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[07/15/14 - 09:49 AM]
Spike TV Develops Original Event-Series Based on the Crusades
Pierce Brosnan's Irish DreamTime, Mark Sennet Entertainment, Michael Finch and Academy Award(R)-winning writer David Franzoni are behind the project.







CRUSADERS, THE (SPIKE TV)
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
7/15/14
STATUS:
previously in development (2015-2016 season)
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
script
DESCRIPTION:
(from Spike TV's press release, July 2014) Spike TV is teaming up with Pierce Brosnan's Irish DreamTime, Mark Sennet Entertainment, Michael Finch and Academy Award(R)-winning writer David Franzoni to develop a script for an event series based on the one of the seminal events in world history, the Crusades. Spike TV's event-series, "The Crusaders" will be Executive Produced by Brosnan and Beau St. Clair from Irish DreamTime, Mark Sennet ("Bag of Bones"), Brian Gary ("Jefferson Davis: An American President"), and Craig Sheftell from Sennet Entertainment. Michael Finch ("Predators") and David Franzoni will Executive Produce and write "The Crusaders." Franzoni won an Oscar in 2000 for "Gladiator" (Best Picture). The event-series takes place during the Third Crusade, after the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin's armies, and centers on two very different knights who journey from Scotland to the Holy Land for very different reasons. There, bound together in the crucible that is war, politics and betrayal, they will encounter and be forced to overcome, among others, Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, the Hashshashin and ultimately their own personal demons.
CREW INFORMATION:
· Beau St. Clair as EP
· Brian Gary as EP
· Craig Sheftell as EP
· David Franzoni as CRTR/EP
· Mark Sennet as EP
· Michael Finch as CRTR/EP
· Pierce Brosnan as EP
GENRE(S):
· drama
STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Irish DreamTime
· Sennet Entertainment