Now this is really cool news. BBC is producing a fantasy series based on the legend of Atlantis. Atlantis will be a thirteen x forty-five minute episode mini-series. It’s scheduled for broadcast in the fall.
Here’s the blurb that was released on Telly Surfer:
The city of Atlantis is a mysterious, ancient place: a world of bull leaping, of snake haired goddesses and of palaces so vast it was said they were build by giants. It’s into this strange, compelling realm tha the young Jason arrives and a amazing adventure begins, bringing to life the vast store of Greek myths and legends re-imagined in 45 minute episodes for a new generation.
According to BroadcastNow.co.uk, Atlantis will be picked up by BBC Worldwide for international viewers. I hope that means we’ll be able to see it in the US soon!
This, along with my previous note about T.A. Barron’s upcoming Atlantis book, gives me great hope that 2013 will be a big year for rekindled interest in Atlantis, including my YA novel The Seventh Pleiade.
BBC previously aired an Atlantis movie Atlantis End of a World, Birth of a Legend in 2010. I didn’t catch it, but it’s described as a historical drama based on the theory that a volcanic eruption near Crete (the destruction of the Ancient Minoans) was the source of the story. I posted the movie trailer below.
