Giuliano Montaldo

13th century Venetian trader Marco Polo (Ian Somerhalder, Lost) is enlisted to accompany a pair of priests to the court of Kublai Khan (Golden Globe winner Brian Dennehy, Death of a Salesman), Mongol conqueror of the East.

Accompanying two priests to the East to ostensibly convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Venetian trader Marco Polo eventually pushes bravely forth alone toward a fabled heartland. Accepted as an envoy into Khan's court, Marco Polo advances as a Mongol grandee where for twenty extraordinary years he is marooned on the far side of the world. What he eventually brings back with him to the West is a chronicle that changed history.