FOX has ordered 13 episodes of a new fantasy action-adventure series called Hieroglyph from Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans).
The show will be set in ancient Egypt and will follow a thief who’s pulled out of prison to serve the Pharoah. He soon finds himself navigating through palace intrigue, seductive concubines, and coming face-to-face with sorcery.
Beacham wrote the pilot script for Hieroglyph a couple years back and it was almost ordered to pilot during the 2011-2012 development season. Now, the network is skipping the pilot and moving right into a season order. Production is scheduled to begin early next year.
20th Century Fox TV and Chernin Entertainment will produce the series, with Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope and Beacham serving as executive producers.
What do you think? Does this sound like the kind of show you might want to check out? Do you think it has a chance of being a success on a regular network?
@Mason-ETHIOPIANS were black. Egyptians were brown, caramel colored, if you wish to be technical. Also, after the founding of Line of Ptolemy, the ruling family was Macedonian, mixed with Egyptian. Also, Egypt was a melting pot of cultures and religions, for all generalized religion worshiped first the Animal/Human gods, and then moved on to Isis. A history lesson is due I think…
Whitewash
YES! I’ve already put it on my TV Guide watch list. When does it start?
http://www.change.org/petitions/fox-network-cancel-hieroglyphic-television-show
This is just ridiculousness, Egyptians were black not EUROPEAN, or mixed race, they were just black people. I guess in a 100 years Martin Luther King and Michael Jordan will be white.
I guess Martin Luther king, and Michael Jordan will be white in about 100 years, this is just ridiculousness, even the Greeks and Romans said that the Egyptians were black.
I like Kelsey Chow I would watch and give it a chance. Plus I like anything with magic
check out the dollar bill=isn’t that a pyramid with the all seeing eye of the Egyptian god RA at the top looking at you!! Egypt the first civilization=math , writing=monotheism etc. Bring oin this show – it is about time~~
Does not sound promising. Just another soap with actors dressed as ancient Egyptians. That doesn’t cut it anymore.
I’d rather watch a program about the USA from the beginning than Egypt. Just because our country isn’t what it used to be doesn’t make it less interesting.
Heck yes! Love shows and movies like this! right up my alley!!! Can’t wait to watch this! When does it start????