PRINCESS OLGA EPIC SERIES ON 1ST FEMALE RULER OF 10TH CENTURY KIEVAN RUS ANNOUNCED! PRISON ESCAPE MINI SERIES ON THE 19TH CENTURY CATALPA EXPEDITION IN WORKS! 1618 HISTORICAL MOVIE TRAILER

The series will be helmed by Valeria Guy Germanica

Mars Media has announced a shooting of eight episode historical series PRINCESS OLGA (Княгиня Ольга) for Russia 1 broadcaster. The series will be an artistic reinterpretation of history based on real events of the X century, and will tell about the amazing fate of Grand Duchess Olga - the first ruler of Russia to convert to Christianity. Casting is underway for the series that will begin shooting mid-summer. Olga was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 960; she is venerated as a saint and is known for defeating the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed her husband prince Igor of Kiev.

Stratton Leopoldand Dax Phelan are, as Deadline reports, preparing an untitled mini series based on an infamous 19th-century prison escape known as The Catalpa Expedition. Set in Ireland, the United States, and Australia during the 1860s and 1870s, the series will follow the real-life plan members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a 19th-century group made to free six political prisoners from a British penal colony in Western Australia while aboard the whaleship, The Catalpa. The writer, poet, and journalist John Boyle O’Reilly was among the political prisoners sent to a British penal colony in Australia. 

Your trailer for today comes all the way from Brazil for their historical movie drama 1618 which will stream on Apple TV in USA from April 7th! The visitation of the Inquisition to the city of Oporto, Portugal in 1618. At the time

The movie will stream this April

the entire population was exhorted to denounce heresies under pain of excommunication. In a city where a large part of the population had Jewish ancestry, over one hundred New Christians, among others, were imprisoned, causing terror in the New Christian community, mass emigration and the near total destruction of the city’s economy. Friction between Porto’s judicial authorities, which had always been on good terms with the New Christians, and the inquisitorial visitation reached such a point that guards on horseback surrounded the ecclesiastical court, preventing the “heretics” in custody from being transported to Coimbra. The Visitor even travelled to Spain to give Philip II an account of the events transpired.