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Harem [Starz - US]

  • 11-11-2011 5:45pm
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    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭


    WOO HOO!...more sex on Starz! :cool:

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/starz-ottoman-empire-series-260308

    Starz is putting its lens on the Ottoman Empire.

    The male-skewing cable network, through its co-production deal with BBC Worldwide Productions, is developing Harem, a potential six-hour series exploring the reign of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent and the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire.

    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe scribe Ann Peacock is near a deal to pen the project, which is based on an original idea by Gina Gershon.

    Harem would tell the story of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire who reconstructed its legal system and presided over the fleet's annexation of most of the Middle East.

    The Starz project would revolve around Roxelana, a beautiful young slave girl whose ambitions knew no bounds and whose marriage to Suleyman kicked off what became known as the "Reign of Women."

    The project would mark Peacock's return to television since her Emmy win for A Lesson Before Dying. Repped by CAA, Principato-Young and attorney Don Steele, Peacock is currently working on Universal's Cinderella.

    Harem would mark the second project under the Starz-BBC co-production deal; the cable net ordered David Goyer's eight-episode Da Vinci's Demons historical drama in October.

    The project would also continue the premium cable's love affair with the sword-and-sandals genre. The network has found success with Spartacus and its various incarnations.

    Starz declined comment.


    Apparently Starz is also considering an Aztecs mini series, per Deadline:

    Aztecs, which is being eyed as a 8-part mini-series for Starz,
    is a historic re-telling of the romantic relationship between Hernan
    Cortes and Malinali whose love story was a twisted tale of passion and
    deceit, of murder, ambition, and shattered dreams that brought an
    empire to its knees, forever altering the fate of America and Europe.
    Hans Beimler is writing the project, which is based on an original
    treatment and is not related to Aztec, a mini-series project
    based on the best-selling book by Gary Jennings, which has been
    shepherded by Alfonso Arau and Grant Turk.


    There is also a Pharoah series in development [thread exists here if you search]...love the idea of all these shows!


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