TV Lowdown » rome http://thetvlowdown.com The best and worst that TV has to offer. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:47:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Three Brit actors announced for "John Carter of Mars" http://thetvlowdown.com/2009/08/24/three-brit-actors-announced-for-john-carter-of-mars/ http://thetvlowdown.com/2009/08/24/three-brit-actors-announced-for-john-carter-of-mars/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:03:48 +0000 tvlowdown http://thetvlowdown.com/?p=226 The adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels, currently being worked on by writer-director Andrew Stanton, is receiving an influx of good old British thespianism in the form of Dominic West, Polly Walker and Samantha Morton.

West, best known for playing troubled cop McNulty on the phenomenal series The Wire, is lined up to Sab Than, [...]]]> The adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels, currently being worked on by writer-director Andrew Stanton, is receiving an influx of good old British thespianism in the form of Dominic West, Polly Walker and Samantha Morton.

c068mars-atmosphere2West, best known for playing troubled cop McNulty on the phenomenal series The Wire, is lined up to Sab Than, a Martian prince (which will at least make a change from appearing in god-awful smug coffee ads.)

The fantastic Polly Walker (lately of Caprica, formerly of Rome) will play Sarkoja, an “old green Martian chieftain”. She must be flattered!

Finally, Samantha Morton will appear as a ten-foot tall four-armed green woman called Sola.

It’s way too early in the week for a brain to process news this bizarre.

]]> http://thetvlowdown.com/2009/08/24/three-brit-actors-announced-for-john-carter-of-mars/feed/ 0 Nikolaj Coster-Waldau joins HBO's "Game of Thrones" http://thetvlowdown.com/2009/08/21/nikolaj-coster-waldau-joins-hbos-game-of-thrones/ http://thetvlowdown.com/2009/08/21/nikolaj-coster-waldau-joins-hbos-game-of-thrones/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:49:11 +0000 tvlowdown http://thetvlowdown.com/?p=197 Coster-Waldau, who recently starred in the sadly-failed TV pilot Virtuality has been cast in HBO’s Game of Thrones, a series based on the George RR Martin series of fantasy novels. I have to confess to not being familiar with the novels at all, so if any of you readers have enjoyed them, let me know! [...]]]> 022908cCoster-Waldau, who recently starred in the sadly-failed TV pilot Virtuality has been cast in HBO’s Game of Thrones, a series based on the George RR Martin series of fantasy novels. I have to confess to not being familiar with the novels at all, so if any of you readers have enjoyed them, let me know! I thought Coster-Waldau gave an interesting performance in Virtuality; it’s a shame we’ll probably never see that story brought to life, since most of the cast have moved on. (Kerry Bishe, who also appeared in Virtuality, has just been given a regular role on Scrubs.)

It’ll be interesting to see if Game of Thrones does well, simply because fantasy is such a hard genre to get right. Take the material too seriously and it comes off as po-faced and inaccessible, but treat it too lightly and it seems immature and cartoonish. Still, if HBO are pumping money into it, at least we know it’ll be visually impressive. Perhaps this could be the next Rome? The BBC co-funded that series with HBO, just as they’re doing with Game of Thrones, so it’s entirely possible.

Shooting starts in Belfast in October 2009.

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