BBC Adaption Of 'Wolf Hall': What We Know So Far
It may be nearly two years since BBC Two first announced that it would be adapting Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize historical novel Wolf Hall, but details about the series are only just beginning to emerge. The series was announced in August 2012 and at the time director Peter Kosminsky, who was chosen to bring the book to life, said, “It is an intensely political piece. It is about the politics of despotism, and how you function around an absolute ruler…When I saw Peter Straughan’s script, only a first draft, I couldn’t believe what I was reading. It was the best draft I had ever seen.”
The six-episode adaption of Wolf Hall is scheduled to be first broadcast on BBC Two in 2015. Let's hope that it goes down a little better than the BBC's last attempt to adapt a historical novel. The White Queen was a disappointment to both fans of the book and those new to the story and was not commissioned for a second season, despite being part of a triology itself.