![]() ![]() The star and director of admired film adaptations of Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet last appeared in a TV role in the acclaimed 2002 Channel 4 film Shackleton, which told the story of the polar explorer's unsuccessful Antarctic expedition. His disabled hero lives and works in Lincoln's Inn in the 1540s.īranagh's return to television drama - the medium in which he first made his mark playing a young Northern Ireland boy, Billy Martin, in a landmark Play For Today trilogy in the early Eighties - marks a significant change of direction for the actor and film-maker, who has recently released screen versions of Mozart's The Magic Flute and Peter Shaffer's play Sleuth ![]() Sansom's three books have won praise for their evocations of the brutality of life in the Tudor period and for his strength as a storyteller. ![]() Negotiations to bring Shardlake, the idiosyncratic character at the centre of a series of mystery novels by CJ Sansom, to the small screen are believed to be in their final stages. Branagh, 46, plans to take the role of a hunchback lawyer named Shardlake who works for the key power brokers of the Tudor court, Thomas Cromwell and Thomas Cranmer. ![]()
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