MATTHEW MCNULTY TO JOIN 'VERSAILLES' EPIC TV SERIES SEASON 3! SOPHIE TURNER TO SURVIVE AN AIRPLANE CRASH IN 'GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY'

  MATTHEW MCNULTY

JOINS 'VERSAILLES' SEASON 3!

While the Americans are currently watching the second season (which aired here in Europe earlier last spring), at Ovation, VERSA ILLES has already  

McNulty was the star of The Mill period set drama

finished production on the third season of the mega popular English language French series and the news is that Matthew McNulty has joined the cast (that will again include George Blagden as King Louis and Alexander Vlahos as his brother Duke of Orleans), as a character named Guillaume. New season brings new challenges to Louis, who will carry forward his ambitions both at home and abroad, but a new threat lies about him, a mysterious prisoner hiding behind a mask! We're also waiting for the first trailer for another new epic series in which McNulty stars - Arctic thriller The Terror over at AMC. 

  SOPHIE TURNER IS

'GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY' 
Meanwhile, another face from period set sagas - Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner will star in the movie adaptation of GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY based on a book by Juliane Koepcke. As 'Deadline' reports, she will

Sophie Turner will spend 11 days in the jungle

play Koepcke, a high school senior and the sole survivor of the December 24, 1971 crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Peruvian rain forest. The 17 year old was on a Christmas Eve flight with her mother, to join her father for Christmas, when the Lockheed L-188A Electra en route from Lima to Pucallpa flew directly into a thunderstorm and was struck by lightning. The plane was incinerated; Koepcke was ejected, still belted to her seat. She fell 10,000 feet, almost two miles through the air, before the canopy of the Amazon rain forest broke her fall and miraculously saved her life. From there, the teenager struggled to survive an 11-day ordeal, navigating through the treacherous jungles to be rescued.