BEOWULF: Live-action TV Series is in Development on SyFy Channel

Beowulf TV Series coming. SyFy Channel is working on live-action version of the 3182 line poem Beowulf as a TV series. No actors or actresses have been cast as the show is in its very early stages. “The official [Beowulf TV series] logline: ‘Adaptation of the classic epic poem that further examines the hero’s rise to power and his feud with the monster Grendel.'”

On the people behind the scenes of the Beowulf  TV show:

Matt Greenberg (1408, Reign of Fire) will write the script. Executive producers: Brian Hamilton, Michael Chechik, Matt Greenberg, Andrew Cosby and Paulo de Oliveira.

On the Beowulf poem:

Beowulf…is the conventional title^[1] of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.

It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet^[a] is dated between the 8thand the early 11th century. In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. The poem’s existence for its first seven centuries or so made no impression on writers and scholars, and besides a brief mention in a 1705 catalogue by Humfrey Wanley it was not studied until the end of the eighteenth century, and not published in its entirety until the 1815 edition prepared by the Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin.

In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall (in Heorot) has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel’s mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland in Sweden and later becomes king of the Geats. After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants bury him in a tumulus, a burial mound, in Geatland.

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Source: Slashfilm, Wikipedia