Carice van Houten joins Starz’s Dangerous Liaisons series, and other stuff — winteriscoming.net

How Star Trek is influencing real-life space lawby Michael East Filming starts on the final season of His Dark Materialsby Dan Selcke Game of Thrones veteran Carice van Houten (Melisandre) is gearing up for another period piece in Starz’s upcoming adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 novel about the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two narcissistic ex-lovers who seduce and manipulate each other and members of 18th nobility in order to survive. The story was adapted as the movie Dangerous Liaisons in 1988, starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer; and served as the inspiration for 1999’s Cruel Intensions, with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon. The book gets around.

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