2 months ago
Here’s your first look astatine Kit Harington suited up successful MGM+ & nan BBC’s A Tale Of Two Cities TV adaptation.
The four-part constricted bid is an adjustment of Charles Dickens’ caller and stars Harington (Industry, Game of Thrones) alongside François Civil (Beating Hearts, The Three Musketeers), and Mirren Mack (Miss Austen, Hedda). The series is written by Daniel West (Gunpowder, Top Boy) and directed by Richard Clark (Outlander).
A Tale of Two Cities is produced by Federation Stories, successful co-production pinch Federation Studio France and Thriker Films, for MGM+ and nan BBC. The Executive Producers are Polly Williams and Sarah Best for Federation Stories, Léo Becker for Federation Studio France, Kit Harington and Daniel West for Thriker Films. The show is created and written by West and produced by Simon Meyers (I May Destroy You).
The charismatic synopsis reads: London, 1782. Tensions tally precocious successful nan warfare betwixt France and Britain. A young woman, Lucie Manette (Mirren Mack), has her life upended erstwhile she receives a connection from Paris – her father, assumed dormant for almost 20 years, whitethorn beryllium alive. The messenger – idealistic French emigré, Charles Darnay (François Civil) – is arrested and charged pinch treason.
Lucie enlists nan thief of a superb but erratic young lawyer, Sydney Carton (Kit Harington), to free Darnay successful nan dream that he will lead her to Paris to way down her father. Lucie’s collision pinch Darnay and Carton unleashes a powerful and analyzable emotion triangle. Both men conflict to beryllium worthy of her love, and Lucie is torn complete which 1 to choose. Yet neither man – physically truthful alike, spiritually poles isolated – tin flight nan other. Instead, they find themselves bound together successful life and death, done triumphs, tragedies, marriage, and murder.
The bid will aerial connected MGM+ successful nan U.S. and nan BBC successful nan UK.
