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EXCLUSIVE: ITV and ZDF‘s abstraction enigma First Woman has rounded retired its main cast.
Ben Miles (Andor, The Crown), Jimmy Akingbola (Bel-Air, The Tower), Katheryn Gallagher (Woman of nan Hour, You), Christian Ochoa Lavernia (In nan Grey, Neuromancer), Shazad Latif (Wuthering Heights, Nautilus) and Fra Fee (Unchosen, Losy Boys and Fairies) person been joined nan play series.
They’ll subordinate leads Andrea Riseborough and Ashley Walters, and Jennifer Elhe and Alex Hassell, who were announced past week. Philip Martin is nan director.
The series, from Lydia Yeoman and George Oakes, follows Claire Reith (Riseborough), a biologist successful a groundbreaking investigation task and nan first female to group ft connected nan moon, who disappears, throwing suspicion connected her chap astronauts and a rival Chinese base. Thousands of miles distant connected Earth, her husband, Ben (Walters), searches for nan truth. The action switches betwixt Mission Control and nan lunar aboveground arsenic nan title against clip builds.
Akingbola plays astronaut Dr Henry Evans, successful complaint of nan atomic reactor that sustains life connected nan moon, while Fee plays astronaut Dr Declan McAllister, whose bullish demeanor puts him astatine loggerheads pinch Claire. Gallagher erstwhile NASA astronaut Lucy Miller, now moving successful Mission Control and Ochoa Lavernia plays Gabriel Ross, commandant of nan satellite mission. Latif plays Inesh Vidhani, nan billionaire who is down nan abstraction programme and Miles plays ngo head Peter Talbot, a erstwhile astronaut now moving Mission Control.
First Woman, which is being billed arsenic cinematic successful standard and ambition, was an ITV committee retired of nan UK. ITV Studios-owned Mammoth Screen, Blade Runner 2099 firm Alcon Television Group and ZDF in Germany are attached to co-produce nan six-part lunar series, which will dart betwixt abstraction and Earth, blending sci-fi and thriller elements. Alcon Television Group and ITV Studios, pinch nan the second taking world income rights.
The scripts travel from lead writer Yeoman, Oakes and Ben Schiffer and Julia Stannard is nan producer. Mammoth Screen’s laminitis and Chief Creative Officer, Damien Timmer, is executive shaper alongside James Gandhi, Martin, Oakes and Yeoman. Mammoth Screen’s Creative Director, Rebecca Keane, oversaw improvement of nan series. Alcon’s Broderick Johnson, Andrew Kosove, Scott Parish, Diego Piasek and Ben Roberts besides service arsenic executive producers.
Filming is underway successful Northern Ireland. UNIT VFX is moving pinch Mammoth Screen and Alcon delivering creative ocular effects, while Poli Productions imaginative exec Rob Carlisle is teaming pinch Martin and accumulation designer Gillian Devenney to create nan lunar vistas. The lunar scenery and moonbase are being housed astatine Studio Ulster, nan UK’s largest virtual accumulation studio.
The bid will broadcast successful nan UK connected ITV1 and Scotland’s STV, and watercourse connected ITVX and STV Player, pinch ITV Director of Drama Polly Hill overseeing accumulation for nan network. ZDF has German rights, pinch Yi Qiao nan commissioning editor.
