Stoppard's 'Parade's End' marches to Mipcom

LONDON -- British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard will be launching his new high-end period saga "Parade's End" at the Mipcom sales mart in Cannes Oct 4.The five-part skein, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall, is being distributed by BBC Worldwide.Stoppard has adapted the series, set in the closing years of Edwardian England when the trauma of World War I changed British society forever, from a quartet of novels written by Ford Madox Ford. "Parade's End" is being made by the BBC, HBO and Lookout Point. The helmer is Susanna White, whose credits include the BBC's most recent version of "Bleak House" and HBO's "Generation Kill." Accompanying Stoppard in Cannes will be David Parfitt, who is producing "Parade's End," seen by some observers as the BBC's answer to ITV's hugely successful "Downton Abbey," also set in Edwardian England. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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