Strike Back Origins Starring Richard Armitage as John Porter Begins Showing in the U.S., October 19, 2013 Gratiana Lovelace (Post #459)

Yayyyyy!  “Strike Back Origin”–a six part miniseries originally titled Chris Ryan’s Strike Back that aired on Sky1 in 2010–with British actor Richard Armitage starring as SAS Agent John Porter [center, image right] is finally showing in the U.S.

RANet has more info about the “Strike Back Origins’” broadcast and links in their October 19^th News post for today–with interview caps noted to follow tomorrow.

Update!  The You  Tube video promo below shows Richard Armitage graciously promoting this six part series (thanks to M.I. Rogers of It’s an RA World for the link):

Original video with other info is found at:
http://www.cinemax.com/strike-back-origins/video/?bctid=2753236148001

Why was Richard Armitage gracious in the video interview?  Because as you saw in the video above, SB series director Daniel Percival does a copious amount of attempting to link Strike Back Origins–touted as a prequel, when Armitage’s SB was the original series adapted from Chris Ryan’s book Strike Back–to the subsequently U.S. made Cinemax versions of the series that were much more violent (needlessly so), and prurient.

But still, knowing a good thing in having Strike Back Origins’ Richard Armitage now starring as Thorin Oakenshield in the  wildly successfully The Hobbit Trilogy of films –and costar Andrew Lincoln starring in The Walking Dead–marketers for the whole Strike Back series are working in overdrive to gain a larger share of the U.S. audience.  So SAS Agent John Porter complexly portrayed by Richard Armitage will finally have his U.S. debut. [image below] It’s about time!

Here is a link to one of my earliest Richard Armitage career posts, “Strike Back’s John Porter:  Man of Honor”.  And here is a link to a later John Porter essay of mine, “Strike Back Saturday:  Richard Armitage ‘Fakes It’ Authentically while Portraying John Porter.”

P.S. And great thanks to M.I. Rogers who pointed me to her Its an RA World post with the original link to the Cinemax site for :Strike Back Origins” promo interview with Richard Armitage.  Snap!