PERIOD SET MONDAY: DAVID OAKES, JOHN HANNAH TO STAR IN ASIA SET WW2 DRAMA 'GARDEN OF EVENING MIST'! 1ST PHOTOS FROM 'CARMILLA' 18TH CENTURY DRAMA WITH TOBIAS MENZIES, JESSICA RAINE, GREG WISE!

  DAVID OAKES TO VISIT

'THE GARDEN OF EVENING MIST'

David Oakes will star in the new movie

Since Hollywood is still sleeping after the weekend, spylings, your trusted spy will entertain you this Monday with some updates from the period set movie genre! While we are waiting for Autumn when his super charming Prince Ernest Duke of Coburg will return with the third season of ITV's ultra popular costume drama Victoria, dearest David Oakes will do a project over in Malaysia together with another great British actor John Hannah! Together with Asian actors Hiroshi Abe, Sylvia Chang and Angelica Lee, the two of them will star in epic drama THE GARDEN OF EVENING MIST which follows a woman seeking a quiet life in post World War II British Malaya who finds love and a common interest in gardening with a mysterious Japanese man.

  1ST 'CARMILLA' PHOTOS

18TH CENTURY VAMPIRE DRAMA

Speaking of period set drama, here is another one, but with elements of horror! We have first photos from historical horror drama CARMILLA based on Sheridan Le Fanu's 1871 novel set in the late 18th century! The cast

Emily Harris is directing the movie as her debut feature

includes Tobias Menzies, Greg Wise and Jessica Raine, who are no strangers to the genre of costume drama.

THE STORY OF CARMILLA 
Broadchurch's Hannah Rae and young German actress Devrim Lingnau are also in the cast next to illusionist Scott Silven. Inspired by one of the earliest novels on vampires, set in the late 1780s, CARMILLA follows Miss Fontaine (Jessica Raine), governess to 15-year-old Lara (Hannah Rae) who lives in total isolation in her family home. Struggling to find an outlet for her burgeoning sexuality, Lara is enchanted by the mysterious Carmilla (Devrim Lingnau) and the pair strike up a passionate relationship.

The production has started back in September

However, with rumours and superstition rife and with the exhortation of the family doctor (Tobias Menzies), Carmilla�s presence in their home begins to strike fear into those around her.

SHAKESPEARE SUNDAY: BBC SETS AIRING DATE FOR ANTHONY HOPKINS' 'KING LEAR' WITH EMMA THOMPSON, EMILY WATSON, JIM BROADBENT, TOBIAS MENZIES! STUNNING NEW 'MACBETH' WITH MARK ROWLEY

  BBC SETS DATE FOR 'KING LEAR'

WITH ANTHONY HOPKINS, EMMA THOMPSON, EMILY WATSON!
A little bit of Shakespeare for your enlightenment today, starting with Anthony Hopkins' TV movie KING LEAR which will air on BBC Two Monday 28th May! You can check out the trailer below the post!

THE BURDEN OF BEING A KING

Set in the fictional present, the 80 year old King Lear (Anthony Hopkins) divides his kingdom among his daughters, Goneril (Emma Thompson), Regan (Emily Watson) and Cordelia (Florence Pugh) - according to their

The new adaptation was directed by Richard Eyre!

affection for him. Cordelia refuses to flatter him, so he banishes her. Having acquired power, Goneril and Regan expel their father from their homes. At the

Hopkins was mistaken for a homeless man during the shooting

same time, Lear's prime minister, Gloucester (Jim Broadbent), is betrayed by his son Edmund (John Macmillan) and his other son, Edgar (Andrew

Tobias Menzies is also the part of the stunningly stellar cast

Scott), is forced to go into hiding. Lear becomes mad, Gloucester is blinded: both the kingdom and the family descend into chaos and warfare.

  NEW 'MACBETH' MOVIE

Macbeth aired in UK cinemas in March

WITH MARK ROWLEY

Speaking of Shakespeare's works done in a new light, check out this one: MACBETH  entirely shot on green screen and reinvented by director Kit Monkman starring The Last Kingdom's Mark Rowley! Monkman�s unique adaptation successfully bridges the gap between theatre and film by exploiting the capabilities of the green screen to portray the vast world of make-believe while maintaining the traditional values, language and themes of Shakespeare�s original theatrical play.

Super hunky Mark Rowley plays the lead role

A BRAVE NEW VISION OF THE OLD STORY
Brilliant young general MACBETH pulls off a glorious victory in battle before returning to an indolent court where honours are dispensed by whim. Spurred on by prophesying drifters and an ambitious wife, MACBETH sets his sights on the throne. In Kit Monkman's adventurous new adaptation, this compelling tale of unchecked ambition, soured friendship, lost intimacy and the descent into nihilism is encountered in a strange and claustrophobic territory partly conjured by the mind. The movie is currently available to stream and download on Amazon.

NETFLIX ORDERS 'CURSED' LADY OF THE LAKE EPIC SERIES FROM ARTHURIAN LEGENDS! TOBIAS MENZIES IS PRINCE PHILIP IN 'THE CROWN'! 'ONE NATION, ONE KING' FRENCH REVOLUTION EPIC DRAMA PHOTOS!

  TOBIAS MENZIES

IS PRINCE PHILIP IN 'THE CROWN

Tobias Menzies will be a mature age Philip

You've probably heard it by now, but here it is in case you've missed it: Tobias Menzies will play Prince Philip in season 3 of Netflix historical drama THE CROWN! There were rumours that Paul Bettany might take the role from Matt Smith, but it will be Rome, Game of Thrones and The Terror star who will play the queen's husband in their mature years. As you already know, the queen will be played in the third season by Olivia Colman. Vanessa Kirby who played Princess Margaret will be replaced now by Helena Bonham Carter!

  'CURSED' EPIC TV SERIES

ON KING ARTHUR'S LADY NIMUE OF THE LAKE LEGEND

The comic book is out this Autumn

And yet another beautiful new epic series to announce for you after a whole week of brilliant news from the historical series front! 'Deadline' reports that Netflix has ordered a ten episode TV adaptation of CURSED following Lady of the Lake from Arthurian legends.

CURSED, based on Frank Miller (300, Sin City, Ronin) and Tom Wheeler�s upcoming illustrated YA book of the same name, is told through the eyes of Nimue, a teenage heroine with a mysterious gift who is destined to become the powerful Lady of the Lake. After her mother�s death, she finds an unexpected partner in Arthur, a young mercenary, in a quest to find Merlin and deliver an ancient sword. Over the course of her journey, Nimue will become a symbol of courage and rebellion against the terrifying Red Paladins, and their complicit King Uther.

  'ONE NATION, ONE KING' 

1ST 18TH CENTURY FILM PHOTOS

Speaking of things epic and historical, Autumn this year will bring epic drama movie ONE NATION, ONE KING (Un peuple et son roi) into French

One Nation One King is officially out this September in France

cinemas as it is scheduled to be released this September!  With the cast lead by Gaspard Ulliel, Niels Schneider, Olivier Gourmet and Louis Garrel,

The production of the movie cost about 17 million euro!

this Studiocanal movie follows the 1789 French Revolution told through the eyes of those who rose up to start it, and made history, in an inspirational and

One Nation One King will do a round around movie festivals this spring

epic drama featuring some of the finest French actors of their generation and complimented by the visually stunning filmmaking of Pierre Schoeller.

ANTHONY HOPKINS PHOTO FROM 'KING LEAR' WITH EMMA THOMPSON, EMILY WATSON, JIM BROADBENT, TOBIAS MENZIES, JIM CARTER! 'THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME' TRAILER WITH MILA KUNIS, JUSTIN THEROUX, SAM HEUGHAN

   1ST 'KING LEAR' PHOTO

FOR ANTHONY HOPKINS SUPER STELLAR TV DRAMA!

Anthony Hopkins and Florence Pugh

BBC and Amazon have revealed first photo of Anthony Hopkins as KING LEAR and Florence Pugh as his youngest daughter Cordelia from the latest TV movie adaptation! Hopkins plays a fictional present ruler, presiding over a totalitarian military dictatorship in England. Emma Thompson is his eldest daughter Goneril, Emily Watson is Regan, Jim Broadbent is the Earl of Gloucester, Andrew Scott his loyal son Edgar and John Macmillan his illegitimate son Edmund. Jim Carter, Tobias Menzies, Christopher Eccleston also star in the super stellar television movie.

   1ST 'THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME'

The movie is out this July in cinemas

TRAILER WITH MILA KUNIS, JUSTIN THEROUX & SAM HEUGHAN

In the trailer department check out the first one for Mila Kunis comedy THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME which gets dumped into cinemas this July following Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), two thirty year old best friends in Los Angeles, who are thrust unexpectedly into an international conspiracy when Audrey's ex boyfriend

Justin Theroux plays the spy who dumped her

(Justin Theroux) shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail. Surprising even themselves, the duo jump into action,

Sam Heughan (right) plays the charming British agent

on the run throughout Europe from assassins and a suspicious but charming British agent (Sam Heughan), as they hatch a plan to save the world. 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON NEW 19TH CENTURY 'TERROR' EPIC WINTERY SERIES WITH TOBIAS MENZIES, CIARAN HINDS, MATTHEW MCNULTY! CHARACTER POSTERS!

  'THE TERROR' EPIC SERIES

MEET THE CHARACTERS!

The Terror starts March 26th Monday

Although winter is slowly giving up, your trusted spy predicts frost and ice later this month when wintery new mini series THE TERROR starts overt at AMC on March 26th! You can feast your eyes today on the first character photos and atmospheric posters from the 19th century epic thriller featuring a rather stellar cast lead by some of our favourite men from period set projects Ciaran Hinds, Tobias Menzies, Matthew McNulty, Adam Nagaitis, Liam Garrigan, Edward Ashley, Ronan Raftery. They all play the crew of the ship HMS Terror which was

The series is based on the best selling novel by Dan Simmons

found actually last year under the sea. Caroline Boulton plays Lady Ann. The series is based on the 2007 best selling novel of the same name by Dan Simmons! The anthology series will describe some other terror in the following seasons.

The Terror will have ten hour long episodes

THE STORY OF THE TERROR
is set in 1847. A crew of a Royal Naval expedition is sent to find the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage but instead discovers a monstrous predator, a cunning and vicious Gothic horror that stalks the ships in a desperate game of survival, the consequences of which could endanger the region and its native people forever. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the

David Kajganich is the showrunner of the mini series

unknown, the crew is   pushed to the brink of extinction. Frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, THE TERROR highlights all that can go wrong

Nive Nielsen plays the lead female character of Lady Silence

when a group of men, desperate to survive, struggle not only with the elements, but with each other. Meet the main characters below:

CAPTAIN FRANCIS CROZIER
Played by Jarred Harris, Captain of the HMS Terror and second in command of the expedition, Francis Crozier is a peerless sailor who has reached his glass ceiling in Her Majesty's Royal Navy.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN
Played by Ciaran Hinds,Captain of HMS Erebus and commander of the expedition, Sir John Franklin is an experienced leader with a blemished record in the Royal Navy.

CAPTAIN JAMES FITZJAMES
Played by Tobias Menzies, James Fitzjames is a rising star in the British Royal Navy and has secured John Franklin's confidence in spite of his never having sailed in the polar regions before.

DOCTOR HENRY GOODSIR
Played by Paul Ready, the most junior of the expedition's four doctors, Henry Goodsir is a gentle, moral soul who is of the first to realize something supernatural is at play.

CORNELIUS HICKEY
Played by Adam Nagaitis, Cornelius Hickey is a young petty officer whose rank on the ships should keep him invisible to the officers. But Hickey is not quite what he seems.

THOMAS BLANKY
Played by Ian Hart, Ice Master of Terror and longtime friend of Francis Crozier, Thomas Blanky has the experience to be a captain but prefers the thrill and challenge of battling the constant puzzle of the Arctic ice.