Kate Mosse's Labryinth to be Adapted for Television Mini-Series

Ridley Scott and his brother Tony Scott are developing a made-for-television mini-series adapted from the historical thriller Labryinth by Kate Mosse.

Ridley Scott said the "story affords us the opportunity to create exciting drama that will thrill and delight the book's readers worldwide and the viewers who'll be discovering it for the first time."

The book features two women: Alice, who, in 2005, on an archeological dig in the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery, two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth; and Alais, 800 years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, who is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. Now, as crusading armies gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take a tremendous sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe.

Production is expected to begin this fall in France with an air date next spring.

(Source: Variety)

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