AMSTERDAM -- Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon and Oscar nominees Miranda Richardson and Peter Firth have joined the cast of the epic limited series World Without End, the sequel to Pillars of the Earth.
Also signing up for the eight-hour medieval period drama are Ben Chaplin, Charlotte Riley, Rupert Evans, Megan Follows, Nora von Waldstaetten, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Tom Weston-Jones and Sarah Gadon.
Michael Caton-Jones (Rob Roy) is directing the entire $44 million event series, which is based on Ken Follett's bestseller of the same name.
Tandem Communications and Take 5 Productions are producing, in co-production with Galafilm and in association with Ridley and Tony Scott's shingle Scott Free Films.
World Without End will shoot on location in Hungary, Slovakia and Austria with Howard Ellis' Mid Atlantic Films.
Tandem has pre-sold the series to several networks worldwide including Channel Four in the U.K., Germany's Sat.1, Shaw Media in Canada, Cuatro in Spain, and Sky Italia for Italy. Sony Pictures Worldwide picked up home entertainment rights to World for English-speaking territories and France.
Source: HollywoodReporter
odd that starz didnt pick it up
ReplyDeleteI loved Pillars so I am somewhat excited for World Without End.
ReplyDeleteThe cast made Pillars for me. It will be interesting to see how First, Richardson, Nixon, Chaplin and the rest compare with Rufus Sewell, Ian McShane, Donald Sutherland, Hayley Atwell etc....
Yeah I thought it was a success for Starz.... That is odd.
ReplyDeleteaccording to deadline Starz passed on it
ReplyDeletein the U.S., Starz, which aired Pillars, had an option on World but didn't come to terms with Tandem, and the producers plan to search for an U.S. network later on the way they did with Pillars, which sold to Starz after it had been completed.http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/tandem-scott-free-set-cast-for-44-million-miniseries-world-without-end/
The cast in that show was PERFECT. It matched and sometimes even surpassed what I had in mind for some of the characters' portrayals in the book. (Even though the series was really no where near as good as the book)...
ReplyDeleteWho is Cynthia Nixon going to play? I don't mind her usually but all the characters I've seen her play are all crass/annoying so I have a little "Ehhhh" feeling towards her...
ReplyDeleteHowever, this better be eventually released in America because I'm WAY too excited to miss this.