Showing posts with label SANDOKAN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SANDOKAN. Show all posts

Thursday, July 3, 2025

FIRST SANDOKAN EPIC TV SERIES TRAILER AND AIR DATE REVEALED WITH CAN YAMAN, ED WESTWICK AND JOHN HANNAH IN THE CAST

    SANDOKAN SERIES    
TRAILER AND AIR DATE REVEALED
Sandokan arrives this December to RAI
Lux Vide and Italian Broadcaster Rai are ready to premiere their new epic TV adaptation of famous SANDOKAN  this December so we have the first trailer with Turkish heartthrob Can Yaman in the lead role of the famous adventurer. Alanah Bloor, Ed Westwick, Alessandro Preziosi, John Hannah also star beside him.
 
IN NEW SERIES
  Adventure, passion, revolution and love for nature: these are the colors of Sandokan, the event series that gives life to the immortal character created by Emilio Salgari. The series goes to the roots of a myth, exploring the origins of the Malaysian Tiger and telling his trajectory from a simple adventurer to the prince of the pirates. In Borneo, a tropical paradise inhabited by the native tribes of Dayak, but dominated by the ruthless law ofthe colonialist British, Sandokan is a pirate who lives by the day: he fights
Can Yaman takes the lead role
 only for himself and for his crew, including the trusted Yanez. But his life changes when he meets Marianna, the beautiful daughter of Labuan’s British consul during a raid. It is the beginning of an impossible love story between two similar souls: Marianna, of European and noble blood, but with the wild spirit of those who grew up in a tropical paradise, and Sandokan, pirate and adventurer, who without knowing it carries within himself the blood of ancient warrior kings. On their trail will be the legendary pirate hunter Lord James Brooke, who will stop at nothing to capture Sandokan and win Mariana’s heart. The protagonists will fight for themselves and for their love, but soon they will understand that they are part of a much greater story: that of apeople who fight for freedom and for the salvation of unspoiled nature... And this people, the Dayak, seek a leader who can save them. For this reason Sandokan will be called to be much more than a pirate: he will have to become the legendary Tiger of Malaysia.

Saturday, February 22, 2025

LONDON TV SCREENINGS SPOTLIGHT: COLD WATER WITH ANDREW LINCOLN, SANDOKAN WITH CAN YAMAN, FRENCH WW1 SET FANTASY SERIES THE SENTINELS

   LONDON TV SCREENINGS  
 COLD WATER WITH ANDREW LINCOLN
Showing next week at London TV Screenings open market are many interesting new series  and among them is COLD WATER which sees Andrew Lincoln returning to TV. Done for ITV Studios, it sees him play John, repressed and raging at his stay-at-home life, who moves his family to rural idyll Coldwater. There he is befriended by Tommy, a neighbor, a seeming pillar of the community, blissfully unaware that Tommy is harbouring horrifying secrets.

SANDOKAN WITH CAN YAMAN
Also being offered to the buyers in London next week is new adventure TV series remake of famous SANDOKAN who is this time played by Turkish heartthrob Can Yaman and with Ed Westwick and John Hannah also starring in the series inspired by the novel series of Emilio Salgari! Borneo in the mid-19th century is a paradise inhabited by the indigenous Dayak tribes, who live according to their ancient traditions but are ruled by the ruthless laws of the British Empire at the height of its colonial power. Sandokan lives from day to day without taking sides. He fights for himself and his pirate crew, which includes his loyal friend Yanez. But his life changes when he meets Marianne, the beautiful daughter of the British consul in Labuan, during a raid. It is the beginning of an impossible love story between two unexpectedly similar souls: Marianne, of noble blood but with the wild spirit of someone who grew up in a tropical paradise, and Sandokan, pirate leader and adventurer who carries the blood of warrior kings. On their trail is the legendary pirate hunter Lord James Brooke, who will stop at nothing to capture Sandokan and win Marianne's heart. 


THE SENTINELS FROM FRANCE
France is, meanwhile, bringing over to London a fantasy series set in First World War THE SENTINELS which will air in France on Canal +. On a WW1 battlefield French Private Gabriel (Louis Peres) is wounded. His family is told he is dead. In fact, he has been chosen to be part of a secret research program to create a new kind of soldier. Inoculated with a mysterious serum, when he awakens, Gabriel is stronger and faster than a normal human. He is recruited into The Sentinels, a band of elite fighters. Based on the Xavier Dorison and Enrique Breccia graphic novels, the French-language drama launches on Canal+ in France later this year according to Deadline.

Friday, June 7, 2024

FEAST YOUR EYES ON FIRST SANDOKAN EPIC TV SERIES IMAGES WITH CAN YAMAN, ED WESTWICK AND JOHN HANNAH

   FIRST SANDOKAN   
IMAGES FROM NEW EPIC TV SERIES
Lux Vide and Italian Broadcaster Rai have treated us today with the first images from their new epic TV adaptation of famous SANDOKAN which
Can Yaman is new Sandokan
is currently in production with Turkish heartthrob Can Yaman in the lead role of the famous adventurer. Alanah Bloor, Ed Westwick, Alessandro Preziosi, John Hannah also star beside him.
 
IN NEW SERIES
  Adventure, passion, revolution and love for nature: these are the colors of Sandokan, the event series that gives life to the immortal character created by Emilio Salgari. The series goes to the roots of a myth, exploring the origins of the Malaysian Tiger and telling his trajectory from a simple adventurer to the prince of the pirates. In Borneo, a tropical paradise inhabited by the native tribes of Dayak, but dominated by the ruthless law of the colonialist British, Sandokan is a pirate who lives by the day: he fights only for himself and for his crew, including the trusted Yanez. But his life changes when he meets Marianna, the beautiful daughter of Labuan’s British consul during a raid. It is the beginning of an impossible love story between two similar souls: Marianna, of European and noble blood, but with the wild spirit of those who grew up in a tropical paradise, and Sandokan, pirate and adventurer, who without knowing it carries within himself the blood of ancient warrior kings. On their trail will be the legendary pirate hunter Lord James Brooke, who will stop at nothing to capture Sandokan and win Mariana’s heart. The protagonists will fight for themselves and for their love, but soon they will understand that they are part of a much greater story: that of a people who fight for freedom and for the salvation of unspoiled nature... And this people, the Dayak, seek a leader who can save them. For this reason Sandokan will be called to be much more than a pirate: he will have to become the legendary Tiger of Malaysia.
 

Thursday, April 18, 2024

SANDOKAN EPIC SERIES STARTS SHOOTING, ED WESTWICK, JOHN HANNAH JOIN CAN YAMAN

 CAN YAMAN'S SANDOKAN 
EPIC TV SERIES ANNOUNCES FULL CAST
After years long delay due to covid Lux Vide and Italian RAI are finally starting production on SANDOKAN epic TV series next Monday.  It is set in the mid 19th century on the island of Borneo, where the native Dayak tribes are dominated by ruthless Brits at the height of their colonial power. Initially, Sandokan (Can Yaman) just goes about his pirate business without taking
Ed Westwick, Can Yaman and Alessandro Preziosi will star
sides, leading his motley crew that includes trusted sidekick Yanez de Gomera (Alessandro Preziosi). Everything changes during a raid when Sandokan intersects and elopes with Marianne (Alanah Bloor), the daughter of the British consul (John Hannah). Pirate hunter Lord James Brooke, (Ed Westwick) will stop at nothing to capture Sandokan and win Marianne’s heart. Also in the cast are Madeleine Price, Gilberto Gliozzi, Mark Grosy  and Samuele Segreto.

Thursday, December 24, 2020

NEW EPIC TV SERIES ON LEGENDARY 19TH CENTURY PIRATE SANDOKAN CASTS CAN YAMAN AND LUCA ARGENTERO IN LEAD ROLES!

   SANDOKAN EPIC TV SERIES  
Can Yaman will take the lead role
FROM LEONARDO PRODUCERS
Ladies will totally love this one, methinks, and you will understand why as soon as you hear who has been cast in the lead roles: Italian production company LuxVide, who produced Devils for Sky and Leonardo Da Vinci series with Aidan Turner, will turn beloved Emilio Salgari's SANDOKAN novels into an epic TV series which will be a more modern remake of the famous TV series that was popular in the 70s. And they already have amazing casting choices for the story that chronicles the adventures of a 19th century pirate fighting against the colonial power of the Dutch and British empires in South East Asia. Wildly gorgeous Turkish superstar Can Yaman will take the lead role of the pirate Sandokan while Italian heartthrob Luca Argentero
Italian star Luca Argentero will play Sandokan's fellow pirate Yanez
will play fellow pirate Yanez. Popular female character of lady Marianna will also be cast soon in the series being written by Alessandro Sermoneta and Davide Lantieri!