Back in 2018 your trusted spy was among the first ones to inform you about Sky's award winning DAS BOOTWorld War II series which proved to be a big success for the production company airing on Sky's channels around Europe and Hulu in USA. Now the series is back with the second season which is airing right now on Sky Germany and will air this month on cable channels around Europe too and Sky's channels in Austria, Italy, UK and Ireland. Beside Tom Wlaschiha, Vicky Krieps, Rick Okon, Vincent Kartheiser, the eight episode second season will also have Thomas
Tom Wlaschiha returns as the head of the Gestapo
Kretschmann as the new addition to the cast! Speaking of epic, stay tuned this weekend for Hollywood Spy's Wildly Extensive List of Period Set Shows we can expect in 2020 albeit corona lockdown.
The 2nd Season Of Das Boot is set in December 1942. We meet
the very experienced U-boat ace Johannes von Reinhartz (Clemens Schick)
who is sent with U-822 on a secret mission
German superstar Thomas Kretschmann joins the cast
to the US East Coast in
order to disembark three saboteurs. His loyalty is questioned and U-612,
with its Commanding Officer Wrangel (Stefan
German actor Rick Okon returns as the submarine officer
Konarske), is sent in
pursuit.
Former U-612 Commanding Officer Hoffmann (Rick Okon) narrowly escaped
death in the Atlantic Ocean. In New York he finds shelter with Sam
Greenwood (Vincent Kartheiser), who owes his life
German superstar Clemens Schick leads the cast of the second season
to Hoffmann, and meets
the sleazy German-born lawyer Berger (Thomas Kretschmann). Will he
enable him to return to Germany?
Back in La Rochelle, Simone (Vicky Krieps) is still secretly helping
those affected by the
The
first season was sold to more than 100 countries and was so successful
that Sky ordered the second season after airing the first episode of the
first one.
Nazi occupation, and Forster (Tom Wlaschiha), Head
of the Gestapo, suspects as much, as Simone and her roommate Margot
(Fleur Geffrier) work to secure an escape route for a Jewish family.
Your treat for this Saturday are new photos and the first trailer for World War II German TV series DAS BOOT which will hit Sky One (in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, UK, Ireland, Italy) November 23rd and will later also air on Hulu in Northern America, AMC in Spain and Portugal and Epix and Viasat in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe! The series, which explores the emotional torment of life during World War Two, cost $33 million to make and is inspired by Lothar Günther Buchheim’s best selling novel which was
Das Boot series will also air on Hulu in Northern America
previously made into an Oscar nominated movie by Wolfgang Petersen! Tom Wlaschiha, Vicky Krieps, Lizzy Caplan, Vincent Kartheiser, James
These Uboat submarines were active from the first till the last day of the war
D’Arcy, Thierry Frémont, August Wittgenstein, Rainer Bock, Rick Okon, Leonard Scheicher, Robert Stadlober, Franz Dinda and Stefan Konarske, are just of the names in the international cast!
DAS BOOT TV SERIES
starts in the fall of 1942 in occupied
France. Nazi submarine U-612 is ready for its maiden voyage, preparing
to head into the increasingly brutal warfare with its young crewmen,
including the new commander, Klaus Hoffmann
German submariners had the lowest survival rate of any branch of service
of any country during World War Two. Of the some 40,000 men who served
on U-boats, 33,000 were killed.
(Rick Okon). As the 40 young
men take on their first mission, they struggle with the cramped and
claustrophobic conditions of life underwater. Meanwhile, at the port of
La Rochelle, the world of Simone Strasser spirals out of control as she
is engulfed in a dangerous liaison and forbidden love, torn between her
loyalty for Germany and the French Resistance, and causing her to
question everything.
WITH EDDIE IZZARD, JUDI DENCH, JAMES D'ARCY, JIM BROADBENT
James D'Arcy will play a Captain in the movie
We're still sticking to our good old period set drama genre with the news that the shooting has begun on SIX MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT which boasts an exquisite selection of British thespians in the cast lead by Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, James D'Arcy, Celyn Jones (who also wrote the script) and Jim Broadbent!
In the movie, based on true events from 1939, Izzard, who recently
already played with Judi Dench in Victoria and Abdul, plays a teacher
named Thomas Miller who has taken a last minute and controversial role
teaching English to the daughters of high ranking Nazis at the Augusta
Judi Dench will be the strict headmistress!
Victoria College, Bexhill-on-Sea – a finishing school on the south coast
of England. Under the watchful eye of their headmistress Miss Rocholl
(Judi Dench), and her devout assistant Ilse Keller (Carla Juri), the
girls practice their English and learn how to represent the ideal of
German womanhood. When the body of a former teacher is discovered, it
triggers a sequence of deadly events and leaves Thomas running from the
police with the threat of being hanged for murder.
WW2 'DAS BOOT' SERIES
FIRST PHOTO EMERGES!
Speaking of James D'Arcy check out the first photo from DAS BOOT TV series which also stars Tom Wlaschiha,Vincent Kartheiser and Thierry Frémont alongside Lizzy Caplan! Inspired by the Oscar nominated film of
Franz Dinda, Rick Okon and August Wittgenstein in Das Boot
the same name from Wolfgang Petersen,
the eight part series has the story set on a submarine in autumn 1942,
as U-boat warfare becomes increasingly brutal. While a very young crew
put out to sea on a dangerous combat patrol, the Résistance rises in the
U-boat port of La Rochelle. Sky will air the series in most of Europe.
While we're waiting for some new photos from the second season of MEDICI: MASTERS OF FLORENCE: THE MAGNI- FICENT
Matteo is also a male super model
(which should be released next week at MIPCOM, and we might also get something new from Britannia, The Miniaturist series as well) a new face has joined the cast: Matteo Martari will play Francesco Pazzi and will be the villain of the series alongside Sean Bean as his power thirsty father. As you know the second season, which is currently shooting in Italy, will follow Lorenzo (Daniel Sharman) and Gulianno Medici (Bradley James), the grandsons of Cosimo who was played by Richard Madden in the first season which you can still catch on Netflix.
WW2 'DAS BOOT' SERIES
JAMES D'ARCY, TOM WLASCHIHA, VINCENT KARTHEISER CAST
James D'Arcy will be a part of the cast
Speaking of European epic series, a rather stellar cast has been rounded up for DAS BOOT from Bavaria Fernsehproduktion, Sky Deutschland and Sonar Entertainment! International cast will include Game of Thrones' Tom Wlaschiha, Mad Men's Vincent Kartheiser, James D’Arcy and Thierry Frémont alongside Lizzy Caplan! Inspired by the Oscar nominated film of the same name from Wolfgang Petersen, the eight part series has the story set on a submarine in autumn 1942, as U-boat warfare becomes increasingly brutal. While a very young crew put out to sea on a dangerous combat patrol, the Résistance rises in the U-boat port of La Rochelle. Sky will air the series in most of Europe.
CASTS EMILY WATSON, SETH GABEL, VINCENT KARTHEISER
Remember how just a week or so ago I told you that National Geographic is preparing GENIUS series on Einstein? Now lead star Geoffrey Rush has been joined by a really strong cast including Emily Watson, Vincent Kartheiser, Seth Gabel, Samantha Colley, Michael McElhatton...
Each of the ten episodes will explore Einstein’s extraordinary
scientific achievements, along with his volatile, passionate and complex
personal relationships as an imaginative, rebellious patent clerk, who
couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate, unlocked the mysteries of
the atom and the universe. Seth Gabel will play his confidante Michele
Besso; Colley portrays Serbian scientist Mileva Maric, who later became
his first wife and many believe she came up with most of his theories.
Vincent Kartheiser will be a consulate official in Berlin. Rush and
Johnny Flynn play Einstein at different ages.
'WILD OATS' TRAILER
SEES SHIRLEY MACLAINE AND JESSICA LANGE GO CRAZY
The only trailer I have for you this Monday, along with the first poster, is for comedy movie WILD OATS in which Shirley MacLaine plays a retired widow who hits the jackpot when she receives a life insurance check mistakenly made out for $5,000,000 instead of $50.000. She and her best friend, played by Jessica Lange, then take off, only to become media sensations and fugitives from justice. Billy Connolly, Demi Moore, Judd Hirsch and Stephanie Beacham round up the senior cast of the movie!
It is already obvious that this month is going to bring us quite a lot of new historical series to the small screens and Nat Geo isn't an exception since they're finally releasing their ambitious 17th century four hour epic mini series SAINTS &STRANGERS, the story of the voyage of the Mayflower and the first year of the Pilgrims in America, to TV on Sunday November 22nd in a two night event! With Oscar winning composer Hans Zimmer scoring the main title theme music, the stellar cast is lead by Vincent Kartheiser, Ron Livingston, Barry Sloane, Ray Stevenson, Natascha McElhone, Chris Fisher and Tatanka Means.
SAINTS & STRANGERS STORY
goes beyond the familiar
historical account of Thanksgiving and the founding of Plymouth
Plantation, revealing the trials and tribulations of the settlers at
Plymouth: 102 men, women and children who sailed on a chartered ship for
a place they had never seen. Of this group, half are those we think of
as “pilgrims,” religious separatists who abandoned their prior lives for
a single cause: religious freedom. The other half, the "merchant
adventurers," had less spiritual and more material, real-world
objectives. This clash of values created complex inner struggles for the
group as they sought to establish a new colony, compounded by a
complicated relationship with the local Native American tribes. The
conflicting allegiances among these groups culminated in trials of
assimilation, faith, and compromise, that continued to define the violent nation
to this day.
WITH VINCENT KARTHEISER, RON LIVINGSTON, BARRY SLOANE AND RAY STEVENSON
The cast has been revealed for National Geographic's new historical mini series SAINTS & STRANGERS about the Mayflower's crossing of the Atlantic. Vincent Kartheiser, Ron Livingston, Barry Sloane, Michael Jibson, Ray Stevenson, Natascha McElhone, Tatanka Means and Kalani Queypo are just some of the stars of Nat Geo's first scripted miniseries which tells the story behind the founding of America, chronicling the trials and tribulations of the 101 men, women and children who boarded the Mayflower for a one-way trip to the New World.
STAR STUDDED CAST One group seeking religious freedom, called the saints, is led by
William Bradford (Kartheiser) and his wife Dorothy (Anna Camp), with Ron Livingston as Pilgrims leader John Carver and Barry Sloane as the diplomat Edward Winslow.
A second faction, led by traveller Stephen Hopkins (Ray Stevenson), are a group of strangers seeking fortune rather than religious liberty. Hopkins's pregnant wife (Natascha McElhone) and the agitator John Billington (Brían F. O'Byrne) are among the other strangers. Means and Queypo are the Native Americans they meet in America. HBO is also preparing their own series on first American settlers - LEWIS AND CLARKE with Matthias Schoenaerts and Cassey Affleck.
'WARCRAFT' EPIC MOVIE
STUNNING NEW POSTERS!
Meanwhile, Comic Con has brought us stunning new posters for next summer's biggest epic attractions WARCRAFT with the promise that the first trailer will be released this November! The brand new posters show Travis Fimmel's Lothar and Toby Kebbel's Durotan, the characters from a rich fantasy setting that revolves around the epic conflict between the opposing forces of the Horde and the Alliance! Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Paula Patton and Rob Kazinsky also star!
'BROOKLYN' TRAILER
WITH SAOIRSE RONAN, JIM BROADBENT AND JULIE WALTERS
You can also check out the starstudded trailer for new period drama
movie BROOKLYN in which Irish star Saoirse Ronan takes the lead role
alongside Jim Broadbent and JulieWalters. Adapted by famous writer
Nick Hornby and directed by John Crowley, the movie is an adaptation of
Colm Tóibín's award winning book of the same name. Opening November 6th
on both sides of the ocean, BROOKLYN follows an Irish immigrant named
Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) to New York City in the 1950s, where she finds
steady work and budding romance with a fiery young boy named Tony (Emory
Cohen).
When she is called back to Ireland following a family loss, she is
romanced by a local man (Domhnall Gleeson) who doesn't want her to
return to the US.
