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For the first time since his 1986 starring role in the Civil War epic “North and South,” three-time Golden Globe Award nominee Patrick Swayze returns to television drama in “King Solomon’s Mines,” a tantalizing treasure viewers will discover Saturday, June 12 (5/4c). An encore presentation follows at 9/8c.

Lensed on location in South Africa, “King Solomon’s Mines” is a romantic action-adventure set against the backdrop of 19th century Africa. Based on H. Rider Haggard’s wildly popular novel, the excitement unfolds around heroic explorer Allan Quatermain, a grieving widower fighting for custody of his young son. Hired by the beautiful daughter of an Oxford professor to find her father – who has vanished without a trace – Quatermain returns to the Dark Continent and embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue the captive archeologist, who holds the key to untold treasures – and ultimate power.

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"Adventure, scope, betrayals, that is what attracted us to retell is," [Nick] Lombardo said. "If we have to take out some element that doesn't make sense to our audience today, we will. But we gave the Allan Quatermain character a sense of conservation. He is more of a culler than a destroyer."

In the opening scene, a prelude to the main story line, Quatermain is a guide for an elephant hunter who decides to take down an entire herd rather than just the adult male. Quatermain's protests are ignored.

"The hunt goes awry, and Allan is hijacked by his business partner," said director Steve Boyum. "That goes against his sensibilities. The character is more enlightened about the environment than he was in the novel."

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Swedish Nightingale wrote:

Allan Quatermain... wildlife conservationist???

Beautiful daughters???

CUSTODY BATTLES!?!?!

 

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[Nick] Lombardo: "If we have to take out some element that doesn't make sense to our audience today, we will. But we gave the Allan Quatermain character a sense of conservation. He is more of a culler than a destroyer... ...The character is more enlightened about the environment than he was in the novel."

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ntnon wrote:

Ah. Perhaps this is merely Revisionism, asimply making these "out-dated" stories 'relevent' to today's society... No worse than, say, adding in Americans or changing Cat..

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ntnon wrote:

Ah. Perhaps this is merely Revisionism, simply making these "out-dated" stories 'relevant' to today's society... No worse than, say, adding in Americans or changing Cat..

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Ohhhhh... so we should be looking for the heartwarming story of the kindly Dr. Jekyll overcoming his struggle with schizophrenia and going on to win a Nobel Prize? Or maybe one about a mysterious Indian captain who works undercover for Greenpeace?

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Swedish Nightingale wrote:

This doesn't bode well for autumn's Dracula musical...

 

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ntnon wrote:

Why oh why couldn't they have stuck with the classic version?! Yes, I’m talking about the Canadian Ballet version was exceptionally surreal and absurd...

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Swedish Nightingale wrote:

Third Vampire played by Jenny-Lynn Suckling???

 

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Swedish Nightingale wrote:
This doesn't bode well for autumn's Dracula musical...

 

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H.G. Wells was a scientist, an author, and a visionary. As the father of science-fiction he penned The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. Now, an ambitious new mini-series from Hallmark Entertainment brings Wells’ epic visions to life, with an inventive speculation on the origins of his brilliant flights of fantasy.

On a night in London in 1946, newspaper reporter Ellen McGillivray arrives at the home of legendary literary figure, Herbert George Wells. Expecting to hear of the events and people who formed his prophetic imagination, she is informed of a world in which known scientific boundaries no longer exist.

It begins a half-century earlier at London’s Imperial College of Science where Wells meets Jane Robbins, a scientist equally fascinated by unnatural phenomenon, and a woman who immediately captures Wells’ heart. Through midnight experiments and secret investigations into the paranormal, through the follies of chance and the miracles of fate, Wells and Robbins find themselves slipping into whirlpools of time, both past and present, they never thought possible. Since this mysterious universe can not be shared with the world, this becomes a wondrous secret that binds them forever.

To Wells’ surprise, Ellen accepts his outlandish tales of traveling through time. For she is not, she admits, a journalist, but rather an underground government agent who has inherited a puzzling artifact that only Wells could possibly identify: a crystalline orb said to contain the mysteries of the universe, our relationships to other planets, and our past encounters with them. What Ellen is about to discover is that at the heart of the mysterious orb is buried the equally mysterious heart of Jane Robbins, the one who inspired H.G. Wells to tell the amazing truth in the form of science “fiction.”

With stunning recreations of 19th century London, awe inspiring special effects, and a timeless love story at its heart, The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells is Hallmark Entertainment’s dazzling tribute to the grandmaster of science-fiction.

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Cefo wrote:

Hmm... this should be interesting. Is Harry Connick Jr. going to play Dracula? Or will he be played by that blind Italian guy?

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