Tuesday, January 20, 2015

A Drama with a Neutral Perspective on the War? Unlikely.

PBS And Ridley Scott Team For A New Civil War Series!!

Of course the story has the Hollywood touch...
Based on true stories, the new drama follows two volunteer nurses on opposite sides of the Civil War. Mary Phinney, a staunch New England abolitionist, and Emma Green, a willful young Confederate belle, collide at Mansion House, the Green family’s luxury hotel that has been taken over and transformed into a Union Army Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, the longest-occupied Confederate city of the war. As the boundaries of medicine are being explored and expanded, the role of women is also broadening. Here, in the collision of a wartime medical drama and a family saga of conflicted loyalties and moral dilemmas, the series plays out a story of the highest stakes.

Variety

Scott's production The Man in the High Castle is one of the new pilot episodes being shopped on Amazon.

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