Stephen Fry will produce and star in a new TV adaptation of Ian Rankin's novel Doors Open due to be filmed in Edinburgh later this month.

Rankin's 2008 novel will provide the plot for a two-hour ITV drama starring Fry and Scottish actor Douglas Henshall. Filming will begin in the capital on 23 April 2012 for five weeks.

Producers were keen to use the Granton Centre of Art, the National Galleries' official collections centre on Edinburgh's waterfront, but were refused permission after fears that the film would cause security problems in revealing how to carry out the raid.

The story follows a banker, a professor of art and a computer millionaire who dream up a plan to replace priceless artworks with fakes. They use the cover of the warehouse's now defunct 'Open Doors Day' to put their plan into action.

Henshall will play Mike Mackenzie, the businessman who thinks up the plan while Fry takes the role of art expert Professor Gissing. The script is being developed by writers James Mavor and Sandi Toksvig. Rankin says he's happy that the book is going to be filmed and that the adaptation will do his novel justice.

"It's all thanks to Mr Fry," he said. "I think it will make great TV and I have no concerns about the project. The script is by a mate of mine, James Mavor, who lives in Edinburgh so it should be authentic."

After the project was announced Rankin tweeted Fry, offering to take him to Oxford Bar in Edinburgh when he's filming, the favourite haunt of Rankin's famous detective Rebus.

Fry revealed he became interested in the project after picking up Rankin's novel in an airport and getting hooked. The Scotsman reported that Fry said, "I adored the character of Professor Gissing and a shamefully vain part of me refused to see anyone else in the role."

滬江娛樂快訊：在之前熱映的電影《大偵探福爾摩斯2：詭影游戲》中出演英國(guó)演藝圈的“國(guó)寶”斯蒂芬·弗雷(Stephen Fry)將開發(fā)并主演一部新電視系列劇，改編自Ian Rankin的小說《芝麻開門》(Doors Open)，該劇將于本月晚些時(shí)候在愛丁堡開拍。

《芝麻開門》是Rankin2008年的小說，ITV將會(huì)制作一集兩小時(shí)的導(dǎo)航集，由"油炸叔"斯蒂芬·弗雷和蘇格蘭演員道格拉斯·韓歇爾(Douglas Henshall)主演，將于4月23日開機(jī)，持續(xù)拍攝5周。

這是一個(gè)設(shè)定很有趣的故事：一名銀行家，一名藝術(shù)教授和一個(gè)技術(shù)宅百萬富翁，三人夢(mèng)想計(jì)劃著將無價(jià)的藝術(shù)品用假貨掉包。他們將利用蘇格蘭的“Doors Open Day'”計(jì)劃(一個(gè)游覽蘇格蘭成千上萬魅力十足建筑內(nèi)部的企劃)，將他們的夢(mèng)想付諸現(xiàn)實(shí)。

道格拉斯·韓歇爾的角色名叫Mike Mackenzie，他將飾演銀行家，而“油炸叔”則是藝術(shù)教授Professor Gissing再適合不過的人選。劇本由James Mavor和Sandi Toksvig撰寫，小說作家Rankin非常高興自己的書能夠從文字轉(zhuǎn)換為圖像：“十分感謝弗雷先生，”他說，“我想它會(huì)是一部好句，我一點(diǎn)都不擔(dān)心這個(gè)計(jì)劃。是我的哥們兒James Mavor做的劇本改編，他就住在愛丁堡，所以整個(gè)故事會(huì)非常真實(shí)?！?/p>

這部劇聽起來有點(diǎn)像《飛天大盜》(Hustle)和《都市俠盜》(Leverage)，不知“油炸叔”的《芝麻開門》會(huì)帶來怎樣的新意。