'BARKSKINS' EPIC SERIES
HIRES CHRISTIAN COOKE AND JAMES BLOOR AS WOOD CUTTERS
Earlier this week your spy has informed you that National Geographic is turning BARKSKINS historical novel into new TV series with David
Thewlis leading the cast, and now they've added two more names: Christian Cooke and James Bloor. It is based on Annie Proulx novel which spans over 300 years: It chronicles the deforestation of the New World from the arrival of Europeans into the contemporary era of global warming through the stories of two immigrants to New France, René Sel (Christian Cooke) and Charles Duquet (James Bloor), who work as wood cutters — BARKSKINS — and of their descendants. René Sel is a strong
willed, morally sound indentured servant, signed to Monsieur Claude Trepagny (Thewlis), a wealthy landowner with grand visions for New France. Duquet is a scrappy, industrious scoundrel, also signed to servitude under Trepagny.
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| We've seen Christian Cooke in Ordeal by Innocence |
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| James Bloor starred in The Pagan King epic movie |
BARKSKINS
will start shooting later this year to air next year in more than 170 countries around the world following a disparate group of outcasts who must navigate the brutal hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization — 1600s New France, where the war to escape their past and re-make themselves is cast against the vast and unforgiving wilds of North America.
will start shooting later this year to air next year in more than 170 countries around the world following a disparate group of outcasts who must navigate the brutal hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization — 1600s New France, where the war to escape their past and re-make themselves is cast against the vast and unforgiving wilds of North America.