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

EXCLUSIVE: Within their latest collaboration, Cinemax and BBC are creating a miniseries adaptation from the award-winning historic novel Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Mess Tailor Soldier Spy co-author Peter Straughan can make his TV debut writing the 4-part miniseries, that is being eyed for Cinemax and BBC2. It's being created by United kingdom indie Company Pictures (Shameless) and U.S.’ Playground Entertainment, the organization of former Cinemax Films leader Colin Callender. Mantel’s 2009 novel Wolf Hall, which won the Guy Booker Prize, the UKs greatest literary award, is occur Medieval England. It's a fictionalized biography chronicling an upswing to energy of Thomas Cromwell in the courtroom of King Henry VIII. Cromwell, among the most powerful advocates from the British Reformation, assisted have an annulment for Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon so he is able to marry his mistress Anne Boleyn. Cromwell eventually fell from favor using the king and was performed. Around the showtime series The Tudors, also set throughout the reign of Henry VIII, Cromwell was performed by James Frain. Additionally to co-penning this year’s Oscar contender Mess Taylor Solider Spy, an adaptation of John Le Carres novel, Peter Straughan’s feature writing credits range from the Debt and also the Males Who Stare At Goat's.