Producer Kassar to shoot Ottoman Sultan TV series
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Mario Kassar, the American producer of several Hollywood blockbusters such as, Basic Instinct, Robocop and Terminator, will shoot a TV series set in the Ottoman Sultan Kanuni (Suleyman the Magnificent) era.
Kassar plans to shoot the mini series in collaboration with Turkish state-run broadcast corporation TRT at film studios in the Mediterranean province
of Antalya where he met the mayor, Menderes Turel, the officials of the Antalya municipality said in a statement on Tuesday.
The Hollywood producer and TRT officials signed a preliminary agreement on the co-production, the statement said.
Kassar also toured the film studios in Antalya and said that this resort city was a good place for a film production with its climate, nature, history and accommodation options, it said.
Kassar was discussing the story with several foreign scriptwriters, while TRT officials were working on the film with historians.
Kassar would shoot the film early next year, the statement added.