Most of you know that some of your spy's favourite movies are marvellous historical dramas Elizabeth and Elizabeth Golden Age (that one especially) and that their helmer Shekhar Kapur is one of my fave directors (at least before he produced that hideous crap of series Will), and now it seems we might get a continuation ELIZABETH THE DARK AGE. Well, sort of. Speaking to Variety he said it will be a futuristic movie about Elizabeth in the future, the state of the monarchy and civilization, based on a dystopian view of what will happen in Europe and what will happen in the U.K. and the western world! It will follow a 19 year prostitute who is put on the throne of the monarchy, which has long since been dead and gone.
'THE KINGKILLER CHRONICLE'
SAM RAIMI TO DIRECT?
KingKiller Chronicles have been sold in millions
Speaking of fantasy, rumour has it that Sam Raimi is negotiating with
Lionsgate to direct their adaptation of sf classic THE KINGKILLER
CHRONICLE based on novels by Pat Rothfuss with Lin Manuel Miranda
serving as creative producer. The project follows an adventurer and
musician Kvothe, who survives a tragic childhood to become a notorious
household name. Working as an innkeeper he tells the story of his life
in a three day narration. The project is planned as a trilogy with
Showtime planning a TV series which would expand the world from the
novel.
'MUTE' SF TRAILER
WITH ALEXANDER SKARSGARD, PAUL RUDD AND JUSTIN THEROUX
Mute airs on Netflix February 23rd!
First trailer has been revealed for Duncan Jones science fiction movie MUTE which is out on Netflix February 23rd! Berlin, the future, but close enough to feel familiar: In this loud, often brutal city, Leo (Alexander Skarsgard), unable to speak from a childhood accident, searches for his missing girlfriend, the love of his life, his salvation, through dark streets, frenzied plazas, and the full spectrum of the cities shadow dwellers. As he seeks answers, Leo finds himself mixed up with Cactus Bill (Paul Rudd) and Duck (Justin Theroux), a pair of irreverent US army surgeons on a mission all their own. The movie imagines a world of strange currencies in which echoes of love and humanity are still worth listening to.
ALEX KINGSTON, LINDSAY DUNCAN JOIN FANTASY TV SERIES
Sky One keeps on casting for the TV series adaptation of Deborah Harkness' A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES novel which sees Teresa Palmer playing Diana Bishop, historian and witch, who comes upon a secret world of vampires and witches. She is offered help in solving the mystery by the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont (Matthew Goode), but he's a vampire and witches should never trust vampires. The two of them join forces to decode a text that could bring peace between the species! Alex Kingston has joined the cast as her mother, a very powerful witch, while Lindsay Duncan will play Ysabeau de Clermont, the vampire mother of Matthew Clairmont who hates all witches.
'THE KINGKILLER CHRONICLE'
BECOMES A SHOWTIME SHOW
The saga has been translated into 35 languages
Speaking of fantasy series, Showtime is turning popular fantasy saga
THE KINGKILLER CHRONICLE by Patrick Rothfuss into television drama.
Lionsgate is at the same time also developing a major movie and video
games based on it. Set in the world of the popular fantasy series THE
KINGKILLER CHRONICLE will follow a pair of wandering performers on their
adventures through the unique and startling world of Temerant,
immersing audiences in a universe of unexpected heroes, mystical places,
and terrifying dark forces! It will be an origin story, set a
generation before The Name of the Wind, the first book in the trilogy.
Deadline reports today that Lionsgate is preparing to adapt Pat Rothfuss fantasy trilogy THE KINGKILLER CHRONICLE into a movie franchise and also a TV series. Lin Manuel Miranda is set to do the music. The main character of the saga is Kvothe, an adventurer and famous musician, and the books follow his travels through the world called the Four Corners of Civilization where different regions are either rich or barren, some even populated by fairies! It is planned for the first movie to be based on the first book THE NAME OF THE WIND, while at the same time developing a TV series that expands on the world outside the books!
'STAR TREK: DISCOVERY'
CASTS NEW CREW MEMBERS In TV news, by now you've probably heard that it has been confirmed
that Michelle Yeoh will, indeed, star in new STAR TREK: DISCOVERYCBS
series, and she will be Captain Georgiou, the Starfleet Captain of the
Starship Shenzhou. But two more cast members have been added to the
series which will be set in the early days of Federation's exploration
of wider space. Anthony Rapp will appear in the regular cast as Lt.
Stamets, a gay astro mycologist, fungus expert, and Starfleet Science
Officer aboard the Starship Discovery. Doug Jones will be Lt. Saru, a
Starfleet Science Officer and a new alien species to the Star Trek
universe. To air in May, the series will have a female commander as the
lead character.
'THE OTTOMAN LIEUTENANT'
FIRST TRAILER WITH MICHIEL HUISMAN AND JOSH HARTNETT
And here's a trailer we've been waiting for! The first one for period set drama THE OTTOMAN LIEUTENANT out next February! Directed by Joseph Ruben THE OTTOMAN LIEUTENANT follows a strong willed woman (Hera Hilmar), who, frustrated by ongoing injustice at home, leaves the United States after meeting Jude, an American doctor (Josh Hartnett)
who runs a remote medical mission within the Ottoman Empire, a world
both exotic and dangerous, and on the brink of what is about to become
the first World War. There, she finds her loyalty tested to both Jude
and the mission’s founder (Ben Kingsley) when she falls in love with their perceived enemy, a lieutenant in the Ottoman Imperial Army (Michiel Huisman). With invading army forces at their doorstep, and the world about to plunge into all-out war she must make a decision.
