Sharpe Actor Sean Bean Announced For Lead In HBO Fantasy Pilot
English Sharpe actor Sean Bean, the also played Boromir in Lord of the Rings has been reported to have been cast in the lead role in the HBO planned series 'A games of Thrones' based on George RR Martin popular 'Song of Fire and Ice' series of fantasy books.
No date has been set for the pilot as yet, and there is no promise that HBO will commit to a full series either, but with an impressive cast list headed up by Bean, this project is definitely being taken seriously.
Sean has been cast in lead role of Eddard Stark a Lord who is pressured to act as advisor to the ruthless royal family. Other cast members already confirmed to feature in the Pilot include Kit Harrington, Jack Gleeson, Harry Lloyd, and Peter Dinklage, with more key roles still to be filled.
The series is been adapted and produced by David Benioff and Dan Weiss. David Benioff has recently suggested a 'crappy' tagline for the project could be, "The Sopranos in Middle-earth", which must get you thinking. If the series is true to the books plot elements should contain a spot of conspiracy, child murder, incest, 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 say conspiracy? We will see a show which is much grittier than previous fantasy adaptations Sean Bean has starred in.
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. - 2361
No date has been set for the pilot as yet, and there is no promise that HBO will commit to a full series either, but with an impressive cast list headed up by Bean, this project is definitely being taken seriously.
Sean has been cast in lead role of Eddard Stark a Lord who is pressured to act as advisor to the ruthless royal family. Other cast members already confirmed to feature in the Pilot include Kit Harrington, Jack Gleeson, Harry Lloyd, and Peter Dinklage, with more key roles still to be filled.
The series is been adapted and produced by David Benioff and Dan Weiss. David Benioff has recently suggested a 'crappy' tagline for the project could be, "The Sopranos in Middle-earth", which must get you thinking. If the series is true to the books plot elements should contain a spot of conspiracy, child murder, incest, 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 say conspiracy? We will see a show which is much grittier than previous fantasy adaptations Sean Bean has starred in.
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. - 2361
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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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