Kate Mosse’s international bestselling novel Labyrinth, which is set in the Carcassonne/Aude Cathar region in the south of France, will begin filming there on 10th October!
The four-hour event miniseries is being produced by Tandem Communications (The Pillars of the Earth, The Company), Ridley Scott and Tony Scott's Scott Free Films (The Good Wife, The Andromeda Strain) and Film Afrika Worldwide (Dark Tide, Endgame) in association with Universal Production Partners (UPP). Labyrinth is a German / South African treaty co-production.
The series is being adapted for television by award-winning writer Adrian Hodges (Primeval, The Last King) and stars an incredible cast including two-time Oscar® nominee, three-time BAFTA Award winner and Golden Globe® winner John Hurt (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) as Audric Ballard. Directing is Christopher Smith (Black Death, Triangle) whose unique voice in both the fields of writing and direction has found him a cult following worldwide.
“I’m very excited about the collaboration of two incredibly strong artists on this project: putting Adrian Hodges and Chris Smith’s talents together have become explosively exciting,” say Ridley Scott of Scott Free and Executive Producer. “We’re entering into principal photography with a film that you can already ‘see’ on the page.”
“The next chapter of Labyrinth begins,” says Kate Mosse, “and perhaps the most exhilarating, the most exciting yet. I wanted to wait until the right combination of people came along to take my novel from page to screen and, boy, is this it! I'm honoured to be working with Tandem and Scott Free, who have gathered together such a stellar cast and crew. It's a truly international team of creative, imaginative and talented women and men and I'm confident readers will be delighted by the adaptation. It's also a particular pleasure that filming starts in Carcassonne, in those very streets where the characters first came to life for me more than twenty years ago.”
Labyrinth is currently available in paperback, eBook and audio book formats.
