Ridley Scott just likes the middle ages.

[meganbmoore]

7 1/2 minutes trailer for World Without End the sequel to Pillars of the Earth. (Set 150 years later, so I'm guessing only the fictional town and maybe a couple characters descended from the PotE charactersw are the only relationship? I haven't read either book yet.)

Miranda Richardson is a nun! And the villains don't look as over the top as they were in PotE.

Then there's Labyrinth, based on Kate Mosse's I also haven't read) also due out later this year, but which doesn't yet have a release date or official trailer that I'm aware of, but I did find a low-quality video of some footage:

(I believe the modern heroine's research leads her to the medieval heroine's story?)

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[yifu]

They made a mini-series for World Without End? I find the novel weaker in story and less engaging than PotE, and Charis annoys me in that I feel the author is trying too hard to make her a strong woman character. But, if the PotE mini-series is anything to go by, the WWE mini-series might be a different beast than the novel, hopefully more entertaining.

[meganbmoore]

Well, if all elsae fails, Ridley Scott will just add in battle scenes to spice things up. Actually, he may do that anyway. I think he gets sad if his productions go too long without them.

I can't speak for Follett, not having read anything of his (I do intend to eventually read these 2 books) but Scott, at least, generally does well with his female characters. With the except of Regan (internalized misogyny there like whoa and...well, I'm not overly fond of Scott's tendency to use incestuous abuse/obsession to let us know that a character is creepy-twisted-evil, and I understand there was less of that in the book) I was pretty happy with how he handled the female characters, despite Aliena's rape and Elizabeth's abuse (both of which would have been handled far worse by most shows I've seen).