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World Without End [** Spoilers **]

  • 31-05-2011 4:58pm
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭


    Sequel to Pillars Of The Earth greenlit :)

    World Without End is based on Ken Follett's multi-million bestseller of the same name and will air on Showcase in 2012. Budgeted at US$43 million, this eight-hour special event is a Canadian/German production with Tandem Communications and Canada's Take Five Productions in association with Ridley Scott and Tony Scott´s SCOTT FREE FILMS. Principal
    World Without End takes place in the same fictional town as Pillars of the Earth — Kingsbridge — and features the descendants of some Pillars characters two centuries later. The plot incorporates two major historical events, the start of the Hundred Years' War and the Black Death

    Taken from: SpoilerTV http://www.spoilertv.com/2011/05/showcase-picks-up-pillars-of-earth.html#ixzz1NwxmBgi0


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Casting announced, $44 million budget: http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/tandem-scott-free-set-cast-for-44-million-miniseries-world-without-end/

    German-based Tandem Communications and Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free Prods. have locked in the main cast of their $44 million eight-hour miniseries World Without End, a follow-up to The Pillars of the Earth, which the two companies also co-produced. Cynthia Nixon, Miranda Richardson, Ben Chaplin, Peter Firth (MI5), Charlotte Riley (The Duchess) and Tom Weston-Jones (Enlightenment) lead the cast of the mini, based on the novel by The Pillars of the Earth author Ken Follett. Michael Caton-Jones (Rob Roy) is directing from a script by John Pielmeier, who also adapted The Pillars of the Earth for Tandem and Scott Free. The two companies are co-producing World Without End with Canada's Take 5 Prods. and Galafilm.

    Set in England 200 years after the events in Pillars, World chronicles tough times for ordinary citizens who are being hit with enormous taxes by the King, the Church as England teeters on the brink of a devastating 100-year war with France, and Europe is bracing for a terrible plague, which will wipe out a third of the continent's population. The mini centers on Caris (Riley), a visionary woman who, with her lover Merthin, builds a community that stands up to the Crown and the Church. Tandem's managing director Rola Bauer, who executive produces World, hopes viewers would find a second layer in the story about citizens' revolt against an unbearable economic burden. "We’re going through a lot of that right now as the middle class is shrinking, so that second layer is all about us," she said. Nixon will play the beautiful and deadly schemer Petranilla, Richardson will play the strong and determined Mother Cecilia, Chaplin will play the mysterious Sir Thomas Langley, and Firth (MI5) will play the ruthless Earl Roland. Also cast in the project are Rupert Evans (Hellboy) as the duplicitous Godwyn; Nora von Waldstaetten (Carlos) as streetwise peasant girl Gwenda; Oliver Jackson-Cohen (The Raven) as the rough and dangerous Ralph; Megan Follows (Heartland) as Maud, a lady fallen from grace; and Sarah Gadon (Cosmopolis) as the attractive and intelligent Philippa. Filming on the mini will take five months. It begins July 11 in Hungary, where the producers created a 12,000-square-meter backlot and built a whole medieval town and bridges, with additional location shoots in Slovakia and Austria.

    After they got the rights to Pillars from Follett, Tandem also secured first right to negotiate a deal for his World Without End, which the company exercised. The $44 million budget for the mini is being funded by international presales and bank loans. Also factored in is so-called soft money in the form of tax credits, and the producers also are deferring most of their upfront fees. World Without End has already been sold to Germany's Sat.1, UK's Channel Four, Canada's Shaw Media, Spain's Cuatro, Austria's ORF, Italy's Sky Italia, Hungary's TV2 as well as Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions and Germany’s Universum Home Entertainment for home entertainment. In the U.S., Starz, which aired Pillars, had an option on World but didn't come to terms with Tandem, and the producers plan to search for an U.S. network later on the way they did with Pillars, which sold to Starz after it had been completed. Executive producing World are Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Rola Bauer, David W. Zucker, Tim Halkin, Jonas Bauer and John Weber.

    ^ most interesting part tbh, my guess then Starz wasn't all that happy with the ratings.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    A lot of high profile actors there for a TV show, plenty of heavyweights

    I've read about half the book.
    It's seriously long so there will be plently of cuts and edits for the screenplay.
    But very promising, I'm looking forward to this


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Channel 4 has picked up the series: http://www.digitalspy.ie/ustv/news/a368919/pillars-of-the-earth-follow-up-labyrinth-to-air-on-channel-4.html

    Channel 4 has picked up the rights to Pillars of the Earth follow-up World Without End and John Hurt series Labyrinth.

    World Without End, based on the novel by Ken Follett, focuses on a young woman called Caris who urges the residents of her medieval town Kingsbridge to save their community from forces including the Church and Crown.

    Wuthering Heights star Charlotte Riley will play Caris, while other stars involved in the eight-part series include Cynthia Nixon and Miranda Richardson.

    Spooks actor Peter Firth and Mad Dogs's Ben Chaplin are also featured in the drama.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Sequel to Pillars Of The Earth greenlit :)

    World Without End is based on Ken Follett's multi-million bestseller of the same name and will air on Showcase in 2012. Budgeted at US$43 million, this eight-hour special event is a Canadian/German production with Tandem Communications and Canada's Take Five Productions in association with Ridley Scott and Tony Scott´s SCOTT FREE FILMS. Principal
    World Without End takes place in the same fictional town as Pillars of the Earth — Kingsbridge — and features the descendants of some Pillars characters two centuries later. The plot incorporates two major historical events, the start of the Hundred Years' War and the Black Death

    Taken from: SpoilerTV http://www.spoilertv.com/2011/05/showcase-picks-up-pillars-of-earth.html#ixzz1NwxmBgi0



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Eppy 5 now out....anyone watching this?....not seen it myself but liked Pillars alot.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    I'm not sure if it's better then Pillars of the Earth or not.
    Not a huge difference so if you liked Pillars you should be watching this.

    I know there were a lot of complaints from readers that Pillars introduced fantasy and magic and took away from the real story which was about people surviving during civil war while the nobles played their power games

    In WWE there is no magic at all but all sorts of shenanigans, scheming, back-stabbing and treachery

    Was a bit difficult at the start to catch up with the characters and how they were related but by Episode 2 you'll be sorted

    Blitzed through the first five episodes so far

    It's a few years since I read the book and I only read about half and forget a lot of it.
    Certain key parts are there like the
    bridge collapse

    The actors are good
    I'm useless with names but I like the guy who Chloe O' Brians husband in 24.

    Cynathia Nixon does an ok job, I'm not sure about her accent.
    The rest of them speak normally but it's like she is in a pantomime with this realy forced and put on accent. It works but it's very noticeable. One of the few Americans in it I suppose

    Best actor was the division chief from Spooks, I forget his name but he is Earl of Shiring in this, Roland.
    I would never ever have recognized him only I looked it up


    Well worth watching


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Anyone else watching?

    Just 8 episodes, the final one is out

    I loved this show

    I'm about halfway through the book.
    The book is huge so there was some serious editing done to get a TV script but the writers did a fine job

    I don't know anything about ratings, Richard Dower is the poster for that.

    Going by threads on boards Pillars of the Earth was far more popular then this anyway

    Shame, could be a hidden gem :)
    It's pretty short, only 8 episodes, give it a chance


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,017 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Starts at 9pm tonight on Channel 4


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    I watched it, and so far liking it well enough. I've not read the book so I can't compare it. That's probably no bad thing as I had read Pillars of the Earth before seeing the series and I didn't much like the series.

    I like that era of history and it's interesting to see it played out on screen.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The show is also available on the US netflix for those with access.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Er Bump! It starts a reshowing on 5 Select on Saturday at 9 PM might be of use now everyone is looking for stuff to fill the hours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    A series about that time 30-60% of Europe's population died from a disease pandemic that originated in Asia and entered Europe through Italy? Well timed.


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