'GORMENGHAST'
TO BECOME NEIL GAIMAN, AKIVA GOLDSMAN FANTASY TV SERIES
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The saga was a huge fantasy bestseller |
If you're into the small screen adaptations of fantasy classics, you will be happy to hear that
Neil Gaiman and
Akiva Goldsman will turn
Mervyn Peake's five book saga
GORMENGHAST into television series with
Free Mantle Media. As 'Deadline' reports a great battle was lead for the rights over the unusual fairy tale which follows the inhabitants of Castle
GORMENGHAST a sprawling, decaying, gothic structure with a raft of characters including Titus, the heir to the throne of the House of Groan, scheming kitchen boy Steerpike and twin sisters Cora and Clarice. Almost twenty years ago BBC had a series on it with very young
Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
'THE 100' SEASON 5
THE WAR FOR EDEN BEGINS
And are you excited for the fifth season of CW's post apocalyptic fantasy series
THE 100 which returns to the small screens April 24th? New poster
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The 100 returns April 24th on Tuesday nights |
and trailer have been released for the series which returns after that dramatic season 4 finale in which the survivors of Earth's destruction, after returning from a space ship in which they lived for many decades, had to hide in the underground shelter (under the control of Octavia) or go to another space station in order to survive a new wave of toxic rain which came to decimate what was left of Earth. They are now all back and fighting for the only habitable piece of land. Beside the regular cast lead by
Eliza Taylor, Bob Morley, Marie Avgeropoulos and
Christopher Larkin,
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The survivors are ready to fight for the only habitable piece of land |
the show will now have
William Miller as a mysterious prisoner aboard the long-distance mining mission sent from our time. A former enforcer from a
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Octavia will lead the crew from the shelter into the fight against new enemies |
powerful crime syndicate, his ruthless, violent methods make him a formidable antagonist to our heroes.
Ivana Milicevic (as the leader of the new prisoner ship)
and
Jordan Bolger have also been cast.