Cinemax And BBC Developing Wolf Hall Small With Mess Tailor Soldier Spy Author

EXCLUSIVE: Inside their latest collaboration, Cinemax and BBC are coming up with a miniseries adaptation in the award-winning historic novel Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Mess Tailor Soldier Spy co-author Peter Straughan could make his TV debut writing some-part miniseries, that's being eyed for Cinemax and BBC2. It's being produced by Uk indie Company Pictures (Shameless) and U.S.’ Playground Entertainment, the business of former Cinemax Films leader Colin Callender. Mantel’s 2009 novel Wolf Hall, which won the man Booker Prize, the UKs finest literary award, is occur Medieval England. It is a fictionalized biography chronicling the increase to energy of Thomas Cromwell within the court docket of King Henry VIII. Cromwell, one of the most effective advocates in the British Reformation, aided come with an annulment for Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon so they can marry his mistress Anne Boleyn. Cromwell eventually fell from favor while using king and was carried out. Round the showtime series The Tudors, also set through the reign of Henry VIII, Cromwell was carried out by James Frain. Furthermore to co-scripting this year’s Oscar contender Mess Taylor Solider Spy, an adaptation of John Le Carres novel, Peter Straughan’s feature writing credits are the Debt as well as the Males Who Stare At Goat's.