‘Landscapers’: Sky Releases “First Look” Images For True Crime Drama Starring Olivia Colman & David Thewlis
Sky has released some “first look” images for upcoming true-crime drama ‘Landscapers‘, described as an exhilarating and darkly funny exploration of love and fantasy starring Olivia Colman and David Thewlis.
‘Landscapers’ tells a unique love story involving a seemingly ordinary couple who become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when a couple of dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham.
Mild-mannered husband and wife Susan (Colman) and Christopher Edwards (Thewlis) have been on the run from reality for over 15 years. When Christopher makes a startling call home to his?step-mother, their role in a terrible crime that remained undiscovered for over a decade begins to emerge into the light. As their relationship is subjected to the glare of a full police investigation, the devoted couple are separated for the first time in their marriage.?
As the investigation moves forward, inspired by Susan’s obsession with old Westerns and classic cinema the fantasists cast themselves as Hollywood heroes in narratives of their own invention.? Powered by Susan’s extraordinary imagination, Susan and Chris’s fantasy world provides a?much-needed?sanctuary from real-world horrors and their own clawing guilt, but also threatens to undo them completely.
Colman and Thewlis are joined by Kate O’Flynn (Bridget Jones’s Baby), Dipo Ola (We Hunt Together), Samuel Anderson (The History Boys), David Hayman (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas), Felicity Montagu (I’m Alan Partridge) and Daniel Rigby (Eric and Ernie, Flowers).
The drama is written by Ed Sinclair (who also happens to be Olivia Colman’s husband) in his first television screenplay and sees writer-director Will Sharpe (‘The Electrical Life of Louis Wain’, ‘Flowers’) bring his singular vision to the story. Landscapers is the latest project from SISTER for Sky Studios and HBO after the multi-Emmy and BAFTA award-winning hit ‘Chernobyl’.
The series was commissioned by Zai Bennett, Managing Director of Content, Sky UK and Ireland and is Executive Produced by Serena Thompson for Sky Studios. Landscapers is produced by SISTER, in association with South of the River Pictures, the new production company from Olivia Colman and Ed Sinclair, for Sky Studios and HBO. The Executive Producers are Jane Featherstone (Chernobyl, The Split) and Chris Fry (Giri/Haji, Chernobyl) for SISTER and Ed Sinclair and Olivia Colman for South of the River Pictures. Landscapers is produced by Katie Carpenter (The Bisexual, Flowers) and directed by Will Sharpe (The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Flowers) who also serves as Executive Producer.
‘Landscapers‘ is set to premiere later this year on Sky Atlantic and streaming service NOW in the UK. If you want to track this show, you can add it via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when it gets a UK premiere date.
