THE IRON ROSE SERIES
ON 19TH CENTURY STEEL KING
Checklist Films have announced their work on new six episode historical series THE IRON ROSE which will be inspired by true events! It will be an epic Victorian saga that chronicles the dramatic lives of iron and
steel pioneerRobert Forester Mushet and his family as they fight to make and retain their fortune in 1800’s industrial Britain. Set to shoot in Gloucester- shire, it is created by Keith Thomas and written by John F. McDonald.
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| Robert and his brother David were the leaders of the family |
Descending from a family of power spanning generations, Robert Forester
Mushet is an ambitious man, obsessed with the innovative and
technological advances of the industrial age, and making a name for
himself. He risks it all, putting his personal happiness and fortune on
the line to pioneer the next big thing. But as success descends upon the
family, he soon tastes the betrayal and deceit as other ambitious men
circle to capitalise on his inventions and finds himself battling the
dreaded Mushet curse, which plagues his family.