Another Sharpe?

Sharpe's Devil takes place in 1820 and would fall in line after Sharpe's Challenge. Let's hope the producers go for it; although most of it occurs in Chile and on the ocean, the producers could use the vessels that were made for the "Hornblower" series. In this adventure Sharpe and Harper travel to South America to look for a lost comrade and along the way they meet with a beaten Napoleon on the island of St. Helena, and the famous naval captain Cochrane who the author Patrick O'Brien based his Jack Aubrey on. Good story.

I'd love, love, love to see more episodes, but highly doubt it will ever happen, although there are Sharpe novels that weren't yet made into the tv series.

Sean Bean is now an internationally known, highly acclaimed actor from
"Lord of the Rings" "National Treasure" "Patriot Games" "Ronin". It took him 22 years to break out of simply being a UK/British star and now he is a Hollywood start.

First and foremost, Sean Bean is a serious artist and because he loved the Richard Sharpe role, and he has always acknowledged it was the Sharpe series that really made his career take off - 14 million viewers worldwide. He was willing to take a serious pay cut and go back to television because he really liked the "Challenge" script. So I don't think he is just another one of those money-grubber Hollywood "sell outs" - he looks for high quality scripts first and foremost.

But I doubt there will be more episodes. I remember seeing a quote from Celtic Picture Palace (the producers of the series) and Tom Clegg - and they both think "Challenge" #15 episode clearly gives an ending to the series. Sean Bean is 47, and I personally feel he still exudes incredible, sex appeal in middle age. He is still a hunk! But Sean Bean has always refused to have his face pumped full of Botox and resisted any form of plastic surgery. This might cause him to be cast not as often in the big Hollywood films - and maybe, maybe we might get lucky and still be seeing more episodes of "Sharpe."

I emailed Picture Palace about the two upcoming films and they said that they will be original scripts set in India.

-Sean

Id love to see sharpes Trafalgar made, but the cost and impossibility of it being made will prevent this.