“Army of Shadows,” the upcoming thriller series from BAFTA-winning “MobLand” and “The Day of the Jackal” creator Ronan Bennett and set in a near-future authoritarian Britain, has set its top cast.
Leading the ensemble are BAFTA winner Paddy Considine (“House of The Dragon,” “MobLand”), Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner America Ferrera (“Barbie,” “The Lost Bus”), Alex Hassell (“Rivals,” “Wasteman”) and Kit Harington (“Industry,” “Game of Thrones”). Meanwhile, Lisa Gunning (“Black Doves,” “The Power”) will direct all six episodes.
First announced last year, the series reunites Bennett with U.K. network Channel 4, which commissioned and aired his breakout hit “Top Boy.” It’s being co-produced by Studiocanal (“Playing Nice,” “Families Like Ours”) and Two Cities Television (“Blue Lights,” “Patrick Melrose”) and has now begun filming in Manchester, Liverpool, London and Paris.
“Army of Shadows” is inspired by Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 film and Joseph Kessel’s seminal book of the same name, which famously dramatized the emergence of the French Resistance to the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII. Bennett’s reimagining — developed and produced with the support of the Melville family and the Kessel estate, which is controlled by the Irish Red Cross — examines the rise of resistance in an occupied U.K..
