Rafe Spall (The English, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) will star reverse Kelly Reilly in Sky‘s upcoming crime thriller collection Below Salt Marsh. Additionally becoming a member of the solid are Jonathan Pryce (The Crown, Gradual Horses), Naomi Yang (Nightsleeper, Wolfe) and Harry Lawtey (Business, Joker Folie à Deux).
Within the six-part drama, Spall will play a detective who returns to the fictional Welsh city of Morfa Halen to steer an investigation into the demise of a kid, in a group he had failed beforehand.
The collection is ready in a tight-knit group precariously nestled between towering mountains and a fast-encroaching sea that threatens its very existence. Per the synopsis: “As a once-in-a-generation storm begins to assemble far out at sea, former detective-turned-teacher Jackie Ellis [Reilly] discovers the physique of her eight-year-old pupil, Cefin, seemingly drowned. The invention sends shockwaves via the group, reviving the ghost of an unsolved chilly case that rocked the city three years prior — the disappearance of Jackie’s niece, Nessa, which value her profession.”
Satisfied the 2 circumstances are linked, Ellis and Ball should reconcile and race to uncover long-buried secrets and techniques inside Morfa earlier than the storm breaks and the proof disappears for good.
Additionally solid are Dinita Gohil (Sandman, Greed), Brian Gleeson (Dangerous Sisters, Phantom Thread), Kimberley Nixon (Recent Meat, Life and Loss of life within the Warehouse), Mark Stanley (Completely happy Valley, The Reckoning), Dino Fetscher (Idiot Me As soon as, Basis), Lizzie Annis (The Witcher: Blood Origin, Extraordinary), Rhodri Meilir (Pren Ar y Bryn/Tree On A Hill, Craith/Hidden), and Julian Lewis Jones (Home of the Dragon, Wheel of Time) spherical off a star-studded solid.
The collection is created and directed by Claire Oakley (Make Up) and produced by Little Door Productions in affiliation with Sky Studios. Manufacturing commenced in Wales this week. Mary Nighy directed episodes 3 and 4 and the collection producer is Scott Bassett. Government producers are Elwen Rowlands for Little Door Productions, Megan Spanjian for Sky Studios, Claire Oakley, and Reilly. The Welsh authorities offered manufacturing help through Artistic Wales.
“We’re extremely lucky to have such a gifted solid bringing these characters to life,” mentioned Elwen Rowlands, CEO of Little Door. “Claire’s compelling scripts inform an exhilarating story of a group deeply linked with its atmosphere, uncooked with emotion, and fantastically mirrored by the gorgeous backdrop of North Wales the place the story unfolds.”
NBCUniversal International TV Distribution will deal with worldwide gross sales.
