Titanic: Blood and Steel

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How the legend came into being...

12 X 1 HOUR EPIC DRAMA SERIES

TITANIC: BLOOD & STEEL AN EPIC NEW DRAMA SERIES

From the team behind projects

12 x 1 hour series

such as Camelot, The Tudors,  Vanity Fair, Hannibal, Wire in the Blood, and Julius Ceasar.

Written by Mathew Faulk & Mark Skeet,  Alan Whiting, Steano Voltaggio and Francesca Brill. Produced by De Angelis Group, Take 5 Productions, Epos Films. In production: Summer 2011

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CIARAN DONNELLY SHOWRUNNER & DIRECTOR

TITANIC SERIES DIRECTOR, SHOW RUNNER AND CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER 12 X 1 HOUR SERIES

CAMELOT

STARDUST

Series Lead Director, rst two

Single lm or RTE about the inamous

episodes or World 2000/GK Films/ 

Dublin nightclub re.

CBC and Starz Prod.

Winner o our IFTA IFTA awards (2007)

Starring Eva Green, Joseph Fiennes

including Best Single Drama.

and James Pureoy. Pureoy.

PROOF

THE TUDORS

Four-part serial or Subotica

13 episodes across our seasons or

Entertainment /RTE.

Showtime, CBC, BBC.

SPOOKS

INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY Four x 90 minute lms or Company Blood & Steel

Pictures/BBC. Written by Peter Flannery and starring Martin Shaw.

Two episodes or Kudos/BBC Winner, Drama Series, RTS Awards (2003).

COLD FEET Final two episodes (including Australian special) o the acclaimed Granada comedy-drama, starring James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale. Winner Best Drama Series, BAFTA BAFTA Television Awards 2002.

WRITING TEAM HEADED BY CIARAN DONNELLY Showrunner/Director

MARK SKEET & MATTHEW FAULK

ALAN WHITING

+ Hannibal

+ Kingdom

+ Vanity Fair

+ Wire in the blood

+ Morlang

+ The Scarlet Pimpernel

+ The Innite Worlds o H.G. Wells + Jason and the Argonauts

with FRANCESCA BRILL and STEFANO VOLTAGGIO

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TOM CONROY PRODUCTION DESIGN

PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Tom Conroy designed all our seasons

Tom has designed many lms or both

o The Tudors Tudors and the rst rst series o

cinema and television, including East

Camelot. He won an Emmy Award or

is East, Intermission, Rory O’Shea was

the design o The Tudors in 2010 and

Here, The Roman Spring o Mrs Stone,

has been twice previously nominated.

Breakast on Pluto and West is West.

He has also won 3 Gemini Awards and has been nominated two times or an Art Directors Guild Award.

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THE STORYLINE

TITANIC : BLOOD & STEEL is the passionately told story o how the legendary ship came into being. The series portrays the epic process o building the great ship rom the ground up and the people who gave lie to its creation. It ends when the ship begins its journey, taking with it the souls o our story.

and depicts how the greatest leviathan o all time was hand made in a city on the edge o revolution. The reality o the ship’s ship’s making is perhaps more proound and compelling than its demise. Titanic is a ship created by the fawed human condition.

THE TITANIC ERA The Titanic was built in Belast between

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The series strips away the pop culture

the years 1907 and 1912 at the largest

romance that surrounds the “ship

shipyard in the world, Ha rland & Wol.

o dreams” and presents the reality

This was the heyday o steam travel, an

o its making and the harsh world

era o complacency and leisurely

that spawned Titanic. Through our

comort; o sharp social distinctions and

characters we are at the very heart

smug sel-suciency. sel-suciency. It was also an

o the construction o the ship and

era where Mankind was deluded by the

the society that built her. her.

notion that Nature was at last his slave. That era died with the Titanic.

The story crosses all human acets o the turbulent society in which the ship was built - Edwardian Belast in 1907 -

POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND

THE STORYLINE

It was not until 1928 that women in the UK received equal voting rights to men.  As in most highly industrialized cities,

Belast 1907 was the largest and most

conditions or workers in Belast were

industrialized city in Ireland. It was

slavish, Dickensian, cruel and dangerous.

also a city on the edge o revolution.

There was a wave o worker socialist

Catholics and Protestants had

and women’s surage activity sweeping

long battled on the streets over the

across Europe, uniting the worker against

union with the British Crown and

the capitalist industrialist, whilst women

government. The divisions were

sought equal status with men.

religious and economic as well as political. Catholics had ewer rights,

The combination o these social

lower pay, less work and poorer

movements created an exceptionally

quality housing. It was simply not

tense society and orm the circumstances

possible to be employed at

in which the Titanic was built.

management level i you were a Blood & Steel

Catholic, regardless o education and experience. Women were an almost enslaved section o society. The lot o the working class woman was disgraceully poor. Many died in their mid-thirties o malnutrition.

MARK MUIR CORE CHARACTERS

[Fictional]

Mark Muir is our central character in

potentially atal faws in the quality o

the series. When we meet him he’s

metal being used to build the ship which

very much the cultured English man

will carry our thousand passengers.

in New York, blazing a trail through

This story line sees him battle with

society with looks, wit and acumen. In

his superiors at the yard - Lord Pirrie,

1907 he is the equivalent o the young

Thomas Andrews and owner JP Morgan.

ree and single jetsetter. jetsetter.

Mark still has a pure heart when it comes to lie and building ships and

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But Mark is a product o two very

seeks the ideal in all things. He has

dierent worlds which will clash

yet to learn about the fawed nature o

violently as his story evolves. He will

humanity and its creations. His greatest

discover that his successul lie is

proessional issue is accepting that

based on the sins and sacrices o his

prot trumps risk. In lie, it is accepting

ather in the past.

that humanity is fawed.

He is installed as the metallurgist on the world’s world’s greatest shipbuilding project, Titanic, but discovers

JP MORGAN CORE CHARACTERS

[Historical]

In 1902, J. P. Morgan & Co. nanced

year beore Morgan’s death, was

the ormation o International

a nancial disaster or IMM, which

Mercantile Marine Company, an

was orced to apply or bankruptcy

 Atlantic shipping combine which

protection in 1915.

absorbed several major American

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and British lines. IMM was a holding

Morgan eatures through the story at key

company that controlled subsidiary

points o the ship’s ship’s gestation: rom the

corporations that had their own

laying o the keel to the launching o the

operating subsidiaries. One o IMM’s IMM’s

hull. He is merciless in his scheduling

subsidiaries was the White Star Line,

demands and his budgetary constraints.

which owned the RMS Titanic. The

He presents an imposing and historic

ship’s ship’s amous sinking in 1912, the

gure in the series.

LORD WILLIAM PIRRIE CORE CHARACTERS

[Historical]

William is 60 years old and he is the

This is certainly true in the construction

genius behind Titanic’s conception.

o Titanic. He is also put under great

 A large, bearded man, a ormer

pressure by Titanic’s owner, J.P. Morgan.

mayor o the city, a knight and peer

Pirrie is orced into an unpleasant

o the realm by his own merit, he

balancing act between the needs

possesses immense energy, energy, intellect

o the shipyard or which he is

and achievement. But one o Pirrie’s Pirrie’s

responsible, and his own worries about

most engaging characteristics is that

the project.

although o the Establishment and social elite, he is a man who knows

William is also a man who believes in the

his own mind.

cause o Irish Home Rule, putting him in opposition to the vast majority o his

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I he has a ault, it is that he becomes

14,000 strong workorce. Belast politics

too passionate about his projects, and

and the struggle to build the world’s world’s

is swept along by the momentum

greatest ship breaks the man’s man’s spirit.

o his own enthusiasm. Like many

He is almost run out o Belast by the

idealists, he is not always practical

very people he employs.

and sees what he wants to see.

SOFIA SILVESTRI CORE CHARACTERS

[Fictional]

Soa is the emale lead. Soa is a

She is drawn to Mark’s wider breadth o

woman looking or sel determination,

vision, his intelligence and his attractive

and release rom denition by men.

seriousness. Mark and Soa nd

The eldest daughter in a amily o

themselves at proound turning points in

Italian immigrants, Soa is highly

their lives. Their relationship is complex

intelligent and attractive.

and emotional, never truly blossoming

She has done well, working as a

into the cliché o young abandoned love.

“copyist” in the Harland & Wol

 Any innocence they may harbor is

oces – a skilled draughtsman who

crushed by sectarian Belast, the

copies plans and blueprints or the

tsunami o the workers rights movement

designers.

and the fawed creation o building what should be a ship o dreams.

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Soa is a pioneer or a new century in which intelligent young women strove or the ulllment o their own destinies.

MARK MUIR

CASTING THOUGHTS Kevin Zegers

Taylor Kitsch Kit sch

Michael Huisman

+ Gossip Girl

+ Friday Night Lights

+ Black Book

+ Frozen

+ Snakes on a Plane

+ The Young Victoria

+ Transamerica

+ X-Men

LORD WILLIAM PIRRIE

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SILVIA SILVESTRI

ABOUT TO BE CONFIRMED

CONFIRMED

Martin Sheen

Tom Wilkinson Wilki nson

Alessandra Mastronardi Mastronardi

+ West Wing

+ Shakespeare In Love

+ La bestia nel cuore

+ Apocalypse Now

+ Michael Clayton

+ Romanzo Criminale

+ The Departed

+ In the Bedroom

+ AmeriQua

JP MORGAN

CASTING THOUGHTS Ciaran Hinds

Brian Cox 

Ed Harris

+ Munich

+ Troy

+ A Beautiul Mind

+ Road to Perdition

+ The Bourne Identity

+ The Abyss

+ There Will Be Blood

+ Braveheart

+ A History o Violence

THOMAS ANDREWS

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Will Kemp

Richard Coyle

Tobias Menzies Men zies

+ Van Helsing

+ Coupling

+ Casion Royale

+ Mind Hunters

+ Lorna Doone

+ The Lowdown

+ Step Up to the Streets

+ Human Trac

+ Persuasion

DAP ITALY Srl was created in 2000 by Guido De Angelis and Maurizio De

DE ANGELIS GROUP

 Angelis. Currently, DAP ITALY is one o the leading audiovisual production companies in Europe, with established expertise in editorial development, international unding and co-production, post-production, and product placement. Its success has been denitively established by productions such as “Aurelio Zen”, “Julius Caesar”, “The Magnicent Ambersons”, “Benedict  Arnold – A question o Honor” and “Elisa di Rivombrosa”, which gained a 42% share on Canale 5 (Mediaset)

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and was successully sold worldwide.

GUIDO DE ANGELIS President  As an acclaimed ac claimed music composer, he has composed soundtracks or more than 350 lms. As an executive producer, producer, he has produced over 600 hours o prime time television series in Europe. Amongst these, major titles include “Julius Caesar” (TNT), “The Magnicent Ambersons” (A&E), “Benedict Arnold – A question o Honor” (A&E). He is currently the executive producer o “Titanic – Blood and Steel”.

DE ANGELIS GROUP

ANSELMO PARRINELLO

ANDREA ZOSO

NICOLA DE ANGELIS

Producer

Managing Director

Head of Development and International International Co-Productions

 Anselmo Parrinello has been in the movie

 Andrea Zoso has extensive

industry since 1970. He has worked as

international business development

Nicola De Angelis is the Head o

Line Producer and Executive Producer on

and nance experience in the lm

Development and VP o International

projects such as “The Curse”, “Hurricane”,

industry. industry. He currently serves as the

Co-productions or De Angelis

“Bribe o Violence”, “Tai “Tai Pan”, “Almost

Managing Director o De Angelis

Group.

 America”, “Pope John Paul II” and many

Group.

He is actively seeking new partners

more.

and projects or co-production rom the US and abroad.

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THE PRODUCERS

Justin Thomson-Glover, Artists Studio PRODUCER Pascal Breton, Marathon Group PRODUCER Fabrizio Del Noce, RAI CO-PRODUCER  Antena 3 CO-PRODUCER INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION BY ZODIAK RIGHTS

JOHN WEBER

PAUL MYLER

Take 5 Productions Executive Producer

EPOS Films Executive Producer

Toronto-based Take 5 Productions was

EPOS Films is a Dublin based

ounded in 2009 to nance and produce

production company established in

high-quality international television, and

2007. The company is headed up by

quickly established itsel as an industry

Paul Myler who has extensive industry

leader. leader. The company co mpany completed and

experience covering a period o 25

delivered the nal season o the award

years o productions that include, Far

winning series ‘The Tudors’. Building

and Away, In The Name O The Father,

on the success o ‘The Tudors’, Take 5

In America and a nd Bloody Sunday. The

successully co-produced and delivered

Company has access to provide unding

the rst season o ‘The Borgias’ or

under the Irish Tax Incentive Program.

Showtime Networks and a nd CTV, CTV, ollowed by the delivery o the rst season o ‘Camelot’ or Starz Entertainment, G-K Films and CBC in Canada. Blood & Steel

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