Paramount+ Releases First-Look Photos Of ‘The Castaways’ Starring Sheridan Smith & Céline Buckens
Paramount+ has released some “first-look” photos for ‘The Castaways‘, an upcoming adaptation Of The Sunday Times Bestseller By Lucy Clarke starring Sheridan Smith And Céline Buckens As Sisters Lori And Erin.
The adaptation of Clarke’s thriller sees sisters Lori (Sheridan Smith: “Mrs Biggs”, “The C Word”, “Cilla”) and Erin (Celine Buckens: “Showtrial”, “Warhorse”, “The Ex-Wife”) on the holiday of a lifetime in Fiji. After a huge fight, Erin never boards the island-hopping flight to their tropical resort – and the plane, with Lori on board, never arrives at its destination.
Months later, no wreckage has been found, and no survivors discovered. With the search abandoned, Erin remains a lone, desperate voice refusing to give up hope. Suddenly, Lori’s credit card is used in a corner shop in a remote village in Fiji. On the CCTV, Erin recognises the plane’s pilot back from the dead. She immediately sets out from the UK to find him and discover the mystery of her sister’s fate.
Jumping between the two sisters’ perspectives, we follow Erin’s present-day investigation and Lori’s struggle for survival following the crash onto a tropical and remote desert island. As dark secrets are revealed both in the past and present day, each shocking twist and turn slowly reveals the truth about what happened to Lori and her fellow passengers – a truth that someone on the island will kill to keep secret.
“I’m so excited to be working with Céline Buckens and to be part of this amazing production bringing Lucy Clarke’s best selling novel to life,” commented Smith, with Buckens adding “I’m really thrilled to bring Erin to life – she’s a firecracker and the scripts bring layers and darkness to such an arresting premise. I hope audiences will be as hooked watching it as I was reading it.”
The new images reveal the wider cast starring alongside Smith and Buckens for the first time. Brendan Cowell (Avatar: The Way of the Water, Game of Thrones, The Twelve) will portray the plane’s pilot, Mike Brass; Lasarus Ratuere (Ghost in the Shell, The Leftovers, The Tourist) plays Felix Vatabua; And Dominic Tighe (The Boys In The Boat, The New Look, A Confession) takes the role of Daniel Eldridge. The thriller will also feature Charlotte Vega (Wrong Turn, The Lodgers, Burial) as Amber Gordon.
Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Lucy Clarke, ‘The Castaways’ is produced by Clapperboard Studios and BlackBox Multimedia. Ben Harris (‘Young Wallander’, ‘Devils’, ‘Marcella’) serves as executive producer and lead writer on the series. Polly Buckle (‘Merlin’, ‘A Discovery of Witches’) and Jesse O’Mahoney (‘Eastenders’, ‘Hollyoaks’) also write on the series. Andy Tohill and Ryan Tohill (‘Dagliesh’, ‘The Dig’) are directors for the show, with Myf Hopkins serving as the producer.
‘The Castaways‘ does not have an exact premiere date but is due to premiere later this year on Paramount+. If you want to keep track of this or any other shows, you can add them via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when they get a UK premiere date.
