“Moulin Rouge” scribe to pen Joan of Arc series

PanARMENIAN.Net - Having worked with director Baz Luhrmann on the likes of Romeo & Juliet, Moulin Rouge and the upcoming adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, The Great Gatsby, screenwriter Craig Pearce will be trying his hand at adapting Kimberly Cutter’s The Maid – but this time for international television audiences, ScreenRant said.

Cutter’s novel – which tells the story of Joan of Arc – will not only grant Pearce the opportunity to see his work spread out across a multi-episode arc (no pun intended), it will also allow him an entirely different time period in which to tell the story.

The Maid is told through the eyes of Jehanne d’Arc, the young French peasant who believed God had sent her to lead an army and save her country during the Hundred Years’ War.