NETFLIX SETS CAST FOR THEIR MEDIEVAL ADVENTURE TV SERIES THE LETTER FOR THE KING! PETER RADAR'S PLAYING TO THE GODS 19TH CENTURY NOVEL TO BECOME A FILM

   'THE LETTER FOR THE KING'

TV ADAPTATION SETS CAST

Gijs Blom will be Prince Viridian in the series

Earlier this year your trusted spy informed you that Netflix is turning Dutch fantasy novel THE LETTER FOR THE KING into a TV series and now the cast has been revealed!

   Tonke Dragt’s medieval adventure is set in a world full of adventure and intrigue, where no one wants to be a knight more than Tiuri (Wilson) who is tasked with delivering a secret letter on which the fate of the entire kingdom depends. On their journey, he and his young friends will discover just how much it takes to become a true knight, and just how much the broken adult world needs them to fix it.

Kon Tiki's Jakob Oftebro is Prince Iridian!

Young Amir Wilson will play Tiuri, a 15 year old squire who answers a desperate call for help and finds himself on a perilous mission that could cost him his life. Rudy Serkis is Lavinia, charismatic and determined, adventurous and ahead of her time. She joins Tiuri on the adventure. Nathanael Saleh will be Piak, a fearless and excitable young boy who couldn’t bear seeing his older brother go on an adventure while he missed out at home. Thaddea Graham, Islam Bouakkaz, Jack Barton and Jonah Lees will play the rest of their company. Yorick van Wageningen will play an elderly King Favian, Gijs Blom is Prince

Jonah Lees will play one of the member's of Tiuri's company!

Viridian and Jakob Oftebro is Crown Prince Iridian. The cast will also have Emilie Cocquerel as Queen Alianor, Ken Nwosu, Peter Ferdinando, Kemi-Bo Jacobs, David Wilmot and Tawfeek Barhom!

   'PLAYING TO THE GODS'

 MOVIE ON 19TH CENTURY'S MOST FAMOUS  ACTRESSES' RIVALRY

The film will be based on the Peter Rader's book

Deadline reports today that Michael Sucsy is to adapt  Peter Radar’s novel PLAYING TO THE GODS into a film! The movie tells the true story of French stage superstar Sarah Bernhardt, a pioneer in the culture of exotic, eccentric celebrity who became the world’s first A-list actress. Pitted in a rivalry is up and coming Italian adversary, Eleonora Duse, whose modern, naturalistic style and ability to disappear into roles without chewing the scenery revolutionized the theater. Their competition for queen of the stage ignited the most tumultuous theatrical showdown of the 19th century. Michael Sucsy will write, direct and produce the adaptation.