VIDEO: Coming Summer 2015 Spike TV Brings Us 'Tut,' the 3-Night Mini-Series About King Tutankhamun

Spike TV is taking on their biggest and most ambitious project in its history by bringing us the story of King Tutankhamun. The project titled, Tut is coming this summer and stars Sir Ben Kingsley and Avan Jogia.

Spike TV‘s Tut, coming summer 2015, began production in the fall of 2014 in Morocco. Tut is the biggest and most ambitious project to date for Spike TV and reveals for the first time on television, the story of the youngest ruling Pharaoh, King Tutankhamun (Avan Jogia). Leading the helm of this stellar cast is Academy Award Winner Sir Ben Kingsley. Sir Kingsley portrays Ay, the Grand Vizier to King Tutankhamun. Ay, the top adviser to the young Egyptian ruler wields great influence and is the true power behind King Tutankhamun. Joining Sir Kingsley is rising star Avan Jogia (Twisted, Ten Thousand Saints). Jogia, one of Hollywood’s emerging young actors, will play the young Egyptian rule, King Tutankhamun.

The below teaser, for the upcoming 3-night event series Tut, begins with Sir Kingsley providing advice as Ay to King Tutankhamun, along with Ankhe (Sibylla Deen) letting Suhad (Kylie Bunbury), Tutankhamun lover, know that Tutankhamun may love Suhad, but she is his Queen. Closing with Ay’s words of wisdom stating, “Fate is not what you are given, it is what you take!”

Tut tells to the story of Tut’s rise to power and his struggle to lead Egypt to glory, while his closest advisors, friends and lovers scheme for their own nefarious interests. Tut opens up a fascinating window into a world filled with heart-breaking romance, epic battles, political backstabbing, conspiracy, jealousy, and murder – proving his world was not far removed from our own – and that his reign as the youngest Egyptian king played out as a real-life drama for the ages. (via Spike TV)

The 3-night series, Tut also stars Nonso Anozie as General Horemheb, Alexander Siddig as Amun, Peter Gadiot as Ka, and Iddo Goldberg as Lagus. This epic mini-series appears that it will be a true highlight to our summer TV viewing. Keep tuned to We So Nerdy for all the details regarding Tut and follow the social media accounts for Spike TV listed below.