SAMANTHA MORTON IS DELICIOUSLY RUTHLESS IN SERPENT QUEEN EPIC TV SERIES TRAILER! TRAILER & RELEASE DATE FOR CZECH HISTORICAL HERO JAN ZIZKA EPIC BIOPIC MEDIEVAL WITH BEN FOSTER, MICHAEL CAINE, MATTHEW GOODE, WILLIAM MOSELEY, TIL SCHWEIGER

 SERPENT QUEEN TRAILER 

THE ROYAL VILLAINESS

After those first photos that I showed you last week from THE SERPENT QUEEN series, Starz has just sent us the first epic trailer for the historical series about infamous Catherine de Medici revealing that the series will launch September 11th, much sooner than we expected. Samantha Morton leads the cast portraying the French queen and descendant of the legendary Italian noble family who believed it's safer to be feared than loved especially as life wasn't really kind to her forcing her to become cunning, sly and above all ruthless.

 

 

   FIRST MEDIEVAL  

TRAILER FROM THE CZECH EPIC!

We finally have the first full trailer for new historical adventure MEDIEVAL which sees American actor Ben Foster playing Czech national

Medieval arrives September 8th!

hero and warlord Jan Zizka who was
 a powerful figure in the famous Hussite wars in the medieval times. With the massive budget of about $20 million, the new historical movie was shot on the sets near Prague and around Czech republic. Superhunky Czech actor and judo champion Petr Jakl has both written and directed the movie! He is not the only athlete in the production as legendary Czech decathlon world recorder Roman Sebrle is also in the cast! International theatre release is now scheduled for September 9th when it will hit US cinemas as well with September 8th release in Czech republic.

WHAT'S THE MOVIE ABOUT? 

Ben Foster takes the lead role in the film

MEDIEVAL will follow their 14th century national hero Jan Zizka of Trocnov (Ben Foster), a revered military tactician who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire. He is known for his innovative strategies and for quickly training peasants to face skilled and armoured  opponents who usually outnumbered his own troops. The historical adventure film will also have another storyline which will revolve around his relationship with king's lover, a rich heiress Catherine (Sophie Lowe), whom he is sent to save but unexpectedly falls in love with her, while another storyline will describe his fight against a rival king.

The film should be out this September

WHO ELSE IS IN THE CAST?

Our favourite William Moseley plays Jan's brother Jaroslav, legendary Michael Caine is Lord Boresh the right hand of Czech King Wenceslaus and German superstar Til Schweiger is Rosenberg, the richest lord in the kingdom. British thespian Matthew Goode will portray King Sigismund of  Hungary and Croatia, the brother of Czech King Wenceslaus, and if my eyes are not playing with me he will have a blondish hair in the movie! Czech actor Karel Roden is playing King Wenceslaus himself! 

SEE 1ST TRAILER FOR CZECH HISTORICAL HERO JAN ZIZKA EPIC BIOPIC MEDIEVAL WITH BEN FOSTER, MICHAEL CAINE, MATTHEW GOODE, WILLIAM MOSELEY, TIL SCHWEIGER

   FIRST MEDIEVAL  

TEASER FROM THE CZECH EPIC!

We finally have the first teaser trailer for new historical adventure MEDIEVAL which sees American actor Ben Foster playing Czech national hero and warlord

The film should be out this September

Jan Zizka who was
 a powerful figure in the famous Hussite wars in the medieval times. With the massive budget of about $20 million, the new historical movie was shot on the sets near Prague and around Czech republic. Superhunky Czech actor and judo champion Petr Jakl has both written and directed the movie! He is not the only athlete in the production as legendary Czech decathlon world recorder Roman Sebrle is also in the cast! I am personally a bit disappointed with the trailer as the film in it looks a bit cheap and Ben proves he is just not up to the task due to lack of talent and charisma, especially for this kind of role, not to mention he looks too much

William Moseley plays Jan' brother, brave Jaroslav!

American. But we shall still give this film a go when it comes out later this year. You can check out the teaser below and tell us your thoughts.

WHAT'S THE MOVIE ABOUT? 
MEDIEVAL will follow their 14th century national hero Jan Zizka of Trocnov (Ben Foster), a revered military tactician who defeated armies of the

William Moseley, Ben Foster and Michael Caine in the film!

Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire. He is known for his innovative strategies and for quickly training peasants to face skilled and armoured

Matthew Goode plays King Sigismund of Hungary and Croatia

opponents who usually outnumbered his own troops. The historical adventure film will also have another storyline which will revolve around his

Til Schweiger is the richest man in the country in the film!

relationship with king's lover, a rich heiress Catherine (Sophie Lowe), whom he is sent to save but unexpectedly falls in love with her, while another storyline will describe his fight against a rival king.

WHO ELSE IS IN THE CAST?

Our favourite William Moseley plays Jan's brother Jaroslav, legendary Michael Caine is Lord Boresh the right hand of Czech King Wenceslaus and

Karel Roden is King Wenceslaus in the movie

German superstar Til Schweiger is Rosenberg, the richest lord in the kingdom. British thespian Matthew Goode will portray King Sigismund of

Czech world record breaker Roman Sebrle plays one of the knights

Hungary and Croatia, the brother of Czech King Wenceslaus, and if my eyes are not playing with me he will have a blondish hair in the movie! Czech actor Karel Roden is playing King Wenceslaus himself! 

 

OTTO BATHURST TURNING BERNARD CORNWELL'S THE WINTER KING INTO ARTHURIAN EPIC TV SERIES. DEADLINE THRILLER SERIES STARTS TONIGHT WITH JAMES D'ARCY, CHARLIE MURPHY. SEA OF TRANQUILITY SF SERIES AT HBO

 WARLORD CHRONICLES 

TO BECOME EPIC TV SERIES

If you are wondering what on Earth will we watch after The Last Kingdom, don't worry as new medieval fun is coming up soon. As Variety reports,

The series is done by Sony Television

WARLORD CHRONICLES from Bernard Cornwell will be adapted by Bad Wolf into a ten episode THE WINTER KING series. The series, which will begin shooting this year in UK, presents a revisionist take on the Arthurian legends, circling around Arthur Pendragon as he evolves from outcast son to legendary warrior and leader. The books are set in the 5th century, long before Britain was united, in a land of warring factions and tribes when the world was brutal and lives were often fleeting. Halo's Otto Bathurst is coproducing and directing as well. The series, originally announced at Epix, is envisioned as having more seasons. 

  SEA OF TRANQUILITY  

TO GET TV ADAPTATION 

Television adaptation also awaits Emily St. John Mandel's novel SEA OF TRANQUILITY, whose Station Eleven you are currently

The book is out on your spy's birthday

watching on HBO, also for HBO Max. Out April 12th, it is a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. When Gaspery Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.

 

  DEADLINE TV SERIES  

READY TO START TONIGHT

Starting from tonight, Tuesday April 5th, British Channel 5 will air their new thriller mini series DEADLINE in four consecutive nights. It follows elusive widow Natalie Varga (Charlie Murphy) who stands accused of murdering her husband in cold blood and the court of public opinion has already decided she’s guilty as charged. But Natalie is a difficult woman to get a handle on as she’s perfected the art of adapting to her surroundings. After surviving a traumatic childhood, Natalie studied at Cambridge University and having escaped her roots she’s become adept at switching from warm to aloof and from relatable to untouchable. James Aiden (James D’Arcy) is an investigative journalist with one serious black mark on his career copybook already. He’s now looking for redemption and decides to interview Natalie for his documentary. However he soon falls for the very femme fatale he’s supposed to be profiling and loses his grip on reality. Can James unravel fact from fiction or will his own feelings prove to be the barrier to the truth?

FIRST PHOTOS FROM HISTORICAL EPIC MOVIE ILIYA MUROMETS ON THE LEGENDARY RUSSIAN XI CENTURY HERO AND WARRIOR

  ILIYA MUROMETS MOVIE  

FROM XI CENTURY RUSSIA

To the delight of our readers who always ask me for more international projects, today we are going back again to good old Matushka Rossiya: this one started shooting back in 2019, but then we had the covid outbreak and I'm not sure where is this project currently at, whether it is still in post production or not, but I do have first photos from Russian historical movie ILIYA MUROMETS (Илия Муромец) from director Karen Oganesyan with the ensemble that includes Yegor Pazenko, Andrey Merzlikin, Olga Medynich, Danila Yakushev, Anton Pampushny, Vladislav Demin and other actors!

WHAT'S THE STORY?

Russia, XI century. The state is in danger. From the south, its borders are threatened by hordes of Polovtsy, wild steppe pagans, and from the inside, an internal war is sharpening, which Prince Vladimir Monomakh is trying to stop with all his might. It is in times like these that legends are born. The legend of ILIYA MUROMETS lives to this day, but, like any legend, a living person is hiding behind it. A peasant son who could not walk until the age of thirty-three, but became a great warrior. This is a mighty warrior who faithfully served Prince Monomakh and won the glory of a hero in the war against the Polovtsy and in the unification of Russian lands. A hero who, after so many feats, left military affairs and devoted the rest of his life to serving God.

  BEHIND THE PRODUCTION

The idea of ​​the film belongs to Yegor Pazenko, who also plays the title role and acts as the general producer. For several months, Yegor, together with the historian Alexander Golovkov, worked on the future script, and later Karen Oganesyan also joined them. The story of legendary ILIYA MUROMETS has come down to our days in the format of epic poems, fairy tales, comics, and has become for everyone a kind of a comic story, divorced from reality. Therefore the creators of this picture had a very important task: to tell people about the real ILIYA MUROMETS, a real person who lived in the times of Ancient Russia. The budget of the film is 900 million rubles (about $7 million), which is not surprising - this is an incredibly large-scale and ambitious project, which involves famous actors, an impressive number of extras, work has also been done to restore life in Russia in the 11th century, costumes, armor, and weapons have been created. The film uses computer graphics, there are spectacular, meticulously staged fight scenes in order to recreate significant battles of ancient Russia from the time of price Monomakh.

WILLIAM MOSELEY TO PLAY DAVY CROCKETT, CZECH PRINCE & EDGAR ALLAN POE! TADANOBU ASANO, ANNA SAWAI CAST IN SHOGUN EPIC TV SERIES

   WILLIAM MOSELEY  

FROM CROCKETT AND EDGAR ALLAN POE TO CZECH PRINCE

We're updating you with the upcoming projects from Hollywood's hottest blond hunk William Moseley and I don't think I will hear anyone complaining! He already finished LAND OF DREAMS movie with Matt Dillon and Isabella Rossellini, political satire set in the near future where America has closed its borders and become more insular than ever. He is also filming ON THE LINE thriller with Mel Gibson, and you already know that

William Moseley is a very busy man

we are waiting for historical adventure MEDIEVAL to be released. In the story of fourteenth century Czech icon and warlord Jan Zizka (Ben Foster), who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire, he plays his brother Jaroslav. Michael Caine, Til Schweiger and Matthew Goode also star. Another of his historical films SAVAGE LANDS is currently in pre production: in it he plays Davy Crockett, the American Legend, whose wife has fallen deathly ill back in 1815, leaving their young children to survive on their own, so he must fight his way back to them across the many perils found in the Savage Lands of the wild frontier.

  Meanwhile, Shudder has bought his film RAVEN'S HOLLOW in which he dyed his hair black to play Edgar Allan Poe during his time at the US Military Academy, known as West Point. Returning from a training exercise in upstate New York, Poe and four other West Point cadets make a gruesome discovery. This encounter will lead

First look at William as Edgar Allan Poe in Raven's Hollow

them into a forgotten community where they find a township guarding a frightening secret that feeds Poe’s wandering and ingenious mind. AMC's horror streamer Shudder will release it sometime next year.

  SHOGUN EPIC TV SERIES  

ADS NEW CAST MEMBERS

After adding Cosmo Jarvis and Hiroyuki Sanada as leads, FX has completed the casting process for their eight part epic mini TV series

Anna Sawai is taking the female lead

SHOGUN with Anna Sawai as female lead. Tadanobu Asano, Fumi Nikaido, Tokuma Nishioka, Takehiro Hira, Ako, Shinnosuke Abe, Yasunari Takeshima, Hiroto Kanai, Toshi Toda, Hiro Kanagawa, Nestor Carbonell, Yuki Kura, Tommy Bastow, Moeka Hoshi, Yoriko Doguchi and Yuka Kouri complete the cast in the saga following Cosmo as John Blackthorne , a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture ultimately will redefine him; Lord Toranaga (Sanada), a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his

Tadanobu Asano has also joined the cast of Shogun series

own dangerous, political rivals; and Lady Mariko (Sawai), a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties who must prove her value and allegiance.

1ST PHOTOS FROM LAVISH 13TH CENTURY SAGA GLOW AND DARKNESS ON SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI WITH DENISE RICHARDS AND JANE SEYMOUR AS MEDIAEVAL QUEENS

  'GLOW AND DARKNESS'

LAVISH NEW EPIC TV SAGA

As you probably know by now, almost all of the films, series, daily soaps and all of the pilots have halted filming due to Coronavirus outbreak, and even

The series will have three seasons

the ones that are already airing, for example sitcoms, will finish their seasons without final episodes which were mostly due to be shot this week or end of March. Out of epic shows, Witcher, See, Around the World in 80 Days, Wheel of Time, Britannia, have all stopped filming their new or first seasons. Similarly, massive new Spanish epic drama GLOW AND DARKNESS (Resplandor y Tinieblas) has also put the production of its nine episodes on hiatus, but we have the first photos from the super luxurious period set project which shares its lavish scope with the other two upcoming new Spanish historical sagas El Cid and Ines of my Soul with more than 1500 actors and extras working on the project. Denise Richards and Jane Seymour lead the cast of the English language series which will cover the life and times of some of the most important figures of the Middle Ages

Denise Richards and Jane Seymour will play famous 13th century queens

who met the protagonist Saint Francis of Assisi, during the 13th century, a a spectacular period of history ruled by ambition, cruelty, religion and the clash of Christian and Saracen cultures. Some of the historical figures he met during his life include Richard the Lionheart (Steve Buyers), queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (to be played by Seymour) and Pope Urban II (to be played by Oscar

The series will be shot in English language, but it is a Spanish production

nomine Bruce Davison), Ferdinand of Navarre (Daniel Lundh), Frederick I Barbarossa (Adrian Bouchet), Frederick of Swabia (Callum Kerr), Hermann of Thuringia (Sander Jan Klerk), Raymond III of Tripoli (Joe Layton), Henry VI (Robert Maaser), Saladin (Adam Bond), King Baldwin (Landher Iturbe), Maria of Champagne (Denise Richards), King of Jerusalem Guy de Lusignan (March Hughes), prince of Antioch Reynald De

Adam Bond is legendary Saladin famous Muslim general and sultan

Chatillon (Bart Edwards), famous knight Roger of Moulins (Aron von Adrian) and many others. Jose Luis Moreno is the executive producer, director and writer of the series for Dreamlight International production. Opulent costumes, lavish sets, spectacular battles will fill the project which is planned as a three season series. The halted shooting was to be done in Italy, France, Morocco, Egypt and Spain.

  Dezzy's History Lesson
Assisi (Italy), year 1179 In the long night of the Middle Ages, at the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe plunges into darkness. Soon an institution will emerge that will take up the torch and for a thousand years illuminate all of

The lavish project will use more than 1500 actors and extras

Christendom: the Roman Catholic Church. However, in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, the papacy once again preaches the crusades against mighty Islam while facing one of its most serious crises: the Cathar

The series will be offered to networks only after the end of production

and Waldensian heresy. Owner of large properties and lands donated by the faith of the believers - with whom they want to "buy" their place in the promised heaven - the Church accumulates great power and has stopped listening to people, who demand its renewal and return to the origins of

The sets, costumes, cinematography are done by award winning Spanish experts

Christianity. Thus, popes and cardinals will be more devoted to face the Holy Empire, after decades in dispute for dominance of the known world. It is in these moments when, providentially, a man emerges whose message of love and respect for all beings of Creation will become universal: Francis of Assisi (1181-1226).

1ST PHOTOS FROM 'MEDIEVAL' 14TH CENTURY ADVENTURE WITH BEN FOSTER, WILLIAM MOSELEY, MICHAEL CAINE, MATTHEW GOODE, TIL SCHWEIGER!

  FIRST 'MEDIEVAL'

PHOTOS FROM THE CZECH EPIC!

We are ready to top our Epic Weekend today with the first photos coming from the sets of new historical adventure MEDIEVAL which sees American actor Ben Foster playing Czech national hero and warlord Jan Zizka who was

William Moseley, Ben Foster and Michael Caine in the film!

a powerful figure in the famous Hussite wars in the medieval times. With the massive budget of about $20 million, the new historical movie is currently

Til Schweiger is the richest man in the country in the film!

shooting on the sets near Prague and around Czech republic. Superhunky Czech actor and judo champion Petr Jakl is both writing and directing the

William Moseley plays Jan' brother, brave Jaroslav!

movie! He is not the only athlete in the production as legendary Czech decathlon world recorder Roman Sebrle is also in the cast!

WHAT'S THE MOVIE ABOUT? 
MEDIEVAL will follow their 14th century national hero Jan Zizka of Trocnov (Ben Foster), a revered military tactician who defeated armies of the

Ben Foster takes the lead role of Jan Zizka!

Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire. He is known for his innovative strategies and for quickly training peasants to face skilled and armoured

Matthew Goode plays King Sigismund of Hungary and Croatia

opponents who usually outnumbered his own troops. The historical adventure film will also have another storyline which will revolve around his

Michael Caine plays Lord Boresh in the medieval adventure!

relationship with king's lover, a rich heiress Catherine (Sophie Lowe), whom he is sent to save but unexpectedly falls in love with her, while another storyline will describe his fight against a rival king.

WHO ELSE IS IN THE CAST?

Our favourite William Moseley plays Jan's brother Jaroslav, legendary Michael Caine is Lord Boresh the right hand of Czech King Wenceslaus and

Karel Roden is King Wenceslaus in the movie

German superstar Til Schweiger is Rosenberg, the richest lord in the kingdom. British thespian Matthew Goode will portray King Sigismund of

Czech world record breaker Roman Sebrle plays one of the knights

Hungary and Croatia, the brother of Czech King Wenceslaus, and if my eyes are not playing with me he will have a blondish hair in the movie! Czech actor Karel Roden is playing King Wenceslaus himself!

MATTHEW GOODE JOINS BEN FOSTER, MICHAEL CAINE, WILLIAM MOSELEY, TIL SCHWEIGER IN 'MEDIEVAL' 14TH CENTURY ADVENTURE! 'DISCOVERY OF WITCHES' SEASON 2 GOES BACK TO ELIZABETHAN LONDON

   MATTHEW GOODE JOINS

CZECH MEDIEVAL ADVENTURE

Matthew Goode will star in $20 million movie

This is certainly a cherry on top of the cake! Rumour has it that Matthew Goode has just joined Czech MEDIEVAL epic movie in a very royal role! He will join Ben Foster, Michael Caine, William Moseley, Til Schweiger, as King Sigismund of Hungary and Croatia, the brother of Czech King Wenceslaus!

MEDIEVAL will follow their 14th century national hero Jan Zizka of Trocnov (Ben Foster), a revered military tactician who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire. He is known for his innovative strategies and for quickly training peasants to face skilled and armoured opponents who usually outnumbered his own troops. The film will also depict his relationship with king's lover Catherine (Sophie Lowe) whom he is sent to save but falls in love with her, and his fight against a rival king. William Moseley plays Jan's brother Jaroslav, Michael Caine is Lord Boresh the right hand of King Wenceslaus and Til Schweiger is Rosenberg, the richest lord in the kingdom.

   'A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES'

TO GO BACK TO ELIZABETHAN LONDON IN SEASON 2

Speaking of history and Goode, Sky is sending their currently most popular series A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES back in time after renewing it for season 2 and 3 even before the finale of the first one! Matthew Goode and Teresa Palmer will go back to Elizabethan London in season 2 as vampire

A Discovery of Witches has been a success for Sky thanks to magnificent art production and Matthew Goode's radiant charisma.

Clairmont and witch Diana, where she will try to develop her powers with the help of a very powerful witch. The series, which is airing on HBO worldwide channels and Sundance in USA, has scored tons of viewers despite the criticism of Palmer's desperately poor acting skills. 

WILLIAM MOSELEY JOINS BEN FOSTER, MICHAEL CAINE, TIL SCHWEIGER IN 'MEDIEVAL' 14TH CENTURY HUSSITE WARS EPIC ADVENTURE! EMILY MORTIMER, ALESSANDRO NIVOLA TO TURN 'STATE OF WONDER' AMAZON SET BOOK INTO TV SERIES

   WILLIAM MOSELEY JOINS

'MEDIEVAL' CZECH EPIC MOVIE

A cherry on top to conclude the casting process for historical epic movie MEDIEVAL on Czech 14th century hero Jan Zizka! Joining Ben Foster (as

William Moseley is no stranger to epic films

Zizka himself), Michael Caine (as Lord Boresh, the right hand of the Czech King Wenceslaus IV), and Til Schweiger (as Rosenberg, the richest lord in the kingdom) is our dearest, sweetest William Moseley who is set to play Jaroslav, Zizka's brother.

MEDIEVAL will follow their 14th century national hero Jan Zizka of Trocnov, a revered military tactician who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire. He is known for his innovative strategies and for quickly training peasants to face skilled and armoured opponents who usually outnumbered his own troops. The film will also depict his relationship with king's lover Catherine (to be played by Sophie Lowe) whom he is sent to save but falls in love with her, and his fight against a rival king. With the massive budget of about $20 million, the The $20 million movie starts shooting next Monday in Prague! new historical movie starts shooting next week around Prague and around Czech republic.

   'STATE OF WONDER' TO BECOME

SERIES PRODUCED BY EMILY MORTIMER, ALESSANDRO NIVOLA

eOne will turn the book into mini TV series

Meanwhile, eOne will develop mini series out of Ann Patchett's bestseller STATE OF WONDER which will be produced by actors Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola. No word whether they will also star in the series which follows Dr Marina Singh who journeys into the depths of the Amazon rain forest in search of her former mentor, veteran scientist Dr Annick Swenson, who has vanished while conducting research into the prolonged fertility of the women of an isolated Amazonian tribe. As Marina embarks upon this uncertain odyssey, she will be forced to surrender herself to the lush but forbidding world that awaits her in the darkest reaches of the rain forest. Ann Patchett's Bel Canto has been turned into a movie already with Julianne Moore.