STARZ and BBC Worldwide Team Up for New Adventure Series DA VINCI’S DEMONS from David S. Goyer

http://collider.com/david-s-goyer-da-vi ... rz/122394/

Starz Entertainment has green-lit a new original adventure series titled “Da Vinci’s Demons,” developed and produced by BBC Worldwide Productions. This is the first project to enter production under the multi-year agreement Starz signed with BBC Worldwide Productions earlier this summer.

Written by David S. Goyer, co-writer of blockbuster and critically-acclaimed films Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and writer of the highly anticipated Man of Steel, the eight-episode series is scheduled to begin production in early-2012.

“Da Vinci’s Demons” is David Goyer’s historical fantasy, following the “untold” story of the world’s greatest genius during his raucous youth in Renaissance Florence. Brash and brilliant, the twenty five-year old da Vinci is an artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist. As a free thinker, with intellect and talents that are almost superhuman, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time. He begins to not only see the future, but invent it.

David Goyer commented, “Da Vinci was the original Renaissance man — a near-mythic figure that has world-wide appeal. After working with characters like Batman and Superman, it made a strange kind of sense for me to dive into the facts and legends swirling around his origins. This will be a show about secret histories, genius, madness, and all things profane. And I’m particularly excited that I get to do it on premium cable, where the story can be as dark and challenging and irreverent as it deserves to be. Starz and BBC Worldwide Productions have been nothing but supportive.”

Zlotnik said, “David has reimagined some of the most iconic superheroes of all time, and is again building an extraordinary prism through which to rediscover the world’s greatest genius and most mysterious man. If modern day has Tony Stark, the Renaissance had da Vinci. This is a story we believe will captivate the imaginations of audiences around the world and is the first of what we expect to be many productions with our talented partners at BBC Worldwide Productions.”

No one is excited about this but me.

Trailer for the show is up. I don't know what to think.

Will they have the courage to depict Leo (Da Vinci---not Dicaprio) as gay?

I hate it when they call him "Da Vinci." That's like calling Bob from Jersey "From Jersey" instead of "Bob".

I have no in terest in this unless they cast Nicholas Cambell...yeah that was a Canadian joke...well it made me chuckle.

This does actually look like a show I'd probably check out.

From the trailer it looks like the answer is no and that is disappointing

Of course, we don't really know if he was gay, but there is more evidence that he was than he wasn't.

Hollywood wins again.

I understand DeVere was SUPER gay.

He was the Alan Moore of his times.

Or as later historians called him, "From Northampton".

I'm saddened that I wasn't fast enough to be the first one to bitch about using Leonardo's birthplace as a last name.

I agree about using da Vinci as a last name because it would not have been done during his day. However, there are many surnames today that were derived from locals of ancestors so I try not to get all bent out of shape over it.

Oh yes. I bitch and moan about it but I know full well that I'm just being a pedantic asshole.

"The From Vinci Code" is the worst offender.

The name was the least of its offences.

True. Among them was using the worst "stealthily".

Is there a problem with "stealthily"?

At first it seems alright, but then why it's wrong kind of sneaks up on you, unexpectedly.

It's just a horrid word construction. Adverbs pave the road to hell, as Stephen King said.