PERIOD SET DRAMA WEDNESDAY: 'MARY ANNING & THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS' ON WORLD'S GREATEST FEMALE PALEONTOLOGIST AND NEW 'WUTHERING HEIGHTS' MOVIE ADAPTATION!

 'MARY ANNING' 

AND THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS!

Sharon Sheehan is directing the movie

Hollywood is kinda sleeping today, people, so I shall entertain you today with two low budgeted but still interesting period set movies. The first one is
actually based on a true person! MARY ANNING AND THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS should arrive into cinemas sometime this year!

The film reveals the life, plight and loves of the eminent Mary Anning (Katharine Hamilton), an 1800's fossil hunter - navigating her career and research in a male dominated society at a time when women's research was largely unrecognised. Predominantly unknown despite her spectacular finds, including Icthyiousauri, a Pterodactyl and

Katharine Hamilton plays England's female palaeontologist Mary Anning

Plesiosaurus, and notwithstanding the fact that Darwins' 'Origin of Species' was largely influenced by her work. She is at last becoming the most celebrated paleontologist of all time.

 'WUTHERING HEIGHTS' 

 THE LATEST MOVIE ADAPTATION

Now, I must admit that the casting for this one looks terrible or hilarious (admittedly the budget is just 100,000 pounds) to say the least, but who

The movie should hit cinemas this November

knows, maybe you'll like the latest movie adaptation of WUTHERING HEIGHTS scheduled for opening in UK cinemas this November.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a wild, passionate tale of the intense and demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw (Shaori Morris) and Heathcliff (Paul Eryk Atlas), allegedly a Gypsy foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is degraded and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley (Marcus Churchill) and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years

Shaori Morris and Paul Eryk Atlas play the lead roles

later as a wealthy and polished man to find he is too late and that Cathy has married Edgar Linton (Richard Dee Roberts). He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his miseries. Unable to bear being parted from his love he curses her on her deathbed to never rest and always be with him and so begins

Elisaveta Abrahall is directing the latest adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel

20 years of her haunting his every waking and sleeping hour. A tale of love, hate, horror, haunting, but most of all a story about human nature. Emily Bronte wrote the greatest , most terrifying love story of all time.

NBC ORDERS JULIAN FELLOWES' 'THE GILDED AGE' 19TH CENTURY NEW YORK TV SAGA! WUTHERING HEIGHTS' SEQUEL 'ILL WILL' TO BECOME TV SERIES!

  NBC ORDERS 'THE GILDED AGE'

19TH CENTURY SAGA FROM DOWNTON ABBEY'S CREATOR

The series will have ten episodes

We mentioned this one many years ago and now it is finally and quite officially moving ahead as NBC has announced their work on new period set saga THE GILDED AGE from super popular Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. The ten episode series, to air next year, is set in 1880s New York, a period of immense social upheaval, of huge fortunes made and lost, and of palaces that spanned the length of Fifth Avenue. In the series, Marian Brook is the wide eyed young scion of a conservative family who will embark on infiltrating the wealthy neighbouring family dominated by ruthless rail road tycoon George Russell, his rakish and available son Larry, and his ambitious wife Bertha, whose “new money” is a barrier to acceptance by the Astor and Vanderbilt set. Marian is about to experience a whole new world springing up right outside her front door. The project was first announced five years ago.

  'ILL WILL'  TO EXPLAIN

WHAT HAPPENED TO WUTHERING HEIGHTS' HEATHCLIFF

The book is out this March at Harper Collins

Speaking of period set classics, Wuthering Heights is getting a sequel in the form of a TV series! ILL WILL from Michael Stewart will be turned in an epic neo Gothic series which offers up the missing piece of the puzzle about Wuthering Heights‘ tortured hero: Where does Heathcliff, the ‘uncouth stable boy,’ go when he disappears from the moors halfway through the story? And what happened to him that he should return three years later a stupendously wealthy and educated man, primed to take revenge upon the Earnshaw family? As 'Deadline' reports, the series will explore the new narrative in combination with Brontë’s 1847 novel answering the question of what happened to Heathcliff, her enigmatic anti-hero. It will be done by Kudos, producers of Broadchurch and BBC's Troy Fall of a City.