Charles will be in the cast of Childhood’s End...and about Retrospective

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Syfy’s ambitious miniseries adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s sci-fi classic Childhood’s End....

The six-hour miniseries follows a breed of aliens called the “Overlords,” who manage to peacefully invade and rule Earth, and create a pseudo-utopia that comes at the price of human identity and culture.

Dance plays Karellen, the ambassador for the Overlords who makes first contact with Earthling Ricky Stormgren (not yet cast). We’re told that “Karellen’s comforting words and amazing technological gifts quickly win humanity’s favor, beginning decades of apparent utopia at the cost of human identity and culture. However, his refusal to reveal his physical appearance and insistence on dealing only through Ricky have some people questioning whether his intentions are truly benevolent

The miniseries will premiere on Syfy next year.

 http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/24/game-of-thrones-charles-dance-syfy/

and from an interview with the director of Retrospective Garrick Hamm

Based on the short-story by Kevin Wignall, Retrospective is a twenty-minute short-film due out this December. We recently met with director Garrick Hamm to discuss style and substance that brought it to screen.
 ...So when we came to do Retrospective, I wanted to take the same strategy. We had a couple of people in mind and Charles Dance was on top of the list. I was lucky enough that my producer knew him, and had worked on a film with him before. So we found out where he was on location shooting Game Of Thrones, so we sent him a script. After hearing nothing for over two weeks, apart from a text message saying I am not so sure. So we were like 'oh dear, this isn't very good...' - but then he sent back a charming letter saying that he would like to do it, but he would like to work with you on it. So he spent a lot of time with the dialogue and helping with his input. Once you got your main actor, the rest sort of follow in. So Emelia, I knew who luckily would carry on with this film as well. Charles brought Vincent [Regan], so bringing the hard-man with him as it were.
had seen Charles in lots of his films, I had particularly liked him in Aliens - which is one of my absolute favourites with him, and Thrones, I think he is amazing in that at the moment.
Retrospective will be available via Shorts TV and iTunes in December:
http://cinemachords.com/short-mission-retrospective/

about The inn at the edge of the world
http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2014/05/about-production.html
and
about Thursdays in the park
http://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.fr/2013/03/little-new-about-thursdays-in-park.html