'COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO'
NEW TV SERIES FROM POLDARK'S WRITER AND PRODUCERS
Cry not Poldark lovers, not because the series is returning again next year with season five, but because its producer Mammoth Screen is preparing
another epic saga for us! They are currently working with Poldark's writer Debbie Horsfield on adapting Alexandre Dumas' 19th century novel THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
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| Poldark's scribe is working on the new series |
As 'Deadline' reports, the story, will be set between 1815 and 1839 in France and Italy. It follows the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis Philippe of France ahead of the Hundred Days period, when Napoleon returned to power. It is an adventure story following a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and sets about exacting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment.
1ST 'THE AERONAUTS'
SET PHOTOS WITH EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES
Speaking of epic things, check out the first photos that have appeared around the net of Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in Tom Harper's historical adventure THE AERONAUTS in which they play pilot Amelia
Wren and scientist James Glaisher who find themselves in an epic fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a hot air balloon.
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| This is the second time they star together after The Theory of Everything |