1ST PHOTOS FROM PERIOD SET DRAMA SEACOLE ON THE FAMOUS 19TH CENTURY NURSE WITH GUGU MBATHA RAW, SAM WORTHINGTON, RUPERT GRAVES

   SEACOLE PERIOD SET MOVIE  

FIRST GUGU MBATHA RAW PICS

Two years ago your trusted spy announced a movie project on a true life story of Mary SEACOLE, the pioneering Jamaican nurse who became known during the Crimean War for her care of wounded British soldiers, and now we

The movie should premiere in USA sometime this year

have the first photos of Gugu Mbatha Raw in the lead role. Sam Worthington, Rupert Graves and Padraic Delaney also star! Seacole’s self-sacrifice on the front lines and fierce, adversarial relationship with Florence Nightingale during the war made her famous in her time.

The movie was directed by Charlie Stratton

Spiderman's Numan Acar will play The Pasha, a high ranking officer in the Turkish army, a lover not a fighter, who helps Mary build her hotel. Sylvia Hoeks and Sean Delaney will also star in the film directed by Charlie Stratton in UK and Romania.

DEZZY'S HISTORY LESSON

Seacole was born in 1805 to a free Jamaican woman and a Scottish officer. She followed in her mother's footsteps and became a nurse versed in traditional Caribbean and African herbal remedies. When the Crimean War

Gugu Mbatha Raw returns to costume drama after Belle

broke out, she applied to be a nurse for the British government, but her request was denied. She paid her own passage to the Crimean Peninsula and set up a hotel for soldiers.

GUGU MBATA RAW, SAM WORTHINGTON TO STAR IN THE STORY OF MARY SEACOLE, FAMOUS CRIMEAN WAR NURSE! NEW ANNA KARENINA SERIES FROM VANITY FAIR PRODUCER?

Gugu Mbata Raw will play Seacole

SEACOLE PERIOD SET DRAMA

SENDS GUGU MBATA RAW AND SAM WORTHIN GTON TO CRIMEAN WAR

She already played a daring real life woman of colour in Belle, a role which made her name known around the globe, and now Gugu Mbata Raw will join Sam Worthington in SEACOLE historical drama, a true life story of Mary Seacole. She will take the lead role of the pioneering Jamaican nurse who became known during the Crimean War for her care of wounded British soldiers. Seacole’s self-sacrifice on the front lines and fierce, adversarial relationship with Florence Nightingale during the war made her famous in her time. Spiderman's Numan Acar will play The Pasha, a high ranking officer in the Turkish army, a lover not a fighter, who helps Mary build her hotel. Sylvia Hoeks and Sean

It is not known whom will Australian star Sam Worthington, who is currently shooting Avatar sequels, play in the period set movie Seacole.

Delaney will also star in the film to be directed by Charlie Stratton film later this year in UK and Romania.

'ANNA KARENINA'

HITS SMALL SCREENS AGAIN?

There were a lot of Karenina film adaptations recently

Good news, people, as Deadline reports, a new small screen version of famous Russian classic ANNA KARENINA is in works, the bad news, it will be done by Gwyneth Hughes, who massacred Thackeray's Vanity Fair recently over at ITV turning it into one of the most dull series we've seen in recent times. Fingers crossed she does not rape and kill Tolstoy's novel the same way. It is a complex story which follows dozens of major characters similar to his War and Peace. It mainly follows Russian noble woman Anna Karenina who has an affair with a dashing cavalry officer that scandalizes Saint Petersburg social circles. The pair initially flee to Italy before returning to Russia, where their lives further unravel. I'm guessing it will also be at ITV as Hughes is doing a Keeley Hawes thriller for them currently.