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A sweeping tale of good, evil, violence and beauty set against the backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles, the story has been blown out into a must-see miniseries event, premiering July 23 on STARZ. So when it came time to rebuild Kingsbridge Cathedral onscreen, a feature-length film simply wouldn't do.
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"It's becoming a cult," he says on his website. Book clubs everywhere-including Oprah's-have devoured the epic with a passion Ken has never before seen. Ken's more than 900-page labor of love hit shelves in 1989 after more than three years of toil and remains his most popular work to this day. Sticks and stones are the stuff great cathedrals are made of, but it wasn't until Ken Follett's novel The Pillars of the Earth that mere words could capture the painstaking detail and extensive personal and financial costs of completing man's masterpiece to God. Go inside the filming of Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth and find out why cast members say they'll never look at the world around them the same again. One of Oprah's Book Club's most popular selections is coming to life in an eight-hour television miniseries extravaganza, premiering July 23 on STARZ.