Variety reported in March 2011 that Ridley Scott was developing a television adaptation of Labyrinth. The novel has also been translated and published in 38 languages worldwide. It was the best-selling fiction title in 2006 in the United Kingdom and reached The New York Times bestseller list. The novel Labyrinth was written by English author Kate Mosse and published in 2005. Isabella-Rose Tsinonis as Bertrande, Alais' daughter.Danny Keogh as Bertrand Pelletier, Alaïs and Oriane's father.Claudia Gerini as Marie-Cecile de l'Oradore.Katie McGrath as Oriane Congost, Alaïs' widowed older half-sister and Guilhem's lover.Emun Elliott as Guilhem du Mas, Alaïs' husband and Oriane's lover.Sebastian Stan as Will Franklyn, an author and Marie-Cecile's boyfriend.Jessica Brown Findlay as Alaïs Pelletier du Mas, Guilhem's wife and Oriane's younger half-sister.She thinks she has left him asleep as she leaves but he is awake. It is now Alaïs Pelletier, who we now know was the woman holding the book out to Alice, lying in a bed with her husband beside her. Before Alice can grasp it, the scene changes. One woman notices her and holds out a brown journal of sorts. She walks along as people in white, the Cathars, are burning people alive. When she exits the cave, she is not in her own world. She starts calling out as if someone is with her whispering until she is seemingly attacked in her abdomen, her shirt stained with blood. As she slips it on her finger, she is taken back as if she was drunk. On one of the skeletons she finds a labyrinth-engraved ring which she takes. Upon hearing voices, seemingly whispering her name, she is drawn into a cave. ( January 2019)Īlice Tanner is working at an excavation in France when she finds something. However, the broadcast version only runs for three hours. The running time was originally announced, and is still stated on the official website, as being "four hours". in May 2014, and was set to air in Austria and Germany early 2013.
The series aired in Canada, Korea, Poland and Portugal in autumn 2012, in Sweden in December 2012, the UK in March 2013, the U.S. The executive producers were Tim Halkin, Liza Marshall, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Rola Bauer, Jonas Bauer, and Hodges. Adrian Hodges adapted the novel for the series, which was directed by Christopher Smith.Ī German-South African co-production, the two-part series was filmed on location in the medieval town of Carcassonne in southwest France and Cape Town, South Africa. Other cast members include Katie McGrath, Tom Felton, Sebastian Stan, Emun Elliott, Tony Curran, and John Hurt. The setting jumps between modern and medieval France and follows two women (played by Vanessa Kirby and Jessica Brown Findlay) who are searching for the Holy Grail. Labyrinth is a historical television miniseries based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Kate Mosse.