Interesting news come from Turkey: beside the hot gossip on Brad Pittbeing offered $2 million to play a European general fighting against sultan Suleyman inTHE MAGNIFICENT CENTURY, the most popular historical TV saga around The Balkans in recent few years, there’s also some info on FAMINE, a joint Irish Turkish film production which would depict the story of the Ottoman Empire’s aid to Ireland during the great famine period in Ireland between 1845 and 1851.Sean Bean, Saoirse Ronan and Colin Farrell are possible cast members in the story of how the Ottoman Empire sent aid to the emerald isle in Ireland at great potato
famine in 1845 which claimed nearly 1 million lives. The production should start this Autumn and will also include some Turkish starsBurak Özçivit(he’s currently hiding from the Turkish public after his girlfriend recently caught him naked in bed with his best male friend) and Kenan İmirzalıoğlu. According to “The Irish Sun”,FAMINE plot will focus on a love story between Fatih (Burak), an Ottoman sailor, and Mary (Saoirse), an Irish girl, during the Great famine and the period when Ottoman’s aid to Ireland arrived. Turkish star Kenan İmirzalıoğlu would play Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid.
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