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Mar 01 2010

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Sharpe Actor Sean Bean Announced For Lead In HBO Fantasy Pilot

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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.

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 is due to begin in Northern Ireland in October 2009, at Paint Hall Studios in Belfast. It is also rumoured that the BBC will have a financial involvement in the series in a similar way they did with 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.

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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Feb 16 2010

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Angela Johnson

Finding The Best Affiliate Review Site

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Feb 14 2010

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Alan Plastin

Relive the Magic of the Movie with Gone with the Wind Checks

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Do you turn the television on every time Gone with the Wind airs? Do you talk about the characters as though they are real people? If you sometimes find yourself wishing that you could be taken back to a time when beautiful debutants entertained suitors on the lawn, horse drawn carriages were still used, and it was perfectly acceptable to nap during the hottest part of the day then you should definitely check out Gone with the Wind personal checks and their accessories.

One of the most popular novels of all time, it has sold more than 30 million copies around the world. It has been turned into a movie, a musical, and a play and has spawned a multitude of pop culture references.

Despite its huge popularity, Gone with the Wind was the only novel that Margaret Mitchell, a spunky former reporter, wrote. It took Margaret 7 years to write it and nearly an entire year just to check the historical facts in it. In 1937 it won the Pulitzer Prize and later won numerous Oscars at the Academy Awards for the 1939 screen adaptation of it.

Nowadays, Gone with the Wind is known for its poetic descriptions of the old south, as well as for the histrionic antics of the lead heroine, Scarlett O'Hara. While it sometimes receives criticism for its depiction of race in the old south, a tremendous amount of historical research went into the writing of it.

It is possible that many of the characters portrayed in the book were based on real people in Margaret's life, including her grandmother and first husband. It has also been indicated that Scarlett herself was based on President Theodore Roosevelt's mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt.

During the filming of the movie, an assortment of actresses auditioned for the part of Scarlett, including Bette Davis and Lucille Ball. It's difficult to imagine the film being the same without the unearthly beauty of Vivian Leigh, though. The story goes that the director first knew that she was his Scarlett when he saw the flames of the burning of Atlanta casting a reflection in her eyes.

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