Sharpe actor Sean Bean, the also stared as Boromir in Lord of the Rings has been announced as the lead role in the HBO planned series 'A Game of Thrones' which is based on George RR Martin popular 'Song of Fire and Ice' series of fantasy books'.
No firm date has been set for screening the pilot, and there is still no commitment from HBO to a full series either, but with a substantial cast list headed up by Sean Bean, this project must be taken seriously.
He has been cast in role of Eddard Stark a Lord who is pressure to act as advisor to the ruthless royal family. Other cast members confirmed for the Pilot include Kit Harrington, Jack Gleeson, Harry Lloyd, and Peter Dinklage
The show is been adapted and produced by David Benioff and Dan Weiss. David has suggested a 'crappy' tagline for the project could be, "The Sopranos in Middle-earth", which can only set the imagination racing. With plot elements that will contain spot of conspiracy, incest, child murder, corruption, conspiracy, a rival claimant to the throne across the sea, the still-festering legacy of a civil war 20 years before, a growing threat in the North and did I mention conspiracy? We should see a show which is far darker than Sean Beans Previous fantasy adoptions.
Production will begin in Northern Ireland in October 2009, at Paint Hall Studios in Belfast and has the support of the northern Irish government. It is also likely that the BBC will have a financial involvement in the same way they did in HBO's Rome series.
Sean Bean leapt to fame as the character Major Richard Sharpe, the series of Sharpe TV films in the early 90's. He was made world famous in the role of Boromir in the Lord of the Rings films, but has also appeared in numerous other Hollywood films including as Ronin, Patriot Games and Troy.
No firm date has been set for screening the pilot, and there is still no commitment from HBO to a full series either, but with a substantial cast list headed up by Sean Bean, this project must be taken seriously.
He has been cast in role of Eddard Stark a Lord who is pressure to act as advisor to the ruthless royal family. Other cast members confirmed for the Pilot include Kit Harrington, Jack Gleeson, Harry Lloyd, and Peter Dinklage
The show is been adapted and produced by David Benioff and Dan Weiss. David has suggested a 'crappy' tagline for the project could be, "The Sopranos in Middle-earth", which can only set the imagination racing. With plot elements that will contain spot of conspiracy, incest, child murder, corruption, conspiracy, a rival claimant to the throne across the sea, the still-festering legacy of a civil war 20 years before, a growing threat in the North and did I mention conspiracy? We should see a show which is far darker than Sean Beans Previous fantasy adoptions.
Production will begin in Northern Ireland in October 2009, at Paint Hall Studios in Belfast and has the support of the northern Irish government. It is also likely that the BBC will have a financial involvement in the same way they did in HBO's Rome series.
Sean Bean leapt to fame as the character Major Richard Sharpe, the series of Sharpe TV films in the early 90's. He was made world famous in the role of Boromir in the Lord of the Rings films, but has also appeared in numerous other Hollywood films including as Ronin, Patriot Games and Troy.
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Sean Bean shot to fame playing Major Richard Sharpe in the TV adaptation of Bernard Cornwell Sharpe books, the first of which was Sharpe's Eagle.
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