'SPEAKS THE NIGHTBIRD' 17TH
CENTURY WITCHTRIAL SERIES
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| The book might be turned into series at FX |
If, for some peculiar reason, you are into witches, here's a possible new TV series for you:
FX has set
Stephen Susco to adapt
Robert McCammon's period set horror saga
SPEAKS THE NIGHTBIRD into small screen series. The 2002 best selling two volume novel tells the dark and chilling tale about a witch-hunt in the seventeenth century Carolina colonies. The series centres around the main character Matthew Corbet, a clerk of a travelling magistrate who arrives to a Carolina town in 1699 to investigate the appearance of a witch who might not really be a witch but a victim? The novel later on spawned a whole series on Corbet's adventures.
'AD ASTRA' TRAILER
SENDS BRAD PITT INTO SPACE
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| Ad Astra finally arrives into cinemas this September |
Your trailer for today comes from a movie that has been postponed many times (when you see the rather uninspired trailer below you will get the feeling why) but will finally land into cinemas this September!
AD ASTRA (To the Stars in Latin) stars
Brad Pitt as astronaut Roy McBride who travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his missing father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. His journey will uncover secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.The movie directed by
James Gray also stars
Liv Tyler, Tommy Lee Jones and
Donald Sutherland.
