Figuring out one of many scorching tickets at this 12 months’s London TV Screenings,’ “Gone,” from George Kay, creator or author of “Hijack,” “The Lengthy Shadow” and “Lupin,” has scored bullish pre-sales throughout 4 continents led by a BritBox deal for the U.S. and Canada.
Different pre-sales on the upcoming psychological thriller, starring David Morrissey (“Sherwood”) and Eve Myles (“Preserving Religion”), soak up each high broadcast networks and streaming companies in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe.
Companions embrace Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, and Australian streaming service Stan. SkyNew Zealand has additionally licensed “Gone,” set to air on Three and stream on ThreeNow.
Throughout Asia, A3Media Worldwide has struck a pre-sales cope with BBC Studios’ premium SVOD drama channel, BBC First, alongside its multi-genre SVOD platform, BBC Participant.
The six-part sequence will likely be one of many centerpiece scripted titles at All3Media International‘s London Screenings showcase on Feb. 26.
In “Gone,” sure for ITV and ITVX for a March bow, Morrissey performs the headmaster of an elite English non-public faculty, whose spouse all of the sudden vanishes. Enter Detective Annie Cassidy (Myles) who views Polly because the prime suspect and “Gone” lifts off as a high-stakes cat and mouse psychological drama-thriller between the hard-charging Cassidy and Polly, who hold his personal counsel.
That comes along with his caste and sophistication. Launched mid-Feb, a trailer for “Gone” begins not with Polly however his faculty, which appears to this point again to Tudor occasions, its facade sporting a chic nineteenth century Anglo-Italianate makeover. It goes on to catch Polly addressing college students within the faculty’s principal corridor, its coat of arms behind him. Minimize to Polly’s nation home.
It is a man who’s the voice of the British institution, its ethical arbiter whose ethics are to not be questioned frivolously. Enter Myles Cassidy, caught within the trailer in a barely bigger than regular first close-up, who stares at Polly throughout a police interrogation room desk with an air of not very dissimulated disbelief.
It is a “story about privilege and prejudice,” Kay stated when “Gone” was introduced. “The reality is tantalisingly shut. Or at the least, that’s what Annie thinks,” he teased. Kay’s Observatory Photos, backed by All3Media, produces with New Photos, in affiliation with All3Media Worldwide.
‘Gone’ Eve Myles as Annie, David Morrissey as Michael Copyright New Photos, All3Media Worldwide
Gone Eve Myles as Annie, David Morrissey as Michael Copyright New Photos, All3Media Worldwide
“Mixing psychological thriller with a claustrophobic thriller and layered character drama, George Kay’s newest sequence has resonated strongly with worldwide patrons as is obvious by this spectacular line-up of premium companions at pre-sale stage, together with BritBox,” stated Jennifer Askin, EVP Americas at All3Media Worldwide.
“With its atmospheric setting, a stellar forged led by David Morrissey and Eve Myles and a tightly constructed cat-and-mouse narrative, “Gone” delivers sustained pressure and broad viewers enchantment,” she added. “We look ahead to unveiling additional particulars to patrons at our upcoming upfronts occasion this week.”
“Past the central thriller, ‘Gone’ digs into themes of trauma, belief and the lengthy shadow forged by elite establishments, giving the drama a deeper emotional and social edge alongside its thriller parts,” All3Media Worldwide famous in a press assertion on Wednesday.
Written and created by Kay, “Gone” is directed by BAFTA-winning Richard Laxton (“Mrs Wilson,” “The Thief, His Spouse and the Canoe”). Forged additionally takes in Jennifer Macbeth, Arthur Hughes, Nicholas Nunn, Elliot Cowan, Billy Barratt, Rupert Evans, Jodie McNee, Oscar Batterham and Clare Higgins.
“Gone” is produced by Mark Hedges (“Hanna,” “The Rising”). Kay, Laxton, Willow Grylls (“Des,” “The Lacking”) and Matt Sandford (“The Lengthy Shadow”) function govt producers.
“Gone” is fiction, A3Media Intl. stresses It’s partly impressed, nonetheless, by the e book “To Hunt a Killer” and the real-world work of former Detective Superintendent Julie Mackay and ITV Crime Correspondent Robert Murphy, each of whom labored as consultants on the present.
