BBC to Make Series based on Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell Trilogy

Mark Rylance to play Thomas Cromwell

In March of this year, the BBC announced that they would be producing a 6-part miniseries based on the first 2 books in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Mark Rylance has been booked to play Thomas Cromwell. I went to Mark Rylance's IMDB page to see if I knew him from anything else, and it looks like the only movies I've seen him in are "Prospero's Books" and "Angels and Insects." The plan is that when the 3rd book of the trilogy is published, to make a stand-alone miniseries of just that book.