'Beowulf' comes to British TV
鈥淏eowulf鈥� will soon be coming to TV screens.
According to the , British network ITV will be adapting the epic poem for television. It will air in 13 parts.
The show will have 鈥渆pic fights, thrilling chases, raids, celebrations and battles,鈥� said the network.
鈥淏eowulf鈥� was adapted as a movie starring Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie in 2007, but the film was not well-received critically overall 鈥� it currently holds a score of 59 out of 100 on the review aggregator website . Monitor film critic Peter Rainer gave the movie a B and wrote that 鈥溾��Beowulf鈥� seems designed for all those audiences who would rather not dip into Old English. Zemeckis has converted the epic poem about the warrior who slays the monster Grendel into a species of computer game.鈥�
The work also recently came to the attention of the public again when it was announced this past spring that a translation by 鈥�Lord of the Rings鈥� writer J.R.R. Tolkien was being published.聽
