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America Ferrera (Barbie), Paddy Considine (Dragon House), Kit Harington (game of thrones) and Alex Hassell (Competitors) is among the star-studded cast of a new Channel 4 thriller called Army of shadows.
The series is co-produced by StudioCanal and Two Cities Television, and is written by BAFTA award-winner Ronan Bennett (Jackal day, MobLandFilming began in Manchester, Liverpool, London and Paris.
The show is based on Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 film and Joseph Kessel’s seminal book of the same name, which famously dramatized the rise of French resistance to the Nazi occupation of France during World War II.
Army of shadows He imagines how resistance would take shape in occupied Great Britain. The series was developed and produced with the support of the Melville family and the Kessel Estate, which is controlled by the Irish Red Cross.
“Britain seems almost normal, but the flags are different, the news is cautious, and no one says certain things out loud anymore. But everyone can relate to it,” the story synopsis reads. “Somewhere beneath the surface of ordinary life, something has gone terribly wrong. From the shadows emerges a former soldier known only as Perry, who begins building a secret resistance network. He knows one thing above all: Don’t act before you’re ready. An unexpected group begins to gather around him – people who have decided they can’t look away anymore: a soldier, a student, a radiographer, a journalist. Ordinary people, living ordinary lives, making an extraordinary choice. An irreversible choice.”
Against them is a state with unlimited influence, a minister who will do whatever it takes to maintain order, and an American agent named Jessie (Ferreira), who is “very, very good at her job.” Army of shadows It was billed as “a tense, thrilling story about the actual cost of resistance… If your country were occupied, what would happen? You He does?”
Jowar Lloyd, Channel 4’s interim head of drama, said Bennett had created “an engaging, provocative and action-packed drama that feels epic in scale and strikingly relevant”. He continued: “Army of shadows It asks powerful questions about freedom, resistance, and the choices people make when democracy is under threat. With an outstanding cast under the direction of Lisa Gunning, this is exactly the kind of thought-provoking, high-stakes drama that Channel 4 is looking to bring to our viewers.
Canal+ commissioned the series due to its global presence spanning more than 50 countries across France, Europe, Africa and Asia. StudioCanal will handle international sales and global distribution.
