The title of the track is “An Ideal Hope,” which is fitting for the song’s slow-building, but ultimately powerful theme. Listening to the song, you can practically imagine the entire movie, from a young Clark Kent working out his powers on his family farm to a soaring Superman battling General Zod to save the entire earth.
Jason Isaacs in Peter Pan 2003
Due to the lack of a lot of Period Drama’s coming to the screen this year, I am going to add some Period Drama Stories – more like Fan Fiction, but novel length. The authors would appreciate any comments from time to time so they know if their work is being read.
Writers will be:
Trudy Brasure (published)
Loyal Wynyard (published)
Lucia Swiers (soon to be published)
The film has skyrocketed into a $250M project.
BBC AMERICA has released the very first photos for The Musketeers, their new 10-part action drama set for 2014.
Created by My Week with Marilyn‘s Adrian Hodges, Musketeers takes the characters from Alexandre Dumas‘ classic novel and puts them on the chaotic, lawless streets of 17th century Paris, where soldiers Athos, Aramis and Porthos serve as Louis XIII’s personal bodyguards. They meet and befriend D’Artagan, a skilled fighter who is dead-set on achieving justice for his father’s death. Luke Pasqualino (Skins, The Borgias) stars as D’Artagnan, with Tom Burke (The Hour) as Athos, Santiago Cabrera (Heroes) as Aramis and Howard Charles as Porthos. (The Hour‘s Peter Capaldi, Tamla Kari, Maimie McCoy, and Hugo Speer round out the ensemble.)
Here are the first snaps of the lead cast in character:
(Photo: BBC AMERICA)
(Photo: BBC AMERICA)
BBC One has renewed its drama series The Village for a second season of six episodes, slated to air in 2014. The renewal comes after the series proved to be a hit for the BBC, over the course of its six episode first season the series has been averaging a consolidated audience of 7.1 million viewers in its Sunday night 9pm time-slot
Created by Peter Moffat, The Village tells the story of one village over the period of 100 years, told through the memories of Bert Middleton who has been a resident in the village for the full century that the series will cover. The drama will open in 1914, when a young Bert is being raised on his family’s farm in Derbyshire. The Village stars Maxine Peake, John Simm, Bill Jones, Nico Mirallegro, Emily Beecham, Charlie Murphy, Jim Cartwright, Anthony Flanagan, Annabelle Apsion, Joe Armstrong, Matt Stokoe, Augustus Prew and Stephen Walters. Company Pictures is producing with John Griffin, George Faber, Charles Pattinson and Polly Hill serving as executive producers. The show’s second season will chronicle the story of the village thorugh the 1920s.
Speaking of the renewal, Peter Moffat said: “I’m thrilled at the prospect of bringing to the screen the plans I’ve got for all these characters (and some new ones) as the life of the village moves away from the horror of war and into the roaring Twenties. Boom and bust, the Charleston and the Black Bottom, motor cars, extreme politics, fish and chips, jazz, bananas, cinema, the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes – the outside world comes to the village, bringing with it the big drama that change always generates. I’m very grateful for the support the BBC have given this project right from the start. No other broadcaster I can think of would have the confidence to do it.”
Danny Cohen, Controller of BBC One, commented: “The Village is drama of the highest quality. Brilliantly written, beautifully produced, and performed with huge talent and imagination. I’m really proud to have it on the BBC and delighted it is coming back for a second series.”
Executive Producer John Griffin said: “We are delighted with the success of The Village and the response we have had to such a beautiful authored piece from Peter Moffat. The cast have been extraordinary in what is very much an ensemble piece and we look forward to working with them again on series two. We have worked closely with the BBC to make this an event piece of television that belongs firmly in the BBC schedules, and look forward to continuing the story into the 1920s in a second series.”
While John Yorke, Managing Director of Company Pictures, added: “It’s been a real thrill to watch an audience fall in love with Peter Moffat’s extraordinary world and take the tough, hard lives of the villagers to their hearts. It’s the first chapter in a story that we hope will span a century, and we’re delighted that the BBC have shown such faith and commitment to Peter’s vision.”
EXCLUSIVE: [source] I have learned that Philipa Longworth has signed on to helm Jamaica Inn for BBC One and Origin Pictures. Lowthorpe, represented by Independent Talent, has just come off of a stint of directing Call The Midwife, also for BBC One. Her previous credits include A Skirt Through History, Sex, The City and Me and Five Daughters.
Based on the classic Daphne du Maurier novel of the same name, Jamaica Inn is a three-part drama set in 1820 against the foreboding backdrop of windswept Cornish moors which follows the young Mary Yellan as she becomes entangled in a dangerous criminal world ridden with smuggling and murder, testing her resolve and morality to the very core. The adaptation was penned by Emma Frost (The White Queen). Origin Pictures is producing the drama with Sarah Stack, Stephen Wright, avid Thompson, Ed Rubin and Hilary Heath serving as executive producers. Casting for the drama is currently underway, with production expected to commence in the coming months.
This is not the first time that Jamaica Inn has been adapted for television. In the 1980s a two-part drama serial based on Daphne du Maurier’s novel was produced for ITV. That drama, which aired in 1983, was directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and starred Jane Seymour, Patrick McGoohan, Trevor Eve, John McEnery, Billie Whitelaw, Vivian Pickles and Peter Vaughan.
New trailers. Releases May 10th.
Harry Lloyd from Game of Thrones 2012