE' WITH JESSE BUCKLEY, DOUGRAY SCOTT, CHARLES DANCE, BEN HARDY, 'PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK' WITH NATALIE DORMER

  'PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK'

PERIOD SET DRAMA TRAILER

The series starts this May on Amazon Prime

Period set delights for you today, starting with the first trailer for Natalie Dormer's THE PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK which will, produced by Australian Foxtel, air on Amazon Prime and also on BBC in UK. This new reimagining of Joan Lindsay’s novel, will first premiere its six episodes in Australia on May 6th and then on May 25th at Amazon Prime.
 

 MYSTERY THRILLER
With the story set in the 1900 Natalie Dormer plays English headmistress Mrs Hester Appleyard (a woman whose dead husband instructs her daily life and whose peculiarities are surely hiding dark skeletons) in the drama which revolves around the mysterious disappearances of three schoolgirls and one teacher on Valentine’s Day. The complex, interwoven narrative follows the

Natalie Dormer plays the mysterious headmistress of the 1900 school

subsequent investigation and the event’s far reaching impact on the students, families and staff of Appleyard College, and on the nearby township.

  'THE WOMAN IN WHITE'

ATMOSPHERIC TRAILER IS HERE!

BBC has meanwhile released the first, rather atmospheric and exciting, trailer for their period set series THE WOMAN IN WHITE after those first

Women in White starts in two weeks on BBC

photos I showed you a few days ago. The five part Victorian saga will start airing in UK on BBC One Sunday April 22nd starring Jesse Buckley, Dougray Scott, Charles Dance and Ben Hardy.

 VICTO- RIAN MAD HOUSE
It starts in early Victorian London after Walter Hartright encounters a ghostly woman dressed in all white on a moonlit road, and then soon finds himself drawn into a mysterious and disturbing world. Romance, suspense, and danger combine as secrets come to the fore in the haunting tale of insanity and identity.

Jesse Buckley, right, leads the female part of the cast

Viewed by many as the first psychological thriller novel, THE WOMAN IN WHITE will take viewers on a chilling ride down the shadowy paths and corridors of English country houses and ultimately into the depths of the Victorian madhouse.

1ST PHOTOS FROM BBC'S 19TH CENTURY GOTHIC SERIES 'WOMAN IN WHITE' WITH BEN HARDY, JESSIE BUCKLEY, CHARLES DANCE, DOUGRAY SCOTT! NEW 'SOLO: STAR WARS STORY' TRAILER WITH EMILIA CLARKE, DONALD GLOVER, ALDEN EHRENREICH

  'THE WOMAN IN WHITE'

NEW BBC SERIES WITH BEN HARDY AND JESSIE BUCKLEY

I reckon the series might air in two weeks

BBC has revealed 1st photos from their five part TV adaptation of Wilkie Collins' THE WOMAN IN WHITE! We're waiting for the first trailer!

  IN THE WOMAN IN WHITE
 Walter Hartright (Ben Hardy), a young drawing master, encounters a ghostly woman dressed all in white on Hampstead Heath. He offers her assistance, but is later shocked to discover she has escaped from a lunatic asylum. The next day, Walter leaves London to take up a teaching post in the village, working for Mr Frederick Fairlie (Charles

The series is based on the popular novel by Wilkie Collins

Dance), where he learns of a connection between his charming pupils, Laura Fairlie (Olivia Vinall) and Marian Halcombe (Jessie Buckley), and the mysterious woman in white: she’s known to the household as Anne Catherick,

Olivia Vinall and Jessie Buckley play the female leads in the series

a mentally handicapped child who grew up in the village. Over the next few months, Walter and Laura Fairlie fall deeply in love, however she is already promised in marriage to a baronet - Sir Percival Glyde (Dougray Scott).

Ben Hardy takes the lead for the first time in a BBC series

When Laura receives a vicious letter attacking Sir Percival, Walter thinks Anne, who has recently returned to the village, might be responsible. He confronts her, only to uncover a chilling truth about Laura’s betrothed – that it was he who put Anne in the asylum.

  'SOLO: STAR WARS STORY'

GETS A BRAND NEW TRAILER

Solo will first air at Cannes Film Festival

Disney has released a new trailer for their prequel movie SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY which will bring Han's origin story into cinemas May 25th! A rather doomed project which had to change its director in the middle of production and got mixed reaction for the first trailer and the choice of Alden Ehrenreich for the lead, is predicted to earn the lowest income of all Star Wars movies so far. Also starring Emilia Clarke as Qi'Ra, Woody Harrelson as Solo's mentor and Donald Glover as young Lando Calrissian, the movie will describe how Han Solo became the famed criminal of the galactic empire.

Chewbacca's wife is also set to appear in this one!

Opening first exclusively at Cannes Film Festival next month the science fiction adventure movie also stars Westworld's Thandie Newton. 

ROLAND EMMERICH TO DIRECT 'MAYA LORD' 16TH CENTURY EPIC ADVENTURE! FINN WITTROCK, JESSIE BUCKLEY JOIN RENEE ZELLWEGER IN 'JUDY' GARLAND BIOPIC

  'MAYA LORD'

ROLAND EMMERICH TO DIRECT MAYAN EMPIRE ADVENTURE 

Roland Emmerich is directing Maya Lord

Some four years ago the spy informed you that Roland Emmerich got movie rights on MAYA LORD from John Coe Robbins and now it seems the production of the movie set in the 16th century is moving on! It will follow a solider, Guerrero, and a priest, Aguilar, who survive a violent shipwreck in the Yucatan Peninsula where they get captured by a fierce Mayan tribe. With no hope for escape, the brilliant and pragmatic adventurer Gonzalo Guerrero chooses to adopt the Mayan culture as his own, while the uncompromising Father Aguilar holds fast to his Christian faith. The conquistadors arrive and test the will of both men as they take different warring paths!

  'JUDY' GARLAND BIOPIC

FINN WITTROCK, JESSIE BUCKLEY JOIN RENEE ZELLWEGER

Finn Wittrock will play Judy's fifth husband

Deadline reports that Judy Garland biopic is getting new cast: Finn Wittrock will play her fifth husband Mickey Deans, while Jessie Buckley will be her assistant in JUDY which will see Renee Zellweger playing the famous actress in winter 1968, 30 years after The Wizard Of Oz. When she arrives in Swinging London to prepare for a sell-out run at The Talk of the Town, she battles with management, charms musicians and reminisces with friends and adoring fans. Even her dreams of romance seem undimmed as she embarks on

Jessie Buckley will play in the movie which will also feature Judy's songs

 a courtship with Deans. And yet Garland is fragile. After working for 45 of her 47 years, she is exhausted; haunted by memories of a childhood lost to Hollywood and gripped by a desire to be back home with her kids.

JESSIE BUCKLEY, BEN HARDY, DOUGRAY SCOTT, CHARLES DANCE IN BBC VICTORIAN MINI SERIES 'WOMAN IN WHITE'! MANISH DAYAL TO LEAD 'RESIDENT' FOX TV SERIES

'THE WOMAN IN WHITE' 

JESSIE BUCKLEY, BEN HARDY TO LEAD BBC VICTORIAN SERIES

Here's a new BBC project for us: they've announced today the beginning of production on their small screen adaptation of Wilkie Collins Victorian thriller THE WOMAN IN WHITE and they've also announced Ben Hardy (X-Men) will star as Walter Hartright and our beloved Jessie Buckley (War And Peace, Taboo) as Marian Halcombe, with Dougray Scott, Charles Dance and Art Malik also in the cast!

The five episode mini series starts in early Victorian London after Walter Hartright encounters a ghostly woman dressed in all white on a moonlit road, and then soon finds himself drawn into a mysterious and disturbing world. Romance, suspense, and danger combine as secrets come to the fore in the haunting tale of insanity and identity. Viewed by many as the first psychological thriller novel, THE WOMAN IN WHITE will take viewers on a chilling ride down the shadowy paths and corridors of English country houses and ultimately into the depths of the Victorian madhouse.

MANISH DAYAL TO LEAD

 'THE RESIDENT' MEDICAL SERIES

Meanwhile, another of our absolute fave's, always lovely Manish Dayal (100 Foot Journey) will lead new medical drama THE RESIDENT at Fox! He will be Devon Pravesh, an idealistic young doctor who begins his first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant senior resident, Conrad Hawkins who pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in modern day medicine. Lives may be saved or lost, but expectations will always be shattered. Devon is a first year resident at Kings County Hospital. Top of his class at medical school, the type to follow rules, driven and passionate when it comes to medicine, Devon is a hard working perfectionist from a working class background. In Phillip Noyce directed and Antoine Fuqua produced series, Bruce Greenwood will play Chief of Surgery Dr. Soloman Bell, every inch the image of an ideal surgeon.

COLIN MORGAN JOINS RUPERT EVERETT, COLIN FIRTH, EMILY WATSON IN 'THE HAPPY PRINCE' OSCAR WILDE BIOPIC! NEW 'TABOO' TEASER FOR TOM HARDY PERIOD SET EPIC TV SERIES

COLIN MORGAN JOINS 

 RUPERT EVERETT'S 'THE HAPPY PRINCE' OSCAR WILDE BIOPIC

Our beloved British TV star Colin Morgan, whom we just watched this year in The Living And the Dead period set series and Humans sf series, has joined Rupert Everett's Oscar Wilde biopic THE HAPPY PRINCE which stars not only Everett as well, who is also writing and directing, but Colin Firth as well!

THE HAPPY PRINCE, which has the story set in the last days of legendary writer Wilde as he lies on his death bed and the past floods back to him, transporting him to other times and places, will also have other acting legends in the cast including Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson and Miranda Richardson!

NEW 'TABOO' TEASER 

 FOR TOM HARDY EPIC TV SERIES

Speaking of period set projects, you can also check out the new teaser for Tom Hardy epic series TABOO which will air at BBC and FX soon. Written by Hardy himself, it follows a traveller long thought dead who returns to 1814 London after ten years in Africa, burdened with his father's mysterious legacy. His obscure family history comes to the fore when he clashes with the all-powerful East India Company over control of his family's shipping business. The 8 episode series also stars Jonathan Pryce and Jessie Buckley! 

WHAT ARE YOUNG STARS OF 'WAR AND PEACE' EPIC SERIES DOING NEXT? JAMES NORTON, JACK LOWDEN, JESSIE BUCKLEY, PAUL DANO, CALLUM TURNER!

WHAT ARE  'WAR AND PEACE'

YOUNG STARS DOING NEXT?

Now that BBC's epic saga WAR AND PEACE has ended becoming a hit among the audience, let us check out what is all that wonderful cast doing next!

 JAMES NORTON

THE NEW JAMES BOND?
Ensemble member who definitely scored most public attention with his profound and captivating portrayal of courageous and bold Prince Andrei Bolkonsky is James Norton. Not only that all the press is buzzing about him these days but he has now also suddenly become one of the public favourites for new James Bond! But those of us who follow British drama religiously have known and loved Norton for years now. Before the Russian saga, he was also the lead star of other two popular series HAPPY VALLEY and GRANTCHESTER (both of which are still very much alive) and last year we also absolutely adored his work in BBC's LIFE IN SQUARES and LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER! He was also active on film in lovely period movie BELLE a few years ago and in recent NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA epic adventure movie. I'm guessing he will be in high demand after his latest role.

  JACK LOWDEN

NEW STAR OF PERIOD SET MOVIES

Almost equally charismatic and delightful, stealing all the scenes in which he appeared with his dashing screen presence, was Jack Lowden who played Count Nikolai Rostov, the impulsive and passionate Hussar who wore that uniform like it was glued onto him. Again, us who follow British drama, remember the stunning young Brit from BBC's moving WW1 drama THE PASSING BELLS from two years ago in which he simply shined and also from last year's WOLF HALL epic series in which he was the famous poet Thomas Wyatt! We shall watch him next in A UNITED KINGDOM movie with Rosamund Pike, Jack Davenport and Tom Felton about Prince of Botswana who caused an international stir when he married a white woman from London in the late 1940s. Another period set movie we shall watch the dear chap in is TOMMY'S HONOUR about the founders of modern golf with Sam Neill and Peter Mullan. He will also join Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson and Timothy Spall in DENIAL, about a professor who sets up a legal battle against an outspoken Holocaust denier.

 JESSIE BUCKLEY

THE FEMALE STAR OF THE SAGA  
By all means the most impressive female performance in WAR AND PEACE came from wonderfully talented Irish actress Jessie Buckley who gave riveting, deeply intelligent, profound and memorable portrayal of burdened Princess Mariya Bolkonskaya who in the end finds much deserved happiness with Nikolai Rostov. Channelling a wide range of deep emotions and inner struggle she gave Bolkonskaya life and I can't wait to see the direction Buckley's career takes after this triumph. She is set to appear in another new historical series, Tom Hardy's TABOO  about an adventurer who builds his own shipping empire in the Colonial early 1800s.

  PAUL DANO

THE HEARTFELT HERO 

The one who stole the hearts of the viewers with his heartfelt and loveable portrayal of clumsy, but yet truth seeking Count Bezukhov, Paul Dano, probably found the role of his life in WAR AND PEACE!  He will now lead CODES OF CONDUCT new TV series as a young man with a mysterious past who makes his way into New York's high society. Sam Reid, Helena Bonham Carter also star!

  CALLUM TURNER

THE IMPRESSIVE VILLAIN 
Playing the manipulative villain Anatole Kuragin in WAR AND PEACE young British actor Callum Turner gave a rather magnetic performance. Doors of Hollywood are opened for him since he has two big projects in his pocket: VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN with James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe and Michael Fassbender's ASSASSIN'S CREED!