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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 10 APRIL 2022 6 CULTURE Avengers star Frank Grillo says experience filming in Malta was 'exceptional' Grillo is set to star in action movie Hounds of War MARVEL'S Avengers star Frank Grillo has described his experi- ence filming in Malta as "excep- tional". "The locations have been amazing, it's something I have not seen before," he said. "The people have been amazing." Grillo is set to star as 'Ryder' in action movie Hounds of War for Dean Devlin's Electric En- tertainment. He has featured in a number of blockbuster movies includ- ing Avengers, Captain America: Winter Soldier and Civil War, as well as The Purge. The movie will follow a group of mercenaries who take on jobs that are considered impossible. After a mission goes wrong due to a shocking betrayal, only one of them is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers. Lowell Dean will direct from Jean Pierre Ma- gro's script. Interviewed on Wednes- day, Grillo said the highlights for him have been the people. "They are talented, kind and smart." He also praised the island's unique locations, saying they had something he had never seen before. "I love getting up every day and going to these different places." "I love the antiquity, the histo- ry, and astatically it is amazing," Grillo said. Frank Grillo, has featured in a number of blockbuster movies including Avengers, Captain America: Winter Soldier and Civil War, as well as The Purge. 'Ir-Rumanz tal-Fieres Safran' is Alfred Sant's latest novel ALFRED Sant's latest novel "Ir-Rumanz tal-Fieres Safran" ("The Tale of the Yel- low Knight") has just been published un- der the -- Quinque – label. It tells the story of how the fabled Knights of the Round Table, the chivalric societ y estab- lished in the land of Gaul by Camelot's King Arthur collapsed. Arthur sent his knights in a doomed quest for the Holy Grail, in which Christ's blood had been gathered by Joseph of Ari- mathea. However the magician Merlin, who is the power behind Arthur's throne, sends out Markald, the Yellow Knight, to find instead the sacred platter on which the Holy Grail had rested, and which has retained the stains of Christ's blood. Markald journeys across a Europe caught in anarchy and disorder, following the fall of the Roman Empire. His travels take him far away from Gaul to the central Mediterranean and the is- lands of Melite and Gaulos. There, to acquire the sacred platter he must face off Kalebs, the princess and a witch, who lives eternally exiled in a cave. The novel features memorable char- acters such as Guinever, King Arthur's wife, Kelment the merchant of the city of Neapel who becomes the leader of its resistance against maurauding Arab and Viking pirates and his wife Tilde, and Di- onisio the bishop of Gaulos, who dabbles in witchcraft. Sant denies that his novel is a historical fantasy or an allegory. He claims that it is an adventure story much of which is based on what we all believe in and hold to be true. Some readers might disagree, even when they are intrigued by the story which does show a clash between evil and prudence, ambition and resignation. "The Tale of the Yellow Knight" is on sale at leading bookstores and from the quinque website (www.quinque.mt). Alfred Sant