Ouch. It looks like “action-adventure” series Hieroglyph has had its plugged pulled before its even had a chance to switch on with The Hollywood Reporter bringing the news that the show has been cancelled after filming just one episode.
According to the website, problems started to show after the first episode was completed with writers “breaking scripts and stories” which then weren’t meeting the creative level for the rest of the season. 12 more episodes were planned to film later this year with a launch date of early 2015, but it looks like this one is all wrapped up.
Hieroglyph was being written by Pacific Rim‘s Travis Beacham.
When a dangerous scroll, The Book of Thresholds, is stolen from Egypt’s most secure vault, master thief AMBROSE (Max Brown, Beauty and the Beast, MI-5) is plucked from prison to track down the perpetrator. Having spent the past five years in the darkest of pits, Ambrose quickly learns that his prison cell might be safer than the dangerous new world in which he finds himself: Atum, the empire’s capital.
Reece Ritchie (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time), Condola Rashad (Smash), John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings), Caroline Ford (Lake Placid: The Final Chapter), Antony Bunsee (Sex and the City 2) and Kelsey Chow (One Tree Hill) were set to star.
Check out the trailer below.
Originally published July 1, 2014. Updated April 12, 2018.
