Sonar Entertainment and Ecosse Films ("Camelot") will team up for a $30 million, 10-part action-adventure TV series based on author H. Rider Haggard's 'Allan Quatermain' novels.
The adaptations will be scripted by Richard Kurti and Bez Doyle.
Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel "King Solomon's Mines" and its various prequels and sequels, characterized as an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader in southern Africa, who supports colonial efforts to spread civilization in the 'Dark Continent', though he also favours native Africans' having a say in their affairs.
Quatermain is an imperial outdoorsman who finds English cities and climate unbearable. He prefers to spend most of his life in Africa, where he grew up under the care of his widower father, a Christian missionary. Native Africans refer to Quatermain as 'Macumazahn' ("Watcher-by-Night") a reference to his nocturnal habits and 'keen instincts'.
Quatermain is frequently accompanied by his native servant, the Hottentot 'Hans', a wise and caring family retainer from his youth.
The book series spans 50 years of Quatermain's life, from ages 18 to 68 and is considered the public domain 'inspiration' for George Lucas' 'Indiana Jones' character.
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