British pay-TV broadcaster Sky is taking one of its originals to Comic Con for the first time – launching fantasy epic A Discovery of Witches at the San Diego event. It comes as the company revealed that a U.S. broadcaster is expected to be announced shortly – possibly at the event, which takes place July 18-22.
The cast of the series, including Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Alex Kingston and Owen Teale, will attend the confab alongside author Deborah Harkness and producer Jane Tranter from production company Bad Wolf.
Downton Abbey and The Good Wife star Goode stars as vampire Matthew Clairmont, while Hacksaw Ridge‘s Teresa Palmer plays heroine Diana Bishop in the series, which is produced by Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner’s Bad Wolf. It will air on Sky One later this year.
Discovery Of Witches is the first installment of Harkness’ All Souls Trilogy, which has sold more than 3.5M copies worldwide. Originally published in 2011, Discovery is the story of Diana, a young scholar at Oxford who is a descendant of the Salem witches. When she accidentally unlocks an enchanted manuscript, she is compelled to embrace the magic in her blood and enters a forbidden romance with charming 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew. The second All Souls novel, Shadow Of Night, was published in 2012 followed by The Book Of Life in 2014.
Kate Brooke (Mr Selfridge) penned the adaptation and is showrunner. Tranter, Gardner, and Harkness are exec producers.
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A Discovery of Witches
Meet the cast and creatives behind the major new TV series. Teresa Palmer (Hacksaw Ridge), Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey), Alex Kingston (Doctor Who), and Owen Teale (Game of Thrones) join Deborah Harkness (All Souls trilogy), author of the original novel, to discuss the TV adaptation.
Thursday July 19, 2018 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Ballroom 20
Thursday’s signing will take place in the Penguin Publishing Booth, 1515G. Tickets will be distributed that morning. Books will be available for purchase. Special tote bags with a two chapter excerpt booklet of TIME’S CONVERT will be a gift with any title purchased from the All Souls Trilogy, or the All Souls companion.
It Didn't Look That Way in My Head
Authors create worlds and characters in text, and then they are translated through the lens of media into stories that may or may not feel the same to both the creator and readers. Panelists Deborah Harkness (All Souls trilogy), Nalo Hopkinson(Brown Girl in the Ring), Kass Morgan (The 100 series), Andy Weir (Artemis), and Kathleen Kaufman (The Lairdbalor) talk with moderator Brendan Reichs(Nemesis, The Darkdeep).
Friday July 20, 2018 11:00am - 12:00pm
Room 25ABC
Worldview 101
Comic-Con special guest Deborah Harkness (the All Souls Trilogy, Time's Convert) discusses with Maureen Lenker (Entertainment Weekly) how she drew on science, fantasy, and history to build a world where the supernatural seems real. Q&A moderated by Maureen Lenker.
Saturday July 21, 2018 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Room 8
For the better part of a decade, Deborah Harkness’ novel, A Discovery of Witches, has languished in development as a movie. While Warner Bros. has yet to go forward with that cinematic adaptation, fans of Harkness’ All Souls trilogy have something new to look forward to. The British network, Sky One, is debuting A Discovery of Witches TV series later this year. Via Entertainment Weekly, the first trailer has arrived, and it opens up a world that blends historical fiction with the supernatural.source
A Discovery of Witches stars Teresa Palmer as Diana Bishop, a young historian studying at Oxford who discovers a long missing book of spells that is highly sought after by witches, vampires, and daemons. Diana is also a powerful witch, but without any formal training or true allies. Matthew Goode co-stars in the series as Matthew Clairmont, a vampire who is charged with retrieving the magic tome from Diana. But as the trailer indicates, the potential romance between Diana and Matthew may thrust both of them into even more danger from their respective tribes.
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