{"id":10186,"date":"2019-09-28T18:15:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T01:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10186"},"modified":"2019-09-29T18:18:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T01:18:18","slug":"charlie-hunnam-leads-shantaram-for-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/28\/charlie-hunnam-leads-shantaram-for-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Hunnam Leads &#8216;Shantaram&#8217; for Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/09\/charlie-hunnam-cast-leas-shantaram-apple-series-based-on-book-star-gregory-david-roberts-1202734315\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from DEADLINE (opens in a new tab)\">from DEADLINE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Charlie Hunnam To Headline \u2018Shantaram\u2019, Apple Series Based On\u00a0Novel<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/nellie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Nellie Andreeva<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/09\/hunnam-copy.jpg?crop=0px%2C229px%2C3603px%2C2019px&amp;resize=681%2C383\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>photo: Brian Bowen Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: Former<em>\u00a0Sons of Anarchy<\/em>\u00a0star\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/charlie-hunnam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Charlie Hunnam<\/a>\u00a0is returning to television as the lead of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/apple\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>\u2019s sweeping international drama<em>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/shantaram\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shantaram<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0which has been greenlighted to series by the streamer, I have learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/06\/shantaram-apple-tv-series-adaptation-development-eric-warren-singer-1202405518\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">landed the projec<\/a>t, based on Gregory David Roberts\u2019 best-selling novel, more than a year ago in a competitive situation to develop for straight-to-series consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Shantaram<\/em>\u00a0hails from Anonymous Content and Paramount Television, which in early 2018\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/01\/shantaram-tv-series-deal-gregory-david-roberts-anonymous-content-paramount-tv-1202240348\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">won a monthlong bidding war<\/a>\u00a0for the rights to Roberts\u2019 2004 novel set in Australia and India that explores love, forgiveness, courage and redemption, as well as for Robert\u2019s sequel novel,\u00a0<em>The Mountain Shadow.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written by Eric Warren Singer (<em>American Hustle<\/em>),\u00a0<em>Shantaram<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of Lin (Hunnam), a man on the run from an Australian prison looking to get lost in the teeming city of Bombay. Cut off from family and friends by distance and fate, he finds a new life in the slums, bars and underworld of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/09\/charlie-hunnam-cast-leas-shantaram-apple-series-based-on-book-star-gregory-david-roberts-1202734315\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at DEADLINE (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at DEADLINE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from DEADLINE Charlie Hunnam To Headline \u2018Shantaram\u2019, Apple Series Based On\u00a0Novel By\u00a0Nellie Andreeva EXCLUSIVE: Former\u00a0Sons of Anarchy\u00a0star\u00a0Charlie Hunnam\u00a0is returning to television as the lead of\u00a0Apple\u2019s sweeping international drama\u00a0Shantaram,\u00a0which has been greenlighted to series by the streamer, I have learned. Apple\u00a0landed the project, based on Gregory David Roberts\u2019 best-selling novel, more than a year ago in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}