Joseph Fiennes and his cousin Sir Ranulph Fiennes are teaming up for a three-part exploration series on Nat Geo. “The Handmaid’s Tale” star and the explorer will take a journey down the Nile River for the documentary series.
“Fiennes: Return to the Nile” will air in 2019, though an exact date is still to be announced. It is produced by Woodcut Media.
The series commemorates the 50th anniversary of the explorer’s 1969 journey down the Nile, one of his earliest expeditions. The three-part series will see the two men crawling through a newly-discovered ancient Egyptian tomb in Minya, get to grips with Tachtib — a traditional fighting technique using four foot sticks — and come face-t- face with dangerous snakes and spiders.