'PRISONERS OF PARADISE'
SENDS RUPERT PENRY JONES, ELLIE BAMBER TO MAURITIUS
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| Ellie Bamber will take the female lead |
Deadline reports that late this September a shooting will start over among the stunning landscapes of the island of Mauritius of period set movie
PRISONERS OF PARADISE with
Ellie Bamber, Rupert Penry Jones, Mehdi Dehbi and
Edward Akrout in the cast. To be directed by
Mitch Jenkins and set in 1925, the film follows 17 year old orphan Lucy Gladwell (
Ellie Bamber) who is sent from England to live under the guardianship of her uncle George Huyton (
Rupert Penry Jones). Initially seduced by the sumptuous beauty of her
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| Rupert Penry Jones and Mehdi Dehbi will play the male leads |
surroundings, Lucy finds herself at odds with her violent uncle who is not the benign influence he pretends to be, and she soon falls in love with Krishna (
Mehdi Dehbi), a labourer working on a nearby plantation.
'MAGPIE MURDERS'
TO BECOME PBS TV SERIES
If you are a fan of a good murder mystery you will be thrilled to hear that
Britbox and
PBS Masterpiece will adapt
Anthony Horowitz's
MAGPIE MURDERS novel into a six episode mini series. The novel within a novel
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| Magpie Murders was a worldwide bestseller |
revolves around Susan Ryeland, an editor who is given an unfinished manuscript of author Alan Conway’s latest novel, but has little idea it will change her life.
