KENNETH BRANAGH TO ADAPT 'DEATH ON THE NILE' AFTER 'ORIENT EXPRESS'! 'PAUL APOSTLE OF CHRIST' TEASER WITH JIM CAVIEZEL, OLIVIER MARTINEZ

 'DEATH ON THE NILE'

TO COME AFTER ORIENT EXPRESS

While Murder on the Orient Express is currently tripling its budget at the worldwide box office (it already earned more than $150 million in just

It's one of Agatha's best selling mysteries

 ten days and it cost only $50 million), the same team is planning on doing Agatha Christie's DEATH ON THE NILE next and Kenneth Branagh is expected to return both as the director and as Hercule Poirot at least as Hollywood Reporter writes today. He will be travelling again, not on a train, but this time on a river cruise. Scriptwriter Michael Green is also returning.

Published in 1937, three years after Orient Express as one of Christie's most popular novels, it also features rich socialites and their help in the story which sees the detective on a vacation in Egypt where he becoms involved in a love triangle gone murderously bad!

 'PAUL, APOSTLE OF CHRIST'

JIM CAVIEZEL TEASER IS HERE!

Jim Caviezel and James Faulkner lead the cast

The first teaser has been released for next Easter's Jim Caviezel starring drama PAUL, APOSTLE OF CHRIST in which  Paul (James Faulkner), suffers alone in a Roman prison, awaiting his execution under Emperor Nero. Mauritius (Olivier Martinez), the ambitious prison prefect, can hardly see what threat this broken man poses. Once he was Saul of Tarsus, the high-ranking killer of Christians. Now his faith rattles Rome. At great risk, Luke the Physician (Jim Caviezel) visits the aged Paul to comfort him and to smuggle out Paul’s letters to the growing community of believers. Amid Nero’s persecution, these men and women will spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ and change the world.

'TEXAS RISING' EPIC SERIES TRAILER WITH OLIVIER MARTINEZ, BRENDAN FRASER, BILL PAXTON, CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY, THOM JANE! LUC BESSON TO ADAPT 'VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF THOUSAND PLANETS' SF EPIC! DOUGLAS BOOTH IS SHELLEY IN 'A STORM IN THE STARS'

LUC BESSON TO ADAPT

VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF THOUSAND PLANETS

In his first tweets ever, French director Luc Besson has revealed today that this December he will start production on the big screen adaptation of VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS science fiction graphic novel! Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevigne are set to lead the cast. As 'Deadline' reports they will play Valerian and Laureline in the adaptation of the original story, which centred on a pair of spatio temporal agents who help defend a utopian 28th century Earth and its neighbouring planets from bad guys, with the pair’s adventures rooted in space opera and time travel themes not so much unlike Besson's 'Fifth Element'!

DOUGLAS BOOTH VENTURES

INTO 'A STORM IN THE STARS'
Meanwhile, ROMEO AND JULIET, JUPITER ASCENDING and NOAH's  Douglas Booth play poet Percy Shelley in Haifaa Al-Mansour’s  A STORM IN THE STARS joining Elle Fanning and Bel Powley! This brand new take on the unconventional life of 18 year-old Mary Shelley, charts Mary’s tempestuous love affair with charismatic poet Percy Shelley, her notorious trip to Lake Geneva with Lord Byron and the rocky road that made her into an icon. It remains to be seen who will play Byron in the movie which starts production later this year!

'TEXAS RISING' TRAILER

 WITH THE MIND BLOWING CAST

Something premiering at History Channel worldwide on May 25th is dynamic new historical series TEXAS RISING which will depict the formation of the legendary Texas Rangers during the state's revolution against Mexico in five episodes. In 1836, west of the Mississippi was considered the Wild West and the Texas frontier was viewed as hell on earth. Crushed from the outside by Mexican armadas and attacked from within by ferocious Comanche tribes, no one was safe. But this was a time of bravery, a time to die for what you believed in and a time to stand tall against the cruel rule of the Mexican General Santa Anna (Olivier Martinez). General Sam Houston (Bill Paxton), the rag tag Rangers and the legendary “Yellow Rose of Texas” lead this story of the human will to win against insurmountable odds. At the end, the Texas flags stood tall and victorious, claiming a piece of history for all eternity. Brendan Fraser, Ray Liotta, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Thomas Jane, Crispin Glover, Jeremy Davies, Chad Michael Murray and Kris Kristofferson also star!

AIDAN TURNER GOES SHIRTLESS IN 'POLDARK' HISTORICAL BBC SERIES TRAILER! 1ST POSTERS & TRAILER FOR 'TEXAS RISING' EPIC SERIES WITH BILL PAXTON, BRENDAN FRASER, OLIVIER MARTINEZ, RAY LIOTTA, THOMAS JANE, CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY

AIDAN TURNER GOES SHIRTLESS

 IN 'POLDARK' SERIES TRAILER

Mostly television news for you today, people, starting with the first official trailer (I aired you the stolen one last year) for BBC's new historical series POLDARK which will air some time later this year with Aidan Turner playing rebellious Ross Poldark as he returns from

the American War of Independence to his home town Cornwall, discovering that it has changed dramatically since he has been away and that his love has left him for another man.

'TEXAS RISING' EPIC SERIES

FIRST PHOTOS AND TRAILER

You can also check out the first pictures and a trailer for History Channel's new historical series TEXAS RISING which will air at Memorial Day in eight episodes featuring one of the most stellar casts ever to be seen on the small screens: Bill Paxton (as Sam Houston, the father of Texas), Brendan Fraser (as Texas ranger), Ray Liotta (as Alamo survivor), Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olivier Martinez (as president Santa Anna), Thomas Jane, Crispin Glover, Jeremy Davies, Max Thieriot, Chad Michael Murray, Trevor Donovan,  Jeff Fahey, Rob Morrow and Kris Kristofferson! You can read more in our previous spotlight!

THE RISE OF A NATION
In 1836, if west of the Mississippi was considered the Wild West then Texas was hell on earth. Crushed from the outside by Mexican armadas and attacked from within by ferocious Comanche tribes, no one was safe. But this was a time of bravery, a time to die for what you believed in and a time to stand tall against the cruel rule of the Mexican General Santa Anna. From General Sam Houston to rag tag Rangers to the legendary “Yellow Rose of Texas” — TEXAS RISING will bring a story of the human spirit rising in the face of insurmountable odds and claiming a piece of history for all eternity!

"THE PHYSICIAN" EPIC TRAILER WITH BEN KINGSLEY, OLIVIER MARTINEZ, TOM PAYNE! RYAN REYNOLDS & SCOTT SPEEDMAN IN "QUEEN OF THE NIGHT"! DYLAN MCDERMOTT IN STEPHEN KING'S "MERCY"! ROBERT DE NIRO, SYLVESTER STALLONE IN "GRUDGE MATCH"

 Everybody's favourite Hollywood hunk Ryan Reynolds keeps adding different roles to his CV. The new one is in QUEEN OF THE NIGHT.

To be directed by Atom Egoyan over in Canada and with Scott Speedman also in the cast, the psychological thriller will tell the story of a father who goes in search of his missing daughter. The young girl was eight at the time of her abduction, but the father is given new information about the case nearly nine years later, which leads him to think the now 17-year old is still alive. "Deadline" reports that Mireille Enos is due to play the wife of Ryan Reynolds character, who checks in with the police once a year in regards to her missing daughter, on her birthday. She comes to discover that disturbing memorabilia left at her workplace is actually clues leading to her daughter's whereabouts.

HOLLYWOOD SPY HEADLINES

Last week I informed you that there will be a movie adaptation of Stephen King's MERCY and now, according to "Variety", the film has found new cast member:

after AMERICAN HORROR STORY Dylan McDermott will return to the horror genre in this story which revolves around two young brothers (Joel Courtney and THE WALKING DEAD's Chandler Riggs) who discover that their grandmother is actually an evil witch. It's not known whom will Dylan McDermott play but we do know that Frances O'Connor will appear as the boys' mother. Speaking of THE WALKING DEAD, Jon Berhthal has joined GRUDGE MATCH, a comedy about two retired boxers (Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone) who step back into the ring to settle an old score. Jon Bernthal plays the estranged son of Robert De Niro's character, who feels conflicted about training his father.

THE PHYSICIAN TRAILER

The Physician is out in cinemas soon

And since you know that your trusted HOLLYWOOD SPY is one of web's biggest centrals for all things epic and historical, here's an exciting trailer for 2013 visually deeply exotic and atmospheric historical

movie DER MEDICUS or THE PHYSICIAN. This German epic stars Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgard, Olivier Martinez, Tom Payne, Michael Marcus. Here's the story:  When nine-year-old Rob Cole felt the life force slipping from his mother's hand he could not foresee that this terrifying

Tom Payne leads the film

awareness of impending death was a gift that would lead him from the familiar life of 11th-century London to small villages throughout England and finally to the medical school at Ispahan. Though apprenticed to an itinerant barber surgeon, it is the dazzling surgery of a Jewish physician trained by the legendary Persian physician Avicenna that inspires him to accept his gift and to commit his life to healing by studying at Avicenna's school. Despite the ban on Christian  students, Rob goes there, disguising himself as a Jew to gain admission. The film is based on Noah Gordon's adventurous and inspiring bestselling novel of a quest for medical knowledge pursued in a violent world full of superstition and prejudice.