Day: January 5, 2019

Television adaptation: ‘The Passage’ by Justin Cronin

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The television adaptation of Justin Cronin’s ‘The Passage’ premieres on Fox this month. 

Justin Cronin is an American author who has written five novels: ‘Mary and O’Neil,’ ‘The Summer Guest’ and the vampire trilogy consisting of ‘The Passage,’ ‘The Twelve’ and ‘City of Mirrors.’ He has won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Stephen Crane Prize and a Whiting Award. ‘The Passage’ is the story of Amy who was abandoned by her mother at age six and is now being pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. The television adaption will premiere on Fox on Monday January 14 and stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Brad Wolgast and Saniyya Sidney as Amy Bellafonte.

‘The Passage’ focuses on Project Noah, a secret medical facility where scientists are experimenting with a dangerous virus that at best is a cure-all for all diseases and at worst has the potential to wipe out humanity. When Amy Bellafonte is chosen as a test subject, Federal Agent Brad Wolgast has to bring her in to Project Noah but instead bonds with her as a surrogate father and vows to protect her at any cost. Their journey will force them to confront Project Noah’s lead scientist, Major Nichole Skyes and the hardened ex-CIA operative in charge of operations Clark Richards, whom Brad trained. It also brings them face-to-face with a dangerous new race of beings within the walls of Project Noah.

Television adaptation: ‘A Discovery of Witches’ by Deborah Harkness

discoveryofwitchesDeborah Harkness is an American scholar, novelist and wine enthusiast best known as a historian and the author of the All Souls Trilogy. The series consists of The New York Times’ best-selling novel ‘A Discovery of Witches’ and the sequels ‘Shadow of Night’ and ‘The Book of Life.’ The story centers around Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches. It was adapted into a television series by Sky One, a British network, and will premiere on Sundance Now on Thursday January 17. Cast includes Matthew Goode, Alex Kingston and Teresa Palmer.

In ‘A Discovery of Witches,’ Diana Bishop discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Despite a long-held mistrust between witches and vampires they form an alliance and set out to protect the book and solve the mysteries hidden within while dodging threats from the creature world.