NETFLIX ORDERS NEW SHOWS BLACK RABBIT WITH JUDE LAW, JASON BATEMAN, THE UNDERTOW WITH JAMIE DORNAN, HOUSE OF GUINNESS FROM STEVEN KNIGHT

    NEW NETFLIX SERIES  

JUDE LAW'S BLACK RABBIT

Netflix has announced some brand new series tonight including an hour long mini series BLACK RABBIT with Jude Law and Jason Bateman who will also direct a few episodes of the new series. In it, when the owner of a New York City hotspot (Bateman) allows his turbulent brother (Law) back in his life, he opens the door to escalating dangers that threaten to bring down everything he’s built.

  JAMIE DORNAN'S THE UNDERTOW

Meanwhile, Netflix has also given a role of twins to Jamie Dornan in their new UK original series THE UNDERTOW a crime noir series that will see the Irishman play identical twins Adam and Lee. Suffocating in a loveless marriage to Adam, Nicola (Mackenzie Davis)’s life takes a dramatic turn when Adam’s long-estranged identical twin brother Lee comes crashing back into her life, and their tangled romantic past threatens to destroy the present.

 

PERIOD SET HOUSE OF GUINNESS

They have also set Steven Knight to pen period set HOUSE OF GUINNESS about one of Europe’s most famous and enduring dynasties – The Guinness

Arthur Guinness also known as Ernest

Family. Set in 19th century Dublin and New York, it will focus on the consequences of the death of Benjamin Guinness, the man responsible for the extraordinary success of the Guinness brewery, and the far-reaching impact of his cunning will on the fate of his four adult children, Arthur, Edward, Anne, and Ben, as well as on a group of Dublin characters who work and interact with the growing juggernaut that is one of the most beloved alcoholic drinks today.

SARAH LANCASHIRE, STEVEN KNIGHT WORKING ON SHAKESPEARE DRAMA SERIES! SEE TRAILER FOR DANISH 19TH CENTURY SATIRE MOVIE EMPIRE (VIFTEN) SET IN COLONIAL WEST INDIES!

 NEW SHAKESPEARE SERIES 

FROM SARAH LANCASHIRE AND STEVEN KNIGHT

Julia star Sarah Lancashire and Steven Knight are teaming up on making a drama series on WILLIAM SHAKE SPEARE, which will tell the

Lancashire will produce via her production company

complete story of the glove-maker’s son who became the greatest storyteller in history and how his genius survived and thrived in an age of turmoil and terror, danger and disease. As Variety reports, it aims to be the first full account of the passion, people and politics that made William Shakespeare the world’s most famous dramatist and the men and women around him who loved and labored, schemed and plotted, killed and connived in one of the most dangerous periods in history. Sarah Lancashire, who came up with the idea for the series, will produce through her production company.

 EMPIRE MOVIE TRAILER 

FROM COLONIAL DENMARK

Available for viewing to the Danish cinemagoers as of this weekend is their sprawling historical movie drama EMPIRE (Viften) which already had its

Empire is out as of April 20th in Denmark

world premiere earlier this January at Goteborg Film Festival in the neighbouring Sweden.  Coming from Meta Film studio, the movie was directed by Frederikke Aspock and delves deeply into Denmark’s colonial past in the Danish West Indies in 1848.

  EMPIRE FOLLOWS  

Anna Heegaard and Petrine (Sara Fanta Traore) who are close friends. Both women are colored, but their living conditions are very different – ​​Anna is free and owns the enslaved Petrine. Anna lives with Governor-General Peter von Scholten (Claus Riis Østergaard) at his country house, where she manages the home, the fortune and her beloved and trusted housekeeper Petrine. Everything seems to be as it should be, until rumors of a rebellion begin to swirl. Which side are Anna and Petrine really on – and is it the same? This absurdist satire drama was written by Anna Neye who also plays the lead role.

MASSIVE WW2 EPIC TV SERIES ROADS TO FREEDOM FROM RIDLEY SCOTT, STEVEN KNIGHT! SHOWTIME, ANTOINE FUQUA PREPARING SHAKA: KING OF THE ZULU NATION EPIC TV SERIES

  ROADS TO FREEDOM SERIES 

UNITES RIDLEY SCOTT & STEVEN KNIGHT IN A MASSIVE ENDEVOUR

Two epic series for you today, first up, a collaboration between Ridley Scott and Steven Knight on a massive ten episode WW2 saga ROADS TO FREEDOM based on the war books by Anthony Beevor, translated in more

Russia, France, Crete are just some of the countries in the books

than 30 languages. While most Hollywood war projects focus on the American and British effort, this global project will portray the brutal realities from multiple viewpoints, with characters also from Russia, Germany, France and other countries across the globe. That includes women, and children struggling to survive. The emphasis is on humanity, the characters bound together by one dramatic story. Some of the story lines will be discomforting, but heroic, and the race between East and West to capture Berlin will shed light on what became the foundations of the Cold War.

  SHAKA: KING OF ZULU NATION  

SERIES ORDERED BY SHOWTIME

If you're as old as your spy, you probably remember a Shaka Zulu series from the 80s, and now we're getting a new one: as Deadline reports, Antoine

Antoine Fuqua will direct the epic series

Fuqua has joined Showtime in the creation of SHAKA: KING OF THE ZULU NATION series about the Zulu Empire chief Shaka and his unlikely rise to power, uniting multiple tribes across vast stretches of Africa in the early 19th century to transform his power into legend, on par with history’s most seminal figures. In ferocious battles that test the body and soul, in alliances that test the bonds of love and friendship, a complex sociological system plays out that renders the human cost front and center, for the victors as well as the vanquished, all in an effort to carve out a semblance of identity, fulfillment and ultimately, survival.

NEW MINI SERIES ADAPTATION OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS AT BBC & FX, APPLE TO ADAPT EDITH WHARTON'S THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY INTO MINI SERIES, NETFLIX & REESE WHITERSPOON TO ADAPT SARAH HAYWOOD'S THE CACTUS

     'GREAT EXPECTATIONS'

NEW MINI SERIES AT BBC AND FX

It has probably been done about million times if not more, both in movie and television versions, some rather recent ones (BBC had one less than ten

Tom Hardy and Ridley Scott will produce

years ago), but that will not stop British BBC and American FX to reteam again after last year's quite unsuccessful A Christmas Carol with Guy Pearce, and adapt another of Charles Dickens' famous stories GREAT EXPECTATIONS into a six episode mini series. Taboo, See and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight will pen this one as well following the sad story of orphan named Pip who eagerly abandons his humble origins and becomes a gentleman when his life, after a series of events, is transformed by a mystery benefactor. The story was originally published back in 1860 in a series of weekly chapters. This will be the second in a whole series of planned adaptations of Dickens' works over at BBC.

    REESE WHITERSPOON TO LEAD

THE CACTUS NETFLIX ADAPTATION

Speaking of book adaptations, Netflix will turn Sarah Haywood's current best seller THE CACTUS into a romantic comedy movie and they've

Reese Witherspoon will lead the cast

signed Reese Witherspoon as the lead star. This will be her first collaboration with world's most popular streaming service.

The Cactus, which became an international success after being published last May, has the story revolving around an unexpected pregnancy at 45 which causes a reserved woman to rethink the structured life she has created for herself and leads her on an unconventional journey toward love, family and learning to embrace the unexpected. Reese will also star in Netflix' movie Your Place Or Mine which focuses on two long distance best friends who change each other’s lives when she decides to pursue a lifelong dream and he volunteers to keep an eye on her teenage son.

     THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY

APPLE TURNS EDITH WHARTON'S CLASSIC INTO NEW TV SAGA

Meanwhile, rival streamer Apple TV + will turn Edith Wharton's 1913 popular novel THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY into a limited series to be directed by Sofia Coppola who will also pen the script about a

Wharton published the novel in 1913

Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society. Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of what might be called the interior décor of this America and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating, and through a most intricate and satisfying plot that follows Undine's marriages and affairs, she conveys a vision of social behavior that is both supremely informed and supremely disenchanted.