Taking part in historical TV series is full of challenges for the actors and İlhan Şen seems to be the person who will face these challenges in the new season. The developments regarding the series project, which will tell the life of Selahaddin Eyyubi, which has been prepared for a while, accelerated. Selahaddin Eyyubi series, the new project of Akli Film, the producer of the Alparslan Great Seljuk TV series, is expected to last 3 seasons and be broadcast on the bein Connect platform.
İlhan Şen was chosen as the leading actor of this new historical TV series project. The great opportunity given to Barış Arduç with the Alparslan series was given to İlhan Şen with the role of Selahaddin Eyyubi this time. Emre Konuk, who is the producer of both series, has accumulated a great deal of experience with historical TV series recently and continues to produce new series by using this experience with new projects.
İlhan Şen, who had a very successful partnership with Burcu Özberk in the TV series Aşk Mantık İntikam (Love Logic Revenge), played the leading role in the TV series Sevmek Zamanı (Time To Love), which was broadcast on ATV in the summer with Deniz Işın. However, despite being an effective love story and drama, the series called Sevmek Zamanı did not attract enough attention from the audience and made an early finale.
İlhan Şen, on the other hand, started to rest and evaluate the new offers after the finale of this series. It is also a great chance for the actor to have the opportunity to play a historical character such as Selahaddin Eyyubi.
Selahaddin Eyyubi, the founder and first ruler of the Ayyubid State, completed the 88-year Crusade period by retaking Jerusalem with the army he established to take the Holy Land from the Crusaders. Selahaddin Eyyubi, who was born in 1137 and went down in history as the Sultan of Egypt and Syria, died in 1193 at the age of 56.
It was up to İlhan Şen to revive such a historical personality. It is eagerly awaited how the young actor will perform at the point of reviving such a historical personality.
Alparslan, the second sultan of the Great Seljuk Empire, broadcast on TRT1 screens and played by Barış Arduç, was born in 1029 and died in 1072.
We watched that Barış Arduç went through a great training process for the role of Alparslan and made a very important debut with the series prepared for the second season. İlhan Şen will go through a similar training process now. With the story of two powerful sultans, the Turkish TV series industry is also taking important steps in presenting different content to the world.
Emre Konuk, the owner of Akli Film, gained great success with the TV series Uyanış Büyük Selçuklu (Awakening Great Seljuk) and Alparslan Great Seljuk on his new path as a producer after his directorial experiences. Now, a new wave of excitement has emerged with the new series in which the life of Selahaddin Eyyubi will be told. The series is expected to last for 3 seasons and Bein Connect is expected to be the most important TV series project in the new era.
It is expected that Akli Film and a Pakistani production company will carry out this project together. The series, which is expected to reveal an epic story, is planned to be shot on the plateau in Gebze.